We offer a range of professional development and graduate student workshops and courses on the fundamentals of Integration and Implementation Sciences (i2S), as well as on sub-topics such as managing complexity, stakeholder engagement and research integration.
Main 2020 courses
May 2020: workshop for participants of Belmont Forum Collaborative Research Actions on “Transdisciplinary co-design, integration and implementation.” A video of the presentation sections of the workshop is available at: https://youtu.be/liYKY5Em2eM. You can also access the slides used in the presentation (PDF 2.6MB), as well as the handout handout (PDF 360KB).
September to December 2020: short course “Interdisciplinary research excellence” for Egyptian participants through the company Knowledge E. The key elements of the course are:
- Week 1: General overview: What are the key ingredients of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research on complex environmental and other problems?
Covers:
– What makes complex problems complex?
– Working with and integrating multiple disciplines, those affected by the problem, those able to take action on the problem
– Using research to support policy and practice change.
- Week 2: Assembling the pieces
Covers:
– who needs to be involved (identifying relevant disciplines and stakeholders)
– framing the problem
– planning for outcomes
- Week 3: Working together
Covers:
– different types of participation
– making participation work well
- Week 4: Integration: the heart of interdisciplinarity
Covers:
– integration of what
– methods for integration
– dealing with what cannot be integrated
- Week 5: Making a difference
Covers:
– understanding change
– options for influencing change
– how to be an effective influencer.
MOOC on Ignorance!
Michael Smithson and Gabriele Bammer co-teach an edX Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on “Ignorance!”. The course is currently available in self-paced mode. To register go to: www.edx.org/course/ignorance-wu-zhi-anux-igno101x.
Syllabi and evaluation results are available from when the course was first run (23 June to 4 August 2015), as well as from an expanded version run from 10 January to 13 March 2017.
Previous courses
We no longer keep information about previous courses up-to-date, although information about some courses run between 2007 and 2013 is available.
Up-coming courses
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