Crossing fields: the case of a multi-disciplinary research team

Massey, Claire; Alpass, Fiona; Flett, Ross; Lewis, Kate; Morriss, Stuart; Sligo, Frank

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“…what makes a good stockperson, what a good stockperson does, and how is it learnt). A mixed-method approach (Massey et al, 2006) was employed. Quantitative data gathered included basic structural data about the farms and some psychometric scales which served as focus points for discussion e for example, asking farmers to first rate the intelligence of cows and then explain their response.…”

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Building ‘cowshed cultures’: A cultural perspective on the promotion of stockmanship and animal welfare on dairy farms

Burton

Peoples

Cooper

2012

Journal of Rural Studies

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a b s t r a c tImproving animal welfare is an important part of the development of the agricultural industry, particularly at a time when intensification and the encroachment of factory-style production systems is making the maintenance of human-animal relations increasingly difficult. Animal science deals with the issue of improving stockmanship by focusing on the relationships between attitudes and behaviour, under the premise that improved attitudes will lead to improved behaviour. From an analysis of 42 interviews with owners, sharemilkers and workers on dairy farms in New Zealand we present a different view, seeing behaviour instead as part of a self-reinforcing culture in which animals, humans and the physical structure all contribute to the development of farm specific ways of doing and being. We further suggest that changing one stockperson's attitude alone is insufficient to ensure a change in the culture as other actors e including animals and non-human actors e reinforce any existing culture that has developed, making both attitudinal and behavioural change difficult. We conclude by discussing the key importance of designing farm systems and structures that promote positive interactions between animals and humans and suggest that this, rather than simply promoting knowledge and attitudinal change, is likely to be the most effective way of maintaining stockmanship in the face of an industrialising agriculture.

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Building ‘cowshed cultures’: A cultural perspective on the promotion of stockmanship and animal welfare on dairy farms

Burton

Peoples

Cooper

2012

Journal of Rural Studies

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“…These explanations include the basic lack of interdisciplinary infrastructure (e.g., lack of researchers trained in integrated research [23]; lack of quality journals to publish in [24]; or the lack of a 'college of peers' [25]) to problems with the research approach itself (e.g., the lack of a philosophical stance [26] or epistemological and ontological incompatibilities [1]). While these are important concerns there is perhaps a more fundamental issue that needs to be addressed.…”

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Defining Terms for Integrated (Multi-Inter-Trans-Disciplinary) Sustainability Research

2011

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Abstract:Our contemporary social and ecological problems, including climate change, peak oil and food security, necessitate solutions informed by multiple backgrounds that singular disciplines seem unable to provide, and possibly, are even incapable of providing. The increasing occurrence of multi-, inter-and transdisciplinary (MIT) research projects speak to the recognition of that necessity. But as the literature and our own experiences bear out, just calling a project "beyond disciplinary" or integrated does not necessarily yield the intended outcomes or make progress toward alleviating the hurdles of bridging disciplines. Here we examine the distinctions between three categories (multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary) of integrated research and offer reflections on how sustainability researchers can categorize their research to improve common understandings.

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“…327-337]. In the effect, boundaries between disciplines and fields would slowly disappear, which confronts us with a challenge for exact science and academic community [Massey, Alpass, Flett et al 2006].…”

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Management – Forecasting the Future Cognitive Challenges in Management Science 3

Sułkowski

2015

Przedsiebiorczosc I Zarzadzanie

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This paper is the third publication from the series of three articles about cognitive challenges in management science. It is the result of the further discussions and reflections concerning the cognitive problems of management after publication of the books about epistemology of management. The paper is a trial to forecast the main cognitive trends and tendencies on the basis of the diagnosis made in two papers in series "Cognitive challenges in management science". The chosen trends in development of management sciences are: expansion of natural sciences, growing inter-disciplinarity of research, growing specialization, net-marketing in management discourse, challenge of cultural relativism, growing criticism and reflexivity. Response of management sciences to the challenges connected to: interdisciplinary nature, growing specialization, and expansion of natural history can lead to further development of our discipline, but the possibility of disintegration also should not be ruled out. Deepening specialization, lack of long-range theory, and growing significance of natural history could lead to disintegration of our discipline, whose fields would be incorporated by other domains. I think that in order to avoid this possibility it would be desirable to uphold the cohesion of management sciences through deepening the cognitive reflection and openness to inspirations originating in other areas of science. But future is difficult to predict and maybe other trends that are not too visible now will change management sciences in future.

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Crossing fields: the case of a multi-disciplinary research team

Cited by 50 publications

References 24 publications

Building ‘cowshed cultures’: A cultural perspective on the promotion of stockmanship and animal welfare on dairy farms

Building ‘cowshed cultures’: A cultural perspective on the promotion of stockmanship and animal welfare on dairy farms

Defining Terms for Integrated (Multi-Inter-Trans-Disciplinary) Sustainability Research

Management – Forecasting the Future Cognitive Challenges in Management Science 3

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