Professional development outcomes associated with interdisciplinary research: An integrative review

Bruzzese, Jean-Marie; Usseglio, John; Goldberg, Johanna; Begg, Melissa D.; Larson, Elaine

doi:10.1016/j.outlook.2020.03.006

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“…As noted in Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research, "Effective review of interdisciplinary research (IDR) proposals may not be possible with traditional peer review that relies primarily on experts in a single discipline" (National Academy of Sciences et al 2005). For this same reason, interdisciplinary researchers may encounter barriers to publishing in journals with strong disciplinary scopes, which in turn could reduce their chances of receiving tenure (Bruzzese et al 2020). Additionally, the traditional metrics of publication and funding success may be detrimental to the establishment of new interdisciplinary researchers if they have faced disciplinary gatekeeping when their interest areas exist in places of disciplinary overlap.…”

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Barriers and Possibilities for Interdisciplinary Disaster Science Research: Critical Appraisal of the Literature

Johnston

Lindt

2022

Nat. Hazards Rev.

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The strength and speed of modeling software has increased drastically in recent years. As it does so, researchers across a variety of fields work to determine how most effectively to utilize this strength and speed. Many of them have turned to interdisciplinarity as a means of creating more representative models. This is the case for disaster research as this area of interest involves many intricately interdependent systems. In working on interdisciplinary projects, past research has noted several barriers to complete integration, including differences in language and methodology, institutional structures not conducive to interdisciplinary collaboration, and nuanced tension between disciplines. Many solutions to these issues have been presented: facilitated conversation, increased institutional support, and several others. However, one area of difficulty for which comprehensive solutions have not yet been realized is data integration. This is indeed a challenge that lays at the heart of meaningful interdisciplinarity. The data are frequently telling an intricately interwoven story, and the more these data can be analyzed in a cohesive manner the more likely it is that researchers will be able to harness their predictive power to reduce disasters. In order to understand what efforts have been made at data integration, 29 papers are systematically reviewed in order to extract the nature of previous attempts, reasons for integration, challenges, shortcomings, and recommendations for future work. The papers analyzed most commonly referenced the different syntax and data types as a challenge of integration. Regarding shortcomings of integration efforts, the most common concern was that of model parameterization bias and substantial uncertainties. As a recommendation for future work, the papers most commonly suggested more standardization of data and methods across collaborating disciplines and from one project to the next in order to avoid these shortcoming and challenges.

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Section: Institutional Supportmentioning

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Barriers and Possibilities for Interdisciplinary Disaster Science Research: Critical Appraisal of the Literature

Johnston

Lindt

2022

Nat. Hazards Rev.

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“… 6 A lack of funding resources and career advancement are also emphasised as important elements hindering interdisciplinarity in other studies. 11 , 12 …”

Section: What Promotes Interdisciplinary Researchmentioning

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“…Together, this could provide a broader view and better knowledge than multidisciplinary research. 11–13 …”

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Interdisciplinary Research: An Important Contribution to Dementia Care

Ibsen¹,

Eriksen²

2022

JMDH

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Authorities and research institutions emphasise and encourage interdisciplinary research to meet complex societal health challenges as dementia. However, studies that describe an interdisciplinary approach for dementia research are limited. What does it take for research to become interdisciplinary? Is it enough to include researchers from different disciplines? This paper reflects on an interdisciplinary approach to dementia research. Based on existing literature and theories, we elaborate the concept of interdisciplinarity, and how the perspective can contribute and improve dementia care.

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“…So, “interdisciplinarity” is a need based approach from education and research to practical utility in society. However, the term "interdisciplinary" is found to be many a time narrowly used in academic sectors, while its broad meaning tend to use it in many sectors starting from surgery in hospitals to environmental management ( Shrestha and Bhadra, 2019 ; Voarino et al., 2019 ; Bruzzese et al., 2020 ; Khoza-Shangase et al., 2020 ; King et al., 2020 ; McHenry et al., 2020 ; McKee et al., 2020 ; Moreau and Mercier, 2020 ). However its confined use in educational sectors is basically limited to training pedagogies in teaching learning systems.…”

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“…For example, current day societal needs, identifying good products as per need based using statistics, is the need based research. Therefore, recent studies indicate that interdisciplinary research has its own benefits to the society over any disciplinary researches ( Shrestha and Bhadra, 2019 ; Voarino et al., 2019 ; Bruzzese et al., 2020 ; Khoza-Shangase et al., 2020 ; King et al., 2020 ; McHenry et al., 2020 ; McKee et al., 2020 ; Moreau and Mercier, 2020 ).…”

Section: Interdisciplinary Subjects and Need Based 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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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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Professional development outcomes associated with interdisciplinary research: An integrative review

Cited by 8 publications

References 31 publications

Barriers and Possibilities for Interdisciplinary Disaster Science Research: Critical Appraisal of the Literature

Barriers and Possibilities for Interdisciplinary Disaster Science Research: Critical Appraisal of the Literature

Interdisciplinary Research: An Important Contribution to Dementia Care

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

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