Good News

Gabriele Bammer has been invited to:

• participate in the final workshop of the EU-funded Shaping Interdisciplinary Practices in Europe project in Zurich in May
• give a keynote address at the International conference on “Prospects and Challenges of Higher Education: Vision 2030” in Kathmandu, Nepal in April
• co-lead a workshop on “Publishing transdisciplinary teaching and learning” at the annual meeting of the GAIA editorial board.

New grants/funding

Gabriele Bammer partnered with Kirsty Jones from the College of Asia and the Pacific, who was awarded an internal grant ($15K) to support a cross-campus workshop on Implementation Science.

Keynote and invited presentations

Gabriele Bammer was invited to present on research priorities at the Public Policy and Societal Impact Hub Australian Public Service December networking breakfast.

Other conference presentations

Gabriele Bammer presented on “Transdisciplinary Approaches to Managing Unknowns” at the 4th Modelling Complex Warfighting Symposium: ANU, 11 - 12 December, 2019.

Outreach and engagement

Gabriele Bammer ran a workshop on “Best practices for interdisciplinary research” for the ANU Grand Challenge “Social cohesion, diversity and inclusion” on December 16, 2019.

Gabriele Bammer is an active member of the 3-person steering group helping the Austrian Science Fund develop a new funding programme for transdisciplinary research.

Gabriele Bammer is an active member of the NITRO-Oceania (Network of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research Organisations – Oceania), among other things running the website. NITRO-Oceania was successful in its application to run a workshop at SRI 2020 (Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress 2020), a major international event that will be held in Brisbane from June 14-17, 2020.

She is also a member of the HIBAR (Highly Integrative Basic And Responsive) Research Alliance Collaborative Action Group on Cross-organizational cooperation.

In December and January, the i2Insights blog (http://i2Insights.org), curated by Gabriele Bammer and Peter Deane published two blog posts by members of PHXchange:

• Good practice in community-based participatory processes in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander researcher by Jan Chapman, Alyson Wright, Nadine Hunt and Bobby Maher https://i2insights.org/2019/12/10/first-nations-community-participation/
• Stakeholder engagement in research: The research-modified IAP2 spectrum by Gabriele Bammer https://i2insights.org/2020/01/07/research-modified-iap2-spectrum/

Other blog posts covered serendipity in interdisciplinary research, detecting non-linear change and using yin-yang thinking to deal with unknown unknowns. The i2Insights blog has entered its 5^th year. Highlights from 2019 and the most popular blog posts are reported at https://i2insights.org/2019/12/17/fourth-annual-review/. At the end of 2019 the blog had published 272 posts by 306 authors from 35 countries and was read in 180 of the 193 countries that are members of the United Nations.

Gabriele Bammer and Peter Deane produced the November/December i2S News (https://i2s.anu.edu.au/what-i2s/i2s-publications/i2s-news), which features updates on the Learning for sustainability (LfS) website, Team science toolkit and the Knowledge system transformation to support research integration and implementation video.

Papers accepted/published:

Bammer, G., Mitchell, C., Elford, W., Dumaresq, D., van Kerkhoff, L., Small, B., Kaufman Hall, V., Kaufman, S., Browne, C., Brown, V.A., Blessington, L. 2019 ‘A Rich Mosaic of Impact: Julie Thompson Klein’s Scholarly Influence in Australia and New Zealand’ Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies 37 (2) 144-169

Bammer,  G., O’Rourke, M., O’Connell, D., Neuhauser, L., Midgley, G., Klein, J.T., Grigg, N.J., Gadlin, H., Elsum, I.R., Bursztyn, M., Fulton, E.A., Pohl, C., Smithson, M., Vilsmaier, U., Bergmann, M., Jaeger, J., Merkx, F., Vienni Baptista, B., Burgman, M.A., Walker, D.H., Young, J., Bradbury, H., Crawford, L., Haryanto, B., Pachanee, C., Polk, M., Richardson^, G.P. 2020 ‘Expertise in research integration and implementation for tackling complex problems: when is it needed, where can it be found and how can it be strengthened?’ Palgrave Communications 6, 5. doi:10.1057/s41599-019-0380-0 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-019-0380-0

Bammer, G (2019) Research integration and implementation: Building resources and community. Integration and Implementation Insights, December https://i2insights.org/2019/12/17/fourth-annual-review/

Bammer, G (2020) Stakeholder engagement in research: The research-modified IAP2 spectrum. Integration and Implementation Insights, January https://i2insights.org/2020/01/07/research-modified-iap2-spectrum/

Bammer, G. Commissioning editor, Frameworks for Transdisciplinary Research Framework #9 2019 ‘Grounded action design – Transdisciplinary co-creation for better transformative processes’ by Thomas Bruhn, Jeremias Herberg, Giulia Molinengo, Daniel Oppold, Dorota Stasiak and Patrizia Nanz, GAIA, 28(4) 336; https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.28.4.3

Progress on research projects

Gabriele Bammer has started re-indexing blog posts with new ‘categories’ and revised ‘tags’. The aim is to make it easier and more efficient to search for blog posts on particular subjects relevant to research integration and implementation. This project will probably take most of 2020 to complete.