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Public humanities and interdisciplinarity in the classroom – the student experience

April 8, 2021
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Niamh NicGhabhann, Assistant Dean, Research, for the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences in the University of Limerick and Chair of the Irish Humanities Alliance from September 2020, reflects on the experience of teaching public humanities and interdisciplinarity to undergraduate humanities students and shares insights from student responses.

SHAPE-ID webinar report: professionalising inter- and transdisciplinary research expertise

April 6, 2021
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Read a summary and access recordings of our December webinar on professionalising interdisciplinary integration expertise!

Transdisciplinary Dialogues: Research Partnerships for Impact

March 18, 2021
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Partnerships with actors in civil society, industry, the cultural sector and citizens, are increasingly important to develop societally relevant research. In this SHAPE-ID webinar on 18 March 2021, panellists will discuss their experience of engaging in such research and the barriers to increasing transdisciplinary engagement

New SHAPE-ID Results Available: Workshop Reports, Policy Brief, Preconditions for AHSS Integration

February 26, 2021
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Three new reports and a policy brief from the SHAPE-ID project are now available! Report of workshops and analysis of IDR/AHSS integration learning cases This document presents detailed reports from all six of the SHAPE-ID learning case workshops, which took place across Europe (in person and online) between December 2019 and October 2020. Authors: Giorgia Galvini, Carlo Sessa, Doireann Wallace, Keisha Taylor-Wesselink, Jane Ohlmeyer, Catherine Lyall, Isabel Fletcher, Bianca Vienni Baptista, Christian Pohl, Maciej Maryl, Anna Buchner, Piotr Wciślik, Marta Błaszczyńska and Antonia Carlo González Recommendations and Measures to Maximise IDR Impact on Society This report draws on the findings…

SHAPE-ID Participation in Swiss Association for the Studies of Science, Technology & Society Meeting

February 25, 2021
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The Swiss Association for the Studies of Science, Technology & Society (STS) Meeting 2021 took place online on 15-17 February 2021. The event was intended to encourage and promote the social, historical and philosophical study of sciences in Switzerland. This event lasted for three days and aimed to bring together bringing together STS scholars at all career levels. The SHAPE-ID team presented two papers in the session Science Policy. Isabel Fletcher presented on Interdisciplinary Research and Problem Solving: Analysing European Policy Discourses, and Bianca Vienni Baptista presented on Shaping the scientific and policy discourses through problematization: a heuristic tool to…

Infrastructures for Interdisciplinary Engagement: Lessons from the Digital Humanities

February 18, 2021
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In this sixth SHAPE-ID webinar, panellists Darja Fišer, Eliza Papaki and Arnaud Gingold provided insights from digital research infrastructures about how they foster inter- and transdisciplinary research between humanities scholars on the one hand and computer scientists and developers on the other.

SHAPE-ID webinar on funding interdisciplinary research

December 17, 2020
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The fourth in our SHAPE-ID webinar series, Shaping Conversations on Interdisciplinary Research, looked at challenges and best practice in funding inter- and transdisciplinary research in a European and national context. The SHAPE-ID Policy Brief recommends that funders and policymakers invite greater Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (AHSS) participation in designing and evaluating inter- and transdisciplinary research funding calls and adapt funding instruments to acknowledge some of the unique features of inter- and transdisciplinarity, such as the time it takes to build mutually respectful collaborations. But what are the challenges for funding agencies on the ground, and how have they innovated…

Professionalising Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research Expertise

December 10, 2020
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In our final webinar of 2020, panellists Sabine Hoffmann, Petra Biberhofer and Nikki Brand discuss the emerging profession of integration expertise, why this is needed to develop inter- and transdisciplinary research projects and the challenges in developing this professional profile and recognising this often hidden work.

Internationalising Interdisciplinarity – Global Access Amid Covid-19

December 1, 2020
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Kirsi Cheas, postdoctoral researcher, board member and international liaison of the Association for Interdisciplinary Studies (AIS), reflects on the implications of Covid-19 travel restrictions for international interdisciplinary collaboration and discusses the outcomes of a panel on the subject at the recent AIS mini-conference with contributions from Julie Thompson Klein, Andi Hess and Bianca Vienni Baptista.

From bridges to building sites: facilitating interdisciplinarity in the arts & humanities

November 16, 2020
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Geoffrey Crossick, Distinguished Professor of the Humanities in the School of Advanced Study, University of London, reflects on some of the complexities and challenges of supporting interdisciplinary research from the point of view of the arts and humanities.