Best Practices for Interdisciplinarity

该项目的目的是通过识别，检查和推荐其发展的最佳实践来推进社会和行为科学的跨学科性。社会和行为科学领域的创新性跨学科举措如果能够得到实施和维持，其变革性成果的潜力受到广泛关注。虽然有一些成功的例子，但无论是对研究管理人员、学者和教师，还是对研究生来说，开展或扩大跨学科工作的挑战都太少了。一个本身就是跨学科的工作组将成立，以收集和传播促进跨学科研究和教学的最佳做法。工作队将侧重于大学最佳做法的程序方面--包括激励措施（和抑制因素）教师从事这项工作，有效维持它的组织结构，跨学科和学科内传播所得奖学金的方式，有助于维持跨学科工作的过程，教育学生和学者以跨学科方法有效工作的技术，并与学科协会合作。研究结果将通过学科协会、学术部门、美国科学促进会等协会和美国大学协会等研究副校长网络广泛传播。该项目的一个主要优点是强调跨学科实践，这些实践是连续的，可以由所涉机构实施，并与建立持续的研究事业相兼容。更广泛的影响将来自积极的计划，以传播在这一努力中学到的东西，当然，然后从改进的跨学科奖学金和教学，将从他们的采用流。

The purpose of this project is to advance interdisciplinarity in the social and behavioral sciences by identifying, examining, and recommending best practices for its development. The potential for transformative results from innovative interdisciplinary initiatives across the social and behavioral sciences, if they could be implemented and sustained, is widely noted. There are specific examples of success, but the challenges of mounting or expanding interdisciplinary work have too infrequently been met -- whether for research administrators, for scholars and teachers, and for graduate students.A Task Force, itself interdisciplinary, will be formed to collect and disseminate best practices for promoting interdisciplinary research and teaching. The task force will focus on the procedural side of best practices at universities - including incentives (and disincentives) for faculty to engage in this work, the organizational structures that are effective in sustaining it, ways to disseminate resulting scholarship across and within the disciplines, processes that help to sustain interdisciplinary work, techniques to educate students and scholars to work effectively in an interdisciplinary approaches, and collaborate alliances with disciplinary associations. Results will be widely disseminated through disciplinary associations, to academic departments, and through societies such as the American Association for the Advancement of Science and networks of research vice-presidents, such as that at the American Association of Universities.A key merit of this project is its emphasis on interdisciplinary practices that are successive, can be implemented by the institutions addressed, and are compatible with building sustained research careers. Broader impacts will follow from the active program to disseminate what is learned in this effort, and of course then from improved interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching that will flow from their adoption.