Disciplining interdisciplinarity : integration and implementation sciences for researching complex real-world problems / Gabriele Bammer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bammer, Gabriele, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Methodology.

Social sciences.

Science--Methodology.

Science.

Applied sociology.

Genre:

Reference works.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (496 pages) : illustrations, charts.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Canberra, Australia : ANU E Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Preliminary Pages

Preface

Setting the Scene

1. The Challenge and a New Approach

2. Getting Specific: Three domains, a five-question framework and the overall approach

Domain 1. Synthesising Disciplinary and Stakeholder Knowledge

3. Introduction

4. For What and for Whom?

5. Which Knowledge?

6. How?

7. Context?

8. Outcome?

9. Specialising in I2S

Domain 2. Understanding and Managing Diverse Unknowns

10. Introduction

11. For What and for Whom?

12. Which Unknowns?

13. How?

14. Context?

15. Outcome?

16. Specialising in I2S

Domain 3. Providing Integrated Research Support for Policy and Practice Change

17. Introduction

18. For What and for Whom?

19. Which Aspects of Policy and Practice?

20. How?

21. Context?

22. Outcome?

23. Specialising in I2S

I2S As A Whole

24. Introduction

25. For What and for Whom?

26. Which Knowledge, Unknowns and Aspects of Policy and Practice?

27. How?

28. Context?

29. Outcome?

30. Specialising in I2S

Moving Forward

31. A View of the Future

32. How I2S Functions as a Discipline

33. The Relationship of Integrative Applied Research and I2S to Multidisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity

34. The Scope and Feasibility of the I2S Development Drive

References

Commentaries

35. Rationale and Key Themes

36. An I2S Discipline: Legitimate, viable, useful? Daniel Walker

37. Integration and Implementation Research: Would CSIRO contribute to, and benefit from, a more formalised I2S approach? - Deborah O'Connell, with Damien Farine, Michael O'Connor and Michael Dunlop

38. I2S: Prescriptive, descriptive or both? -Michael Smithson

39. I2S Needs Theory as Well as a Toolkit - Alison Ritter

40. Implementing Integration in Research and Practice - Alice Roughley.

41. Building I2S into an Academic Program - Lawrence Cram

42. The Institutional Challenges of Changing the Academic Landscape - Catherine Lyall

43. The Brazilian Experience with Institutional Arrangements for Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs: I2S may provide a way forward - Marcel Bursztyn and Maria Beatriz Maury

44. Building Integration and Implementation Sciences: Five areas for development - L. David Brown

45. From the Classroom to the Field: Reflections from a Pakistani law-enforcement perspective - Fasihuddin

46. Moving Competitive Integrated Science Forward: A US land grant research university perspective - M. Duane Nellis

47. Interdisciplinary Research is about People as well as Concepts and Methods - Ted Lefroy

48. Creating the New University - Glenn Withers

49. Beyond 'Dialogues of the Deaf': Re-imagining policing and security research for policy and practice - Simon Bronitt

50. Applying the I2S Framework to Air Pollution and Health in Indonesia - Budi Haryanto

51. Integration and Implementation in Action at Mistra-Urban Futures: A transdisciplinary centre for sustainable urban development - Merritt Polk

52. Philosophy as a Theoretical Foundation for I2S - Michael O'Rourke

53. Interdisciplinarity without Borders - Howard Gadlin and L. Michelle Bennett

54. When the Network Becomes the Platform - Julie Thompson Klein

55. Tackling Integrative Applied Research: Lessons from the management of innovation - Ian Elsum

56. The Fourth Frontier - Michael Wesley

57. How Theory Can Help Set Priorities for the I2S Development Drive - Christian Pohl

58. I2S and Research Development Professionals: Time to develop a mutually advantageous relationship - Holly J. Falk-Krzesinski.

59. Integration and Implementation Sciences: How it relates to scientific thinking and public health strategies - Linda Neuhauser.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 14, 2016).

ISBN:

9781922144287

1922144282

OCLC:

952933505

Publisher Number:

10.26530/OAPEN_459901