SHAPE-ID member Prof Catherine Lyall was a keynote speaker at the University of Bologna's international event titled “Back to fundamentals of research: Interdisciplinarity” for their recent position paper, on October 9, 2024. The event featured distinguished speakers and experts from national and international institutions who shared their insights on interdisciplinary research and recommendations on how to foster this approach. Highlights of Prof Lyall's presentation "Interdisciplinarity: a continuing interplay of perspectives?" drew on central SHAPE-ID outputs including the 2023 Foundations of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research. A Reader. Click here to read the highlights of Prof Lyall's presentation, as well as more…

The International Transdisciplinary Conference 2024 (ITD24) is taking place on November 4-8, 2024, at Utrecht University, Netherlands. This year's theme is "Inter- and Transdisciplinarity Beyond Buzzwords: Educational Pathways for Sustainable Research Collaborations." In their conference video, Dr Isabel Fletcher, Dr Doireann Wallace, and Dr Giovanna de Moura Rocha Lima introduce the rationale and development of the SHAPE-ID toolkit before discussing ways in which they promote best practice in the conduct of inter- and transdisciplinary research using the Toolkit, and what further resources are needed to improve the support they provide to researchers and other research professionals. Click here to watch…

The University of Oulu and Oulu University of Applied Sciences are hosting the 47th Association for Interdisciplinary Studies Conference at the Linnanmaa campus from June 4th to 6th, 2025. This marks the second time the AIS organization has held its conference in Europe, following the 2019 event at the University of Amsterdam. The conference will focus on the theme "Shaping the Future in the Era of Polycrisis" and it is intended for all those interested in multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary research and teaching at all stages of their research career and in all staff groups. Registration and Session Call for…

Last December in snowy Hannover, two SHAPE-ID partners, Dr Isabel Fletcher and PD (dozent) Dr Bianca Vienni-Baptista, took part in a workshop organised by the UNDISCIPLINED project, an initiative of the Research on Research Institute (RoRI). RoRI is a collaboration between researchers, funders and data providers, that aims to use research evidence to improve research systems, cultures and decision-making. There is a clear overlap between these aims and SHAPE-ID’s role in advising the EU about best practice in the funding, conducting, and evaluating inter- and transdisciplinary research.   The UNDISCIPLINED project focuses directly on the funding, evaluation, measurement and impacts of transdisciplinary…