#ISSS2016 Boulder

• Description:  Systemic Sustainability and Systems Literacy ultimately involve transformative changes at the personal and social level. What individual competencies are needed and how will student researchers navigate the treacherous waters ahead for ‘out-of-the-box’ thinkers? We emphasize the importance of integrated personal skills and effective collaborative and innovative networking to build transformative communities.

Chair: Pamela Buckle

Invited Speakers:

• Pamela Buckle (The Challenge of Graduate Research in systems science and practice)


• Delia McNamara (Ranulph Glanville Memorial Talk) – Importance of collaboration and connection for student research.


• Student Award Papers (Vickers, Rappoport, Mead)

Description: Achieving sustainable and more synergistic futures requires education in systems thinking and connection with new modes of social communication. Our highest priority should be to legitimize whole systems research and to provide adequate guidance to student/expert collaborative learning within a program of Systems Literacy. How do we ‘train the trainers’ and launch this program? [Chair: Peter Tuddenham]

Speakers: 

• Peter Tuddenham Systems Literacy Education


• Graduate Course Student Report (introduced by Ray Ison)