Grant giving: Global funders to focus on interdisciplinarity

Rylance, Rick

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“…For example, in the case of the post-doctoral researcher working on the SwedishIndian climate change project, she was able to extend her research portfolio with highly desirable interdisciplinary experience with the result that she was able to obtain a permanent senior academic position. In some sectors of the academic community suspicion of interdisciplinary working persists, with the notion often reported that this approach dilutes efforts away from the study of traditional disciplines (Rylance, 2015). At Gothenburg, while expanding our interdisciplinary pursuits, we have maintained our disciplinary integrities as evidenced by the publishing of intra-disciplinary studies (e.g., Eriander et al, 2016;Infantes et al, 2016a, b;Kaur Kahlon et al, 2016;Turner et al, 2016;Kadfak and Knutsson, 2017).…”

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“…The acknowledgement that cross-disciplinary collaboration is not only about crossing boundaries of knowledge per se, but also the ways in which knowledge is organized, points at the importance of institutional integration: the combination and integration of different ways of organizing knowledge. This form of integration can entail, for example, integration across different funding agencies, journals, academic institutions and non-university stakeholders (Frodeman et al, 2012;Rylance, 2015).…”

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Transporting ideas between marine and social sciences: experiences from interdisciplinary research programs

Turner

Bhatta²,

Eriander

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Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene

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The oceans comprise 70% of the surface area of our planet, contain some of the world’s richest natural resources and are one of the most significant drivers of global climate patterns. As the marine environment continues to increase in importance as both an essential resource reservoir and facilitator of global change, it is apparent that to find long-term sustainable solutions for our use of the sea and its resources and thus to engage in a sustainable blue economy, an integrated interdisciplinary approach is needed. As a result, interdisciplinary working is proliferating. We report here our experiences of forming interdisciplinary teams (marine ecologists, ecophysiologists,social scientists, environmental economists and environmental law specialists) to answer questions pertaining to the effects of anthropogenic-driven global change on the sustainability of resource use from the marine environment, and thus to transport ideas outwards from disciplinary confines. We use a framework derived from the literature on interdisciplinarity to enable us to explore processes of knowledge integration in two ongoing research projects, based on analyses of the purpose, form and degree of knowledge integration within each project. These teams were initially focused around a graduate program, explicitly designed for interdisciplinary training across the natural and social sciences, at the Gothenburg Centre for Marine Research at the University of Gothenburg, thus allowing us to reflect on our own experiences within the context of other multi-national,interdisciplinary graduate training and associated research programs.

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Transporting ideas between marine and social sciences: experiences from interdisciplinary research programs

Turner

Bhatta²,

Eriander

et al. 2017

Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene

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“…Embora tenha havido um aumento mundial de PCI nas últimas décadas, ela ainda enfrenta muitos desafios, como problemas de comunicação devido à falta de padronização de linguagem entre as disciplinas, dificuldades em trabalhar em grupo, resistência por parte dos pares acadêmicos, dificuldades em se encaixar e se reconhecer na estrutura departamental clássica das universidades, barreiras institucionais relacionadas a incentivos e financiamento, dificuldades de avaliação das pesquisas interdisciplinares, dificuldades em publicar trabalhos interdisciplinares, além de demorar mais para ter impacto acadêmico, e acumular citações, do que pesquisas disciplinares (Brewer, 1999;CFIR, 2005;Ledford, 2015;Lyall & Meagher, 2007;Nightingale & Scott, 2007;Rylance, 2015;Scott, 2007;Van Noorden, 2015).…”

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Sustentabilidade das regiões costeiras e oceânicas – necessidade de um novo relacionamento entre ciência e gestão

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As zonas costeiras e oceânicas proveem benefícios e serviços ecossistêmicos que têm sido cada vez mais ameaçados pelos diversos usos desses ecossistemas. Garantir a sustentabilidade dessas áreas é uma tarefa complexa que demanda diferentes moldes de gestão, mais integradores e ecossistêmicos, e também de produção do conhecimento científico, mais interdisciplinar e aplicado. Nesse sentido, a pesquisa científica interdisciplinar e a ciência pós-normal ref letem uma nova maneira de produzir ciência, entender os ecossistemas marinhos e praticar a gestão a partir de abordagens que promovam um novo relacionamento entre ciência e gestão na pesquisa oceanográfica

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“…While the creative idea often resulting from interdisciplinarity can be useful, this may work against interdisciplinary studies as well. One of the weaknesses of interdisciplinarity involves the possible lack of competence in one particular field (Rylance, 2015). This is sometimes seen in the case of students with interdisciplinary majors, where they may graduate without solid expertise, which is one of the essential ingredients in college education.…”

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Mind and Machine: Interdisciplinarity

Song

2016

Neuroquantology

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As the world becomes more sophisticated and socio-economically complex, interdisciplinarity (collaboration among two or more disciplines) has become ever more important. In particular, in the field of education, interdisciplinarity is known to enhance creativity and the capacity of people to work together. However, some drawbacks, such as the lack of solid expertise in one specific discipline, have also been exposed. A simple and efficient way of implementing an interdisciplinary study is reported to be one that combines areas that are computable (i.e., science and engineering) and non-computable (i.e., emotions or abstractions often found in the arts and humanities). This approach has been verified in studies conducted in the last four years on mostly firstand second-year undergraduate students with different majors, with close to 1,000 participants, and has successfully shown to yield diverse mixing between different disciplines, with approximately 300 different outcomes. This particular approach to interdisciplinarity is easy and simple to implement, yields different interconnections among various disciplines, exhibits clear measures of success, and can be done along with expertise training in a traditional field.

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Grant giving: Global funders to focus on interdisciplinarity

Cited by 92 publications

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Transporting ideas between marine and social sciences: experiences from interdisciplinary research programs

Transporting ideas between marine and social sciences: experiences from interdisciplinary research programs

Sustentabilidade das regiões costeiras e oceânicas – necessidade de um novo relacionamento entre ciência e gestão

Mind and Machine: Interdisciplinarity

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