Interdisciplinary Communication Needs to Become a Core Scientific Skill

Dahm, Ralf; Byrne, Jonathan; Wride, Michael A.

doi:10.1002/bies.201900101

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“…So, interdisciplinary communication skills are becoming an emerging and core area for both social and natural scientists. Landing on mars, moon, sequencing the whole human genome, and the discovery of nano science can be merged for the betterment of the society ( Dahm et al., 2019 ). So, a transition of knowledge from discipline to interdisciplinary seems to be the present day of the society starting from health care to social services ( Lindmark et al., 2018 ).…”

Section: Recent Advances and Lacuna In Interdisciplinary Researchmentioning

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Future call for policy making to speed up interdisciplinarity between natural and social sciences and humanities in countries such as India

Das

Paital

2021

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Objectives Science is the erudite methodical systematic practises to study the structure and behaviour of natural objects and/or phenomena. It clearly unknot about the fact that science is a human (society) need based process that starts with social affairs, for example, need to exchange emotion and cognitive processes (psychology), feelings (literature), relation (sociology), money (economics) etc. Humanities are the use of approaches that are predominantly hypothetical but critical, and have a noteworthy historical component, and the methodical aspects distinguish it from the mainly experiential approaches of the science. The basic approaches in both remains the same that it needs a hypothesis, sound methodology, and interpretation of data. Human is the end user in both the cases. So, why only interdisciplinary research focused on the core subjects of science? For example, philosophy, deals with general and vital complications relating to matters including existence, knowledge, language, attitude, behaviour, values, ethics, reason, mind, peace and harmony in life which can be essentially a part of science (especially natural sciences and more particularly animals sciences such as zoology) or vice versa could be true. The current and future time will allow us to believe on such concept, is the main theme of the current article. Methods Articles from all published sources are considered for answering the objective that why not concentrating to speed up interdisciplinarity. Few tables and figure are reproduced or redrawn as per the need. And numerical data are collected to present the current status of the interdisciplinarity and the need of the pace it requires. Results It is noticed that number of research articles on interdisciplinarity in comparison to several core subject area in major databases including environmental biology are still negligible. Countries still need to inter-collaborate at interdisciplinary level for the development and benefit of human race. This needs to be done mainly at socio-economic, intercultural and scientific levels. Although numbers of steps are taken such as establishment of interdisciplinary institutes, introduction of interdisciplinary courses, interdisciplinary research and publication platforms in specialized dedicated journals, still concrete steps to introduce the course of interdisciplinarity at educational and professional level is wanting. Conclusion Therefore, policy on pace in interdisciplinarity across science and humanities is highly wanting especially in developing countries to fix several national and international issues. Present article deals with the current status and future prospective or policies required on interdisciplinarity.

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Section: Recent Advances and Lacuna In Interdisciplinary Researchmentioning

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Future call for policy making to speed up interdisciplinarity between natural and social sciences and humanities in countries such as India

Das

Paital

2021

Heliyon

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“…To overcome these problems, those engaging in interdisciplinary dialogue need to be strong communicators and be sensitive to the peculiarities of communicating to colleagues from other disciplines. [5] As innovative research often comes from combining ideas from different disciplines, this approach can be particularly rewarding.…”

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How research institutions can foster innovation

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“…Unsurprisingly, most research, and consequently academic publications, are in a different field from medicine. However, if evolution is going to integrate into medicine, then an increased exchange between evolutionary biologists and physicians is needed, regardless of the inter‐ and transdisciplinary problems that will occur (Dahm et al., 2019). To resolve this, a system of rewards, or credit, to motivate interdisciplinary discourse between evolution and medicine is essential.…”

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(Re‐) Defining evolutionary medicine

Anderson

Horn²

2020

Ecology and Evolution

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The applicability of evolutionary biology principles to diseases has been largely questioned by the medical field. While Evolutionary Medicine (EM) developed in part to lessen this gap, EM is an independent field from both evolution and medicine, whose continued narrowing of topics as a consequence of its reductionist approach, in addition to its focus to introduce itself at a late stage in medical education, has led to its continued resistance toward implementation. In turn, this has had a profound and lasting impact on the awareness of evolution in medicine among physicians. For both the evolutionary and medical communities to reach a common perspective and obtain a greater frame‐work of medical thought, a comprehensive view of the evolution of the healthy human being needs to be introduced as a starting point during the premedical curriculum. Here, we present our views on the ongoing challenges that have caused the continued division between the evolutionary fields and medicine, and provide solutions to help bridge the gap for an interdisciplinary field of evolution in medicine.

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Interdisciplinary Communication Needs to Become a Core Scientific Skill

Cited by 14 publications

References 6 publications

Future call for policy making to speed up interdisciplinarity between natural and social sciences and humanities in countries such as India

Future call for policy making to speed up interdisciplinarity between natural and social sciences and humanities in countries such as India

How research institutions can foster innovation

(Re‐) Defining evolutionary medicine

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