Gabriele Bammer is developing the new discipline of Integration and Implementation Sciences (i2S). This builds on her foundational book Disciplining Interdisciplinarity: Integration and Implementation Sciences for Researching Complex Real-World Problems (ANU E Press, 2013; http://press.anu.edu.au?p=222171). To help achieve this aim she convenes a global community in producing the popular Integration and Implementation Insights (i2Insights; https://i2Insights.org/), which is a community blog and repository of theory, methods and other tools underpinning i2S.

She is the inaugural President if the Global Alliance for Inter- and Transdisciplinarity (ITD Alliance; https://itd-alliance.org/). In 2024 she was recognised with the Peter Baume Award, the Australian National University’s most prestigious accolade, awarded for “eminent achievement and merit of the highest order.” 

She was an ANU Public Policy Fellow and is an inaugural Fulbright New Century Scholar alumna. She has held visiting appointments at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (2001-14), the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center at the University of Maryland (2015-2018) and the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, Germany (2019-20), along with short-term appointments at ETH-Zurich (2007) and the Universitaet fuer Bodenkultur in Vienna (2012). From 2007-2013 she was the convenor of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security’s Integration and Implementation research program.

She co-convened (with Michael Smithson) an edX Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on ‘Ignorance!’. 

Between 2011-13 she was Director of the ANU's Research School of Population Health, Director of the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, and co-Director and then Director of the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute.

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Integration and Implementation Sciences (i2S) – Developing a new discipline.

Tackling complex societal and environmental problems needs improved theory and methods to enable diverse disicplines and stakeholders (those experiencing the problem and those in a position to do something about the problem) to work together to:

1. develop a more comprehensive understanding of the problem, both what is known and what is not known
2. generate ideas about addressing the problem, including what may and may not work
3. support improved policy and practice responses to the problem by government, business and civil society.

This requires expertise in understanding and managing (in alphabetical order): Change, Communication, Context, Decision-making, Diversity, Integration, Research implementation, Stakeholder engagement, Systems, Teamwork, and Unknowns. Strengthening the theory and methods underpinning expertise in these 11 areas is the core of her work.

To find out more: see http://i2s.anu.edu.au and https://i2insights.org/