Toward Transdisciplinary Research

Kessel, Frank S.; Rosenfield, Patricia L.

doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2008.05.005

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“…In a heterarchy, the relations between elements and theories are unranked or have the potential to be ranked in numerous ways [57,58]. In combination with Inference to the Best Understanding, the incommensurability between theories would not necessarily, from this perspective, provoke a Kuhnian revolution (According to Kuhn the typical developmental pattern of a mature science is the successive transition from one paradigm to another through a process of revolution.…”

Section: Transdisciplinarity As a Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transdisciplinarity as an Inference Technique to Achieve a Better Understanding in the Health and Environmental Sciences

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2010

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The problems of the world are not categorised into disciplines. They are far more complex, a reality that the tradition of transdisciplinary research has recognised. When faced with questions in public health and sustainability, the traditional scientific paradigm often seems inadequate, and, at least in medicine, transdisciplinary research has not yet been fully appreciated or acknowledged. This lack of recognition may be partly caused by a lack of cooperation between disciplines and between science and society. In this paper, I discuss some of the challenges that scientists and policymakers face in public health and environment within a methodological context. I present transdisciplinarity as a modern research tool that should be applied in research in health and the environment and argue that these topics can be approached beyond the inherent obstacle of incommensurability between disciplines. Thus, a small step might be taken in this immense research arena.

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Section: Transdisciplinarity As a Methodsmentioning

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Transdisciplinarity as an Inference Technique to Achieve a Better Understanding in the Health and Environmental Sciences

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2010

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“…Others have focused on what is required of individual team members generally, and the investigator leading the team, more specifically, to conduct transdisciplinary research. In addition to a shared commitment to solving a problem, Kessel & Rosenfield (2008) cite the following as traits essential for team members conducting transdisciplinary work: “ rigor in argument, taking into account all existing data … openness [to accept] the unknown, the unexpected and the unforeseeable, [and] tolerance [of] ideas and truths opposed to our own” (p.S226).…”

Section: Transdisciplinary Science Representation In Nursing Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This juxtaposition brought the first major challenge to the team, and required members operate with tolerance and openness (traits cited as critical by Kessel & Rosenfield (2008)) to better understand the bases of these theories if there was any hope of reconciliation. It also required the PI to assume the cognitive task of “meaning management” described by Gray (2008) – so that points of potential intersection in the concepts and relational statements within each of these theories could be negotiated for novel, constructive purposes, if possible.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Scholars from diverse fields have chronicled these challenges, attributing many transdisciplinary team failures to the negotiation required to genuinely integrate perspectives (Angelstam et al, 2013; Gray, 2008; Kessel & Rosenfield, 2008; Klein, 2008; Rosenfield, 1992; Stokols, Hall, et al, 2008; Stokols, Harvey, Gress, Fuqua, & Phillips, 2005; Stokols, Misra, et al, 2008). As such, this form of collaborative research is highly labor-intensive, and almost inevitably leads to some degree of conflict within the team (Gray, 2008; Kessel & Rosenfield, 2008; Stokols, Misra, et al, 2008). Given these inherent difficulties, there has been a growing interest in understanding what contextual factors and leadership qualities can best facilitate successfully launching and sustaining transdisciplinary research teams.…”

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Nurse scientists overcoming challenges to lead transdisciplinary research teams

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Increasingly, scientific funding agencies are requiring that researchers move toward an integrated, transdisciplinary team science paradigm. While the barriers to and rewards of conducting this type of research have been discussed in the literature, examples of how nurse investigators have led these teams to reconcile the differences in theoretical, methodological, and/or analytic perspectives that inevitably exist are lacking. In this article, we describe these developmental trajectory challenges through a case study of one transdisciplinary team, focusing on team member characteristics and the leadership tasks associated with successful transdisciplinary science teams in the literature. Specifically, we describe how overcoming these challenges has been essential to examining the complex, and potentially cumulative effects that key intersections between legal, social welfare, and labor market systems may have on the health of disadvantaged women. Finally, we discuss this difficult, but rewarding work within the context of lessons learned and transdisciplinary team research in relation to the future of nursing science.

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“…in building linkages between health and social sciences [8][9][10][11][12] ; in methods for defining research related to ecological economics 13 and in cognitive informatics and computer sciences 14 . We now consider a new approach by evaluating discourse at a recent scientific conference toward evaluating the level of transdisciplinary research.…”

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confidence: 99%