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Category Archives: Interdisciplinary Science
Strategic Developments at UKRI
The new super-research council (in UK terms) UKRI that acts as an umbrella organisation – sitting above the seven research councils plus Innovate UK and Research England – launched its Strategic Prospectus a few days ago. Not so much a … Continue reading
Posted in Interdisciplinary Science, Science Funding
Tagged Horizon2020, interdisciplinarity, Nurse Review, place
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The Meeting of the Ways
There are many reasons why people believe – as I do – that interdisciplinarity has to sit at the heart of any research agenda. It does not require that two disciplines bring cutting edge tools and ideas together to create … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Interdisciplinary Science
Tagged Bennett Institute for Public Policy, Eldar Shafir, policy, stereotype threat, values affirmation
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Synaptic Transfer and Interdisciplinarity
I spent much of the Christmas break admiring my new granddaughter’s constantly changing and newly acquired skills as she progressed from 8 weeks old to 10; the sense of new synaptic connections being made was very strong as her hand-eye … Continue reading
Beyond the Silo Mentality
I have been fretting about the challenges of appropriately evaluating interdisciplinary work for many years. My specific beef has been about grant assessment in the Research Councils at the interface between physics and biology, because that is where my research … Continue reading
Moving Beyond a Silo Mentality
Wherever I turn currently I seem to come up against the questions that assessing interdisciplinary research throws up. Nature recently had a special issue highlighting some of the challenges and rewards, but taking a very broad brush approach. Its editorial … Continue reading
Posted in Interdisciplinary Science, Science Funding
Tagged committee meetings, ERC, refereeing, research councils
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