transdisciplinary approach Archives

May 27, 2020May 27, 2020

Causation Concoctions

The AIHS Bok on Causation commences with the following: ‘If safety management is effective, then there should be an absence of accidents. Conversely, if accidents are occurring then effective safety management must be absent’ (p.1). The assumptions in these statements… Read the rest

April 24, 2020April 24, 2020

The Heart of Wisdom at Covid Time

I have had numerous people contact me in the last few weeks about issues of resilience, pastoral care, helping, mental health and wisdom for the workforce and more broadly for families and community. One person contacted me and stated: ‘we… Read the rest

April 14, 2020April 14, 2020

The Value of Transdisciplinary Inquiry in a Crisis

Australian Story on 13 April 2020 entitled Fighting Fire With Fire (https://www.abc.net.au/austory/fighting-fire-with-fire/12134242) raised the idea that Indigenous Traditional knowledge about fire ought to be valued. The story surfaced this possibility in the midst of enquiry into the terrible bushfire season… Read the rest

January 13, 2020March 1, 2020

Bridging the Disciplines for Better Outcomes

One of the challenges of a closed knowledge culture is that such will not help us meet the needs of the future. Whether one understands intractable complexity as a ‘wicked problem’ or just complexity there is no doubt that the… Read the rest

November 26, 2019November 26, 2019

Transdisciplinarity and Worldviews in Risk

‘We do not think of the ordinary person as preoccupied with such difficult and profound questions as: ‘What is truth?’, ‘What is authority?’, ‘To whom do I listen?’, ‘What counts for me as evidence?’, ‘How do I know what I… Read the rest