Interdisciplinary thinking is crucial to addressing complex questions but how should it work in practice? Two leading academic proponents of cross-disciplinary working draw on their own groundbreaking ...

A study into gender balances of interdisciplinary research teams shows that the presence of women is beneficial up to a point. Elisabeth Browning suggests ways funders and institutions can encourage ...

When everyone in academe agrees on something, you’ve got to be worried. The university is a famously noisy kennel, and if you propose X, you’ll always hear barks from those watchdogs who strongly ...

Nowadays, it is almost a truism to state that interdisciplinary research and collaboration are essential to finding solutions to pressing societal and global challenges. While it is now a given that ...

Lennard J. Davis’s provocative “A Grand Unified Theory of Interdisciplinarity” (The Chronicle Review, June 8) cynically disparages the economic/political use of the concept of interdisciplinarity by ...

At the level of institutional strategy, interdisciplinary research looks like a positive and productive exchange. At the personal level, where it is enmeshed with career progress, disciplinary ...

Interdisciplinarity has an ambitious goal: tackling real-world, complex problems. This is why higher education institutions are incorporating it into their strategic thinking, and why more students ...

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Interdisciplinarity is a buzzword in academic research and education, but few universities are able to pay more than lip service to this concept. Indeed, the very nature of academia resists ...

You have /3 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. First, the Triumphs. My (and my field’s) love of interdisciplinarity has opened up a number of ...