Preparing for an interdisciplinary future: A perspective from early-career researchers
Preparing for an interdisciplinary future: A perspective from early-career researchers
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10.1016/j.futures.2013.09.003
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2013-09-01
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Hinojosa, Leonith
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作者：
Bridle, Helen;Vrieling, Anton;Hinojosa, Leonith
研究越来越多地转向更多的跨学科努力。来自不同学科的人之间的有效合作是必要的，以最大限度地提高跨学科的潜在利益，为未来的研究活动。本文分析了一种方法，以培养成功的跨学科合作所需的技能，从一个跨学科的早期职业生涯的研究人员。我们的反思如何专门设计的遭遇可以帮助塑造未来的跨学科研究计划借鉴了为期四天的研讨会，会后调查，并审查其他经验的讨论。我们的结论是，跨学科的遭遇是一种有效的手段，以支持未来的跨学科研究人员的发展，这种方法的一个主要优势是开放的沟通的机会。根据组织者的目的，我们区分“培养”和“发展”的遭遇。在产生成功的跨学科相遇的多个因素中，我们发现，主题，参与者和地点的选择需要根据相遇的特定目标进行调整。我们建议资助机构和研究界的其他成员应该注意到相遇的有效性，以促进跨学科，并为开发更具创新性和高影响力的研究提供空间，为人类未来面临的挑战提供解决方案。(C)2013作者由爱思唯尔有限公司出版。保留所有权利。
Increasingly, research is moving towards more interdisciplinary endeavours. Effective collaboration between people from different disciplines is necessary to maximize the potential benefits of interdisciplinarity for future research activity. This paper analyses an approach to fostering the skills required for successful cross-disciplinary collaboration from the perspective of an interdisciplinary group of early-career researchers. Our reflection on how specially designed encounters can help to shape future interdisciplinary research initiatives draws on the discussion of a four-day workshop, a post-event survey, and a review of other experiences. We conclude that interdisciplinary encounters are an effective means to support the development of future interdisciplinary researchers, with a major advantage of this approach being the opportunity for open communication. Depending on the organiser's aim, we distinguish between "cultivation" and "development" encounters. Among the multiple factors that produce successful interdisciplinary encounters, we found that selection of a theme, participants and location need to be tailored to the encounter's particular objectives. We recommend that funding bodies and other members of the research community should take note of the effectiveness of encounters to foster interdisciplinarity and generate space to develop more innovative and high-impact research that delivers solutions to the challenges facing humanity in the future. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.