The Careoperative

On journeys of sustainability, rooted in care.

We are mid-career social scientists collectively navigating sustainability transformations. The careoperative started out of a 2019 Postdoctoral Academy for Transformational Leadership, funded by the Robert Bosch Stiftung in Germany. We were brought together to explore leadership challegnes in sustainability research and pracitce aspiring to trasnfromation. We decided to stay toghether to collectively reimagine our ways of being sustainbility researchers and practitioners.

We orient around four values: care, reflexivity, inclusivity, and collectivity. As current challenges demand more from sustainability science than current institutions are designed to give, our aspirations guide how we show up for ourselves, each other, our partners in practice, our teams, and our organizations.

Recent Work

We publish collectively under the pseudonym of Dr. Care (a.k.a., O. Care, a.k.a., Care, O.) — a as part of a choice to elevate recognition of collective contributions in our work.