Wednesday, March 7 || Norman Smith Hall || 2 PM – 3:30 PM
Maine’s coasts are rapidly changing, and aquaculture stands as an important solution to strengthen and transform coastal economies, communities, and ecosystems. The development of such socio-technical solutions to complex problems requires an interdisciplinary approach to ensure that the techniques that are developed are based on multiple forms of expertise and are developed in ways that work for diverse stakeholders. Team-based approaches to science can facilitate these interdisciplinary partnerships, and success in team science requires deliberate design strategies that enable information sharing, learning, and equity among partners.
In this presentation, Dr. Bridie McGreavy will draw from her communication research within team science contexts in multiple large-scale sustainability science projects to describe a pragmatic approach to the science of team science. She will share communication design strategies that support the development of organizations that can learn and adapt over time; are based on a culture of collaboration; and that use shared leadership for effective, inclusive, and adaptive team science. These strategies include the use of interviews and survey data for organizational decision making; multiple forms of writing to foster interdisciplinary integration and stakeholder partnerships; adaptive governance approaches; and tailored learning activities designed for specific stages in collaborations to advance interdisciplinary research objectives over time.
This event is free and open to the public.
** Refreshments will be provided.
About Dr. McGreavey:
Bridie McGreavy is Assistant Professor of Environmental Communication. Her research addresses how, through communication, individuals and communities become resilient and sustainable. She uses ethnographic and mixed methods to study communication within sustainability science teams and coastal and freshwater management contexts. Her research has been published in journals such as Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, Ecology and Society, and the International Journal of Sustainable Development. She received National Science Foundation (NSF) fellowships for her dissertation and postdoctoral research which she conducted with Maine’s Sustainability Solutions Initiative and the New England Sustainability Consortium respectively. She is currently a UMaine co-PI on a $6 million grant through NSF’s EPSCoR program to advance a four-year study examining the future of dams in New England. As an environmental communication practitioner, Bridie served as director of environmental education for fifteen years at two non-profit organizations in Maine and was a 2006 Switzer Environmental Leadership Fellow. She teaches courses in environmental communication, argument and critical thinking, communication research, and sustainability science. She received a Ph.D. in Communication with a concentration in Sustainability Science from the University of Maine.
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