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Dr Jonathan Dolley

My role I am a Research Fellow at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex and a Fellow of the Sussex Sustainability Research Programme (SSRP). You can find a brief bio on the SSRP website. In 2021 I received a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Fellowship which is funding me to conduct full time research for three years with the first two spent in South Korea on secondment to the Mosim and Salim Research Center. My job title doesn’t give much away so let me tell you a bit of my story.

    Saturday, January 1, 2022 | 3 minutes Read
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    Dr Miseong Cho

    Dr Miseong Cho is a senior researcher of Mosim & Salim Research Institute and a guest lecturer at Seoul National University. After spending many years working as an educator in alternative schools in Korea, she received her master’s degree with a research dissertation titled: “A qualitative case study on forming and learning process of a community for energy transition initiative.”(2016, SNU). Her doctoral thesis “Citizen participation and transformative learning in energy transition: the case of a zero energy housing complex" (2020, SNU). Her main research interests include climate change education, scientific-technological citizenship, deliberative democracy in cooperatives. Recently, she has been contemplating how to incorporate the philosophy of the life movement into Commons movement aimed at overcoming the current climate and ecological crisis.

      Saturday, January 1, 2022 | 1 minute Read
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      Dr Yikyung Kim

      Dr Yikyung Kim is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Academy of East Asian Studies, Sungkyunkwan University. Her primary research focuses on the history of the East Asian cooperative movement and the culture of reciprocity and solidarity, with a long-term historical perspective. Her research includes “The Formation and Development of the Korean Cooperative Movement under the Japanese Colonial Rule: Focus on Concepts, Participants, and Solidarity” (2022, Ph.D. thesis), “Characteristics of the Development of Korean Co-operatives under Japanese Colonial Rule”, “The Establishment and Spread of Hamchang Cooperative in Gyeongsangbuk-do under Japanese Colonial Rule”, etc. She also published several books with fellow researchers including “100 years of the Korean Co-operative Movement” and “Conversation of Cooperation”.

        Saturday, January 1, 2022 | 1 minute Read
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        About the project

        The Big Idea Multi-stakeholder cooperatives Multi-stakeholder cooperatives (MSC) (or solidarity cooperatives) are co-ops that include two or more stakeholder groups in ownership and governance of the organisation. In food and farming this usually means farmers and consumers, but can also include workers involved in other activities related to the food system (e.g. processing and distribution). This novel arrangement is aimed at overcoming the conflict of interest between producers and consumers inherent in a capitalist market-driven food system. Among those calling for a transition to a more solidarity-based and public good focused economy (e.g. P2P Foundation and DisCO Coop many have come to see this multi-stakeholder model of cooperation as an important vehicle for social and ecological transformation. Yet there is very little research on MSCs, especially in the context in agri-food systems.

        Wednesday, September 1, 2021 | 3 minutes Read