Bethany Laursen, Ph.D.

Bethany gets things done. She is a scholar, facilitator, and consultant passionate about crossing boundaries for the greater good.

After practicing as an interdisciplinary environmental scholar and educator for 10 years, Bethany switched fields to study and facilitate interdisciplinarity itself. Her specialty is knowledge integration and tools that help us do that better, especially when solving wicked problems. She works in the fields of cross-disciplinarity, team science, and clinical & translational science.

Bethany coordinates the Toolkits & Methods Working Group of the Global Alliance for Inter- and Transdisciplinarity. She is also a member of the Toolbox Dialogue Initiative, a research and facilitation project that promotes communication in cross-disciplinary teams using philosophical dialogue. Bethany is currently Team Science Specialist with the Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research at the University of Michigan and Principal Consultant with Laursen Evaluation & Design, LLC.