Preparing for an interdisciplinary future: A perspective from early-career researchers

Bridle, Helen; Vrieling, Anton; Cardillo, Monica; Araya, Yoseph N.; Hinojosa, Leonith

doi:10.1016/j.futures.2013.09.003

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“…Second, what UK research councils are increasingly calling 'co-production i ', the closer involvement of external experts, publics and communities in the design, conduct and analysis of research (Nowotny et al, 2003;Benneworth & Jongbloed, 2009) Research examining the first dynamic tends to pay particular attention to the epistemological and ontological framings that are mobilised as disciplines jostle for status; to the ways in which different configurations of social actors, institutions and theoretical frames call different ways of knowing into being (Barry and Born 2013); and to the historic material-institutional-discursive arrangements of disciplines as potent forces for framing and driving intellectual inquiry (Osborne, 2013;Strathern 2004). A critical concern here for Early Career Researchers is whether the practice of interdisciplinary research enables the creation of 'epistemic living spaces' that offer a secure foundation for the production of academic identity (Felt et al 2013;Bridle et al 2013). …”

Section: The Triple Dynamic: Interdisciplinarity Co-production and Ementioning

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Developing Reflexive identities through collaborative, interdisciplinary and precarious work: the experience of early career researchers

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2016

Globalisation, Societies and Education

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General rightsThis document is made available in accordance with publisher policies. Please cite only the published version using the reference above. Full terms of use are available: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/pure/about/ebr-terms The experience of early career researchers Abstract This paper explores the experiences of 24 Early Career Researchers working in interdisciplinary and precarious employment conditions in which they are managing collaborations with multiple partners beyond the university as part of the AHRC's 'Connected Communities' Programme. These conditions emerge from conflicting sources -from critical and emancipatory moves in knowledge production as well as from globalising neoliberal education policies. The paper draws on Archer's concept of reflexive identity to identify four different reflexive orientations developed by ECRs in these conditions: the disciplinarian, the freelancer, the worker bee and the social activist.

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Section: The Triple Dynamic: Interdisciplinarity Co-production and Ementioning

confidence: 99%

Developing Reflexive identities through collaborative, interdisciplinary and precarious work: the experience of early career researchers

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2016

Globalisation, Societies and Education

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“…A dominant focus on publications and citations is, however, also criticized (Mauser et al 2013). Reward structures for researchers are being debated and the research landscape is by some said to be changing and in need of further change to make the scientific enterprise more relevant to society (Bridle et al 2013, Mauser et al 2013. The impact of JKP projects on science can be determined in various ways, including an assessment of citations, the extent to which researchers manage to acquire new research projects, as well as their reputation, both within research and practice, and the scientific and societal networks in which they participate.…”

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“…This is said to be due to the fact that the research agenda is produced in interaction with societal actors, leading to refinement and a combination of both fundamental research that is translated in applicable knowledge and the actual application of this knowledge in experiments and pilot projects. Such an approach was followed in the process of determining the research themes of the Dutch "Knowledge for Climate" research program (Bridle et al 2013 andMauser et al 2013).…”

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Joint knowledge production for climate change adaptation: what is in it for science?

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2015

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ABSTRACT. Both in literature and in practice, it is claimed that joint knowledge production (JKP) by researchers, policy makers, and other societal actors is necessary to make science relevant for addressing climate adaptation. Although recent assessments of JKP projects have provided some arguments in favor of their societal merit, much less is known about their scientific merit. We explored the latter by developing a conceptual framework addressing characteristics of doing JKP as well as hypotheses on potential merits and pitfalls in terms of its process, output, and impact for science. Semistructured interviews with six environmental science research leaders as well as discussions with five researchers involved in past JKP projects were used to start operationalizing the framework into criteria and compiling a survey. This survey was filled out by 144 researchers involved in Knowledge for Climate, a large Dutch multiactor research program. The findings suggest that, at least in the context of recently carried out Dutch climate adaptation projects, JKP contributes to a broader empirical knowledge base; more reflexivity on the part of researchers; and more publications for policy makers. We conclude this paper by formulating next research steps, including evaluating what would be a proper balance between more versus less participatory forms of scientific knowledge production.

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“…As such, we first deal with the vulnerability of water. A future project we approach is about the dual nature of water, which we experienced interdisciplinarily in a summer school (Bridle et al, 2013). This topic of duality will be the topic of our future www.ccsenet.org/res Vol.…”

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“Hard Copy” Building Model versus Digital Webpage Serving the Representation of Concepts in Architecture Design and in Scenographic Design

Dan¹

2015

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We will talk about how the same concept can be represented differently in the environment of building a model of the designed object/installation versus the digital representation in a webpage in case of a building and of scenographic installations. The digital representation is more than just the digitalization, as it involves a conversion of the concept. The building we try to represent, "AQUA MEGA" is an aquarium and museum of water. For the project, apart of drawn pieces, we built an urbanism project which included the volumes and the landscape design, as well as a building model where the construction was detailed: the aquaria but mainly the building of the museum, out of laminated wood joints in free form which at the same time it is the ceiling of the hall between the aquaria. This hard copy model in different diminished scales represent how the concept of the museum of water, which aims at the ambivalence of the element, between heritage and hazard, between building vulnerability and being a vulnerable habitat, translates into a building. The atmosphere could not be built, and the way spatiality can be read is limited, the accent being on volumes. At the same time we built a webpage for the museum of water, designing a round trip along similar aquarium constructions in the world we visited, and explaining the concept through text. It makes use of multimedia techniques in making it interactive. The first scenographic installation is that of the "Rediscovered space". The model is this time 1:1, and it represents the door to this space. It works with sand, which covers the door like forgetting, and with coloured light, which passes behind the door, to awake the memory. In sand also boxes with elements addressing the senses are buried and to be diggen out like by archaeologists. It is the concept of these boxes addressing the senses to which the multimedia webpage goes back. Because also for this project we developed a web page, in frame of an exhibition. In this the model is documented, as it is the bringing to paper of the concepts, playing with illustrated and with black surfaces the contours of which inspire the feeling of the spaces. It is this where the 3D digital model in the webpage comes back: the models of the spaces are boxes, like those in the sand, using walls instead of contours to suggest feelings. The second scenographic installation addresses augmented reality. We designed an array of "doors" like before, where the visitors can immerse into the photographs projected, mirrored or shadowed. The digital version goes for stereo images, involving the 3D model and the photograph. Finally we approached the green wall. While pockets on skeletons to build a green wall can be the boxes of before, for a digital version we can dug among the thorns from Grimm/Perrault ś sleeping beauty, to find shapes of spaces, like in a Paradise Garden concept, for which we have a model, for example with an image map.

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Preparing for an interdisciplinary future: A perspective from early-career researchers

Cited by 137 publications

References 43 publications

Developing Reflexive identities through collaborative, interdisciplinary and precarious work: the experience of early career researchers

Developing Reflexive identities through collaborative, interdisciplinary and precarious work: the experience of early career researchers

Joint knowledge production for climate change adaptation: what is in it for science?

“Hard Copy” Building Model versus Digital Webpage Serving the Representation of Concepts in Architecture Design and in Scenographic Design

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