Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Theory and Practice across Disciplines
Interdisciplinarity has become a buzzword in academia, as research universities funnel their financial resources toward collaborations between faculty in different disciplines. In theory, interdisciplinary collaboration breaks down artificial divisions between different departments, allowing more innovative and sophisticated research to flourish. But does it actually work this way in practice?  
 
Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration puts the common beliefs about such research to the test, using empirical data gathered by scholars from the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. The book’s contributors critically interrogate the assumptions underlying the fervor for interdisciplinarity. Their attentive scholarship reveals how, for all its potential benefits, interdisciplinary collaboration is neither immune to academia’s status hierarchies, nor a simple antidote to the alleged shortcomings of disciplinary study. 

Chapter 10 is available Open Access here (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK395883)
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Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Theory and Practice across Disciplines
Interdisciplinarity has become a buzzword in academia, as research universities funnel their financial resources toward collaborations between faculty in different disciplines. In theory, interdisciplinary collaboration breaks down artificial divisions between different departments, allowing more innovative and sophisticated research to flourish. But does it actually work this way in practice?  
 
Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration puts the common beliefs about such research to the test, using empirical data gathered by scholars from the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. The book’s contributors critically interrogate the assumptions underlying the fervor for interdisciplinarity. Their attentive scholarship reveals how, for all its potential benefits, interdisciplinary collaboration is neither immune to academia’s status hierarchies, nor a simple antidote to the alleged shortcomings of disciplinary study. 

Chapter 10 is available Open Access here (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK395883)
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Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Theory and Practice across Disciplines

Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Theory and Practice across Disciplines

Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Theory and Practice across Disciplines

Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Theory and Practice across Disciplines

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Overview

Interdisciplinarity has become a buzzword in academia, as research universities funnel their financial resources toward collaborations between faculty in different disciplines. In theory, interdisciplinary collaboration breaks down artificial divisions between different departments, allowing more innovative and sophisticated research to flourish. But does it actually work this way in practice?  
 
Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration puts the common beliefs about such research to the test, using empirical data gathered by scholars from the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. The book’s contributors critically interrogate the assumptions underlying the fervor for interdisciplinarity. Their attentive scholarship reveals how, for all its potential benefits, interdisciplinary collaboration is neither immune to academia’s status hierarchies, nor a simple antidote to the alleged shortcomings of disciplinary study. 

Chapter 10 is available Open Access here (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK395883)

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780813585895
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 11/25/2016
Series: The American Campus
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

SCOTT FRICKEL is an associate professor of sociology and environment and society at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. He is author of Chemical Consequences: Environmental Mutagens and the Rise of Genetic Toxicology and coeditor of The New Political Sociology of Science and Fields of Knowledge.
 
MATHIEU ALBERT is an associate professor in the department of psychiatry and a scientist in the Wilson Centre for Research in Education at the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada. 
 
BARBARA PRAINSACK is a professor in the department of social science, health and medicine at King’s College London in the United Kingdom. She is the author or coauthor of several books including Solidarity in Biomedicine and Beyond.
 

Table of Contents

Foreword
Helga Nowotny
 
Preface
Scott Frickel, Mathieu Albert, and Barbara Prainsack
 
Introduction: Investigating Interdisciplinarities
Scott Frickel, Mathieu Albert, and Barbara Prainsack
 

Part I: Interdisciplinary Cultures and Careers
 
Chapter 1: New Directions, New Challenges: Trials and Tribulations of Interdisciplinary Research
Dave McBee and Erin Leahey
 
Chapter 2: The Frictions of Interdisciplinarity: The Case of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery
Gregory J. Downey, Noah Weeth Feinstein, Daniel Lee Kleinman, Sigrid Peterson, and Chisato Fukuda
 
Chapter 3: Epistemic Cultures of Collaboration: Coherence and Ambiguity in Interdisciplinarity
Laurel Smith-Doerr, Jennifer Croissant, Itai Vardi, and Timothy Sacco
 
Chapter 4: Interdisciplinary Fantasy: Social Scientists and Humanities Scholars Working in Faculties of Medicine
Mathieu Albert, Elise Paradis, and Ayelet Kuper
 

Part II: Disciplines and Interdisciplinarity
 
Chapter 5: Some Dark Sides of Interdisciplinarity: The Case of Behavior Genetics
Aaron Panofsky
 
Chapter 6: A Dynamic, Multidimensional Approach to Knowledge Production
Ryan Light and jimi adams
 
Chapter 7: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Change in Six Social Sciences: A Longitudinal Comparison
Scott Frickel and Ali O. Ilhan
 

Part III: Changing Context of Interdisciplinary Research
 
Chapter 8: “An Electro-Historical Focus with Real Interdisciplinary Appeal”: Interdisciplinarity at Vietnam-Era Stanford
Cyrus C.M. Mody
 
Chapter 9: Interdisciplinarity Reloaded? Drawing lessons from “Citizen Science”
Barbara Prainsack and Hauke Riesch
 
Chapter 10: One Medicine? Advocating (Inter)disciplinarity at the Interfaces of Animal Health, Human Health and the Environment
Angela Cassidy
 

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