Integration and Implementation Insights

By Katrina Messiha. How can we ensure that the many people whose lives are shaped by homelessness, migration, poverty, trauma, mental illness, caring responsibilities, social isolation and other contributors to marginalisation are adequately represented and well engaged with in relevant research? This is important because if some lives are missing from the evidence base, they ... Read more

By Faye Miller. What makes it so challenging for research teams to be truly receptive to being wrong? And what can teams do to make doubt expressible and useful? Being aware that knowledge is always situational, incomplete, and prone to error, as well as the willingness to hold opinions tentatively, be receptive to change, and ... Read more

By Ina Opitz, Melanie Kryst, Pia von den Benken and Audrey Podann. How can children’s everyday experiences and perceptions of problems and solutions be made accessible for potential inclusion in transdisciplinary research? How can these processes also be used to familiarise children with the fundamentals of transdisciplinarity? We have developed a three-hour “tinkering workshop,” based ... Read m…

By Benedikt Steiner. How can the Delphi method be modified to provide data aggregation and visualisation in real time? Which aspects of the Delphi method are preserved and which are changed? How does such a modified method work best? A brief overview of the Delphi method The Delphi method is a structured elicitation process that ... Read more

By Hussein Zeidan. How can we move from broad visions of transdisciplinarity to concrete educational practices that students can meaningfully engage with? What kinds of course designs genuinely support learning in complex, real‑world settings? And how do we ensure clarity, for both students and educators, about what these courses are meant to achieve? These questions ... Read more

By Jean Boulton. What are the underpinning necessities or conditions—the essential ingredients—that lead to and engender the qualities or characteristics of the complex world, especially its processual and emergent nature? Three conditions for complexity: the essential ingredients A watch or intricate machine is not complex. Nor is a saucer of water. So, when do we ... Read more

By Judith Friedlander and Tania Leimbach. How can researchers cut through ‘the infoglut’ to share their findings with communities? What communication strategies help raise the agenda of critical issues to drive impactful advocacy and action? As researchers and practitioners, we want to better understand how to effectively frame critical issues in a hybrid media system, ... Read more

By Lachlan S. McGill. When feedback loops have become resistant to external evidence, what are some potential ways of intervening to reopen them? This i2Insights contribution builds on my previous post which covers understanding why feedback loops can become resistant to external evidence and how to diagnose such a structural problem. Here I introduce five ... Read more

By Lachlan S. McGill. Why does better evidence sometimes fail to improve decision making? How can we tell if this is caused by feedback loops becoming resistant to external evidence? Understanding how structural patterns become problematic In most organisations, decisions are embedded in feedback loops that connect indicators, incentives, and authority structures. These loops determine ... Read m…

By Roger Duck and Jane Searles. Think of a time when you noticed how different ‘they’ are from ‘us’. In that moment, did the relationship become more interesting and alive? Or did it flatten into what looked like a boundary – a barrier to be overcome or a connection to be engineered? This i2Insights contribution ... Read more

By Erika Angarita, Anna Hajdu, Yanyan Huang, BinBin Pearce, Guadalupe Peres-Cajías, Hussein Zeidan and Yuanyuan Zhu. How can a student and their supervisors develop a shared map for a PhD project when they come from different disciplinary traditions, hold different assumptions about knowledge and quality, and operate within institutional systems that are still largely structured ... Read more

By Julia Schegg, Rea Pärli, Manuel Fischer and Eva Lieberherr. How do contextual factors influence the effects of transdisciplinary research projects? How can assessment of transdisciplinary research move from only considering outcome effectiveness to understanding the reasons behind how and why something works? Our framework considers both context and the effects of transdisciplinary research pr…

By Hanna Salomon, Jialin Zhang and Sabine Hoffmann. How can the process of developing a conceptual framework in an inter- and transdisciplinary research project itself create valuable space for reflection, alignment, and learning? What we have found when developing a project-specific conceptual framework is that the process is as important, if not more important, for ... Read more

By Sobia Khan and Julia E. Moore. How can we move beyond considering power as the source of implementation challenges and bottlenecks, and instead focus on how we can change or shift the nature of power? How might you experience implementation differently if you knew how to unpack power dynamics and had strategies to navigate ... Read more

By Julia E. Moore and Sobia Khan. What are some useful ways of thinking about trust when developing plans to implement your research or strengthen your team? More importantly, what are some practical ways to build trust both as an individual and as an organisation? Indeed, when asked about some of the most challenging parts ... Read more

By Hussein Zeidan. Do you sense a growing gap between the promise of transdisciplinarity and the way it is often practised? Have you recognised instances where a paper praises integration, yet treats it as little more than a symbolic gesture, instead of a serious intellectual and ethical commitment? How did we get here, and how ... Read more

By Faye Miller. How can research teams recognise when their use of artificial intelligence is affecting their ability to integrate different knowledge and perspectives? How can they navigate the impact of artificial intelligence on their collaborative processes? When research teams use artificial intelligence in collaborative work, new complexities emerge, especially subtle shifts in communicatio…