A Masterclass in interdisciplinarity: Research into practice in training the next generation of interdisciplinary researchers
A Masterclass in interdisciplinarity: Research into practice in training the next generation of interdisciplinary researchers
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10.1016/j.futures.2012.03.011
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2012-08-01
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Meagher, Laura R.
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Lyall, Catherine;Meagher, Laura R.
本文利用对一些跨学科学生和奖学金计划的评估，讨论了在早期职业研究人员中发展跨学科研究技能的一些挑战。它描述了英国通过一系列跨学科大师班支持这种能力建设的努力，这些班利用以研讨会为基础的启发式技术开发小规模研究，以综合经验知识和促进相互学习。这使我们能够在研究和实践之间建立重要的桥梁，从而支持和发展职业生涯早期和中期的研究人员以及研究管理人员和领导者的跨学科职业生涯。本文描述了一种从实际实践中衍生出来的跨学科能力建设的方法。基于对这些活动的学习，我们提出了一些建议，以改进对跨学科研究生和年轻博士后研究人员的监督和指导。如果我们要发展有效的、未来的跨学科能力，我们主张主管/导师不仅要把重点放在研究上，而且要把重点放在缺乏经验的跨学科研究人员在职业指导、出版战略发展和网络建设方面所需的特殊形式的专业支持和指导上。(C)2012爱思唯尔有限公司。保留所有权利。
This paper draws on evaluations of a number of interdisciplinary studentship and fellowship schemes to discuss some of the challenges of developing interdisciplinary research skills in early career researchers. It describes efforts to support such capacity-building in the UK through a series of Interdisciplinary Masterclasses which used workshop-based elicitation techniques to develop smallscale studies in order to synthesise experiential knowledge and foster mutual learning. This has enabled us to build important bridges between research and practice, thereby supporting and developing the interdisciplinary careers of early- and mid-career researchers, as well as research managers and leaders. This paper describes an approach to interdisciplinary capacity-building derived from actual practice. Based on learning from these activities, we offer some suggestions for improved supervision and mentoring of interdisciplinary graduate students and young postdoctoral researchers. If we are to develop effective, future interdisciplinary capacity, we advocate that supervisors/mentors need to focus, not just on the research, but on the particular forms of professional support and mentoring required by inexperienced interdisciplinary researchers in terms of career guidance, the development of publications strategies and network building. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.