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Category Archives: Transdisciplinarity
How Academia and Publishing are Destroying Scientific Innovation: A Conversation with Sydney Brenner | King’s Review – Magazine
An interview with molecular biologist Sydney Brenner… In most places in the world, you live your social life and your ordinary life in the lab. You don’t know anybody else. Sometimes you don’t even know other people in the same … Continue reading
Posted in Broader Impacts, Future of the University, Graduate Studies, Interdisciplinarity, Peer Review, Public Philosophizing, Science and technology ramifications, STEM Policy, Transdisciplinarity
Tagged Cambridge University, Kings College, molecular biology, Sydney Brenner, UK Research Council, UK research policy
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Transdisciplinarity: The Politics and Practices of Knowledge Production | The Disorder Of Things
These boundaries that we establish between little pockets of knowledge in the academy are a fiction. Transdisciplinarity, to my mind, is about challenging the fiction of disciplines, about recognizing that knowledge isn’t something that can be carved up into neatly … Continue reading
Inklings: Why I Jumped Off The Ivory Tower
For a long time, I”ve been the uncomfortable owner of a coveted faculty position that I didn’t want. My decision to leave isn\’t really about my department or university in particular, but about a perverse incentive structure that maintains the … Continue reading
Assessing impact » Testing hypotheses…
Steven Hill (@stevenhill), Head of Research Policy at the Higher Education Funding Council for England, responds to a recent publication by Steven Hrotic and me here: Assessing impact » Testing hypotheses…. Here is the original publication, which is available open … Continue reading
Bibliography of Transdisciplinarity Literature 2012
Our friends at td-net have just released a valuable resource: A Tour d’Horizon of Literature Related to Transdisciplinarity Published in 2012 The number of publications in the field of inter- and transdisciplinary research has been steadily growing during recent years … Continue reading
Limiting Knowledge Production
What? Now why would anyone want to do that? The field of sustainability studies can be seen as being about two things: limits and technology. We are concerned about sustainability because we fear that we are approaching (or have already … Continue reading
Nigel Warburton’s negative vision of what philosophy isn’t | jbrittholbrook
Does not resisting impact requirements mean you’re not a real philosopher? Nigel Warburton’s negative vision of what philosophy isn’t | jbrittholbrook.
Posted in Accountability, Broader Impacts, CSID Publications, Future of the University, institutionalizing interdisciplinarity, Metrics, NSF, Philosophy & Politics, Public Philosophizing, Science and technology ramifications, STEM Policy, Transdisciplinarity
Tagged freedom, impact, Nigel Warburton, Philosophy, philosophy bites, REF, responsibility
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On Reinventing the Wheel of Interdisciplinarity
Perhaps! But who wishes to concern himself with such dangerous “Perhapses”! … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, CSID Publications, Future of the University, institutionalizing interdisciplinarity, Interdisciplinarity, Multidisciplinarity, STEM Policy, Transdisciplinarity
Tagged American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Arise 2 Report, Interdisciplinarity, Multidisciplinarity, Reinventing the wheel, Transdisciplinarity
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56 Indicators of Impact
In 2011, several core members of the Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity (CSID) at the University of North Texas held a meeting during which we imagined different ways to indicate the impact of our activities. We scribbled them on … Continue reading
Academics: bring your own identity | Amber at Warwick: academic technology
Academics: bring your own identity | Amber at Warwick: academic technology. Good post here on academic identity that ties in with much of our own thinking on altmetrics and owning accountability.
Communities of Integration Workshop – Field Philosophy
I’m very pleased to be attending the upcoming workshop at Arizona State on “Communities of Integration” at the invitation of Erik Fisher of STIR fame. You can get a sneak peak at the developing website, including our contribution on Field … Continue reading
Knowing and acting: The precautionary and proactionary principles in relation to policy making, J. Britt Holbrook and Adam Briggle « Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
The Social Epistemology Review and Reply collective is now hosting preprints: Knowing and acting: The precautionary and proactionary principles in relation to policy making, J. Britt Holbrook and Adam Briggle « Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective. Yes! Adam and … Continue reading
“The Individual and Scholarly Networks” webinar: Notes from the not-so-underground philosopher
My initial reaction is that the single-day webinar in which I presented on Tuesday (and in which I was the only humanist – !) was a success. Excepting some minor and very intermittent technical difficulties with sound and visual, the presenters … Continue reading
Interdisciplines : CASE STUDY: INCREMENTAL UPGRADING OF ENKANINI – THE ISHACK INITIATIVE
If you click on one link today, I recommend this one: Interdisciplines : CASE STUDY: INCREMENTAL UPGRADING OF ENKANINI – THE ISHACK INITIATIVE. Dear Colleagues: INIT, the International Network of Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity, is continuing to host a virtual … Continue reading
Making academic knowledge useful to policy : why “supply” solutions are not the whole story | Impact of Social Sciences
For those interested in reconciling the supply of with the demand for knowledge: Making academic knowledge useful to policy : why “supply” solutions are not the whole story | Impact of Social Sciences.
On the benefits of a philosophy major « Pleas and Excuses
The blog post below has a very nice graphic which details the proven skills that one obtains with a degree in philosophy. While I am tired of having to justify this over and over, I think it is important to … Continue reading
INIT Interdisciplines virtual seminar on transdisciplinarity
Welcome to the INIT series on Interdisciplines: INIT, the International Network of Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity, is continuing to host a Virtual Seminar on Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Horizons on the platform Interdisciplines. We invite everyone to participate in a new forum … Continue reading
Occupy Impact – the 1st Annual CASRAI International Conference | CASRAI
These guys are on the right track, if you ask me! We feel the ‘occupy’ meme fits the subject well. In our case occupy is not about protest or revolution. It is about getting inside a difficult issue and tackling … Continue reading
INIT Virtual Seminar continues in April — New discussion topic
The INIT Network for Transdisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Research is continuing to host a Virtual Seminar on Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Horizons on the platform Interdisciplines (www.interdisciplines.org). You are all invited to join the discussion. In order to join the discussion, just click on … Continue reading
What is Knowledge Mobilisation and Why Does it Matter to Universities? « Mobilize This!
Essential reading for all those concerned with accountability and impact! What is Knowledge Mobilisation and Why Does it Matter to Universities? « Mobilize This!.
Research so Nice…
…we’ll pay for it twice? Janet D. Stemwedel, a professor of philosophy at San Jose State, raises more questions about the Research Works Act on a Scientific American blog: The public is all too willing already to see public money spent … Continue reading
Open Access: Sharing Inspiration & Experience
@livingarchitect , Rachel Armstrong, posts this nice 90 second vid on sharing our work as we move along in our research. As I watch it, I recall Alex Mosiak’s post previous to this one. There is an important distinction to … Continue reading
Hunter S. Thompson’s 1958 cover letter for a newspaper job – Boing Boing
Hunter S. Thompson’s 1958 cover letter for a newspaper job – Boing Boing. Attention graduate students, and other job seekers: this is the way to write a job cover letter.
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Re-thinking Rigor, version 2.0.1.2
An interesting overview at an education blog critiquing the amount of time spent spinning pedagogical PR rather than thinking through a sustainable PAIDEIA. What I want is for every American child, every British child, Canadian child, Irish child, Australian child, … Continue reading
Frodeman & Briggle Reblogged at Becoming Integral
Thanks to our alum Sam Mickey for reblogging this new piece. Much appreciated! What is becoming of philosophy in the 21st century? There’s a great piece on that topic that just came out in the Chronicle of Higher Education Review. It … Continue reading