T E S T I M O N I A L S

As a community of practice, PARTNERS has advanced the field by creating connections that have led to fruitful collaborations, and by changing how our members work within their home institutions. Here are what some of our members had to say about their experience with PARTNERS.


Connecting Fields and Sectors

 

“My experience with PARTNERS has been fantastic and has vastly increased my professional network, and it has inspired me to address new questions and given me a set of collaborators with complementary expertise to work on them with. I feel very much more connected with my field because of this network.”

 

“I learned new concepts and shaped new ideas. My experience has been largely on a project level. I have very little to no experience at a national or global level. By interacting with other participants of the workshop I understood the agenda of major organisations related to forest restoration at the global scale.”

 

“Attending the conference was a unique opportunity in the early stages of my PhD to meet other researchers, hear about their work and put into perspective the landscapes I work in.” 

 

“PARTNERS fulfills a vital role in bridging the academic, policy, and practitioner communities.”

 

“Great ideas in a small space.”

testimonials

This diagram shows how PARTNERS functions as a community of practice in the field of tropical reforestation. A community of practice leads directly to collaborations and publications, and changes the way that people work within their home institutions (Watkins et al. 2016)

 

Increasing Outreach and Impact

 

“The communications workshop in May 2018 has improved my ability to strategize for communicating my science with important audiences including the media and funding agencies.”

 

“At the beginning, it was difficult for me to communicate my working experiences and interests; but nowadays, we have created a vivid exchange of experiences that has allowed us to construct common goals.”

 

“PARTNERS was my first exposure to writing synthesis papers collaboratively which has been a very valuable – I also got a lot out of the communications training workshop!”

 


Personal Transformations and Connections

 

“What can I say? It’s changed my life and given me a new set of colleagues and a new mission. Life-changing!”

 

“PARTNERS helped me expand my existing network of restoration academics and practitioners, which will help to develop and deliver future projects.”

 

“I had a great experience with Partners. I have been very fortunate to be part of a workshop with people carrying out very relevant, interesting work related to forest restoration. I believe PARTNERS can have a great influence in young researchers’ (or non-researchers’ as well) careers.”

 

“Fantastic experience with colleagues having an original point of view I share. It is an opportunity to deepen concepts and methods which are difficult to work with in classical academic concepts. It helps develop creativity and go further delivering original results.”

“I found it to be a very inspiring, educational and motivating experience, which broadened and deepened my knowledge about tropical reforestation, something I maintain a close interest in even though my current role relates to sustainable supply chains that impact tropical forests, rather than reforestation specifically. Coming from a biological background, the interdisciplinary nature of the network was really valuable in expanding my understanding of social issues connected to tropical forest conservation and restoration.”

 

“A wonderful network, which has allowed me to create new contacts with scientists working on reforestation.”

 

“I found it to be a very inspiring, educational and motivating experience, which broadened and deepened my knowledge about tropical reforestation, something I maintain a close interest in even though my current role relates to sustainable supply chains that impact tropical forests, rather than reforestation specifically. Coming from a biological background, the interdisciplinary nature of the network was really valuable in expanding my understanding of social issues connected to tropical forest conservation and restoration.”

 

“Good for deep thinking purposes.”

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