5 posts published by Community Member during September 2025| Integration and Implementation Insights
By Thomas Bruhn. In developing a conference, what does it take for people to leave their comfort zones to co-design something new? What possibilities does this open up for more meaningful conference designs? What are the broader lessons for transformative research? In 2023–2024, I worked with the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research to ... Read more| Integration and Implementation Insights
By Andrei Savu. Once you understand the basic concepts underpinning systems, what other concepts are key to understanding system dynamics? While systems thinking teaches you to see and shape system structure, system dynamics focuses on understanding nonlinear behavior over time. An additional four key concepts are added to five core concepts in systems thinking described ... Read more| Integration and Implementation Insights
By Andrei Savu. What concepts are key to understanding systems? A system is a set of interdependent elements whose coordinated interactions give rise to an outcome none of the pieces can deliver alone. The key word is relationship: change the relationships and the behavior of the whole shifts, even if every component remains identical. Five ... Read more| Integration and Implementation Insights
By David R. Garcia. How can academics, researchers, and educators become skilled at the craft of engaging with policy makers? Who should they aim to engage with and what are some key factors in eng…| Integration and Implementation Insights
The understanding diversity primer, published as 10 blog posts in 2022, provides an introduction for beginners of 10 key aspects, as summarised below. A video primer on understanding diversity has …| Integration and Implementation Insights
The stakeholder engagement primer provides an introduction for beginners of 10 key aspects, as summarised below. The primer was published in 2021 as 10 blog posts. For other primers on key topics c…| Integration and Implementation Insights
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By Richard Berry. What are the differing characteristics of data? Why are they important for systems to function effectively? What is requisite variety of data? There are nine characteristics of data variety which agitate systems. These are volume, velocity, variety, veracity, validity, vulnerability, viscosity, vectors and virtualisation. Together, the ‘9Vs’ constitute a data requisite variety ... Read more| Integration and Implementation Insights
By Nina Maria Frölich and Annika Weiser. Which contextual factors affect the design, processes, methods and outcomes of transdisciplinary research projects? How can they best be considered by teams…| Integration and Implementation Insights
3 posts published by Community Member during August 2025| Integration and Implementation Insights
By Florian Keil, Melina Stein and Flurina Schneider. Is artificial intelligence, a technology aggressively advertised as the ultimate cure-all, fundamentally incompatible with transdisciplinarity and its decades-old insight that the “wicked” problems of the real world do not lend themselves to one-dimensional solutions? Should transdisciplinary research outright reject a technology that is already undermining efforts to ... Read more| Integration and Implementation Insights
By Lianghao Dai. A Chinese version of this post is available What are fake interdisciplinary collaborations and how do they arise? Fake interdisciplinary collaborations are a form of performative s…| Integration and Implementation Insights
By Emma Ligtermoet, Claudia Munera-Roldan, Cathy Robinson, Zaynel Sushil and Peat Leith. What forms of learning can support interdisciplinary teams to rapidly build reflexivity capabilities, especially in preparation for doing transdisciplinary (engaged) science with non-researcher societal actors? Transdisciplinary co-production requires deep and reflexive learning. Reflexivity is a key capability for researchers doing inter- and transdisciplinary ... Read more| Integration and Implementation Insights
By Hilary Bradbury. How can action researchers empower system actors in impactfully responding to our deepening eco-social crisis? How can action research be a catalyst to successfully transmute the inexhaustible resource of human creativity in all spaces—self to society—toward addressing our global problems? How can we encourage deepening clarity of choices made to navigate a ... Read more| Integration and Implementation Insights
By Melanie Bauer, Joshua Roney and Stephen M. Fiore. How can team members who have been working together for a while check assumptions, ensuring they are aware of each other’s breadth of expertise …| Integration and Implementation Insights
3 posts published by Community Member during July 2025| Integration and Implementation Insights
By Susanne C. Moser. When training transdisciplinarians, which leadership skills and practices is it helpful to encourage? The kind of leadership that someone brings to a transdisciplinary project…| Integration and Implementation Insights
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By Katrin Prager Co-creation, and related terms like co-design, co-production, co-construction and co-innovation, are becoming increasingly popular. Upon closer scrutiny they share many characteris…| Integration and Implementation Insights