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

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.

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.

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