Structures and strategies of interdisciplinary science

Palmer, Carole L.

doi:10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(1999)50:3<242::aid-asi7>3.0.co;2-7

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“…The (rather limited) evidence suggests that, first, collaborative engagements between established, epistemically dissimilar, communities are enabled by the development of shared (interdisciplinary) practices among participants and, second, may depend on the provision of appropriate long-term support (e.g. see Olsen, 2009;Palmer, 1999).…”

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From practice to collaborative community in interdisciplinary research contexts

2015

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This paper contributes to the debate on the dynamics of the development of practices and their relation to the emergence of collaborative communities of practitioners. Our research is situated in a university that was seeking to promote and stimulate interdisciplinary research collaborations through a number of initiatives. We are concerned both with characterizing the practices that make this kind of collaboration possible, and with the emergence of a community that creates and endorses such collaborative practices. Our findings provide insights in relation to two particular questions. First, we report on the development of interdisciplinary practices and the emergence of community. Second, we consider how support interventions undertaken by the university stimulated the development of those practices. We develop theoretical and practical insights in these areas.

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“…IDHR candidates may have fewer publications in journals with high impact factors, which tend to be discipline-based, or may publish less frequently simply because collaborative work takes longer. 13 In addition, recruitment, promotion and peer-review committees may also have difficulty evaluating a candidate's contributions to projects and articles -admittedly a problem associated with multiauthored publications in general, not just interdisciplinary publications. (We note that steps are being taken to address this.…”

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A meeting of minds: interdisciplinary research in the health sciences in Canada

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Canadian Medical Association Journal

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“…I want to uncover the knowledge acquisition strategies (social processes) through which knowledge integration (a cognitive process) is achieved. Based on previous studies (Palmer, 1999;Sanz-Menéndez et al, 2001;Laudel, 2001), I hypothesize that there are various possible forms and rationales for knowledge acquisition.…”

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Strategies for Knowledge Acquisition in Bionanotechnology

Ràfols¹

2007

Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research

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Discourses on convergent technologies claim that fields such as bionanotechnology are interdisciplinary and, therefore, require specific organizational forms, such as laboratories with researchers from many different disciplinary backgrounds. However, empirical investigations challenge the intrinsic interdisciplinarity of these emergent fields, and some analysts criticize the discourses as prescriptive. In order to investigate actual laboratory practices in bionanoscience, this article explores the dynamics of knowledge integration and the knowledge acquisition strategies of 10 research projects in two research specialties, namely biomolecular motors and lab-on-a-chip. The research shows that knowledge integration is, in fact, very asymmetrical: typically, a project will use materials and techniques from various disciplines at a standard level of know-how, but focus its research effort on the unique expertise of the home laboratory. Furthermore, projects use various strategies to acquire knowledge: interdisciplinary practices involving deep collaborations and exchanges between distinct disciplines at either the personal or institutional level are only one strategy to acquire knowledge and, indeed, not the most common. The majority of projects combine different strategies, including service collaboration, limited recruitment and in-house learning. These observations can be explained by a trade-off between the benefits of cognitive diversity set against the costs of team cohesion and learning.

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Structures and strategies of interdisciplinary science

Cited by 93 publications

References 24 publications

From practice to collaborative community in interdisciplinary research contexts

From practice to collaborative community in interdisciplinary research contexts

A meeting of minds: interdisciplinary research in the health sciences in Canada

Strategies for Knowledge Acquisition in Bionanotechnology

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