Bridges and Barriers to Developing and Conducting Interdisciplinary Graduate-Student Team Research
Bridges and Barriers to Developing and Conducting Interdisciplinary Graduate-Student Team Research
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发展和开展跨学科研究生团队研究的桥梁和障碍
DOI：
10.5751/es-02082-120208
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发表时间：
2007
影响因子：
4.1
通讯作者：
J. Wulfhorst
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作者：
W. Morse;Max Nielsen;J. Force;J. Wulfhorst
了解复杂的社会环境问题需要来自多个学科的专家整合研究工作。国家科学基金会的综合研究生教育和研究培训等计划促进综合研究工作，并改变学术机构培养未来领导者和科学家的方式。爱达荷大学和哥斯达黎加热带农业研究和高等教育中心合作开展一项联合研究计划，重点关注分散景观中的生物多样性保护和可持续生产。我们首先提出了从学科到跨学科的一系列整合，涉及研究过程的七个方面。然后，我们描述了我们进行跨学科研究生团队研究的经验和教训。以我们的项目作为案例研究，我们研究了学生团队研究项目中出现的进行跨学科研究的个人、学科和项目的桥梁和障碍。最后，我们提出了一系列建议，以利用桥梁并克服跨学科研究的障碍，特别是作为研究生教育计划的一部分。
Understanding complex socio-environmental problems requires specialists from multiple disciplines to integrate research efforts. Programs such as the National Science Foundation's Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship facilitate integrated research efforts and change the way academic institutions train future leaders and scientists. The University of Idaho and the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center in Costa Rica collaborate on a joint research program focusing on biodiversity conservation and sustainable production in fragmented landscapes. We first present a spectrum of integration ranging from disciplinary to transdisciplinary across seven aspects of the research process. We then describe our experiences and lessons learned conducting interdisciplinary graduate student team research. Using our program as a case study, we examine the individual, disciplinary, and programmatic bridges and barriers to conducting interdisciplinary research that emerged during our student team research projects. We conclude with a set of recommendations for exploiting the bridges and overcoming the barriers to conducting interdisciplinary research, especially as part of graduate education programs.