Disciplinary, Interdisciplinary, Adisciplinary, Undisciplinary: Living in the In-Between or Building a New Home?

Description

Inter- and transdisciplinary research often takes the form of collaboration between experts from different fields who integrate their knowledge to address complex societal issues. One of the main challenges is to integrate knowledge and define a joint course of action while coming from different traditions, representing different views of science, and holding different epistemic values and (implicit) assumptions. Living in this in-between space is reported to be taxing on researchers, and in particular for early career researchers who often conduct a substantial amount of the work in inter- and transdisciplinary research (Enright & Facer, 2014; Felt, 2013). As a possible response to this challenge, there are calls to discipline interdisciplinarity (Bammer, 2013) and handbooks (Repko & Szostak, 2021) introduce students to the “field of interdisciplinary studies”. But this raises the questions what does it mean and imply to establish and mainstream an epistemic culture for interdisciplinary studies? How does this affect the critical study of interdisciplinary practices? What are the alternatives and what do they mean to (the study of) inter- and transdisciplinary research?

Period	Jul 2024
Event title	WTMC Summer School 2024: Epistemic Inequities
Event type	Seminar