Integration and Implementation sciences
About
Integration and Implementation Sciences (i2S): Improving research impact on complex real-world problems.
i2S provides:
- a resources repository
- a common identity and the focus for connecting and empowering a global community
- the framework for a new discipline.
i2S as a New Discipline
i2S is a new discipline providing concepts and methods for conducting research on complex, real-world problems. It supports researchers (i2S specialists) who contribute to cross-disciplinary teams tackling challenging social and environmental problems, by enhancing
- Synthesis of disciplinary and stakeholder knowledge,
- Understanding and management of diverse unknowns, and
- Provision of integrated research support for policy and practice change.
i2S is an intellectual hub which provides:
- a home for compiling and further developing relevant concepts and methods, as well as case examples which illustrate their use,
- a conduit for transmitting these between teams working on different problems,
- a forum for evaluating quality and raising standards, and
- education at a range of levels.
i2S projects aim to:
- refine the conceptualisation of Integration and Implementation Sciences (i2S)
- gather and organise concepts and methods for application by i2S specialists
- bring together different disciplinary and practitioner perspectives on unknowns and on change
- build bridges between related approaches, such as interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity, systemic intervention, action research, complex systems science, implementation science, participatory system dynamics etc
- foster networks and alliances to increase the influence of i2S and its component approaches on research funding, as well as research and education policy.
The ideas underpinning I2S are described in the following paper and book:
- Bammer, G. 2017 ‘Should we discipline interdisciplinarity?’ Palgrave Communications 3 (article 30) DOI: 10.1057/s41599-017-0039-7
- Bammer, G. 2013 Disciplining Interdisciplinarity: Integration and Implementation Sciences for Researching Complex Real-World Problems, ANU Press. This book includes 24 commentaries and is available free online.
Members
Projects
Publications
- Badham, J, Hunt, R, Guillaume, J et al 2018, 'Effective modeling for Integrated Water Resource Management: a guide to contextual practices by phases and steps and future opportunities', Environmental Modelling and Software, vol. 116, pp. 40-56.
- Bammer, G 2017, 'Strengthening community operational research through exchange of tools and strategic alliances', European Journal of Operational Research, In Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2017.09.041
- Bammer G. ‘What constitutes appropriate peer review for interdisciplinary research?’ Palgrave Communications,2016; 2 (16017), doi:10.1057/palcomms.2016.17.
- Bammer G. (ed) Change! Combining analytic approaches with street wisdom. ANU Press, 2015; http://press.anu.edu.au?p=319221.
- Bammer G. Disciplining Interdisciplinarity: Integration and Implementation Sciences for Researching Complex Real-World Problems. ANU Press, 2013; http://press.anu.edu.au?p=222171
- Bammer G., with Michaux, A, and A. Sanson (eds) Bridging the ‘know-do’ gap: Knowledge brokering to improve child wellbeing. ANU E-Press 2010; http://press.anu.edu.au?p=681.
- Bammer G. (ed) Dealing with uncertainties in policing serious crime, ANU E-Press, 2010; http://press.anu.edu.au?p=100761
- McDonald D., Bammer, G., Deane P. Research Integration Using Dialogue Methods, ANU Press; 2009; http://press.anu.edu.au?p=60381
- Bammer G, ‘Enhancing research collaboration: Three key management challenges’ Research Policy, 2008;37, 875-887.
- Bammer G. and M. Smithson (eds) Uncertainty and Risk: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, London: Earthscan,2008 382pp. Paperback released in July 2009.
