The Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF)- Epistemic and Institutional Considerations

Padberg, Britta

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“…Since the early 2000s, the university has strategically expanded and enhanced existing interdisciplinary centers but also provided support for the creation of new centers. In this sense, the university is not unique as such actions have been present in universities in both Europe and the United States (see, for example, Crow 2010; Marquardt and Wilhelmy 2014;Padberg 2014;Crow andDabars 2014, 2015).…”

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“…In fact, it seems that public and private investments in interdisciplinary research goals have only increased. Following in the footsteps of prior research on how universities restructure both research and teaching around interdisciplinarity (e.g., Padberg 2014;Crow andDabars 2014, 2015), our study explores the ways in which interdisciplinary research centers facilitate collaboration across disciplinary boundaries. Focusing on what happens to knowledge production in interdisciplinary institutional contexts, some scholars have studied how several organizational factors (e.g., team size, shared building, leadership structure), taken together, promote or impede interdisciplinary collaboration (Hollingsworth and Hollingsworth 2000;Stokols et al 2008a, b).…”

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The Patterning of Collaborative Behavior and Knowledge Culminations in Interdisciplinary Research Centers

Mäkinen

Evans

McFarland

2019

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Due to investments in interdisciplinary research endeavors, the number and variety of interdisciplinary research centers have grown exponentially during the past decades. While interdisciplinary research centers rely on varied organizational arrangements, we know little about the conditions and processes that mediate collaborative arrangements and interdisciplinary research outcomes. This study examines how different collaborative arrangements shape scholars' experiences of interdisciplinary research and understandings of interdisciplinary knowledge culminations in the context of university-based research centers. We conducted three indepth qualitative case studies on different centers, which recruited researchers from natural sciences, medicine, and social sciences. We refer to them as the Biotech Center, the Environmental Center, and the Premature Birth Center. Our analysis of 53 interviews with interdisciplinary scholars across the three centers demonstrates that the scholars perceive particular features of the centers' collaborative arrangements as meaningful for interdisciplinary collaboration. Specifically, the center's mission, physical architecture, and leadership and task structure were seen as affecting scholars' motivation, interaction, and inclusion in the centers, which then shaped the interdisciplinary knowledge culminations. At the Biotech Center, knowledge was This article is dedicated to our friend, colleague, and coauthor, Eliza D. Evans, who passed away before seeing our work in print. We miss her and cherish her memory.

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The Patterning of Collaborative Behavior and Knowledge Culminations in Interdisciplinary Research Centers

Mäkinen

Evans

McFarland

2019

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“…This paper is based on an ethnographic study of a Norwegian biotechnology research center, the Centre for Digital Life Norway (DLN), which was initiated and funded by the Research Council of Norway (RCN) in 2015 to stimulate a transition in biotechnology research toward interdisciplinarity and digitalization. DLN is an interesting case because it departs from the much-studied trend of colocating research groups in research centers (Palmer 2001;Padberg 2014;Vermeulen 2018;Hackett et al 2021). DLN is a multi-sited center, which means that its scientists, research groups, and management are located in several different buildings in various different Norwegian cities.…”

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Socializing Scientists into Interdisciplinarity by Placemaking in a Multi-sited Research Center

Hesjedal

2022

Science, Technology, & Human Values

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The importance of physical place for interdisciplinary research collaborations is often taken for granted by scientists and policy makers. One result of this is a trend of funding interdisciplinary research centers where scientists are colocated in the same building. Previous research findings on the matter are, however, ambiguous and show that though geographical proximity clearly matters, proximity is insufficient to foster interdisciplinary collaboration. This paper is based on an ethnographic study of a multi-sited Norwegian biotechnology research center—the Centre for Digital Life Norway (DLN), funded in 2015 to stimulate a transition in biotechnology research toward inter- and transdisciplinarity and digitalization. The multi-sited character makes DLN different from the much-studied trend of colocation of research groups in research centers. The paper asks: how are scientists socialized into an interdisciplinary mentality in a multi-sited research center? The analysis focus on three aspects: place, socialization, and the role of affective features and experiences. The paper’s main contribution is to demonstrate the role of placemaking in motivating for inter- and transdisciplinary collaboration, in particular by allowing for development of affective relations among the participating scientists.

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“…One of the defining features of the developing field of sport science is its multi‐ and interdisciplinary nature. Our intention here, following the lead of the Bielefeld Centre for Interdisciplinary research (Weinberg & Padberg, 2014; Padberg, 2014), is to examine the way in which this interdisciplinarity is practised in the Centres of Sport Science of the European Union. The term “research centre” designates institutions that can bring together several dozen researchers, consisting of several “laboratories” each containing several “research teams”.…”

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Forms of interdisciplinarity in four sport science research centres in Europe

Camy

Fargier

Perrin

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European Journal of Sport Science

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Interdisciplinarity is often presented as a significant element of sport science. We present here the results of an investigation conducted in four European Sport Science Research Centres applying interdisciplinarity. Four main dimensions, that we have called "forms", have been investigated. The "scientific", "organisational", "academic" and "societal" forms cover a wide range of activities run by these Centres. We have compared their situations using indicators. Globally they present quite similar combinations of forms, with dominant roles in the construction of interdisciplinarity played by the organisational and societal forms. The scientific form is never quite supported by an epistemological setting and the academic form, mostly characterised by the position of the university, plays an influential role when it is hostile to that kind of research. Following Klein classification, all of them remain at a multidisciplinary stage, one of them exploring interdisciplinary tracks in some research projects. The development of a common culture and a curiosity regarding disciplines other than its own is a key factor for a sustainable situation, as is the capacity to secure long-term financial resources, often linked to a high academic recognition for the director(s).

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The Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF)- Epistemic and Institutional Considerations

Cited by 8 publications

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The Patterning of Collaborative Behavior and Knowledge Culminations in Interdisciplinary Research Centers

The Patterning of Collaborative Behavior and Knowledge Culminations in Interdisciplinary Research Centers

Socializing Scientists into Interdisciplinarity by Placemaking in a Multi-sited Research Center

Forms of interdisciplinarity in four sport science research centres in Europe

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