Improving the Management of Ignorance and Uncertainty: A Case Illustrating Integration in Collaboration

Disciplining Interdisciplinarity: Integration and Implementation Sciences for Researching Complex Real-World Problems

“…We demonstrated that we could successfully engaged a diverse cross-section of discipline-based researchers and practitioners to scan the territory, with 17 participants representing different disciplinary and practice perspectives and three representing problems where unknowns are important: communicable disease outbreaks, environmental management and illicit drug use. The process we used is described in Bammer and The Goolabri Group (2007). The symposium produced the book Bammer and Smithson (2008).…”

Bridging the ‘know‐do’ gap. Knowledge brokering to improve child well‐being

“…We organised a stimulating exchange between these three groups, by inviting six researchers, five service providers and three former policymakers to each write a paper based on their experience of, or interest in, successfully working across the 'know-do' gap. This was based on a method developed by one of us (Bammer and the Goolabri Group 2007). Each participant was given two of resulting papers to read and comment on, where possible, from the 'other' groups.…”