TDI Integration Research
TDI conducts internationally renowned scholarship on the nature and practice of cross-disciplinary integration.
integration, cross-disciplinary integration, interdisciplinary integration, transdisciplinary integration, how to integrate
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TDI Integration Research

With 20 affiliated researchers, the Toolbox Dialogue Initiative incubates many diverse research projects exploring the many facets of collaborative team communication. Several projects have cohered into an Integration subgroup, with active involvement by Michael O’Rourke (MSU), Bethany Laursen (MSU), Brian Robinson (Texas A&M-Kingsville), Chad Gonnerman (USI), and Stephen Crowley (BSU). The figure below shows how they interact. Scroll down to learn more.

Concept map of TDI integration research
Concept Map of TDI Integration Research
Researchers

Michael O'Rourke, Stephen Crowley, Chad Gonnerman, and Bethany Laursen

Project Description

Proposes and develops an Input-Process-Output (IPO) model of integration

Start Date

2012

Status

Ongoing

Research Outputs

  • Hubbs, G. & Crowley, S. (2020) “Integration: What is it?” Presented at the 11th Annual Science of Team Science Conference, Virtual. June 1.
  • Laursen, B. K. and O’Rourke, M. (2019). Thinking with Klein about Integration. Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 37(2), 33–61.
  • Laursen, B. K. and O’Rourke, M. (2019) “Detecting integrative discourse in team meetings.” Presented at the International Transdisciplinarity Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden. September 12.
  • O’Rourke, M. & Laursen, B. K. “Understanding interdisciplinary integration: Learning from Julie Thompson Klein.” Presented at the Association for Interdisciplinary Studies annual conference, Detroit, MI. October 12.
  • Laursen, B. K., & O’Rourke, M. (2018) “Evidence for integrative reasoning in interdisciplinary team science.” Presented at the 8th annual Science of Team Science Conference, Galveston, TX. May 23.
  • Laursen, B. K., & O’Rourke, M. “Humanities-based methods for the cognitive science of communication: Examples from the Toolbox Dialogue Initiative.” Presented at the Cognitive Science of Communication Studies Symposium, East Lansing, MI. April 20.
  • O’Rourke, M., Crowley, S., & Gonnerman, C. (2016). On the nature of cross-disciplinary integration: A philosophical framework. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 56, 62–70. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2015.10.003
  • O’Rourke, M., & Crowley, S. (2012). “What might integration be? What using philosophical interventions to facilitate disciplinary integration can teach us about the notion of common ground.” Presented at the Philosophy Of/As Interdisciplinary Network Conference, Tübingen, Germany.