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Large-scale, long-term, international, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, multi–topic research projects with many different country, university and non-academic partners are increasingly the norm, particularly in areas of global significance such as climate change and biodiversity loss. Such complex projects present new challenges, such as the need to integrate different methods, languages, knowledge-systems, time frames and, most of all, to synthesize research findings. This chapter identifies these problems in the context of the Arctic Climate Predictions: Pathways to Resilient, Sustainable Societies (ARCPATH) project and offers solutions based on the ARCPATH experience. We identify processes, structures and actions required to synthesize emerging findings throughout the lifetime of the project. These include initiating synthesis by developing appropriate processes and structures from the outset, regular communication with, and interrogation of, researchers from different parts of the project, joint authorship, and project meetings on topics that require input across the project. They also include means of harvesting and integrating findings, wresting meaning from them, identifying policy-relevance, co-creating and mobilizing findings to ensure their applicability to the problem addressed by the research and addressing the on-going policy, practice, and scholarly legacy. |
