Being an Interdisciplinary Academic How Institutions Shape University Careers /

• Main Author: Lyall, Catherine (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Higher education.; Educational policy.; Education and state.; Education.; School management and organization.; School administration.; Higher Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Popular Science in Education.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.

This book highlights the importance of interdisciplinarity in the academic landscape, and examines how it is understood in the context of the modern university. While interdisciplinarity is encouraged by research funders, academics themselves receive mixed messages about how, when and whether to fol...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Mixed messages for the interdisciplinary research community
• Chapter 2. "What am I?": The path to becoming an interdisciplinary academic
• Chapter 3. "Are you one of us?" How institutions impact interdisciplinary careers
• Chapter 4. The nets we weave: Consequences for interdisciplinary capacity building
• Chapter 5. Facilitating serendipity?
• Chapter 6. Towards new logics of interdisciplinarity
• Chapter 7. Conclusion: "The funding can only do so much".