[phd.students.socioeco] Op-ed on interdisciplinary research

[Ann Hartell]

Snip:

"What if the challenges of interdisciplinary work are less to do with 
obvious structural issues, and more to do with fuzzy, opaque zones of 
feelings, emotions and social interaction? What if interdisciplinarity 
is hard not so much because everyone has their own perspective, and 
distinctive methods, but because everyone has differing levels of access 
to power, influence and money? How would our understanding of – and 
capacity to improve – interdisciplinary research change if we focused 
less on funders and journals and universities, and more on the mundane, 
day-to-day lives of collaborative researchers?"

http://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2015/oct/14/why-its-time-to-get-real-about-interdisciplinary-research

Article includes a link to the writers' open access book on the topic.

Ann

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Doctoral Student
Institute for Multi-Level Governance and Development
Department of Socioeconomics
WU/Vienna University of Economics and Business
Austria
WU: www.wu.ac.at/mlgd/en
Personal: annhartell.weebly.com

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