Email: 17110740045@fudan.edu.cn     odiibenita6@gmail.com

Research focus: Tacit-explicit knowledge transposition, Micro-, Meso- and Macro-processes of meaning-making towards sustainability transformations, Personal and Collective Sustainability transformations, Discourse analysis, Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, and Applied linguistics

Accredited: Level 4 WeValue Novice Facilitator

Role in WeValue team

Benita is currently collaborating with team members on ongoing research. During her PhD, she developed a meaning-making framework based on Michael Polanyi’s concepts, focusing on the transposition or translation from tacit to explicit knowledge. This framework formalized the understanding of the crystallization (making less tacit) process within the WeValue InSitu approach, enhancing the representation of stakeholders' authentic voices in sustainable development contexts. Its further application also facilitated an understanding of learning mechanisms and transformations in personal and collective meaning-making during the WeValue InSitu process (WVIP). From 2021 to 2024, she served as a postdoctoral fellow, expanding the application of the meaning-making framework she developed during her PhD. Benita also assisted in the supervision PhD candidates.

Profile

Benita earned a PhD in Management Science in Environmental Management at Fudan University, Shanghai, P.R. China. She possesses a Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics and a Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics from the Faculty of Arts, University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria.

Benita's research interests focus on:

1.The micro-processes of transposing between tacit and explicit knowledge.

2.Meaning-making processes to understand how individuals and groups attribute significance to shared values, enhancing self-awareness and addressing collective challenges.

3.Sense-making processes, exploring how local groups with shared knowledge interpret external information and the resulting changes at individual, group, and societal levels.

4.Personal sustainability transformations, including individual and collective changes that can be scaled to influence broader political and private sustainability efforts.

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Related Publications

Odii, B. C., Harder, M. K., Huang, Y., Chapman, A., Sougou, N. M., Kolopaking, R., Gavaravarapu, S., Diallo, A. H., Anggorowati, R., Rao, F. S., & Heffernan, C. (2024). Sociocultural environmental factors and childhood stunting: qualitative studies – a protocol for the Shared Values theme of the UKRI GCRF Action Against Stunting Hub

Odii, B. C., Huang, Y., & Harder, M.K. (2024). Understanding the mechanisms of meaning-making for transformations towards sustainability: contributions from Personal Knowledge Theory. Sustainability Science, 19, 865–881. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-023-01454-6.

Huang, Y., Wesselink, R., Odii, B. C., Wals, A., & Harder, M. K. (2024). Enabling shared values for sustainability transformation: empirical lessons from a case of promoting cross-group collaboration in China. Sustainability Science, In print.

Ebido, C.C., Odii, B.C., Pazhoor, S., Firoozmand, M., Church,A., & Harder, M.K. (2025). Demonstrating theValues-Based WeValue InSituApproach to Capture HiddenIntangible Benefits of EcosystemServices in Nigeria. Sustainability,17, 276.

Odii, B. C., Huang, Y., Des Bouvrie, N., & Harder, M. K. (2021). Cycles of meaning-making crystallization in the WeValue InSitu process as clear contributions towards transformative learning. Journal of Cleaner Production, 304, 127024.

PhD thesis

Development and testing of Crystallization Model for widespread localization of indicators for Environmental and Sustainability Management areas(Supervisor: Prof MK Harder, Fudan University)