From mephitis.skunk at gmail.com Fri Jan 2 08:04:15 2015 From: mephitis.skunk at gmail.com (Michael Albers) Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 13:04:15 -0000 Subject: [Sigia-l] Registration is open for Symposium on Communicating Complex Information (SCCI) Message-ID: <548F3577.6010300@gmail.com> Registration is now open and the program is available. 4th Annual Symposium on Communicating Complex Information (SCCI) February 23-24, 2015 East Carolina University Greenville NC http://workshop.design4complexity.com/ Building on the success of the previous three conferences,the Symposium on Communicating Complex Information (SCCI) explores the relationships between and within the contexts that affect complex information, information design, information architecture, user experience, and usability. It seeks to examine how design and content choices influence people?s behavior when interacting with complex information, and how the knowledge of situational context improves the design of complex information systems. SCCI fosters an integrated approach to the design of complex information by bringing together members from a range of research and practitioner communities. Keynote address: Lisa Meloncon, University of Cincinnati For more information Contact: Michael Albers (albersm at ecu.edu). From caryn.anderson at gmail.com Mon Jan 12 10:52:31 2015 From: caryn.anderson at gmail.com (Caryn Anderson) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 09:52:31 -0600 Subject: [Sigia-l] Funding opportunity: Building resources for action-oriented team science through syntheses of practices and theories. Closes March 9, 2015 Message-ID: Please forgive cross-posting. For information scientists interested in making research and research methods more accessible across disciplines, particularly for complex social problems, the opportunity below may be of interest. (full RFP on SESYNC website ) I have worked with Professor Bammer in her efforts to collate, organize and develop theory and methods for transdisciplinary research. I outlined some of the philosophies that underpin this funding opportunity in an 2008 ASIST Bulletin article . Her book on Research Integration Using Dialogue Methods is an example of one kind of research methods synthesis. Professor Bammer is very keen to see a team of information scientists participate in this effort to synthesize research methods and has asked to share this RFP with ASIST members. The expectation is that multiple teams in different subject areas will generate aggregated transdisciplinary research methods toolkits, databases, and/or curricula for training inter-disciplinary research teams. An information science team should be able to assist with determining how to organize and distribute such information (the output of all the teams supported by this SESYNC project) for effective discovery and use by all researchers working on complex social problems. Information science teams may also be able to design strategies for finding and aggregating methods across disciplines generally or in support of the other teams in the project. This may be of particular interest to information scientists focused on scholarly communication, information needs/use, knowledge management, and science and technical information. There is also potential for classification and digital libraries specialists. Funding is for travel, accommodation & meals for teams to meet at SESYNC in Maryland multiple times over two years. Cheers, Caryn Anderson Research Information Specialist & PhD Student University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign clndrsn2 at illinois.edu caryn.anderson at gmail.com ------------------------------ *Funding opportunity: Building resources for action-oriented team science through syntheses of practices and theories. Closes March 9, 2015* *Details:* http://www.sesync.org/opportunities/enhancing-socio-environmental-research-education Proposals are invited for synthesis projects focused on tools, methods, and other practices applicable to actionable team research on socio-environmental problems. Multiple teams will be supported, and together their syntheses will contribute towards the development of new toolkits, roadmaps, curricula, and other practical advice. Effective team science is key to finding solutions to socio-environmental problems. Many tools have been developed for integrating ideas, data, and methods across the diverse disciplines involved when researching complex problems. Similarly, practices have been identified that facilitate the linkage of research results with informed policy decisions. Relatively few of these tools and practices have been assessed and optimized for addressing socio-environmental challenges. We invite proposals for synthesis and refinement of the tools and practices of team science from all disciplinary sources for use in socio-environmental applications. The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) will fund up to six international teams (up to 12 members each) to meet over two years (approximately four three-day meetings per team) to analyze, evaluate, and synthesize the practices, tools, methods, and strategies of transdisciplinary team science to significantly improve research teams? effectiveness at understanding socio-environmental problems and informing socio-environmental decisions. The focus may be on improving research methods, on educating new generations of researchers, or both. This call is open to researchers and educators with expertise in all aspects of the practice and scholarship of actionable team research, including diverse areas of environmental and social investigation and other areas that have not traditionally engaged in socio-environmental contexts, such as public health, international development, security, or other research areas. Successful proposals could include participants from a variety of relevant disciplines including environmental science, ecology, social psychology, systemic intervention, political science, organizational management, implementation science, cognitive science, operations research, information science, and computer science. *Purpose* The aim of the synthesis teams to be established under this proposal is to aggregate and synthesize the tools, methods, and other practices used in action-oriented team research as applicable to socio-environmental science. We encourage proposals that address issues across all stages throughout the lifecycle of an interdisciplinary project from problem formulation to approach design, data gathering analysis and synthesis, publication and other dissemination, implementation, and assessment, although individual teams might only work on a subset of these. Many types or combinations of synthesis approaches are possible and many sources of data for aggregation and analysis are appropriate, including diverse case study examples, concepts, methodologies, procedures, protocols, computational applications, or theoretical foundations. *Additional Info* Visit http://www.sesync.org/opportunities/enhancing-socio-environmental-research-education for complete details. Proposals must be received by March 9, 2015, at 5 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). *Questions?* For general inquiries, or contacts from individuals who are interested but are not currently part of a team, please contact Gabriele Bammer ( Gabriele.Bammer at anu.edu.au) or David Hawthorne (dhawthorne at sesync.org).