The Interdisciplinary Research Process

2016 ◽  
pp. 51-56
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Research Process

scholarly journals Religio-Culture, Fear, and Zimbabwe’s Leadership Perceptions

Perichoresis ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muchumayeli Bhebhe
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
African Philosophy ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Leadership Perceptions ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
Ordinary Citizens

Abstract The study is a response to the call for papers on African issues and discusses the notion of leadership in the Zimbabwean context. Based on material drawn through an interdisciplinary research process, this article argues that the phenomenon of fear emanating from a Zimbabwean religio-culture cuts across the country’s socio-political structures and affects its different forms of leadership. Therefore, by drawing on primary and secondary as well as literary and non-literary, sources, the article examines how and why religio-culture and especially its elements, such as the phenomenon of fear, continue to influence the people’s understanding of leadership. The quest for a cross-cultural perspective leads to the consideration of both African and non-African scholarly views. In order to draw on concrete data, I focus on the perceptions and experiences of ordinary citizens whether professionals or non-professionals. Furthermore, the study considers arguments and propositions from disciplines such as history, political science, religious studies, anthropology, and African philosophy, among others.

scholarly journals The Beautiful Risk of Collaborative and Interdisciplinary Research. A Challenging Collaborative and Critical Approach toward Sustainable Learning Processes in Academic Profession

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 4723
Author(s):  
Jonas Christensen ◽  
Nils Ekelund ◽  
Margareta Melin ◽  
Pär Widén
Keyword(s):  
Professional Learning ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Robust Learning ◽  
Challenge Based Learning ◽  
Academic System

In this article, we aim to identify and explore possibilities and challenges of academic interdisciplinary capacities and ethos. The objective is that this knowledge could be used both in future interdisciplinary research projects and in educational settings. We achieve this through self-reflective learning processes among a group of interdisciplinary scholars from four distinctly different subjects. The method used is an autoethnographic and empirical self-reflective approach to data collection, analysis and deconstruction of professional learning processes. This also serves to establish research methodological trustworthiness and authenticity. The results show that interdisciplinarity is undervalued by grant-giving institutions and the academic system, in general. It also entails time-consuming and risky research practices. However, interdisciplinary and collaborative research creates a more innovative and stimulating learning environment and enforces new ways of thinking and doing, in ascertaining each individual’s knowledge and competences. We argue that a long-term interdisciplinary and collaborative research process could enhance and raise a critical thinking and creative consciousness among scholars, contributing to a more holistic, sustainable and socially robust learning in research and higher education. Finally, we conclude that this academic interdisciplinary capacity and ethos could be framed and enhanced by the notion of Challenge-Based Learning.

Researching Young Men and Family Formation: Two Stories

2020 ◽  
pp. 1097184X1989529
Author(s):  
Mary Lou Rasmussen ◽  
Katherine Carroll ◽  
Ann Evans ◽  
Edith Gray ◽  
Kerry Price ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Sensitive Issue ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Made In

Young men are underrepresented in Australian research on family formation, especially young men who are nonmarital fathers, and are not university educated. In this pilot project, an interdisciplinary research team (demography, sociology, and gender studies) based in Australia set out to design an approach that would engage this particular group of young men on the topic of family formation. We decided to employ a nontraditional research method (which we call scripts) in order to engage young men indirectly on this sensitive issue. This article does not report on what we found; rather, our focus is on gender dynamics involving the research team’s imaginings of masculinity in the research process. We highlight and interrogate the gendered and heteronormative assumptions we made in the research design, anticipating that our experience can inform future research on masculinity and family formation.

Between Phenomenology and Psychology

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-167
Author(s):  
P. Sven Arvidson
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Interdisciplinary Studies ◽  
Gestalt Psychology ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
Phenomenological Psychology ◽  
Current Thinking

This essay reflects on what it means to bring together the disciplines of Husserlian philosophy and psychology in light of current thinking about interdisciplinarity. Drawing from Allen Repko’s (2012) work on the interdisciplinary research process, aspects highlighted include justifying using an interdisciplinary approach, identifying conflicts between disciplinary insights, creating common ground between concepts, and constructing a more comprehensive understanding. To focus the discussion and provide an example, I use Aron Gurwitsch’s (1964, 1966) work of extending the concepts and theories of Gestalt psychology to phenomenology. Gurwitsch’s writings can be seen as an attempt to first construct common ground for conflicting insights within psychology and within phenomenology, then create common ground for conflicting insights between psychology and phenomenology. Gurwitsch’s work can be taken as a kind of case study or adaptable model of how to find convergence. The ultimate goal is to bring interdisciplinary studies into productive conversation with phenomenological psychology.

scholarly journals Blended Support of Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Research

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rianne Van Lambalgen
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Core Curriculum ◽  
Undergraduate Research ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Liberal Arts And Sciences

This paper discusses blended support for undergraduate students to perform interdisciplinary research in teams. Interdisciplinary research is a complex process that consists of multiple steps and requires collaboration with people from different backgrounds. This paper presents research done at Liberal Arts and Sciences, Utrecht University (LAS), where as part of the core curriculum, students learn to do interdisciplinary research. Considering the complex process of doing interdisciplinary research, it is important that students are guided in this process. Blended support that provides technology-mediated guidance while at the same time encouraging face-to-face meetings would be of use to help students become more independent interdisciplinary researchers. This paper explores preferences in blended support, based on a survey and interviews with second and third year students and with undergraduate research supervisors at LAS, UU. Results indicate that there are different activities during the interdisciplinary research process where technology-mediated support would be of value. However, students and supervisors especially value meeting face-to-face when doing interdisciplinary integration. This should be taken into account when designing a blended framework for support of undergraduate interdisciplinary research.

scholarly journals Sociology without Frontiers? On the Pleasures and Perils of Interdisciplinary Research

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 97-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Pilnick
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Health And Illness ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Sociology Of Health ◽  
The Many ◽  
Lateral Thinking

The potential benefits of interdisciplinary research are commonly stated and widely acknowledged. Amongst the many claims that are made, it is suggested that an interdisciplinary approach can lead to greater innovation, promote lateral thinking, and encourage reflexivity in the research process. This paper presents a personal reflection, drawn from experience in one specific sub-field of medical sociology, on how some of these benefits might actually come to fruition. However, it also explores something which is generally given far less consideration: the potential perils of interdisciplinary research. In particular, I will focus on two areas. First, I will raise some intellectual concerns over what interdisciplinary research might mean for the health of sociology as a discipline. Secondly, I will consider some of the ethical issues that can arise when we put our professional sociological skills at the service of another profession. I will conclude by reflecting on what the implications of these concerns are for my own work in the sociology of health and illness, and what might constitute ‘successful’ interdisciplinary collaboration in this field.

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