THIS PROJECT RAN IN 2010 AND 2011. THE RESULTS ARE CURRENTLY BEING ANALYSED.

We want to expand and improve on the recent book:

Research Integration Using Dialogue Methods (2009), David McDonald, Gabriele Bammer and Peter Deane, ANU E Press, Canberra. (View online or download book from ANU E Press; or see book overview, content and reviews)

An invitation to contribute

If you are involved in research using dialogue to bring together disciplinary and stakeholder knowledge to improve understanding and action on complex real-world problems, we would like to hear from you!

The intention of the current book is to be a first step in developing a comprehensive compilation of dialogue methods for knowledge synthesis in a research context, as well as illustrative case studies. We are looking for methods and cases that we may have missed in our review of the published literature, as well as those which are in the grey literature and unpublished.

We are also interested in your ideas about how the methods can best be classified and differentiated.

You can contribute by using the Forums page, by e-mail or by telephone interview (see below). The period for contributing runs from January 2010 to December 2011.

We welcome:

1. Methods – Descriptions of dialogue methods for synthesis of disciplinary and stakeholder knowledge which are not mentioned in the book
    
2. Cases – Examples of how the methods described in the book or other methods have been applied 
    
3. Discussion of classification and differentiation of the methods 
    
4. General comments

How to contribute

There are three options (other ideas welcome!):

Use our forum

We welcome comments via our dialogue methods forum. These can be as long or short as you like and can refer to publications or other websites.

To add comments to the forum, you need to establish an account on our system (you will be asked for your name, e-mail address, organisational affiliation and information about your professional interest in dialogue for knowledge synthesis).

To add comments you then just need to enter your name and password to the "Dialogue methods forum log-in" box on the left hand side.

You will not be able to add attachments, but you can send them to us by e-mail at i2s [at] anu [dot] edu [dot] au and we will upload relevant materials.

Send an email

Emails can be sent to i2s [at] anu [dot] edu [dot] au. Please use "Dialogue Book" in the subject line. You are welcome to send attachments (eg, a case) by email. If you do not have an account on our system, please include your name, affiliation and information about your professional interest in dialogue for knowledge synthesis (eg a homepage link). 

By telephone interview

If you prefer to discuss your responses to the book and/or your contributions to its further development with one of the authors, please let us know by email to i2s [at] anu [dot] edu [dot] au and we will organise to phone you.