Plenary Speaker
Brain-Smashing: NOT Zombie Style
Integrating Knowledge Across Diverse Perspectives
Integrating knowledge across diverse perspectives — disciplinary, stakeholder, sector, and other ways of thinking — is difficult and can be unnerving, although when achieved the results are novel ideals, outcomes and solutions to society’s most wicked problems. Employing NSF-funded and tested knowledge integration tactics, we will practice brain-smashing, in a safe, exploratory space with no zombies.
Dr. Troy Hartley is director of Virginia Sea Grant and a research professor of Marine Science & Policy at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science and the William & Mary Public Policy Program. Troy lives in Williamsburg, Virginia, and has over 20 years of experience in coastal, marine, and natural resource policy and management. He is a public policy scholar and his research considers collaborative governance networks and processes, stakeholder attitudes, perceptions and opinions, and change management in communities, particularly in coastal, marine and fisheries contexts. His research has been funded by NSF, NOAA, Sea Grant, USEPA, Canadian Embassy, and the Water Environment Research Foundation.
Troy Hartley, PhD
Director
Virginia Sea Grant
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