Benita Chinenye ODII is from Ideato North L.G.A of Imo state in Nigeria. She studied Linguistics (B.A; M.A) at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka with special interest in applied linguistics (pedagogy, sociolinguistics). She is a lecturer at the University of Nigeria Nsukka where she teaches several topics ranging from formal linguistics to applied linguistics. She is currently a Chinese Government Scholar and is a part of Sustainable Behaviour Research Group (Sberg) at the department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University. She is currently working on an emerging Values-based research approach for enhanced representation of stakeholder authentic voice in sustainable developmental contexts impacting economic, environmental and social values. Her innovative work is applying Michael Polanyi’s Personal Knowledge Theory with a focus on tacit to explicit knowledge translation and understanding the micro-processes and learning mechanisms/processes of Values-based approaches. Her work has a wide-ranging multidisciplinary overlap with various sustainability arenas such as Sustainability Assessment, Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), Climate Change Adaptation and Land Remediation. Furthermore, it overlaps with learning and knowledge theories including Nonaka’s Knowledge Creation Theory, Mezirow’s Transformational Learning theory, Social and Communicative learning theories which contribute to the identified existing gaps in participatory methods, ESD and Sustainability Assessment fields.