To ensure that our species endures, we must advance space-based technologies, Tuija Pulkkinen and Anthony Waas write, and that will require us to break our interdisciplinary boundaries. More...
Universities' Crucial Role in Our Spacefaring Future
Interdisciplinary policy and practice: Conference report published
What makes excellent interdisciplinary research (IDR)? How can it be best supported, developed and embedded? How important are structures and culture to getting this right?
These important questions were discussed by researchers, funders and policy makers at a joint HEFCE, Research Councils UK and British Academy event on 8 December 2016. More...
Interdisciplinarity: how universities unlock its power to innovate
Interdisciplinary research and education area hotly debated topic at universities. Although knowledge exchange between disciplines has always been part of the scientific enterprise– with breakthroughs often happening at the borders of academic disciplines-, in recent decades interdisciplinarity has rapidly developed in many areas of science and has become a science policy priority, despite strong structural obstacles that still persist today. More...
Making interdisciplinary research work
Making Interdisciplinary Research Work (ARC Linkage Learned Academics Special Projects Funding 2010 project LS1000004) commenced in 2010 as a multiphase, multiyear, project in order to address two outstanding problems: the application of interdisciplinary research to broad, problem-based research and how to use this understanding to find effective ways of approaching the array of challenges confronting Australia. More...
Review of the UK’s interdisciplinary research
In partnership with the other UK higher education funding bodies and the Medical Research Council, we commissioned Elsevier to conduct a quantitative review of interdisciplinary research.
Using the disciplinary diversity of article bibliographies as a proxy for interdisciplinarity, the study examined the intensity and performance of interdisciplinary research activity in the UK and in eight comparator countries in the years 2009-2013. More...
First insights into UK interdisciplinary research
A report exploring international comparisons with UK interdisciplinary research highlights an increasing global trend towards interdisciplinarity, and confirms the UK’s world-leading research performance. More...
Consultation response: interdisciplinarity in research and higher education
In this submission, the Royal Society outlines the value of interdisciplinarity in research and higher education, as well as highlighting the challenges and barriers to interdisciplinarity that the British Academy might want to consider. This response builds on the Society's previous positions and details some opportunities to facilitate and promote interdisciplinarity.
Consultation response.
Etre transdisciplinaire, oui mais comment ?
Blog Headway - Olivier Rollot. Les projets proposés dans le cadre des Idex comme la réforme du collège en sont imprégnées, interdisciplinarité et pluridisciplinarité sont aujourd’hui plébiscitées par les universitaires. « L’interdisciplinarité favorise l’imprévu, l’innovant, la sérendipité », assurait ainsi Michel Serres lors de l’inauguration (voir la vidéo) du centre qui porte son nom. Petit état des lieux. Suite...
Le centre Michel Serres chantre de l’interdisciplinarité
Blog "Il y a une vie après le bac" d'Olivier Rollot. « L’interdisciplinarité favorise l’imprévu, l’innovant, la sérendipité, c’est tout l’esprit de cet institut auquel vous m’avez fait l’honneur de donner mon nom. » Toujours aussi lumineux à 84 ans, Michel Serres est venu assister à l’inauguration officielle du Centre Michel Serres qui fonctionne déjà depuis un an et demi au sein du campus parisien des Arts et Métiers. « Le projet est né de la volonté d’interdisciplinarité des membres d’Hesam [Université Paris 1, Arts et Métiers, ESCP Europe, etc.] et l’idée de lui donner le nom de Michel Serres est arrivée très vite ensuite », confie Alain Cadix, administrateur délégué du centre. Suite...
Interdisciplinarité et intelligence collective,… de nouveaux boosters pour les jeunes docteurs en quête d’emploi !
