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In a paper published today, the League of European Research Universities (LERU) looks at interdisciplinarity as a powerful driver of knowledge creation, scientific progress and innovation.
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Methodologies for Identification and Assessment of Interdisciplinary Research
Methodologies for Identification and Assessment of Interdisciplinary Research
Choice of data, methodology and indicators can produce seriously inconsistent results despite a common set of disciplines and countries.
Philosophy of science perspectives
A collection of case studies on various aspects of interdisciplinarity in science.
The evolution of research collaboration within and across disciplines in Italian Academia
The evolution of research collaboration within and across disciplines in Italian Academia
A paper exploring the dynamics of interdisciplinary research in Italy over 10 years of scientific collaboration on research projects.
What Is the Problem for Which Interdisciplinarity Is the Solution?
The answer is what I call “epistemic rent-seeking,” namely, the tendency for disciplines to become increasingly proprietary in their relationship to organized inquiry.
Interdisciplinary research has consistently lower funding success
An analysis of Australian Research Council data reveals grant proposals that integrate a broad array of academic fields are less likely to be funded.
Meet the challenge of interdisciplinary science
Problems of modern society demand collaborative research.
What constitutes appropriate peer review for interdisciplinary research?
What constitutes appropriate peer review for interdisciplinary research?
How can interdisciplinary research proposals be more effectively assessed through peer review?
Survey highlights barriers to interdisciplinary environmental science
Efforts to promote interdisciplinary research that addresses complex interactions between humans and their environment have become commonplace in recent years, but success is often elusive.
Evaluating the impact of interdisciplinary research
A method that could be used by funding agencies, universities and scientific policy decision makers for hiring and funding purposes, and to complement existing methods to rank universities and countries.
The collaboration curse
The fashion for making employees collaborate has gone too far.
A century of physics
An analysis of WoS data spanning more than 100 years reveals the rapid growth and increasing multidisciplinarity of physics, as well its internal map of subdisciplines.
Why it's time to get real about interdisciplinary research
A new book argues for less focus on structures and funding for interdisciplinarity, and more on the everyday highs and lows of collaboration.
Gender studies and interdisciplinarity
Gender studies as an interdisciplinary field has a distinctive engagement with interdisciplinarity.
How to catalyse collaboration
Turn the fraught flirtation between the social and biophysical sciences into fruitful partnerships with five principles.
Collaboration in action: tracking the signal, tracing the noise
Interdisciplinarity is often framed as an unquestioned good within and beyond the academy, one to be encouraged by funders and research institutions alike. And yet there is little research on how interdisciplinary projects actually work—and do not work—in practice.
Science hackathons for developing interdisciplinary research and collaborations
Science hackathons for developing interdisciplinary research and collaborations
Science hackathons can help academics, particularly those in the early stage of their careers, to build collaborations and write research proposals.
Why it strengthens research?
[21]New analysis of interdisciplinary collaboration across the UK research landscape highlights important questions about how we organise, fund and assess research.
How to value research that crosses more than one discipline
Many academics have internalised the pressure to police disciplinary boundaries, and keep their heads down and in their faculties.
Correcting the bias against interdisciplinary research
When making decisions about funding and jobs the scientific community should recognise that most of the tools used to evaluate scientific excellence are biased in favour of established disciplines and against interdisciplinary research.
What configurations of fields of science are found in grant proposals today?
What configurations of fields of science are found in grant proposals today?
Cross-disciplinarity is found particularly in research project proposals of fields of science with clearly overlapping content and mainly in research proposals submitted by fields of science within the humanities and social sciences.
More and more attention and funding
Researchers working at the interface of disciplines can pursue insights without sacrificing career progress.
Working across research silos is harder than it looks
One of the loudest buzzwords in current science politics is interdisciplinarity. Government extols its virtues. Research councils clamour about its value. Academics parade their credentials.
Biomedical institute opens its doors to physicists
Launch of the new interdisciplinary Francis Crick Institute in central London.
Interdisciplinary research: why it's seen as a risky route
Higher education needs to break down the barriers that block pathways to cross-subject study.
A perspective from early-career researchers
This paper analyses an approach to fostering the skills required for successful cross-disciplinary collaboration from the perspective of an interdisciplinary group of early-career researchers.
Research that doesn't belong to single subject area is deemed 'too risky'
Research that doesn't belong to single subject area is deemed 'too risky'
Academics concerned universities are excluding interdisciplinary research from the Research Excellence Framework exercise.
Interdisciplinary penalty
Everyone, it seems, loves the idea of scholars interdisciplinary work. But does academe reward those -- particular young scholars -- who actually do it?
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Navigating Collaborative Grant Research
Marie and Pierre Curie, Watson and Crick, Brin and Page. Collaboration pays, so funding agencies are promoting team research. At the same time, fields that demand multidisciplinary cooperation such as translational medicine, climate science, and systems biology are on the rise.
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