By Gabriele Bammer

What is expertise in research integration and implementation? What is its role in helping tackle complex societal and environmental problems, especially those dimensions that define complexity?
Expertise in research integration and implementation
Addressing complex societal and environmental problems requires specific expertise over and above that contributed by existing disciplines, but there is little formal recognition of what that expertise is or reward for contributing it to a research team’s efforts. In brief, such expertise includes the ability to:
- identify relevant disciplinary and stakeholder inputs
- effectively integrate them for a more comprehensive understanding of the problem
- support more effective actions to ameliorate the problem.