An invitation to contribute

Researching and writing this book has made us even more enthusiastic about the potential of dialogue methods as research integration tools to more effectively tackle real-world problems.

This book provides a compilation of available methods and cases of their application to problems in the environment, public health, security and/or technological innovation. We strongly encourage those involved in using dialogue for research integration to publish their findings—not only in terms of the outcomes, but in terms of the processes used. We hope that our six-question framework (see Appendix 1 and the cases above) will provide a useful way of structuring such publications. Based on an analysis that one of us has been involved in (Kueffer et al. 2007), we appreciate that outlets for such publications are limited. Therefore, for those who have difficulties in finding a suitable journal or other place to publish, especially for lessons learnt from processes that have not gone well, we have established a place on the Integration and Implementation Sciences web site (<http://i2s.anu.edu.au/>) that can be a repository for such cases and that provides an opportunity for discussion of dialogue as a research integration method, as well as a site for recording feedback on this book.