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)