Challenges for Transdisciplinary Research

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Sustainability transitions in the context of pandemic: an introduction to the focused issue on social innovation and systemic impact

“…The challenges ahead require new regulations, new behaviors, cultural change, and institutional ‘hybridity’ (Allaire and Wolf 2004 ). Transdisciplinary research is challenging—requiring the corralling of diffuse research interests and research questions, translations of discipline-specific empirical methods, field-specific research methodologies, and a variety of literatures (Brandt et al 2013 ; Bunders et al 2015 ; Lang et al 2012 ). Transdisciplinary research may also fall into the forgotten-middle (MacCleave 2006 ; Baker 2006 ) between specialized disciplines.…”

Industrial Ultrasound Applications in the Extra-Virgin Olive Oil Extraction Process: History, Approaches, and Key Questions

“…Ultrasound is sound waves with frequencies higher than the upper audible limit of human hearing (greater than 20 kHz) [17,30]. The use of low-frequency ultrasound (20 kHz) is a strategy to reinforce the weak link in the process of continuous extraction of extra-virgin olive oil thanks to the mechanical effects that the sound waves induce within the olive paste.…”

“…Invent numerical simulation models able to reproduce the mechanical and thermal effects of the emerging technology to develop innovative planning strategies able to convert science into product ready to the market (TRL from 1 to 9) [29,30,31].…”

A reflection on the role, potential and challenges of transdisciplinarity at the University of Fort Hare

“…As mentioned by Garutsa and Mahlangu (2014), the question of what transdisciplinarity entails is of pertinence in an era where there are dilemmas in an attempt to define the concept and understand its significance. As such, concepts such as transdisciplinarity, multi-disciplinarity and interdisciplinary are often misunderstood and mistakenly used interchangeably when they are in fact different (Bunders, Bunders & Zweekhorst 2015;Ramadier 2004). According to Padurean and Chevereasan (2010): ... while multidisciplinarity studies a topic not in one but several disciplines at the same time, whereas interdisciplinarity is concerned with the links and the transfer of knowledge, methods, concepts and models from one discipline to another, transdisciplinarity, is concerned with what is between the disciplines, across the disciplines and beyond the disciplines, within the dynamics of the simultaneous action of several layers of reality.…”