Co-designing transdisciplinary research for water security and adaptation: lessons from the BASIN project
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(2025).
Co-designing transdisciplinary research for water security and adaptation: lessons from the BASIN project.
(BASIN Insight Brief 2).
Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science.
The BASIN project – Behavioural Adaptation for Water Security and Inclusion – is breaking new ground by bringing behavioural research into the challenging area of climate change adaptation and water insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa. BASIN is a large transdisciplinary research project made up of four universities, three NGOs across seven country offices, and an intermediary knowledge broker organisation, with up to 50 team members at any one time. The process of designing the project is therefore new and exploratory, both in terms of the subject matter and the priorities of the partners. From its conception, BASIN has followed an integrated, synthesised approach to co-designing research to reconcile the different priorities and cultures of research and practice. This co-design process is outlined within this brief.
