Research Culture & Integrity Week

Event type

Info session and Q&A

Session leader

Goal

To provide researchers with expertise on the value and benefits of interdisciplinarity

→ “Why does it matter, and what’s available?”

Content

• Thoughtfully-curated expertise on the nature, value, and benefits of interdisciplinary research. How does interdisciplinarity relates to academic career advancement? What are emerging interdisciplinary funding opportunities? What about inter-, multi-, trans-, or cross-disciplinarity — what is it, and what is it not?
• Expert delivery of info regarding the real-world importance of interdisciplinarity — from collective action problems, to integrating medicine with global health, to ensuring human security in a climate-affected world.

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Location

Event type

Panel

Session leaders

Goal

To inspire and inform researchers about how to get funding for their projects

→ “How did others do it?”

Content

• Which factors determine if research projects would benefit from an interdisciplinary lens vs using a single-disciplinary approach
• How to identify best-fit funding opportunities and places for outputs (e.g. publications, scholarly communications, community engagement)
• "Case study" experiences of personal funding success stories and role-modeling for interdisciplinary projects

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Location

Event type

Seminar

Session Leaders

UCD Library

Goal

To prepare researchers to effectively communicate their projects across disciplines

→ “How do I communicate about it?”

Content

Expert-informed and generalisable walkthroughs on how to break down disciplinary boundaries through communication:

1) Bridging the gap with language — the challenges of bridging disciplinary boundaries when different fields use different language, axioms, units-of-analysis, frameworks, and methods

2) Clarity without compromise — achieving both accessibility and credibility, i.e. maintaining the integrity of the research while making it truly intelligible across/between/beyond disciplines

3) Strategies for impact — innovative and actionable ways to share interdisciplinary research in a way that engages and clarifies beyond academia altogether

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