Information about this webinar and the link to the Zoom room can be found below. We look forward to seeing you at 12pm ET June 9!

June INTEREACH Webinar

Title: (i2) Insights on Decolonisation and Epistemic Justice

When: Tuesday, June 9, 2026 from 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EDT
Where: https://duke.zoom.us/j/97938305083

Description: Join our guests, Gabriela Alonso Yáñez and Basirat Oyalowo to explore how transdisciplinary research can advance decolonisation and epistemic justice by more meaningfully engaging diverse knowledge systems. In Gabriela Alonso-Yanez’s I2Insights blog, she examined how dominant academic norms can privilege certain ways of knowing while marginalizing others, discussing the role of critical unlearning in challenging these hierarchies and fostering more reflexive, equitable, and inclusive research practices. Basirat Oyalowo’s posts discussed transdisciplinarity as it relates to African society and research to highlight how transdisciplinary approaches can better align with locally grounded priorities, and reflecting on how multi-stakeholder collaboration, institutional transformation, and the role of higher education support socially responsive and just research systems. For this webinar, our speakers will consider how transdisciplinary research can move beyond extractive models toward more inclusive, context-responsive, and justice-oriented practices.

This webinar is the next installment in our 2025-2026 series celebrating the 10th anniversary of the i2Insights blog and repository. Each session highlights enduring “gold nuggets” from the blog’s archives – ideas and practices that continue to influence how we collaborate to address today’s complex challenges.

All the best,

The INTEREACH Leadership Team

www.intereach.org

Information about this webinar and the link to the Zoom room can be found below. We look forward to seeing you at 12pm ET TOMORROW, May 12!

May INTEREACH Webinar

Title: (i2) Insights on Integration Frameworks

When: Tuesday, May 12, 2026 from 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EDT
Where: https://duke.zoom.us/j/97938305083

Description:

Join our guests Stephen Crowley and Christian Pohl a they discuss frameworks for knowledge integration, drawing insights from their i2Insights blog contributions and related work. Knowledge integration is at the heart of tackling complex, real-world problems, but for many researchers, it remains frustratingly hard to pin down, plan for, or evaluate. Frameworks can help researchers and practitioners find more clarity on features to consider in effectively combining knowledge within teams. In this webinar, Crowley and Pohl discuss what it actually means to integrate knowledge and how we might better facilitate that integration.

Following short presentations from each speaker, the session will move into a dialogue that invites exploration of integration frameworks and structures. The conversation will then open to attendees, encouraging a collective examination of current challenges, promising directions, and possibilities for advancing these frameworks.

This webinar is the next installment of our 2025-2026 series celebrating the 10th anniversary of the i2Insights blog and repository. Each session highlights enduring “gold nuggets” from the blog’s archive - ideas and practices that continue to influence how we collaborate to address today’s complex challenges.

All the best,

The INTEREACH Leadership Team

www.intereach.org

Information about this webinar and the link to the Zoom room can be found below. We look forward to seeing you January 13, 2026, at 12pm ET!

February INTEREACH Webinar

Title: (i2) Insights on Professionalization of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Careers

When: Tuesday, February 10, 2026 from 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EST
Where: https://duke.zoom.us/j/97938305083

Description: 

Join interdisciplinary scholarship leader Bianca Vienni-Baptista (ETH Zürich) and team science and philosophy of interdisciplinarity expert Michael O’Rourke (Michigan State University) for a generative conversation on the professionalization of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary careers. Inspired by themes explored in their i2Insights contributions – ranging from institutional transformation and frameworks for strengthening ID/TD cultures to the evolving expectations of research funders and the development of team science competencies – this session offers space to reflect on what it takes to build robust, recognized, and well-supported pathways for integrative researchers and practitioners.

Following short presentations from each speaker, the session will move into a dialogue that invites exploration of the structures, skills, and cultures that enable interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary work to thrive. The conversation will then open to all attendees, encouraging a collective examination of current challenges, promising directions, and possibilities for advancing ID/TD careers in diverse institutional and global contexts.

This webinar is the fourth installment in our 2025-2026 series celebrating the 10th anniversary of the i2Insights blog and repository. Each session highlights enduring “gold nuggets” from the blog’s archives – ideas and practices that continue to influence how we collaborate to address today’s complex challenges.

All the best,

The INTEREACH Leadership Team 

www.intereach.org