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Podcast: In Common
Episode: 020: Academic culture and California's water governance with Courtney Hammond Wagner
Description: In this podcast, Michael and Stefan have a conversation with Courtney Hammond Wagner. Courtney is a postdoctoral research fellow at Stanford University. We discuss some of the challenges of navigating a career in academia, particularly as a young parent and changing rules and norms of the science system itself. We then get into Courtney’s research on water governance in California, and challenges for using frameworks in science, with the example of Ostrom’s social-ecological systems framework.
As an environmental social scientist, Courtney’s research broadly aims to understand how we design incentives, rules and policies to collec...