scholarly journals The Familiarity Trap: Collaborative Research and Teaching Lessons from 6 Interdisciplinary Projects

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Kuntzman ◽  
Mary Hegarty ◽  
Carol Genetti ◽  
Steve Gaines ◽  
Bruce Edward Kendall
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Practical Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Bases ◽  
Professional Goals ◽  
Work Habits ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Communication And Coordination ◽  
Interdisciplinary Projects ◽  
One Year ◽  
Diverse Groups

Interdisciplinary projects can be surprisingly challenging for experienced academic collaborators socially, intellectually, and practically. Within disciplines, common sets of philosophical assumptions, practical knowledge-bases, and professional goals can help groups to wrestle though interpersonal differences in attitudes, ideas, priorities and work habits that each participant brings to the table. However, in projects that span disciplines, even those basic commonalities cannot be relied on as members coordinate their plans, integrate their approaches, and disseminate their findings. By creating an intensive one-year model for interdisciplinary research-into-teaching projects, UCSB's Crossroads program has been able to compare reported experiences from six groups progressing though common phases of interdisciplinary collaborations and the predictable challenges that arise during such work. Many of the groups' reported needs for dedicated planning and preparation may sound obvious or tedious to academics who have not experienced the unique demands of interdisciplinary research and teaching. That is the “familiarity trap” highlighted here: those communication and coordination pitfalls most likely to sneak up on diverse groups of experts, confident in their own fields, working under pressure.

scholarly journals Making Scholarship Public: Collaboration and Interdisciplinarity in Early Modern Studies

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 115-130
Author(s):  
Paul Yachnin
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Sciences Humaines ◽  
Interdisciplinary Projects ◽  
Public Collaboration ◽  
The University

How can collaborative, interdisciplinary research on early modern Europe expand the reach of the humanities beyond the academy? In what ways could such a “public turn” enhance the effectiveness of humanities research and teaching? This essay recounts how a number of large, interdisciplinary projects in which the author has been centrally involved grew from scattered intuitions toward collective clarity; how they gathered people from different disciplines around shared questions and changed the ways participants saw their own work; how they enabled students and postdocs to grow as original thinkers by taking part in collaborative research; and how large-scale research that asks big questions might be able to build bridges between the academy and the multiple publics in Canada and beyond in ways that enhance both the university and society. Comment la recherche collaborative et interdisciplinaire en études des débuts de la modernité peuvent atteindre un public au-delà du monde universitaire ? Dans quelle mesure cet accès public pourrait améliorer l’efficacité de la recherche et de l’enseignement en sciences humaines ? Cet article retrace comment un certain nombre de grands projets interdisciplinaires dans lesquels l’auteur a été impliqué, se sont développés à partir d’intuitions indépendantes vers une vision collective. On y retrace aussi comment ont été rassemblés des chercheurs de différentes disciplines autour de questions communes et comment cela a amené les chercheurs à considérer leur travail différemment, comment ces projets ont permis à des étudiants et des post-doctorants de devenir des chercheurs innovants en participant à des collaborations de recherche, et comment des projets de recherche d’ampleur posant de grandes questions peuvent créer des ponts entre le milieu universitaire et plusieurs publics canadiens et étrangers de façon à faire avancer à la fois l’université et la société.

Achieving the SDGs through interdisciplinary research in global health

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (8) ◽  
pp. 793-795 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sibylle L Herzig Van Wees ◽  
Mats Målqvist ◽  
Rachel Irwin
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Global Health Research ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
New Research

The Swedish Global Health Research Conference held in Stockholm, 18–19 April 2018, convened researchers from across Sweden’s universities to foster collaboration and new research. In response to the theme of the conference, How can Sweden contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals? From research to action, many of the plenary and keynote speakers highlighted the importance of interdisciplinary research and teaching. This commentary draws upon a workshop discussing interdisciplinarity, which took place at the conference. Participants included senior professors, lecturers, students and collaborators from the private sector and civil society and we discussed the conceptual and structural challenges that prevent engagement in interdisciplinary research. Although the workshop focused on the Swedish context, issues will be familiar to researchers working outside of Sweden. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals highlight the grand challenges for global society and are intertwined, with progress in one affecting progress in all others. With this starting point, we argue that interdisciplinary research is the way to achieve them. Accordingly, we need to overcome the conceptual and structural challenges that can hinder it. We therefore argue for a paradigm shift of how we value knowledge. We also call for fundamental changes in external and internal (university-level) funding structures, and for the strengthening of interdisciplinary global health teaching.

scholarly journals Interdisciplinary research in the context of the development of educology

Osvitolohiya ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 26-30
Author(s):  
Svetlana Sysoieva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Financial Policy ◽  
Education History ◽  
Subject Field ◽  
Education Management ◽  
Qualitative Level ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Research In Education ◽  
Interdisciplinary Projects ◽  
Pedagogical Research

The article shows that the widening of the subject field of modern pedagogy requires research that goes beyond the boundaries of discipline and acquires the features of inter- and multidisciplinarity; a new qualitative level of research in education can be provided on the principles of educology as a scientific direction of an integrated study of the field of education that focuses on objects and phenomena with a «rigid» and broad type of interdisciplinarity that goes beyond the established subject of pedagogy; the criterion for distinguishing pedagogical researches and studies in the field of educology (education sciences) is defined – «the type of interdisciplinary study». Pedagogical research in its essence always differs by the soft type of interdisciplinary, since the research of purely pedagogical phenomena and processes requires «narrow» interdisciplinarity: in such studies, the integration of close to the methodology and paradigms of scientific disciplines. Studies on education (education studies) can always be attributed to the «rigid» type of interdisciplinarity, since such studies have a «broad» interdisciplinarity: methods, concepts and / or theories of sciences that have little compatibility (philosophy of education, history of education, Cultural education education, education management, educational policy and educational law, economics of education, sociology of education, etc.). The stimulation of interdisciplinary research in education should take place through educational programs, the creation of various centers and the establishment of inter-institutional contacts, as well as the development of a financial policy to support such research, the creation of mechanisms for coordinating and supporting interdisciplinary projects in the field of education at the national and supranational levels. The leader in interdisciplinary research, according to most forecasts, will be social and humanitarian sciences as well as life sciences.

scholarly journals True and pseudo-interdisciplinary researches: The principles of a system-structural approach to the medical-and-psychological projects planning

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 177-192
Author(s):  
N.E. Kharlamenkova ◽  
N.A. Yeskin ◽  
A.I. Snetkov ◽  
A.D. Akinshina ◽  
S.Y. Batrakov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Structural Approach ◽  
Actual Problem ◽  
Subject Field ◽  
National Medical ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches ◽  
Interdisciplinary Projects ◽  
Object Of Study

The actual problem of interdisciplinary projects organizing is discussed. The purpose of the article is to justify the principles of planning and conducting the interdisciplinary medico-psychological research, in identifying its features in comparison with pseudo-interdisciplinary approaches. Types of interdisciplinary research are examined, distinctions are made between the true and pseudo-interdisciplinary approaches. The principles of true interdisciplinary research are formulated — the principle of choosing the object of study, the principle of determining the coordinates of the subject area of research, the hypothetico-deductive principle of interdisciplinary research and the principle of unity of interdisciplinary project methodology. The content of each principle is revealed by the example of medico-psychological research currently being carried out by the team of employees of the Institute of Psychology RAS and the National Medical Research Center of Traumatology and Orthopedics named after N.N. Priorov. It is shown that the system-structural approach to conducting the interdisciplinary medico-psychological research consists in coordinating theoretical constructs and empirical variables in accordance with the given coordinates of the research subject field and specific criteria for assessing the physical and mental state of the object of study. It is shown that the selected criteria allow, without leveling the specifics of individual scientific disciplines — medicine and psychology — to form a unified subject field of research and to develop an approach relevant for solving scientific and practical problems.

Hyper-Generalization by the Human Mind

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaan Valsiner
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Cultural Psychology ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Board Of Trustees ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Historical Anthropology ◽  
Social Anthropology ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
The Social ◽  
Keynote Speech

Jaan Valsiner shows how human beings create cognitive and affective orders through constructions of meaning that allow them to move safely in highly complex situations and environments. He sees the human being as an “animal symbolicum” with performative needs and driven by the desire to communicate. He shows how processes of interpretation, understanding and ordering are structured and how a combination of approaches from social anthropology, semiotics, cultural psychology and psychoanalysis can contribute to a more appropriate representation of these processes and their functions. The Hans Kilian Award for the Research and Promotion of Metacultural Humanisation honours excellent achievements in interdisciplinary research and teaching in the social and cultural sciences. In addition to the keynote speech by cultural psychologist Jaan Valsiner in English, there is a foreword by Heinz-Rudi Spiegel, chairman of the board of trustees for the Hans Kilian Award, and a laudatio by Pradeep Chakkarath, co-director of the Hans Kilian and Lotte Köhler Centre for Social and Cultural Psychology and Historical Anthropology.

scholarly journals Public financing in healthcare-The case of Kosovo in theory and practice

2020 ◽  
pp. 40-50
Author(s):  
Prof.Assis.Dr.Nerimane Bajraktari ◽  
Eco.Ali Ahmeti, MSc
Keyword(s):  
Practical Knowledge ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
The Public ◽  
Tertiary Healthcare ◽  
The Government ◽  
Political Communities ◽  
One Year ◽  
Legal Entities

The man by nature tries and develops his activity for a better, richer and happier life, which in its essence means fulfilling diversified material, spiritual and cultural needs. Government, social-political communities or public legal entities, contemporary entities and institutions with forms of organization, with mechanism, and their instruments based on laws, must offer an organized life and opportunities for fulfilling general and common needs. Up to date, theoretical and practical knowledge shows that basic needs (security, education, healthcare, protection, jurisprudence, etc.) can be fulfilled more easily, faster, and more successfully, more rationally and continually, with higher quantity and quality with better and fairer organizing of the state and of the public legal entities of the institutions that respond to requests on realization of the new social and economic order of the world. The healthcare sector in Kosovo is financed mainly on income taxes, taxes, and co-payments, whereas out-of-pocket private payments are very high and include about 40% of costs for healthcare services. The budget for healthcare allocated by the government in the year 2015 was in total 163,760,703 million €, whereas the participation of budget for healthcare out of Kosovo’s total budget is 9.73., and 2,79% of GLP, that provided 90.72 € per citizen within one year! PHC is financed through transfers from the central budget to municipalities on specific grant form, on the amount 42,085,036 € that includes 28 % of the budget provided for healthcare. SHC and THC are financed by the Ministry, and it includes over 72% of the budget provided for healthcare. (PHC-primary healthcare, SHC-secondary healthcare, THC- tertiary healthcare).

scholarly journals Miteinander sprechen – verantwortlich, kompetent, reflektiert

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
The Self ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Self Image ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Speech Science ◽  
Professional Fields ◽  
High Level ◽  
Therapeutic Activities

Speech science has a history of over 120 years. In addition to the self-image of the discipline, this book focuses on everything that makes the subject so attractive: With its vital research and teaching subject, speaking and people talking to each other, it is both application-oriented and up-to-date. This explains the continuing high level of interest among students, research partners, and practical professional fields in education, art, media, counseling, therapy, and prevention. With study locations in Halle, Jena and Marburg, Speech Science is represented throughout Germany. As an interdisciplinary research and working subject with links to linguistics, medicine, pedagogy, psychology, politics and sociology, among others, there are also diverse collaborations in research, teaching and practice. This volume offers surprising insights into the diversity of speech science – from its history to the present to an outlook on what will be possible in the future. Susanne Voigt-Zimmermann holds a degree in speech science. After scientific, speech-educational, and clinical-therapeutic activities at the universities of Jena, Heidelberg, and Magdeburg, she has been a professor of speech science at the Department of Speech Science and Phonetics at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg since 2017.

Pitfalls in the Organization of Interdisciplinary Research

1951 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 12-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Caudill ◽  
Bertram Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Interdisciplinary Work ◽  
The Future ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Interdisciplinary Projects ◽  
Organizational Problems

It is our purpose here to point up some of the organizational problems of collaboration which have not been as explicitly set forth as they might in previous discussions of methodology in interdisciplinary work. We feel this is useful because we believe that in the future many of the major advances in knowledge will be made by intellectually and emotionally congenial people from several disciplines who, working together, will cross ordinary academic boundaries in their search for insight. Each of the authors had worked on a number of interdisciplinary projects before collaborating, as anthropologist and psychiatrist, on several current investigations. The thoughts presented here have been stimulated by discussions arising out of this work.

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