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The SSH CENTRE SSH CENTRE (Social Sciences and Humanities for Climate, Energy aNd Transport Research Excellence) is a Horizon Europe project, engaging directly with stakeholders across research, policy, and business (including citizens) to strengthen social innovation, SSH-STEM (Sciences, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) collaboration, transdisciplinary policy advice, inclusive engagement, and SSH communities across Europe, accelerating the EU’s transition to carbon neutrality. SSH CENTRE is based in a range of activities related to Open Science, inclusivity and diversity – especially with regards Southern and Eastern Europe and different career stages – including: development of novel SSH-STEM collaborations to facilitate the delivery of the EU Green Deal; SSH knowledge brokerage to support regions in transition; and the effective design of strategies for citizen engagement in EU R&I activities. Outputs include action-led agendas and building stakeholder synergies through regular Policy Insight events. This is captured in a high-profile virtual SSH CENTRE generating and sharing best practice for SSH policy advice, overcoming fragmentation to accelerate the EU’s journey to a sustainable future. Formative Accompanying Research (FAR) FAR is an ongoing evaluation of the interdisciplinary and policy-practice elements of the research. Such evaluation focused on what worked (and what didn’t) to foster the SSH-representation goals of SSH CENTRE. As it is formative, the research also fed learning back into the project to shape ongoing work and improve future outcomes. The FAR work focused on the ongoing evaluation of three epistemic interventions: Interdisciplinary Collaborations for policy recommendations – where groups of researchers from different disciplines (who have not worked together before) came together to do a small (funded) project together and produce book chapters. Transdisciplinary Knowledge Brokerage Initiative – where early career researchers participated in training on knowledge brokering, attached to Energy Cities’ hubs. Policy Dialogues – where members of the public were engaged in focus group discussions around topics related to the EU Horizon Europe Missions. Data collection was via interviews with participants in each of the three epistemic interventions. For the Interdisciplinary Collaborations, six teams were selected for interview, both before and after their collaboration (12 interviews total). Teams were selected to cover a spread of themes (climate, energy, mobility) and geographic location. On 10 of the 12 occasions, at least two representatives from each team were present to cover both STEM and SSH perspectives. A total of 17 researchers were interviewed (10 men, 7 women). Interviews were conducted online and lasted approximately 50 minutes on average. For the Transdisciplinary Knowledge Brokerage Initiatives, five interviewees were selected for interview, before and after their involvement (10 interviews total). Selection covered diversity in gender (3 women, 2 men), career stage, geographic balance and primary discipline. Interviews were conducted online and lasted approximately 30 minutes on average. For the Policy Dialogues, eleven interviewees were interviewed after their involvement in a focus group discussion (11 interviews total). Interviewees represented eight nationalities across Europe. The majority (7) were in the age group 18-30, and the group included six men and five women. One participant was part of the focus group on Smart Cities, five on Healthy Soils and five on Protecting Oceans and Waters. Interviews were conducted online and lasted approximately 30 minutes on average. This interview process was supplemented with reflexive sessions with the SSH CENTRE team that fed findings back into the SSH CENTRE process and contextualised them. These supplementary processes included debrief discussions and interviews, and four reflexive workshops held with the project team. The workshops were designed to surface issues that are driving fragmentation in SSH, outline their root causes, and ensure that project activities are responding to and managing them. The workshops were: Workshop 1: held at the kick-off meeting, and intended to prompt everyone to reflect on their own experiences with interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research. Workshop 2: held online in a consortium meeting, intended to provide more structured input on understanding challenges to collaboration. Workshop 3: held at an in-person consortium meeting, intended to have team members reflect on emerging challenges to SSH representation. Workshop 4: held at an in-person consortium meeting, intended to have participants provide input on concrete proposals for overcoming challenges to inter- and transdisciplinary research. Files Uploaded The files included in this workflow are the interview protocols for each of the evaluation interviews, and the workshop protocols of two of the project-level workshops (workshops 2 and 4). These two workshops were structured with clear exercises to follow. No files are provided for the first and third reflexive workshop. These were based on providing interim insights to partners and asking them to discuss topics that emerged. They were therefore organic and emergent, and without a structured protocol. No files are provided for the debrief interviews with team members as these were unstructured, and questions were based on the topics raised by the interviewees. The anonymised interview transcripts are provided. For epistemic experiments 1 and 2 these include separate transcripts for the before and after interviews. For epistemic experiment 3, only after interviews were conducted, so only one file is provided.