Calls

14.10.2023

Call for Abstracts: The Future of Global Governance Series: Sustainable Development, Risk, and Strategic Foresight in a Transdisciplinary Systemic World

Center for Global Agenda (CGA), Global Consortium for Systems Research (GCSR)

Building upon the 2022 Future of Global Governance Series Workshops held at the UN General Assembly Science Summit, the Center for Global Agenda (CGA) at Unbuilt Labs is excited to partner with the Global Consortium for Systems Research (GCSR) to present the 2023 Future of Global Governance Conference.

This year's conference is inspired by CGA Co-Director's forthcoming publication with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR): "Closing the Compliance Gap: System-wide Transformation Methods for the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals", Prof. James Romberger's eco-fiction graphic novel Post York (Dark Horse, 2021; translation to Spanish, 2023) on New York flood scenarios, and GCSR’s 2023-2024 theme "Quantum Futures".

We are honored to have great presentations and speakers last year, including Jim Hall, FREng (Professor of Climate and Environmental Risks; Director of Research, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford), Steve MacFeely (Director of Data and Analytics, World Health Organization (WHO)), and Rachele Hendricks-Sturrup, DHSc, MSc, MA (Research Director, Real World Evidence at Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy).

We are very much looking forward to hearing exciting and emerging perspectives this year as well.

To apply, please email the following to Marvin@UnbuiltLabs.com by the 14th of October 2023:

(1) Proposed title for a 10-minute presentation

(2) Short abstract (One paragraph will suffice. Longer abstracts should not exceed 150 words.)

(3) Short biography

We are open to all proposals relevant to the title of the conference and we are especially keen on proposals that take on a systems and/ or transdisciplinary perspective.

Early career researchers, historically underrepresented people, and practitioners including artists are encouraged to apply. We will accept proposals on a rolling basis. We read and appreciate every application. Thank you from the organizing team.

Deadline for Proposals: 14 Ocotober 2023
Date of the online Conference: 11 November 2023

14.10.23

Conference - Call for Abstracts: The Future of Global Governance Series: Sustainable Development, Risk, and Strategic Foresight in a Transdisciplinary Systemic World

The Center for Global Agenda (CGA) at Unbuilt Labs and the Global Consortium for Systems Research (GCSR)

Building upon the 2022 Future of Global Governance Series Workshops held at the UN General Assembly Science Summit, the Center for Global Agenda (CGA) at Unbuilt Labs is excited to partner with the Global Consortium for Systems Research (GCSR) to present the 2023 Future of Global Governance Conference.

This year's conference is inspired by CGA Co-Director's forthcoming publication with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR): "Closing the Compliance Gap: System-wide Transformation Methods for the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals", Prof. James Romberger's eco-fiction graphic novel Post York (Dark Horse, 2021; translation to Spanish, 2023) on New York flood scenarios, and GCSR’s 2023-2024 theme "Quantum Futures".

All proposals relevant to the conference's theme are welcome, with a particular interest in those that adopt a systems and/or transdisciplinary approach

Deadline: 14th October 2023

Spring 2024

Practice-based research of interdisciplinary higher education

University of Edinburgh

Practice-based Research of Interdisciplinary Higher Education is a collection that aims at building a community and building capacity around the study of interdisciplinary teaching and learning at universities and colleges around the world. The higher-education landscape is changing toward increasingly societally engaged models that re-position disciplinary silos. This change generates questions about ‘what works’ in interdisciplinary higher education and about the operationalization and implementation of the values behind this educational change. Research of interdisciplinary higher teaching and learning is currently being presented at conferences aimed specifically at exchange about practicalities and best practices, and the research also finds its way to conference proceedings in more general fields interested in the study of university and college education, liberal education, academic writing, team science, and so on. The literature about interdisciplinary higher education is currently scattered and research gaps are hard to identify, define, and defend.

So, there is a need for improving publication possibilities for practice-based projects using interdisciplinary teaching and learning as input for research and, vice versa, using research to improve interdisciplinary teaching and learning. This collection responds to this niche interest whilst explicitly striving toward maintaining the plurality of research approaches responding to the challenges of interdisciplinary higher education. Topics that will be considered include:

• Conceptual Approaches of Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinary Higher Education
• Integrative Teaching and Learning in Theory and Practice
• Differences and Commonalities between Interdisciplinary Higher Education and Challenge-Based Learning, Community-Engaged Learning, Practice-Based Learning, etc.
• Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning and the Sustainable Development Goals
• Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning and the Inner Development Goals
• Recognition and Reward of Interdisciplinarians at Universities and Colleges
• Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning as Transformational Process
• Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in Interdisciplinary Higher Education
• Co-creating Interdisciplinary Higher Education with Students
• Educational Tools for On-site, Hybrid, and Online Interdisciplinary Higher Education
• Assessment of Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning
• Teacher Competences for Interdisciplinary Teaching
• Governance of Interdisciplinary Programmes at Universities and Colleges

Submission Deadline for Abstracts: 01 December 2023

Submission Deadline for full submission: Spring 2024

31.10.23

Call for Special Collection papers: Transformative Inter- and Transdisciplinary methods for Global Societal Challenges

Bristol University Press Digital

Interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity are multidimensional and entail heterogeneous practices, values, methods, institutionalising processes, imaginaries and programmatic approaches. Although this recognition has long been discussed in the literature, few approaches seek to put this plurality at the centre of attention. We define interdisciplinarity as combining different academic disciplines and transdisciplinarity as work integrating academic and other stakeholders and/or communities of practice. The urgent policy call for more and better interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research driven by crises related to the COVID-19 pandemic or energy and food issues demands that this heterogeneity be revisited to determine how it hinders or helps the efficacy of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary methods and tools in such research and its funding.  

This Special Collection aims to:

• Advance transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to societal grand challenges
• Rethink the concept of method in transformative settings
• Contribute to current policy discussions on collaborative (social) sciences and their role in transformative research
• Challenge the role of the arts and their tools in achieving societal transformation

We seek submissions on the following themes:

• Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary methods and tools for societal transformation
• Artistic interventions in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary settings
• Methodological approaches to transformation and change through interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary research, teaching and learning initiatives
• Studies comparing an interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary approach with a particular disciplinary approach to the same challenge, thereby demonstrating what is gained by the former
• Innovative case studies that address one or more global societal challenge(s) grounded in one or more of the above themes

Deadline for Abstract-submission: 31 October, 2023

8.5.23

Call for papers for MRD’s MountainDevelopment and MountainAgenda sections

MRD

Mountain Research and Development (MRD) invites submissions focusing on transformation knowledge and target knowledge. How can we solve problems and tap opportunities for greater sustainability? Articles in the MountainDevelopment section should offer validated insights from development interventions, local practices, and policy efforts. And: What sustainable development do we want? Articles in the MountainAgenda section should systematically review—and conclude with agendas for—research, development, or policy. Submissions are welcome anytime.

17.10.22

Global Social Challenges Journal

Julie Thompson-Klein and David Simon are two of the joint Editors-in-Chief of Bristol University Press’s recently launched non-profit, open-access Global Social Challenges Journal (GSCJ), which has a particular focus on TD and ID work and welcomes submissions from TD-Net members.