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Scholarly Work

Baron, N. (2016). So you want to change the world? Nature.

Bieluch, K.H., Bell, K.P., Teisl, M.F., Lindenfeld, L.A., Leahy, J. and Silka, L., 2017. Transdisciplinary research partnerships in sustainability science: an examination of stakeholder participation preferences. Sustainability Science, pp.1-18.

Cosley, B.J., McCoy, S.K, and Gardner, S.K. 2014. Collaborative voice: Examining the role of voice in interdisciplinary collaboration. International Journal of Organizational Theory and Behavior 17 (2): 139-162.

Druschke, C. G., & McGreavy, B. (2016). Why rhetoric matters for ecology. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 14(1), 46-52.

Gardner, S. K. 2013. Paradigmatic differences, power, and status: a qualitative investigation of faculty in one interdisciplinary research collaboration on sustainability science. Sustainability Science.8 (2): 241-252.

Gardner, S. K. 2014. Bridging the divide: Tensions between the biophysical and social sciences in an interdisciplinary sustainability science project. Environment and Natural Resource Research 4 (2): 70.

Gardner, S.K., Jansujwicz, J.S. Hutchins, K. Cline, B. and Levesque, V. 2014. Socialization to interdisciplinarity: faculty and student perspectives. Higher Education, 67 (3): 255-271.

Hart, D. D., K. P. Bell, L. A. Lindenfeld, S. Jain, T. R. Johnson, D. Ranco, and B. McGill. 2015. Strengthening the role of universities in addressing sustainability challenges: the Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions as an institutional experiment. Ecology and Society 20(2):4.

Hart, D.D., Buizer, J.L., Foley, J.A., Gilbert, L.E., Graumlich, L.J., Kapuscinski, A.R., Kramer, J.G., Palmer, M.A., Peart, D.R. and Silka, L., 2016. Mobilizing the power of higher education to tackle the grand challenge of sustainability: Lessons from novel initiatives. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 4(1), DOI 10.12952/journal.elementa.000090

Hutchins, K., Lindenfeld, L.A., Bell, K.P, Leahy, J. and Silka, L. 2013.  Strengthening Knowledge Co-Production Capacity: Examining Interest in Community-University Partnerships. Sustainability, 5(9): 3744-3770.

Levesque, V. R., Bell, K. P., & Calhoun, A. J. (2016). Planning for Sustainability in Small Municipalities: The Influence of Interest Groups, Growth Patterns, and Institutional Characteristics. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 0739456X16655601.

Levesque, V. R., Calhoun, A. J., Bell, K. P., & Johnson, T. R. (2017). Turning contention into collaboration: engaging power, trust, and learning in collaborative networks. Society & Natural Resources, 30(2), 245-260.

Lyons, P., Leahy, J., Lindenfeld, L., and Silka, L. 2014. Knowledge to Action: Investigating implicit Knowledge Production Models held among Forest Science Researchers. Society and Natural Resources 27 (5): 459-474.

McCoy, S. K., and Gardner, S. K. 2012. Interdisciplinary collaboration on campus: Five questions. Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 44 (6): 44-49.

McGreavy, B., Druschke, C. G., Sprain, L., Thompson, J. L., & Lindenfeld, L. A. (2016). Environmental communication pedagogy for sustainability: Developing core capacities to engage with complex problems. Applied Environmental Education & Communication, 15(3), 261-274.

McGreavy, B., Hutchins, K., Smith, H., Lindenfeld, L.A., and Silka, L. 2013. Addressing the complexities of boundary work in sustainability science through communication. Sustainability. 5 (10): 4195-4221.

McGreavy, B., Lindenfeld, L.A., Bieluch, K.H., Silka, L., Leahy, J., amd Zoellick, W. 2015. Communication and sustainability science teams as complex systems. Ecology and Society 20(1):2.

McGreavy, B., Silka, L. and Lindenfeld, L. 2014. Interdisciplinarity and actionable science: exploring the generative potential in difference. Journal of Community Practice. 22 (1-2): 189-209.

McGreavy, B., Webler, T., and Calhoun, A.J.K. 2012. Science communication and vernal pool conservation: A study of local decision maker attitudes in a Knowledge Action System. Journal of Environmental Management 95 (1): 1-8.

Meyer, S.R., Levesque, V., McGreavy, B., Johnson, M.L., Hutchins, K., Dreyer, S., and Smith, H. 2015. Sustainability Science Graduate Students as Boundary Spanners. J. Environmental Studies and Sciences, 1-10.

Senge, P., Hamilton, H., & Kania, J. (2015). The dawn of system leadership. Stanford Social Innovation Review, 13, 27-33.

Silka, L. 2013. Silos in the Democratization of Science. International Journal of Deliberative Mechanisms in Science, 2(1): 1-14.

Silka, L., Glover, R., Hutchins, K., Lindenfeld, L., Blackstone, A., Elliott, C., Ladenheim, M., and Sullivan, C. 2013. Moving Beyond the Single Discipline: Building a Scholarship of Engagement that Permeates Higher Education. Tamara – Journal for Critical Organizational Inquiry, Special Issue on Community Engaged Scholarship, 11 (4).

Silka, L., Teisl, M., & Settele, J. (2015). Place-Based Approaches to Engagement. In Community Engagement in Higher Education (pp. 89-102). SensePublishers.

Science Policy Training Opportunities

AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellows Program
This 10-week summer program places science, engineering, and mathematics students at media organizations nationwide. Fellows use their academic training as they research, write, and report today’s headlines, sharpening their abilities to communicate complex scientific issues to the public.

AAAS Science & Technology Fellowship
Providing opportunities for scientists and engineers to learn first-hand about policymaking while contributing their knowledge and analytical skills in the federal policy realm.

Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science
The Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science empowers scientists and health professionals to communicate complex topics in clear, vivid, and engaging ways; leading to improved understanding by the public, media, patients, elected officials, and others outside of their own discipline.

Hellman Fellowship in Science and Technology Policy
As part of the Academy’s Initiative for Science, Engineering, and Technology, the Hellman Fellowship in Science and Technology Policy provides an opportunity for an early-career professional with training in science or engineering to learn about a career in public policy and administration. While in residence, Hellman Fellows work with senior scientists and policy experts on critical national and international policy issues related to science, engineering, and technology.

American Institute of Biological Sciences
AIBS offers several public policy training opportunities for current and recent graduate students in the biological sciences.

American Political Science Association Congressional Fellowship Program
The American Political Science Association Congressional Fellowship Program is a highly selective, nonpartisan program devoted to expanding knowledge and awareness of Congress. Since 1953, it has brought select political scientists, journalists, federal employees, health specialists, and other professionals to Capitol Hill to experience Congress at work through fellowship placements on congressional staffs.

Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs offers research fellowships during the academic year to individuals who wish to devote their time to research and writing in the fields of science and international affairs.

Brookings Institute Legis Congressional Fellowship
For public sector and private sector managers.

California Council on Science and Technology Policy Fellowships
The CCST Science and Technology Policy Fellows Program helps inform California’s legislative process with scientific perspectives and expertise.

Environmental and Energy Study Institute Policy Internship
EESI relies on interns to provide substantive help to advance our environmental and energy policy agenda.

John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship
The Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship provides a unique educational and professional experience to graduate students who have an interest in ocean, coastal and Great Lakes resources and in the national policy decisions affecting those resources.

National Academies- Christine Mirzayan Science Policy Graduate Fellowship
The Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program provides early career individuals with the opportunity to spend 12 weeks at the Academies in Washington, DC learning about science and technology policy and the role that scientists and engineers play in advising the nation.

National Academies- Jefferson Science Fellowships
The JSF is open to tenured, or similarly ranked, faculty from U.S. institutions of higher learning who are U.S. citizens.

Presidential Management Fellowship
Bearing the Presidential moniker, the PMF Program is a flagship leadership development program at the entry level for advanced degree candidates.

Research!America Science Policy Internships and Fellowships
Research!America offers paid temporary fellowships and internships.

Switzer Environmental Fellowship
The Switzer Fellowship Program offers one-year Fellowships to highly talented graduate students in New England and California whose studies and career goals are directed toward environmental improvement and who clearly demonstrate leadership in their field.

Union of Concerned Scientists Kendall Fellowship
Fellows work on policy-relevant research and priority is given to scientists working on innovative and forward-looking projects that are primarily scientific, technical, or analytic in nature.