Joannette J. (Annette) Bos’s research while affiliated with Monash University (Australia) and other places

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Publications (8)


From complexity to integration: Insights for process design from an empirical case study of transdisciplinary planetary health collaboration in Indonesia
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January 2025

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Earth System Governance

Jane Wardani

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Joannette J. (Annette) Bos

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Anthony G. Capon

Towards a practice framework for transdisciplinary collaboration in planetary health
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February 2024

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4 Citations

Global Sustainability

Non-Technical Summary Despite growing recognition of the importance of transdisciplinary research in addressing complex sustainability challenges, in practice it has been much hampered by persistent inequities, power disparities, and epistemological disconnect. Planetary health as an emerging field offers a unique lens highlighting the need for knowledge integration across the environment, health, and development (EHD) nexus. Drawing upon extensive analyses, including a meta-analysis of existing transdisciplinary frameworks, a literature review of practices in these fields, and a case study of a planetary health action research project in Indonesia and Fiji, we propose a framework to guide the design and implementation of transdisciplinary research. Technical Summary The proposed framework was iteratively designed, starting with existing frameworks, complemented by findings and practice recommendations from a literature review of 36 publications of recent transdisciplinary practices in the EHD fields and an in-depth case study of a planetary health research from Indonesian perspectives. The practice framework focuses on the stakeholder collaboration process, and emphasizes reflexivity and co-learning throughout all research phases: initiation (co-design); implementation (adaptive co-management), and monitoring and refinement (co-monitoring). Foundational considerations for stakeholder engagement could inform process design by reflecting on stakeholder contributions, interactions, integration, and expected outcomes. As suggested by development studies, and implicitly agreed upon but insufficiently elaborated within environment and health, attention to the local context of the research, mapping of power dynamics, and the values of equity and inclusivity are pertinent if research is to produce credible, relevant, and legitimate knowledge and outcomes. A renewed focus on addressing power equities can help ensure stakeholders' perspectives and interests are equally valued and potential solutions are not inadvertently excluded as a legacy of systemic power imbalance. The practice framework is most effectively applied in the initial process co-design, by process initiators and funders assessing proposals for international transdisciplinary research in power-diverse settings or resource-poor contexts. Social Media Summary How can researchers across diverse fields collaborate with renewed focus on power inequities to accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals?

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Global issues, local action: exploring local governments use of research in “tackling climate change and its impacts on health” in Victoria, Australia

October 2023

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BMC Health Services Research

Background Local government plays an important role in addressing complex public health challenges. While the use of research in this work is important, it is often poorly understood. This study aimed to build knowledge about how research is used by investigating its use by local government authorities (LGAs) in Victoria, Australia in responding to a new legislative requirement to prioritise climate and health in public health planning. The role of collaboration was also explored. Methods Informed by Normalization Process Theory (NPT), this study adopted multiple research methods, combining data from an online survey and face-to-face interviews. Quantitative data were analysed using descriptive statistics; thematic analysis was used to analyse qualitative data. Results Participants comprised 15 interviewees, and 46 survey respondents from 40 different LGAs. Research was most commonly accessed via evidence synthesis, and largely used to inform understanding about climate and health. When and how research was used was shaped by contextual factors including legislation, community values and practical limitations of how research needed to be communicated to decision-makers. Collaboration was more commonly associated with research access than use. Conclusions Greater investment in the production and dissemination of localised research, that identifies local issues (e.g. climate risk factors) and is tailored to the communication needs of local audiences is needed to foster more impactful research use in local public health policy.


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Research evidence use in local government-led public health interventions: a systematic review

July 2023

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5 Citations

Health Research Policy and Systems

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Phoebe Nagorka-Smith

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Peter Bragge

Background Local governments play an important role in improving public health outcomes globally, critical to this work is applying the best-available research evidence. Despite considerable exploration of research use in knowledge translation literature, how research is practically applied by local governments remains poorly understood. This systematic review examined research evidence use in local government-led public health interventions. It focused on how research was used and the type of intervention being actioned. Methods Quantitative and qualitative literature published between 2000 and 2020 was searched for studies that described research evidence use by local governments in public health interventions. Studies reporting interventions developed outside of local government, including knowledge translation interventions, were excluded. Studies were categorised by intervention type and their level of description of research evidence use (where ‘level 1’ was the highest and ‘level 3’ was the lowest level of detail). Findings The search identified 5922 articles for screening. A final 34 studies across ten countries were included. Experiences of research use varied across different types of interventions. However, common themes emerged including the demand for localised research evidence, the legitimising role of research in framing public health issues, and the need for integration of different evidence sources. Conclusions Differences in how research was used were observed across different local government public health interventions. Knowledge translation interventions aiming to increase research use in local government settings should consider known barriers and facilitators and consider contextual factors associated with different localities and interventions.


Boundaries as Spaces of Knowledge Integration: Learning from transdisciplinary collaboration on planetary health in Indonesia

April 2023

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3 Citations

The Journal of Climate Change and Health

Introduction: Deepening global inequalities in the health impacts of climate change highlight the need for transformative solutions through international and transdisciplinary collaborations. While the emerging field of planetary health provides a unique lens for recognizing interlinkages across a broader range of knowledge systems, a deeper understanding is needed about the processes through which such knowledge systems can be developed and integrated. Existing transdisciplinarity scholarship offers useful concepts of integration across boundaries; however, such understanding predominantly reflects the perspectives of Global North academic stakeholders, conceivably due to systemic power imbalance as an enduring colonial legacy. This study aims to identify opportunities for learning from the experiences of Global South stakeholders in transdisciplinary collaboration. Methods: We empirically explore the process of transdisciplinary collaboration in a case study of a large-scale planetary health research project. Through multi-method thematic analysis, this study seeks to understand Global South stakeholders’ contributions, motivations, and interactions on transdisciplinary collaboration, through their experiences in the case study context. Results & Discussion: The study found that Global South stakeholders contributed a plethora of disciplinary and non-disciplinary knowledge and other resources, guided by strong cultural inclinations for collaboration. The opening up of boundary spaces was key to multi-directional knowledge integration. Analysis revealed concepts of interdependence and complementarity towards a common vision, and provides insight into stakeholders’ motivations for initial and continuing engagement. Conclusion: Recognizing interdependence provides strong motivation for transdisciplinary collaboration and can help revalorize contributions from historically disadvantaged knowledge systems and stakeholders.


Characterising water sensitive cities through inquiry-based learning systems

May 2022

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3 Citations

Australasian Journal of Water Resources

Transitioning to water sensitive cities (WSCs) in Australia is necessary for creating urban areas that are resilient to natural disasters, water shortages and climate change. In this paper we report research to enable systemic-transformations praxis. We brought together water practitioners from various sectors for a number of systemic inquiry events across five Australian cities to understand what was required to begin a transition to WSCs. Using an approach influenced by systemic innovation, we designed an inquiry-based learning system. Our learning system design made scientific knowledge available for interpretation, internalisation and contestation, by practitioners in different contexts. The workshops led to identification of characteristics of WSCs; relevant issues and opportunities; and commitments and constraints to action constituting a baseline data set for future evaluation of progress. Transitioning to WSCs requires leadership, a supportive institutional-sectoral environment, practical implementation of technologies in social contexts and increased collaboration involving knowledge co-production across disciplines and sectors. Systemic inquiry methods lend themselves to revealing the socially constructed nature of urban water as hybrids of the technical, natural and social. Despite some limitations, our approach enhanced institutional innovation and investment and offers insights into future research and planning for enabling systemic-transformations praxis in multiple sectors and contexts.


Enabling transdisciplinary research collaboration for planetary health: Insights from practice at the environment‐health‐development nexus

February 2022

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Sustainable Development

In recent decades, transdisciplinary research has been increasingly recognised as necessary to produce solutions for sustainable development; however, implementation challenges remain. The emerging field of planetary health offers a unique lens to guide a new synthesis of perspectives, recognising interlinkages between environmental and human health, and interdependence across global development contexts, that is, at the environment‐health‐development nexus. This broad, practice‐based literature review consolidates learnings from previous transdisciplinary research across these diverse yet interrelated fields, and aims to deepen understanding of, and identify opportunities for, enabling collaborative practice. This review found structural, relational, and individual factors enabling and constraining collaboration. Local research contexts and academia's disciplinary traditions posed structural constraints that required relational efforts at the project, organisational and individual levels to address. This analysis revealed strategic opportunities for funding programs and researcher training that can be leveraged to increase capacity for relational work, further enabling collaboration in transdisciplinary research.


Incumbency and political compromises: Opportunity or threat to sustainability transitions?

June 2021

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Studying the role of incumbents is central to understanding transformation dynamics. Existing studies have largely focused on incumbent firms, their corporate, technological, and political strategies within a given sector. Whilst insightful, viewing incumbency as a more open concept could allow research to better examine the blurred boundaries across sectors and between sectors and the polity. The plurality of relationship could also result in more tensions and legitimacy problems for incumbents. We ask how can incumbency maintain legitimacy under such pluralistic context? We conceptualise ways contradiction may be managed through political responses and tested our hypothesis in a case study of an urban water initiative in Indonesia. Crisis events, governance messiness, social conflicts, and cognitive contestations are identified as important and interrelated contradictions, which have deep roots in the broader polity. Incumbents also appear skilled at placating tension using piecemeal compromises to survive multiple legitimacy problems, thereby undercutting overall transformative potential.

Citations (5)


... it combines more disciplinary contributions from different disciplines to generate a comprehensive level of understanding by developing systemic frameworks of several disciplinary and interdisciplinary contributions [33,34]. A transdisciplinary collaboration framework (TCF) enables knowledge production due to the combination of scientific expertise developed through various insights in respective disciplines [35]. ...

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A Transdisciplinary Overlay for Nature-Based Design of Sustainable Buildings
Towards a practice framework for transdisciplinary collaboration in planetary health

Global Sustainability

... To realize the 2030 SDGs, the central government has committed to and implemented a school zoning policy to address the problem of access to education for students from poor families and equalizing the quality of education in the regions since 2017 (Wardani et al., 2023;Wisnubroto et al., 2023). However, the implementation of this policy faces many obstacles and has not been able to improve the conditions of students from poor economic backgrounds to get better access to education, especially in public junior high schools (Ewulley et al., 2023;Timotheou et al., 2023). ...

Boundaries as Spaces of Knowledge Integration: Learning from transdisciplinary collaboration on planetary health in Indonesia
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  • April 2023

The Journal of Climate Change and Health

... The first paper in this issue by Shelton et al. (2022) presents such an approach to characterising watersensitive cities through inquiry-based learning systems, seeking to transform understanding of water practitioners from different cities and provide impetus for intervening systemically in their cities. Like all complex systems, there will be lots of challenges, with the authors outlining that: "Transitioning to water sensitive cities requires a combination of leadership, a supportive institutional-sectoral environment, practical implementation of technologies in social contexts and increased collaboration involving knowledge co-production across disciplines and sectors" (Shelton et al. 2022), although the approach has the potential to be transferred and further embedded across the water sector and beyond. ...

Characterising water sensitive cities through inquiry-based learning systems
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  • May 2022

Australasian Journal of Water Resources

... Flow and movement of tributaries, along with the upstream and downstream characteristic of watersheds, provide an opportunity to look at pressing issues affecting the region in new and more connected ways (Parkes, 2016). As described through the concept of just sustainabilities (Ageyman, 2013), addressing issues in isolation or from a narrow perspective can limit the impact of solutions, and in many cases reinforce the underlying causes of social and environmental problems (see also, Wardani et al., 2022). Drawing inspiration from watersheds can inspire and guide place-based, nested, and interconnected ways of thinking and doing. ...

Enabling transdisciplinary research collaboration for planetary health: Insights from practice at the environment‐health‐development nexus
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  • February 2022

Sustainable Development

... The role of incumbent is thus equated with the role of regime actor (e.g. Novalia et al., 2021). The incumbent role is often ascribed to firms and (subsections of) governments, but is equally relevant for trade unions, knowledge organisations or NGOs . ...

Incumbency and political compromises: Opportunity or threat to sustainability transitions?
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  • June 2021

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions