Ola Tjornbo

Education

• B.A. Anglo-Saxon Norse and Celtic (Cambridge University)
• MSci Natural Resource Management, Governance and Globalization (Stockholm University)
• PhD Global Governance (Balsillie School of International Affairs)

Research interests

• Complex Systems Transformations
• Social Innovation
• Developmental and Principle Based Evaluation
• Governance and social media

Courses

• RCLP 1001 Foundations of Leadership
• RCLP 2051 Research Paradigms and Methods
• RCLP 3031 Applied Leadership Project
• RCLP 4002 Leadership for Social Innovation

Select publications

“A complex systems perspective on the role of universities in social innovation.” in Technological Forecasting and Change 174 with K. McGowan, 2022

The Evolution of Social Innovation ed. with Westley and McGowan. Elgar Publishing 2018

“How game changers catalyzed, disrupted, and incentivized social innovation: three historical cases of nature conservation, assimilation, and women’s rights.” Ecology and Society 21 (4):13 with Westley, F. R., K. A. McGowan, N. Antadze, J. Blacklock 2016

“Can collective intelligence produce social innovation?” in New Frontiers in Social Innovation Research, Palgrave McMillan, 2015.

“Studying the complexity of change: toward an analytical framework for understanding deliberate social-ecological transformations” in Ecology and Society, with M-L Moore, E. Enfors, C. Knapp, J. Hodbod, J. A. Baggio, A. Norström, P. Olsson and D. Biggs. Ecology and Society 19(4), 2014.

“Studying the complexity of change: toward an analytical framework for understanding deliberate social-ecological transformations” in Ecology and Society, with M-L Moore, E. Enfors, C. Knapp, J. Hodbod, J. A. Baggio, A. Norström, P. Olsson and D. Biggs. Ecology and Society 19(4), 2014.

“A Theory of Transformative Agency in Linked Social-Ecological Systems,” in Ecology and Society, with F Westley, L Schultz, C Folke, B Crona, and Ö Bodin in Ecology and Society 18(3), 2013.

“Gamechangers: The big green challenge and the role of challenge grants in social innovation,” in Journal of Social Enterprise 3(2) with F Westley, 2012.

“From Coastal Timber Supply Area to Great Bear Rainforest: Exploring power in a social-ecological governance innovation,” in Ecology and Society 17(4) with ML Moore, 2012.

“Agency and Innovation in a Phase of Turbulent Change: Conservation in the Great Bear Rainforest,” in Using a Positive Lens to Explore Social Change and Organization by Golden-Biddle and Dutton (eds), with D Riddell and F Westley, 2012.

“The Loop, the Lens, and the Lesson: Using resilience theory to examine public policy and social innovation,” in Social Innovation by A Nicholis and A Murdock (eds), with ML Moore, F Westley and C Holroyd, 2011.