Research

Gabriele Bammer co-organsed and co-facilitated a workshop entitled “Collaboration and Integration: when are they not needed?” as part of her collaboration in research undertaken by the Collaboration Lab, which is funded by the New Zealand Our Land and Water National Science Challenge. The very successful workshop was held in Lincoln, New Zealand and was attended by researchers, policy makers, end-users, non-governmental organisations and leaders in the Maori community.

Research impact

Gabriele Bammer and Cathy Day are developing a website for the RSPH PopulationHealthXchange which will highlight the ‘how’ of achieving research impact. The website will provide access to resources and case studies showcasing the work of RSPH researchers. Gabriele Bammer and Michelle Banfield organised the second in a series of RSPH seminars on stakeholder engagement.

Publications

Badham, J., Elsawah, S., Guillaume, J.H.A., Hamilton, S.H., Hunt, R.J., Jakeman, A.J., Pierce, S.A., Snow, V.O., Babber-Sebens, M., Fu, B., Gober, P., Hill, M.C., Iwanaga, T., Loucks, D.P., Merritt, W.S., Peckham, S.D., Richmond, A.K., Zare, F., Ames, D., Bammer, G. 2019 ‘Effective modeling for Integrated Water Resource Management: a guide to contextual practices by phases and steps and future opportunities’ Environmental Modelling and Software 116: 40-56 https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1Yego4sKhEHMN8 (till April 20)

The latest contributions to the i2Insights blog (http://i2Insights.org) included the third contribution from the RSPH PopulationHealthXchange, which is a blog post by Cathy Day on Tracking stakeholder engagement and research impact by https://i2insights.org/2019/02/12/tracking-engagement-and-impact/. There was also a contribution by former NCEPHer, Craig Dalton, on a Trust and empowerment inventory for community groups https://i2insights.org/2019/01/29/trust-and-empowerment-inventory/. Other blog posts covered knowledge asymmetry, metacognition and embracing tension in interdisciplinary research, grant proposal writing for teams, improving education for collaborative problem solving, toolboxes as learning aids for dealing with complex problems and a case study for University of California Irvine on ecosystems for effective team science.

Gabriele Bammer and Peter Deane produced the January/February i2S News (https://i2s.anu.edu.au/what-i2s/i2s-publications/i2s-news), which features ten key tips for policy impact, and how to understand and overcome confirmation bias for better decision making. It also provides information about the journal ‘Environmental Science and Policy’, as well as the Cybernetics Society. Information is also provided on five upcoming conferences, including ITD 2019 and the 2019 Transformations conference. These have all recently been added as resources to the Integration and Implementation Sciences website (https://i2s.anu.edu.au/resources).