The Epistemic Alchemy Podcast
The Epistemic Alchemy Podcast
Podcast Description
The podcast covers research, academic writing, and scholarship within the social sciences/ humanities.
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Content Themes
The show primarily explores topics related to academic writing, literature reviews, research methodologies, and transdisciplinary scholarship. Episodes delve into challenges faced in dissertation processes, such as Mastering the Literature Review, and provide insights into innovative research techniques, such as Constructivist Critical Incident Technique. Specific focus areas include intersubjectivity in research, the impact of AI on scholarship, and ways to enhance critical thinking among scholars.
The podcast covers research, academic writing, and scholarship within the social sciences/ humanities.
Episode description
In this episode of the Epistemic Alchemy Podcast, Dr. Mohammed Raei speaks with Professor Gabriele Bammer, a leading figure in transdisciplinary research and the founder of Integration and Implementation Sciences, or i2S. Bammer reflects on her early intellectual journey, the real-world policy challenges that shaped her work, and why fragmentation remains one of the greatest barriers to addressing complex societal and environmental problems. Together, they explore the evolution of i2S, the importance of integrating disciplinary and stakeholder knowledge, the role of unknowns and imperfection in research, and the political realities of power, implementation, and institutional change. The conversation also turns to higher education reform, AI’s emerging role in transdisciplinary work, and what it would take to build more effective approaches to complexity in universities and beyond.
Resources:
* Integration and implementation insights
* Substack post on redesigning higher education
https://substack.com/@mohammedraei/p-189037847
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