The purpose of this book is to begin the task of developing a comprehensive approach to change by gathering a variety of viewpoints from the academic and practice worlds. Knowledge about change is fragmented and there is nowhere in the academic or practice worlds that provides comprehensive answers to these and other questions. Every discipline […]

Welcome to the May/June I2S News. Key developments include: A free online course on Ignorance! developed by Mike Smithson and Gabriele Bammer which goes live on June 23rd 2015. Register at: [LINK REMOVED AS OUT OF DATE] A post-doctoral opportunity at the US National Science Foundation-funded National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center in Annapolis, Maryland, to work […]

Welcome to the March/April I2S News. In addition to our usual features we also bring to your attention the new td-net toolbox for co-producing knowledge, which can be found at: https://naturalsciences.ch/topics/co-producing_knowledge. I2S News features a range of resources which have been added to the I2S website in the last two months. There are three featured […]

Advertises a funding opportunity for “Building resources for action-oriented team science through syntheses of practices and theories” (details at: [Moderator update – this link is no longer available: sesync[dot]org/opportunities/enhancing-socio-environmental-research-education – closing date is March 9, 2015).] Features modelling tools: Collaborative Conceptual Modelling Decision Making in Complex Socio-ecological Systems: From Cognitive Maps to Agent-based Models Modelling […]

I2S now has a You Tube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/i2sTalks. I2S News #21 also showcases a wide variety of tools on collaboration, as well as a conceptual tool examining how scenarios plus improved measurement and reaction are better than common sense for dealing with complex problems. The collaboration tools are: Collaboration and Team Science: A Field Guide […]

I2S News #20 showcases a webcast from the First Global Conference on Research Integration and Implementation titled ‘Integration and Implementation Sciences (I2S): An Introduction’ by Gabriele Bammer. The featured journal is ‘Action Research’, and in this I2S News the highlighted association is the ‘Project Management Institute’. We also overview two digital posters from the First […]

I2S News #19 showcases a webcast from the First Global Conference on Research Integration and Implementation titled ‘Does Transdisciplinarity Contribute to Sustainability? Testing and Evaluating a Framework for Transdisciplinary Knowledge Production for Sustainable Social Change’ by Merritt Polk.  The featured journal is ‘Global Environmental Change’, and this I2S News the highlighted network is the Cognitive […]

I2S News #17 showcases two resources from the First Global Conference on Research Integration and Implementation: (1) the digital poster ‘Trading Zones and Interactional Expertise’, which explores how trading zones and interactional expertise can provide useful ways of thinking about and improving collaborations across different disciplinary communities; and, (2) the webcast ‘Complexity Science in Action: […]

I2S News #18 showcases two resources from the First Global Conference on Research Integration and Implementation: (1) the digital poster ‘Scenario Method for Integrating Knowledge’, which describes scenario analysis; and (2) the webcast ‘An Introduction to Systems Thinking: Integration and Implementation in the Face of Wicked Problems’ by Gerald Midgley. The featured journal is the […]

For the first I2S News of 2014 there are a range of exciting resources that continue to draw on the videos and digital posters from the First Global Conference on Research Integration and Implementation that was held in September 2013. Drawing from the digital posters presented at the conference, two websites for learning about collaboration […]