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The literature on interdisciplinary higher education is influenced by two overall trends: one looks at the institutional level of specially designed interdisciplinary institutions, while the other assesses individual interdisciplinary educational activities. Much less attention is given to the processes of creating interdisciplinary education initiatives within traditional monodisciplinary universities. In this study we thus explore how interdisciplinary education and teaching emerge and develop within universities that have little or no established infrastructure to support interdisciplinarity. Using qualitative data from a multi-part case study, we examine the development of diverse interdisciplinary educational efforts within a traditional faculty-structured university in order to map the ways in which interdisciplinary educational elements have been created, supported, challenged or even strengthened by preexisting monodisciplinary structures. Drawing on theories from economics, literature studies and sociology of education we conclude that creating interdisciplinary education in such settings demands skills that we define as the 'art of managing interstitiality'.

In recent years research integrity has received increased attention from scientific governance. Many countries have opened up funding streams for research on (mis)conduct, and anumber of international policy efforts have emerged around the topic. In this paper we frame research integrity as a 'policy object' and reflect upon how this object is being assembled within one particular context, that of Denmark. Using material from an interview study with actors within Danish research, we outline how policy for research integrity is being imagined and practiced, first describing the diverse actants that are enrolled into the project of 'research integrity', and second discussing how responsibility is variously attributed to these. Importantly, we find that despite extensive efforts to define and settle research integrity as policy object, it continues to be assembled in diverse ways in different sites and by different actors. Even in asingle national context, 'research integrity' remains multiple.