This article discusses the ‘lessons learned’ from an attempt to establish an interdisciplinary education research group. The growth, development and dissolution of the group are treated as an instrumental case study. Current literature on interdisciplinary collaboration is synthesized in order to provide a frame for analysis. Data was collected over several years and included three rounds of written participant reflections and documentation of group activities and meetings. Five major themes arose from the research, covering issues such as disciplinary diversity, common ground, interpersonal relationships, career pressures, and the need for concrete problems and tangible progress. Based on these themes, a number of ‘lessons learned’ are dis...
In this paper, we discuss the nature of interdisciplinarity and, in particular, the ways that interd...
AbstractIncreasingly, research is moving towards more interdisciplinary endeavours. Effective collab...
Academics are collaborating more as their research questions are becoming more complex, often reachi...
This article discusses the ‘lessons learned’ from an attempt to establish an interdisciplinary educa...
This paper reports the findings of six focus groups on developing skills for interdisciplinary colla...
Within UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) there is evidence of limited interdisciplinary commun...
Interdisciplinarity has become a buzzword in academia, as research universities funnel their financi...
Increasingly, research is moving towards more interdisciplinary endeavours. Effective collaboration ...
This study proposes strategies for effective working in teams where more than one discipline or fiel...
While empirical research does indeed suggest that collaborative R&D has many desirable outcomes, it...
The emphasis on interdisciplinary research is far from new: promoting it was at the core of the DGRS...
Interdisciplinarity is often framed as an unquestioned good within and beyond the academy, one to be...
Interdisciplinarity, working across specialities, is something that has been shaping higher educati...
In the past, the attention paid to interdisciplinary working focused on putting it into practice. As...
The authors acknowledge support for Frank Siedlok's research through EPSRC grant EP/E018858/1This pa...
In this paper, we discuss the nature of interdisciplinarity and, in particular, the ways that interd...
AbstractIncreasingly, research is moving towards more interdisciplinary endeavours. Effective collab...
Academics are collaborating more as their research questions are becoming more complex, often reachi...
This article discusses the ‘lessons learned’ from an attempt to establish an interdisciplinary educa...
This paper reports the findings of six focus groups on developing skills for interdisciplinary colla...
Within UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) there is evidence of limited interdisciplinary commun...
Interdisciplinarity has become a buzzword in academia, as research universities funnel their financi...
Increasingly, research is moving towards more interdisciplinary endeavours. Effective collaboration ...
This study proposes strategies for effective working in teams where more than one discipline or fiel...
While empirical research does indeed suggest that collaborative R&D has many desirable outcomes, it...
The emphasis on interdisciplinary research is far from new: promoting it was at the core of the DGRS...
Interdisciplinarity is often framed as an unquestioned good within and beyond the academy, one to be...
Interdisciplinarity, working across specialities, is something that has been shaping higher educati...
In the past, the attention paid to interdisciplinary working focused on putting it into practice. As...
The authors acknowledge support for Frank Siedlok's research through EPSRC grant EP/E018858/1This pa...
In this paper, we discuss the nature of interdisciplinarity and, in particular, the ways that interd...
AbstractIncreasingly, research is moving towards more interdisciplinary endeavours. Effective collab...
Academics are collaborating more as their research questions are becoming more complex, often reachi...