SHAPE-ID partners at the Transdisciplinarity Lab (TdLab) in ETH Zurich will host a seminar on early results from the SHAPE-ID literature review on 17 September 2019, with a keynote presentation by Professor Julie Thompson Klein, Professor of Humanities Emerita in the English Department at Wayne State University, International Research Affiliate of the TdLab and a valued member of the SHAPE-ID Expert Panel. The seminar, Disentangling inter- and transdisciplinary research: factors, understandings and processes in collaborative research, will discuss the first results of SHAPE-ID informed by Professor Klein's experience and expertise. Using inputs and insights from the literature, the focus will…

SHAPE-ID project partners met at ISINNOVA's offices in Rome from 13-14 June for our second project meeting and Co-Design Workshop. We spent a morning reviewing progress so far, sharing insights on AHSS integration from the existing literature on interdisciplinary research, discussing plans for completing upcoming project deliverables and agreeing on an overall approach for our learning case workshops. This was followed by a very productive workshop that took place over a full afternoon and a second morning, where we began to work out the details of each of the six workshops, including the challenge each will address and potential participants.…

TCD partners were pleased to present SHAPE-ID at a research showcase organised by the Trinity Long Room Hub on 1 May, coinciding with the opening of the only Irish performance of 'Looking for Europe', a dramatic reading by Bernard-Henri Lévy. This showcase was a wonderful opportunity to speak to diverse members of the public about the project's aims and plans. Unsurprisingly, many intuitively understood the importance of bringing perspectives from the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences to bear on addressing significant societal challenges.

SHAPE-ID colleagues played a major role in the final conference of the EU INTREPID COST Action (TD1408: Interdisciplinarity in research programming and funding cycles) which took place in gloriously sunny Lisbon at the end of March.  The event was a great showcase of INTREPID’s four years of collaboration, mutual learning and networking. The conference combined contributions from colleagues who had been with INTREPID from the outset along with new network members and guests – including a number of early career researchers – presenting their work.  Catherine Lyall and Christian Pohl had the opportunity to introduce SHAPE-ID on the first day…

SHAPE-ID partner Jack Spaapen presented the keynote address at the launch of the 4th Monitoring Report on the Integration of Social Sciences and Humanities in Horizon 2020, which took place in Brussels on 28 February. The slide pictured shows work by Niamh Brennan of TCD Library on tracking impact, including the potential of using interdisciplinarity as an indicator of impact in its own right. The report can now be accessed here.