Toolkits for transdisciplinary research

July 25, 2017August 3, 2017 Community Member Methods Archetypes, Author – Gabriele Bammer, Change, Co-production, Collaboration, Dialogue, Integration, Integration and Implementation Sciences, Knowledge synthesis, Policymaking, Research implementation, System dynamics, Systems, Teams, Transdisciplinarity, Trust, Unknowns, Vision

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If you want to undertake transdisciplinary research, where can you find relevant concepts and methods? Are there compilations or toolkits that are helpful?

I’ve identified eight relevant toolkits, which are described briefly below and in more detail in the journal GAIA’s Toolkits for Transdisciplinarity series.

One toolkit provides concepts and methods relevant to the full range of transdisciplinary research, while the others cover four key aspects: (i) collaboration, (ii) synthesis of knowledge from relevant disciplines and stakeholders, (iii) thinking systemically, and (iv) making change happen. Continue reading →

Responsive research – simple, right? The AskFuse case study

July 11, 2017July 25, 2017 Community Member Case study, Institutionalisation Author - Rosemary Rushmer, Co-production, Collaboration, Policymaking, Research impact, Research implementation

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Researchers are constantly being challenged to demonstrate that their research can make a difference and has impact. Practice and policy partners are similarly challenged to demonstrate that their decisions and activity are informed by the evidence base. It sounds like all we need to do is join the two groups together – simple, right?

In Fuse (the Centre for Translational Research in Public Health, www.fuse.ac.uk) we wanted to do exactly that. We wanted to supply the evidence that end-users said they wanted (supply and demand), and make it easy for them to access and use research evidence.

Yet, we knew that current approaches to supplying evidence (briefs, guidelines, publications) do not work as well as we once thought they did. It needed a re-think… Continue reading →

Bringing the Immunity-to-Change™ process to the scientific community

July 4, 2017July 18, 2017 Community Member Methods Adaptation, Author - Cheryl Vaughan, Author - Erica Lawlor, Change, Collaboration, Science of team science, Teams

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How can scientists whose careers were formed in an incentive system that cultivates competitive and territorial behaviors be helped to meet the expectations of collaborative research frameworks? A team-based approach that transcends disciplinary boundaries may be a tall order for scientists who “grew up” in a system where funding and promotion are based upon a proven record of individual contributions to a field of research. But that is the direction in which much of science is heading. Continue reading →

Learning to tackle wicked problems through games / Aprendiendo a hacer frente a problemas perversos a través de los juegos/ Apprendre à affronter les problèmes sournois à travers les jeux

April 11, 2017July 26, 2017 Community Member Education, Methods Author - Anne Dray, Author - Claude Garcia, Author - Patrick Waeber, Collaboration, Communication, Competition, Complexity, Games, Higher education, Learning, Modelling, Play, Stakeholders, Uncertainty, Wicked problems

Community member post by Claude Garcia, Anne Dray and Patrick Waeber

A Spanish version and a French version of this post are available

Can we help the next generation of policy makers, business leaders and citizens to become creative, critical and independent thinkers? Can we make them aware of the nature of the problems they will be confronted with? Can we strengthen their capacity to foster and lead stakeholder processes to address these problems?

Yes. Continue reading →

Team science glossary

March 16, 2017March 23, 2017 Community Member Concepts Author - Sawsan Khuri, Author - Stefan Wuchty, Collaboration, Interdisciplinarity, Multidisciplinarity, Science of team science, Systems thinking, Teams, Transdisciplinarity

Community member post by Sawsan Khuri and Stefan Wuchty

As team science gains momentum, we present this glossary to standardize definitions for the most frequently used terms and phrases in the science of team science literature, and to serve as a reference point for newcomers to the field. Source material is provided where possible. Continue reading →

Ten lessons from a transdisciplinary PhD program in sustainable development

March 9, 2017March 16, 2017 Community Member Education Author - Marianne Penker, Co-production, Collaboration, Higher education, Integration, Integration and Implementation Sciences, Research implementation, Stakeholders, Time, Transdisciplinarity

Community member post by Marianne Penker

Should a doctoral student specialise in transdisciplinary sustainable development research? What are the opportunities and challenges associated with undertaking a program that requires research integration and implementation?

At the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna in Austria, teams of PhD-students and academic supervisors collaborated with representatives from regions, cities, public authorities, businesses or civil society to solve pressing and often wicked sustainability problems. We learnt the following ten lessons. Continue reading →

Integration and Implementation Insights

Research resources for understanding and acting on complex real-world problems

Collaboration

Toolkits for transdisciplinary research

Responsive research – simple, right? The AskFuse case study

Bringing the Immunity-to-Change™ process to the scientific community

Learning to tackle wicked problems through games / Aprendiendo a hacer frente a problemas perversos a través de los juegos/ Apprendre à affronter les problèmes sournois à travers les jeux

Team science glossary

Ten lessons from a transdisciplinary PhD program in sustainable development

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