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oapen-20.500.12657-496122021-06-17T11:48:16Z Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration Frickel, Scott Albert, Mathieu Prainsack, Barbara interdisciplinarity; collaboration bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects Interdisciplinarity has become a buzzword in academia, as research universities funnel their financial resources toward collaborations between faculty in different disciplines. In theory, interdisciplinary collaboration breaks down artificial divisions between different departments, allowing more innovative and sophisticated research to flourish. But does it actually work this way in practice? Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration puts the common beliefs about such research to the test, using empirical data gathered by scholars from the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. The book’s contributors critically interrogate the assumptions underlying the fervor for interdisciplinarity. Their attentive scholarship reveals how, for all its potential benefits, interdisciplinary collaboration is neither immune to academia’s status hierarchies, nor a simple antidote to the alleged shortcomings of disciplinary study. 2021-06-17T11:41:53Z 2021-06-17T11:41:53Z 2016 book 9780813585895 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/49612 eng Rutgers University Press 111d1c48-fc70-44ba-97fa-39be459ee343 c82d0ad5-c2d9-40cc-9fd3-3a9859e1ef83 9780813585895 256 New Brunswick (NJ) open access
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Interdisciplinarity has become a buzzword in academia, as research universities funnel their financial resources toward collaborations between faculty in different disciplines. In theory, interdisciplinary collaboration breaks down artificial divisions between different departments, allowing more innovative and sophisticated research to flourish. But does it actually work this way in practice?
Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration puts the common beliefs about such research to the test, using empirical data gathered by scholars from the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. The book’s contributors critically interrogate the assumptions underlying the fervor for interdisciplinarity. Their attentive scholarship reveals how, for all its potential benefits, interdisciplinary collaboration is neither immune to academia’s status hierarchies, nor a simple antidote to the alleged shortcomings of disciplinary study.
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