Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Theory and Practice across Disciplines

Scott Frickel, Mathieu Albert, Barbara Prainsack (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2016
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-8589-5 (ISBN)

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In theory, interdisciplinary collaboration breaks down artificial divisions between different departments, allowing more innovative and sophisticated research to flourish. But does it actually work this way? Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration puts the common beliefs about such research to the test, using empirical data gathered by scholars from the US, Canada, and the UK.

Interdisciplinarity has become a buzzword in academia, as research universities funnel their financial resources toward collaborations between faculty in different disciplines. In theory, interdisciplinary collaboration breaks down artificial divisions between different departments, allowing more innovative and sophisticated research to flourish. But does it actually work this way in practice? Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration puts the common beliefs about such research to the test, using empirical data gathered by scholars from the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. The book’s contributors critically interrogate the assumptions underlying the fervor for interdisciplinarity. Their attentive scholarship reveals how, for all its potential benefits, interdisciplinary collaboration is neither immune to academia’s status hierarchies, nor a simple antidote to the alleged shortcomings of disciplinary study.

Chapter 10 is available Open Access here (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK395883)

SCOTT FRICKEL is an associate professor of sociology and environment and society at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. He is author of Chemical Consequences: Environmental Mutagens and the Rise of Genetic Toxicology and coeditor of The New Political Sociology of Science and Fields of Knowledge. MATHIEU ALBERT is an associate professor in the department of psychiatry and a scientist in the Wilson Centre for Research in Education at the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada. BARBARA PRAINSACK is a professor in the department of social science, health and medicine at King’s College London in the United Kingdom. She is the author or coauthor of several books including Solidarity in Biomedicine and Beyond.

ForewordHelga Nowotny
PrefaceScott Frickel, Mathieu Albert, and Barbara Prainsack
Introduction: Investigating InterdisciplinaritiesScott Frickel, Mathieu Albert, and Barbara Prainsack

Part I: Interdisciplinary Cultures and Careers
Chapter 1: New Directions, New Challenges: Trials and Tribulations of Interdisciplinary ResearchDave McBee and Erin Leahey
Chapter 2: The Frictions of Interdisciplinarity: The Case of the Wisconsin Institutes for DiscoveryGregory J. Downey, Noah Weeth Feinstein, Daniel Lee Kleinman, Sigrid Peterson, and Chisato Fukuda
Chapter 3: Epistemic Cultures of Collaboration: Coherence and Ambiguity in InterdisciplinarityLaurel Smith-Doerr, Jennifer Croissant, Itai Vardi, and Timothy Sacco
Chapter 4: Interdisciplinary Fantasy: Social Scientists and Humanities Scholars Working in Faculties of MedicineMathieu Albert, Elise Paradis, and Ayelet Kuper

Part II: Disciplines and Interdisciplinarity
Chapter 5: Some Dark Sides of Interdisciplinarity: The Case of Behavior GeneticsAaron Panofsky
Chapter 6: A Dynamic, Multidimensional Approach to Knowledge ProductionRyan Light and jimi adams
Chapter 7: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Change in Six Social Sciences: A Longitudinal ComparisonScott Frickel and Ali O. Ilhan

Part III: Changing Context of Interdisciplinary Research
Chapter 8: “An Electro-Historical Focus with Real Interdisciplinary Appeal”: Interdisciplinarity at Vietnam-Era StanfordCyrus C.M. Mody
Chapter 9: Interdisciplinarity Reloaded? Drawing lessons from “Citizen Science”Barbara Prainsack and Hauke Riesch
Chapter 10: One Medicine? Advocating (Inter)disciplinarity at the Interfaces of Animal Health, Human Health and the EnvironmentAngela Cassidy

Notes on Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum	03.12.2016
Reihe/Serie	The American Campus
Co-Autor	Scott Frickel
Vorwort	Helga Nowotny
Zusatzinfo	10 figures, 7 tables
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Meteorologie / Klimatologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8135-8589-9 / 0813585899
ISBN-13	978-0-8135-8589-5 / 9780813585895
Zustand	Neuware