December 9th, 2025: (i2)Insights on Systems and Complexity Methods: Navigating Uncertainty and Shaping Change

Click here to view the third episode of our 2025-2026 webinar series, “Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Integration and Implementation (i2Insights) Blog & Repository.”

This webinar features UK-based complexity scholars Dr. Katherine Hobbs and Dr. Jean Boulton, who introduce practical ways to think, lead, and make decisions in a world defined by uncertainty. They discuss how complexity shapes everyday work, why mindset and relationships matter as much as methods, and how teams can create space for reflection, learning, and adaptation. The session highlights common organizational constraints and offers approachable strategies for fostering more collaborative, context-aware, and resilient approaches to tackling complex challenges.

Thanks to Professor Gabriele Bammer for hosting INTEREACH webinar recordings on the Integration and Implementation Sciences (i2S) YouTube channel, i2S-Talks.

November 11th, 2025: (i2)Insights on Embodied & Arts-Based Practices

Click here to view the second episode of our 2025-2026 webinar series, “Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Integration and Implementation (i2Insights) Blog & Repository.”

In this session, Jillian Student, knowledge integrator and researcher at Wageningen University and Research, and Veronica Dittman Stanich, Research Program Manager for the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru), shared their creative approaches to using embodied and arts-based practices to bridge different forms of knowledge and generate new insights in workshops and conferences.

Drawing on their respective i2Insights posts - “Not just in our heads: Embodied and creative practices for creating connection” and “Using the arts to flip understanding: An arts intervention for non-arts researchers” - Dr. Dittman Stanich discussed a structured arts-based workshop designed to give non-arts researchers new perspective on their work (helping them move past a “stuck place”), while Dr. Student highlighted the use of creative and embodied methods to support co-creation at the 2023 Transdisciplinary Research, Education and Dialogue (TRED) conference.

After their presentations, the pair engaged first in conversation with one another and then with the INTEREACH community. The discussion touched on managing participant expectations, helping people transition out of their comfort zones, and considering how these creative approaches might be applied within research teams.

Thanks to Professor Gabriele Bammer for hosting INTEREACH webinar recordings on the Integration and Implementation Sciences (i2S) YouTube channel, i2S-Talks.

October 14th, 2025: Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Integration and Implementation (i2Insights) Blog & Repository (2025-2026 Series Launch)

Click HERE to view the inaugural episode of our 2025-2026 webinar series, “Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Integration and Implementation (i2Insights) Blog & Repository.”

For the past decade, the Integration and Implementation Insights (i2Insights) blog and repository, hosted by Gabriele Bammer and Peter Deane at The Australian National University, has inspired and sustained collaboration across a global community dedicated to advancing the tools and methods needed to address complex societal and environmental challenges.

To mark the 10th anniversary of this incredible resource, INTEREACH is dedicating its 2025–2026 webinar series to celebrating the blog’s content and reflecting on its role in shaping integrative skillsets and transdisciplinary approaches.

The series launch was kicked off by i2Insights founder and curator, Gabriele Bammer (The Australian National University) with a pre-recorded presentation about the story of i2Insights, highlighting its origins, surprises along the way, and what may be next for i2Insights. The INTEREACH Leadership Team - Kim Bourne & Alison Deviney (North Carolina State University), Kristine Glauber (Duke University), Christine Hendren (Appalachian State University), and Amalia Turner (Duke University) - then reflected on (i) favorite i2Insights blog posts, (ii) how the blog has influenced their professional practice or career trajectory, and (iii) thoughts on possible future directions for the blog and the community. The session ended with reflections from attendees.

The previous video referenced by Gabriele Bammer was recorded for the October 10th, 2023 webinar, Integration and Implementation Sciences (i2S) as “the arrow,” and can be viewed on its own HERE.

Thanks to Professor Gabriele Bammer for hosting INTEREACH webinar recordings on the Integration and Implementation Sciences (i2S) YouTube channel, i2S-Talks.

Blog posts and comments mentioned

Kim Bourne:

• “An effective way to organize research coordination meetings” by Gemma Jiang, Diane Boghrat and Jenny Grabmeier (March 21, 2023)

• “What roles do you play in inter- and transdisciplinary projects?” By Hanna Salomon, Benjamin Hofmann and Sabine Hoffmann (April 1, 2025)

Alison Deviney:

• “Key systems thinking lessons from Donella Meadows” by Geoff Marlow (Oct. 3, 2023)

• “Co-creation without systems thinking can be dangerous” by Gerald Midgley (July 7, 2016)

• “Four building blocks of systems thinking” by Derek Cabrera and Laura Cabrera (April 12, 2022)

• “Five core concepts for understanding systems” by Andrei Savu (September 16, 2025)

• “Competencies for systems thinking practitioners. Part 1: Overall expectations and knowledge,” edited by Gabriele Bammer (March 12, 2024).

• “Competencies for systems thinking practitioners. Part 2: Skills and behaviours,” edited by Gabriele Bammer (March 12, 2024)

Kristine Glauber:

• “Three complexity principles for convergence research” by Gemma Jiang (February 4, 2021)

Christine Hendren:

• “Recognising interdisciplinary expertise” by Gabriele Bammer (December 5, 2017)

Amalia Turner:

• “Gradients of agreement for democratic decision-making” by Hannah Love (May 25, 2021)

• “Idea tree: A tool for brainstorming ideas in cross-disciplinary teams” by Dan Stokols, Maritza Salazar, Gary M. Olson, and Judith S. Olson (March 12, 2019) (check out the comments and discussion, which really elevated this post )

• “Creative destruction” by Keith McCandless (November 8, 2022)

• Comment by Christine Hendren on the blog post, “Do we need to discipline interdisciplinarity?” by By Gabriele Bammer (March 2, 2016)

June 10th, 2025: Analyzing Knowledge Integration in Convergence Research

Click HERE to view the eighth and final installment of our 2024-2025 series, “Intentional Integration: How do we know if it’s working?” in which Virginia Tech researchers Shalini Misra, Associate Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs; Megan Rippy, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering; and Stanley Grant, Director of the Occoquan Watershed Monitoring Lab and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, share their approach for assessing the integrative processes and products of the first two years of a five-year National Science Foundation Growing Convergence Research project on inland freshwater salinization.

Thanks to Professor Gabriele Bammer for hosting INTEREACH webinar recordings on the Integration and Implementation Sciences (i2S) YouTube channel, i2S-Talks.

May 13th, 2025: Measuring What Matters in Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Developing and Testing the Perspective Integration Capability (PIC) Scale

Click HERE to view the seventh installment of our 2024-2025 series, “Intentional Integration: How do we know if it’s working?” in which Maritza Salazer Campo, Assistant Professor of Organization and Management at the Paul Merage School of Business at University of California-Irvine, introduces the Perspective Integration Capability (PIC) scale: a conceptually grounded, empirically validated instrument that measures an individual's willingness and ability to integrate knowledge with others in collaborative work. Dr. Salazar Campo provides an overview of the research involved in the development, validation, and testing of the PCI scale and discusses its utility in assessing individual integration capacity and enabling new insights and opportunities for improving team dynamics and convergent science collaborations.

Thanks to Professor Gabriele Bammer for hosting INTEREACH webinar recordings on the Integration and Implementation Sciences (i2S) YouTube channel, i2S-Talks.

April 8th, 2025: Evaluating Convergence Methods from an Administrator's Perspective

Click HERE to view the sixth installment of our 2024-2025 series, “Intentional Integration: How do we know if it’s working?” in which Dr. Jason Owen-Smith, co-founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Research on Innovation and Science (IRIS); Dr. Levent Atici, Associate Vice Provost for Student-Centered Interdisciplinary Initiatives at North Carolina State University; and Dr. Maude Cuchiara, Managing Director of the Science and Technology for Phosphorus Sustainability (STEPS) Center, describe the convergence methods and mechanisms employed within their convergent research centers and institutional ecosystems and provide insights into how to gauge whether they’re working.

Thanks to Professor Gabriele Bammer for hosting INTEREACH webinar recordings on the Integration and Implementation Sciences (i2S) YouTube channel, i2S-Talks.

February 11th, 2025: Integration in Action: Enhancing Team Science Through Collaborative Practices

Click HERE to view the fifth installment of our 2024-2025 series, “Intentional Integration: How do we know if it’s working?” in which Colleen Cuddy, Director of Research and Academic Collaboration for Stanford University’s Lan Medical Library, explores the critical role of integration in advancing team science, highlighting its significance for team effectiveness in interdisciplinary research teams. In this webinar, Dr. Cuddy discusses the internal and external factors that influence integration, examining how these elements can both facilitate and hinder integration, and shares insights from her research on interdisciplinary academic STEMM teams on how effective integration is enacted in such teams.    

Thanks to Professor Gabriele Bammer for hosting INTEREACH webinar recordings on the Integration and Implementation Sciences (i2S) YouTube channel, i2S-Talks.

December 10th, 2024: Unpacking “convergence culture”: Exploring the operationalization of convergence in teams

Click HERE to view the fourth installment of our 2024-2025 series, “Intentional Integration: How do we know if it’s working?” in which Marisa Rinkus, Associate Director of the Toolbox Dialogue Initiative (TDI) Center at Michigan State University, explores “convergence culture” through findings from a pilot study aimed at understanding how NSF Growing Convergence Research (GCR) grant awardees conceptualize and operationalize convergence in their projects. The study was part of the TDI Center’s work with the GCR Program (NSF Award #2119916) conducting structured dialogue-based workshops with newly funded GCR teams.

Thanks to Professor Gabriele Bammer for hosting INTEREACH webinar recordings on the Integration and Implementation Sciences (i2S) YouTube channel, i2S-Talks.

November 12th, 2024: Wicked Problems and Wicked Challenges: Measuring Convergence in Graduate Education

Click HERE to view the third installment of our 2024-2025 series, “Intentional Integration: How do we know if it’s working?” in which Gail Jones, Distinguished Professor of Science Education at North Carolina State University and Senior Fellow at the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, and Daniel Laxman, Principal Program Evaluator at Arizona State University's Office of Evaluation and Educational Effectiveness, explore the challenges of validly and reliably measuring the impact of convergence research on graduate student outcomes and experiences.

Thanks to Professor Gabriele Bammer for hosting INTEREACH webinar recordings on the Integration and Implementation Sciences (i2S) YouTube channel, i2S-Talks.

October 8th, 2024: System Factors that can Supercharge (or Sabotage) Team Science

Click HERE to view the second installment of our 2024-2025 series, “Intentional Integration: How do we know if it’s working?” where Rebecca Woodland, Professor of Educational Policy and Leadership at UMass Amherst, Director of Program Evaluation at the UMass Center for Educational Assessment, and current Vice President of the International Network for the Science of Team Science (INSciTS), describes the five system factors she has identified through her research on organizational integration and team collaboration as the keys to effective collaboration and introduces a comprehensive framework for evaluating team science outcomes and supporting collaboration effectiveness through cycles of inquiry.

Thanks to Professor Gabriele Bammer for hosting INTEREACH webinar recordings on the Integration and Implementation Sciences (i2S) YouTube channel, i2S-Talks.