Academic communication, action research, community operational research, critical unknowns, free, Gabriele Bammer, I2S, Integration and Implementation Sciences, Interdisciplinarity, interdisciplinary research, knowledge exchange, multidisciplinary research, research methods, systems thinkers, transdisciplinarity, transdisciplinary research, wicked problems
Recognising interdisciplinary expertise: is it time we established the integration and implementation sciences?
Embedding interdisciplinarity into the academic mainstream has proved a constant challenge. Gabriele Bammer asks whether it might help to define the relevant expertise as a new discipline, one that recognises important skills such as the ability to combine knowledge from different disciplines, determine which disciplines and stakeholders have valuable perspectives, examine how elements of problems are interconnected, assess the likely […]