Table 1 Key features from the field-building framework outlined in Di Ruggiero et al. [4]
From: Building the field of food systems research: commentary on a research funder’s role
Key feature | Definition |
|---|---|
Support and awareness of the field | Creating enhanced awareness, profile, funding, relationships, and connectivity for the field |
Organized funding | An ongoing or sustained flow of resources to maintain new ideas and investigations |
Team-level capacity-building | The process by which teams of individuals develop, strengthen, and retain skills, knowledge, tools, and other resources needed to conduct and sustain the research |
Multilevel activity | Activities occur at various levels (individual, organizational, and systemic), with horizontal and vertical coherence in action to support the funding, conduct, and use of research in a given area |
Influential scientific leadership | A knowledge base of credible, policy-oriented, and action-oriented evidence by a key group of researchers |
Setting standards and exemplars | Being viewed as a key source of external legitimacy, which others look to for examples and standards on how to proceed in similar situations |
Supportive environments | The role of physical, social, and political environments in supporting the research being conducted and its uses |