Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Theory and Practice across Disciplines
Helga Nowotny author Barbara Prainsack editor Scott Frickel editor Mathieu Albert editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Rutgers University Press
Published:25th Nov '16
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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)
"A most welcome contribution, filled with richly detailed case studies conducted by a stellar array of scholars. This volume scrutinizes key assumptions of the case for interdisciplinarity." -- Jerry A. Jacobs * U. Pennsylvania, author of In Defense of Disciplines *
"Interdisciplinary collaboration has been established as valuable to scientific creativity and vital to bringing knowledge effectively to major public issues. But discussion of what this means and how it works are still too often vague. This book will help, because it offers thoughtful and indeed disciplined case studies of how interdisciplinary collaboration works in practice." -- Craig Calhoun * London School of Economics and Political Science *
"This high quality volume makes a crucial contribution to our empirical understanding of the worlds of interdisciplinarity at a time when they are generating a great deal of interest from funding agencies, academic administrators and scholars alike. This book should be required reading for all concerned." -- Michele Lamont * Harvard University, author of How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgement *
"A most welcome contribution, filled with richly detailed case studies conducted by a stellar array of scholars. This volume scrutinizes key assumptions of the case for interdisciplinarity." -- Jerry A. Jacobs * U. Pennsylvania, author of In Defense of Disciplines *
"Interdisciplinary collaboration has been established as valuable to scientific creativity and vital to bringing knowledge effectively to major public issues. But discussion of what this means and how it works are still too often vague. This book will help, because it offers thoughtful and indeed disciplined case studies of how interdisciplinary collaboration works in practice." -- Craig Calhoun * London School of Economics and Political Science *
"This high quality volume makes a crucial contribution to our empirical understanding of the worlds of interdisciplinarity at a time when they are generating a great deal of interest from funding agencies, academic administrators and scholars alike. This book should be required reading for all concerned." -- Michele Lamont * Harvard University, author of How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgement *
ISBN: 9780813585895
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
Weight: unknown
256 pages