transdisciplinary approach Archives

January 13, 2020January 13, 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

November 26, 2019November 26, 2019

Why Resilience Cannot be Engineered

‘A social and community psychology of resilience is needed if we are to understand why many of us are not always able to preserve well-being and sustain our progress toward the goals we have set ourselves and for those… Read the rest

November 19, 2019November 15, 2019

I’m Concerned That We Can’t See The Safety Forest For The Safety Trees

Acknowledgement- This article draws heavily on the concepts of Dr Rob Long, and particularly his work on safety needing to take a transdisciplinary approach. A great article on this can be viewed here. I don't think it's a stretch… Read the rest

November 7, 2019November 7, 2019

And the Innovation is? More Controls…..

One of the great anxieties about Safety is the lack of control. If there was a favourite word for the safety industry, this would be it - controls. This is what attracts Safety to the language of numerics and mechanistic… Read the rest