#ISSS2017 Vienna: Full Schedule

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Day 1 PhD/Graduate Programme

Overview of the programme
Introduction to System Thinking in Practice (STiP) theoretical lineages and traditions; implications for research practices (the PFMS heuristic)

Chairs

Chris Blackmore

Senior Lecturer in Environmental & Development Systems, The Open University, UK

Particularly interested in social learning systems and communities of practice. Currently teaching and doing research. At the OU I chair Masters level courses on systems thinking in practice and environmental decision making. Also working on CADWAGO project...climate adaptation and... Read More →

Assoc.Prof. Dr. Ika Darnhofer

Institute of Agricultural and Forestry Economics, BOKU (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences)

PhD (Graduate) Course Leader: Systems Thinking in Research Practice, 7 – 14 July My research focus is on management and decision making on family farms.Although I appreciate the value of the various tools of neoclassical economics for informing farm management on the short-term and for commercial farms, I find they are limited in their ability to capture the... Read More →

Prof. Ray Ison

Professor of Systems, The Open University UK (OU)

ISSS Past President (2014-2015), International Society for the Systems SciencesProfessor of Systems, The Open University UK (OU). He is internationally recognised for his Systems scholarship that draws on second-order cybernetics and the biology of cognition and for developing... Read More →

Prof. Nadarajah Sriskandarajah

Emeritus, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Friday July 7, 2017 09:00 - 18:00 CEST
BOKU, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, University of Vienna Gregor-Mendel-Straße 33, 1180 Wien, Austria

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Host Organization ISSS, BOKU

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Day 2 PhD/Graduate Programme

Introducing and using systems, tools, techniques, methods and methodologies combined with group work; Articulating your PFMS model.

Chairs

Chris Blackmore

Senior Lecturer in Environmental & Development Systems, The Open University, UK

Assoc.Prof. Dr. Ika Darnhofer

Institute of Agricultural and Forestry Economics, BOKU (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences)

Prof. Ray Ison

Professor of Systems, The Open University UK (OU)

Prof. Nadarajah Sriskandarajah

Emeritus, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Saturday July 8, 2017 09:00 - 18:00 CEST
BOKU, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, University of Vienna Gregor-Mendel-Straße 33, 1180 Wien, Austria

Conference, PhD-Student Day | #ISSS2017, PhD-Student Day | PhD-Graduate Programme, PhD-Student Day

Host Organization ISSS, BOKU

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Day 3 PhD/Graduate Programme

Views from history of the systems field; the role of systemic design and institutions in leading and enabling ‘system change’. Protocols for the group-based systemic inquiry and final presentation.

Chairs