Care-full competences: Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI)

Considering the list included on the previous page and also any additions suggested in the discussion board there, if you were to pick 3 – 4 competences which you feel are especially important to developing the capacity to care-with and become more response-able, what would they be?

Please add your responses to the board below. In completing this exercise you may find it helpful to first review this open access article by Valentina Tassone et al. (2017) in which they offer an in-depth discussion of competences perceived to be supportive of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). In their article the competences are grouped into the following  four dimensions, all of which we find to be synergistic with the dimensions of caring identified in our care-full scholarship framework:

• Anticipation – ‘including competences in anticipating societal challenges and future implications through R&I practices…’
• Reflexivity – ‘including competences in reflecting about contexts, ways of knowing, ways of doing, and ways of being related to societal challenges and to R&I practices…’
• Inclusiveness – ‘including competences in involving, communicating with, collaborating with diverse stakeholders and the wider public to address societal challenges through R&I practices…’
• Responsiveness – ‘Including competences in coping with and responding to societal challenges and to emergent (social) needs, values, norms, perspectives, and knowledge through R&I practices.

(For full, unabridged list of competences categorised under each dimension see p347 of the Tassone et al. 2017 article)