Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research

Committee on Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research,National Academy of Sciences,National Academy of Engineering,Institute of Medicine

Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research
Format
Paperback
Publisher
National Academies Press
Country
United States
Published
15 April 2005
Pages
332
ISBN
9780309094351

Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research

Committee on Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research,National Academy of Sciences,National Academy of Engineering,Institute of Medicine

Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research examines current interdisciplinary research efforts and recommends ways to stimulate and support such research. Advances in science and engineering increasingly require the collaboration of scholars from various fields. This shift is driven by the need to address complex problems that cut across traditional disciplines, and the capacity of new technologies to both transform existing disciplines and generate new ones. At the same time, however, interdisciplinary research can be impeded by policies on hiring, promotion, tenure, proposal review, and resource allocation that favor traditional disciplines.This report identifies steps that researchers, teachers, students, institutions, funding organizations, and disciplinary societies can take to more effectively conduct, facilitate, and evaluate interdisciplinary research programs and projects. Throughout the report key concepts are illustrated with case studies and results of the committee’s surveys of individual researchers and university provosts.

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