IMPLEMENTATION IN INTER- AND TRANSDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH, PRACTICE AND TEACHING

Date: 15-17 September 2010, Geneva

Deadline for abstract submissions: 3 May
Letter of acceptance: 28 May

Please note that the submission of the abstract form does not make the submission of the registration form redundant. Each participant, with or without a paper, must register for the conference here.
 
For abstract submissions please use this word-file (or rtf-format), fill in the information in the given format/fonts, and send it to M. Rossini (mail) 

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS

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We kindly ask you to submit proposals for either paper, poster or workshop sessions.

Paper contributions can present practical experiences from inter- and transdisciplinary research projects and teaching courses on issues of health, urban planning, economics, cultural change, the environment, new technologies or science-arts collaborations etc. or focus on more theoretical or methodological issues and ‘tool kits’ of implementation. You might find it helpful in structuring your paper to address the following questions or strategic elements of embedding research in the life-world¹:

• What was the implementation aiming to achieve? Here, a major distinction might be whether the research was problem-oriented or solution-oriented; i.e. whether the aims was to make reality understandable and to explain a problem or, rather, to change reality and find possible solutions (cp. Pohl and Hirsch Hadorn 2007: 61)
• Who was doing the implementation and which were the interests and management philosophies of the individuals or the team?
• How and in which forms was the implementation undertaken?
• Which where the areas of intervention? Did you target specific domains or groups to benefit from the research results?
• How was the effect of the research measured and evaluated? Did you develop a specific impact model to measure how the results were interpreted and used by various stakeholders and to which ends?
• And what was the scientific, socio-political or cultural context for this inter- or transdisciplinary work, which might have affected any of the other questions?

¹ The questions are adapted from the Integration Insights 1 by G. Bammer. See also C. Pohl and G.Hirsch Hadorn, Principles, pp.60-68.

Poster sessions will take place during a special time slot when you have the opportunity to further comment on the presented project and to answer questions related to it. You can hang up your posters on standard-size boards an hour before the beginning of the conference (place to be indicated). Please send us a short synopsis of max. 400 words or a file with the posters for consideration.

Workshop sessions should be interactive by testing, revising and elaborating on existing models and approaches to implementation with the participants. To involve other researchers as early as possible and to allow for in-depth discussion and mutual learning, we suggest that workshop organisers and interested parties enter into dialogue before the conference already. Please describe the content and format of the workshop in max. 400 words.

Please take into account that paper presentations should not last more than 15 minutes to allow for a discussion time of 15 minutes. If you choose the workshop format, you and/or your team are given 90 minutes but should also limit the presentation time to a minimum.

All abstracts should be around 400 words and include a paragraph that explicitly addresses the specific contribution of the paper, poster or workshop to the overall conference theme of implementation. Please also add a short list of the relevant literature your intervention will draw on at the end of the abstract as well 5 key words that represent your contribution so it

Whether you submit a paper, poster or workshop proposal, please use this form and send it to Manuela Rossini (mail)

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