Future Africa (FA) at the University of Pretoria is pleased to invite you to join the latest Transdisciplinary (TD) Dialogue presented by Professor Gabriele Bammer, President of the Global Alliance for Inter-and Transdisciplinary (ITD Alliance). In this dialogue, Prof Bammer will lead a discussion and share ideas on how to inspire and support researchers to achieve transformational impact on global challenges by creating supportive environments and infrastructure. She will also advise on how to develop workable transition pathways to implement a transdisciplinary approach to research, teaching and learning.

Date: Tuesday, 18 March 2025

Time: 10:00 am to 11:00 am SAST

Location: Online on Zoom. Register HERE

Professor Bammer will be joined by a panel of discussants from UP’s Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology:

• Prof Karina Landman, Head of the Department: Town and Regional Planning and Chair of the School of the Built Environment.
• Dr Calayde Davey, Coordinator: Professional Practice, Convener: Urban Strategy & Hatfield Digital Twin City Initiative.
• Mr Jason Oberholster, PhD Candidate: Complex Urban Integration. Lecturer, Director: Unit for Urban Citizenship,

About Prof Gabriele Bammer

Prof Gabriele Bammer is the author of the publication Disciplining Interdisciplinarity Integration and Implementation Sciences for Researching Complex Real-World Problems and developed a useful Framework in Disciplining Interdisciplinarity – Integration and Implementation Sciences (i2S) to foster expertise for tackling complex problems. Currently serving as the inaugural President of the Global Alliance for Inter- and Transdisciplinarity (ITD Alliance), Gabrielle Bammer is a Professor of Integration and Implementation Science in the College of Law, Governance and Policy at the Australian National College ( ANU). Prof Gabriele Bammer was recognised in 2024 with the Peter Baume Award, the Australian National University’s most prestigious accolade, being 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 convener of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security’s Integration and Implementation research program. She co[1]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 the co-Director and then Director of the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute.

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