Description - Disciplining Interdisciplinarity by Gabriele Bammer
This
book provides collaborative research teams with a systematic approach for
addressing complex real-world problems like widespread poverty, global
climate change, organised crime, and escalating health care costs. The three
core domains are
1.
Synthesising disciplinary and stakeholder knowledge,
2. Understanding and managing
diverse unknowns, and
3. Providing integrated research
support for policy and practice change.
Each of these three domains is organised around five questions
1. For what and for whom?
2. Which knowledge, unknowns and
aspects of policy or practice?
3. How?
4. Context?
5. Outcome?
This simple framework lays the foundations for developing compilations of
concepts, methods and case studies about applying systems thinking, scoping
and boundary setting, framing, dealing with values, harnessing and managing
differences, undertaking dialogue, building models, applying common metrics,
accepting unknowns, advocacy, end-user engagement, understanding
authorisation, dealing with organisational facilitators and barriers, and
much more.
The book makes a case for a new research style—integrative applied
research—and a new discipline of Integration and Implementation Sciences or
I2S. It advocates for progressing these through an I2S Development Drive. It
builds on theory and practice-based research in multi-, inter- and
transdisciplinarity, post-normal science, systemic intervention, integrated
assessment, sustainability science, team science, mode 2, action research and
other approaches.
The book concludes with 24 commentaries by Simon Bronitt; L. David Brown;
Marcel Bursztyn and Maria Beatriz Maury; Lawrence Cram; Ian Elsum; Holly J.
Falk-Krzesinski; Fasihuddin; Howard Gadlin and L. Michelle Bennett; Budi
Haryanto; Julie Thompson Klein; Ted Lefroy; Catherine Lyall; M. Duane Nellis;
Linda Neuhauser; Deborah O’Connell with Damien Farine, Michael O’Connor and
Michael Dunlop; Michael O’Rourke; Christian Pohl; Merritt Polk; Alison
Ritter; Alice Roughley; Michael Smithson; Daniel Walker; Michael Wesley; and
Glenn Withers. These begin a process of appraisal, discussion and debate
across diverse networks.
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