Systems Thinking and Practice in PhD Research:
Cybersystemic Possibilities for Governing the Anthropocene
30 July – 7 August 2015, Germany
Comprising:
• Two days of participation in a Systemic Inquiry in Hannover (Herrenhausen) on “Governing the Anthropocene: Cybersystemic Possibilities?
• Two days of dedicated ‘workshops’ introducing different systems approaches, methods and research traditions at Humboldt University in Berlin
• Five days of participation in the 2015 ISSS Conference in Berlin, including a group generated presentation on the final day
• 5 ECTS – points (N.B. The ECTS grading scale is a grading system defined in the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System framework by the European Commission. In Europe there is a general requirement as part of PhD study to undertake taught work attracting ECTS points).
PhD Systemic Inquiry Group Photo – 2015
Bill was missing from the group photo
The outline call for the PhD program can be found here: Announcement PhD course Systems Thinking and Practice 2015
A full program in summary form can be found here: WINS-ISSS PhD Course ProgramFinal
The following are a selection of images to convey a sense of what the PhD program entailed.
Contributing to the Herrenhausen Inquiry
Pause for thought?
Taking a breather
Working hard – Humboldt University
The Humboldt workroom
Responding to debriefing on Herrenhausen
Experiential exercise – research as a practice
At work – Humboldt
Mid-conference meeting
Feedback to the ISSS Conference
A link to download the video with the music and lyrics of the song performed at the PhD feedback session.
Reporting back on Group Inquiry
Where’s Chris?
Here is Chris
Listening
Appreciated
I guess Chris was taking photos??? 🙂 …. usually the photographer is the more present, in every moment 😀
Thanks Sandra! Yes, they are my pics
Chris
Tuan has very kindly sent Chris some of his pictures in response to my ‘where’s Chris?’ question on the website. I have added to the website some of his requests.
Luisa Perez-Mujica and Saideepa Kumar, who participated in the systemic inquiry are PhD candidates at Charles Sturt University, School of Environmental Sciences & Institute of Land, Water and Society in Albury, NSW Australia. Some of their reflections were published in a recent Newsletter from their Institute – see pages 17-18 https://www.csu.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/1742064/Connections-41.pdf .
Luisa said: “This was one of the most enriching experiences of my life, both personal and academic. One of the keynote speakers of the conference said something that resonated in me and goes along the lines of: when thinking about systems it is quite acceptable, in fact it is preferable to be confused. I can say that if I had attended the conference without the PhD program I would have not been confused, I would feel certain, certain that I knew the “right way” to do systems thinking and that anyone that did not share my tradition of understanding was essentially wrong….”
A blog posting from Luisa about her Systemic Inquiry experiences can be found here: As promised, here is the link to the blog entry I did for the ILWS: http://ilws-blog.csu.edu.au/2015/08/27/phd-course-of-systems-thinking/