Speakers

Gabriele Bammer is Professor of Integration and Implementation Sciences (i2S) at The Australian National University and the inaugural President of the Global Alliance for Inter- and Transdisciplinarity (ITD Alliance). She is developing the new discipline of Integration and Implementation Sciences (i2S) to improve research strengths for tackling complex societal and environmental problems (see i2s.anu.edu.au) and she curates the popular Integration and Implementation Insights blog and repository (http://i2Insights.org), which shares resources and build a community of scholars for addressing complex problem. She is an inaugural Fulbright New Century Scholar alumna and has held visiting appointments at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (2001-14), the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center at the University of Maryland (2015-2018) and the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, Germany (2019-2020), along with short-term appointments at ETH-Zurich and the Universitaet fuer Bodenkultur (BOKU) in Vienna. She co-convened (with Michael Smithson) an edX Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on ‘Ignorance!’. Her books include Disciplining Interdisciplinarity: Integration and Implementation Sciences for Researching Complex Real-World Problems (author, 2013), Change! Combining analytic approaches with street wisdom (editor, 2015), Research Integration Using Dialogue Methods (co-author, 2009), and Uncertainty and Risk: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (co-editor, 2008).