Blog – SHAPE-ID

Recent SHAPE-ID Activity

SHAPE-ID continues shaping discussion and policy around inter- and transdisciplinarity across Europe and beyond. Here’s a round-up of activity in the twelve months since the discussion on the 2023 LERU Report on Implementing interdisciplinarity in research-intensive universities: good practices and challenges. Scholarly Publications: As well as various articles and chapters in edited collections, July 2023 marked the publication of SHAPE-ID’s Foundations of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research: A Reader, written and edited by Dr Bianca Vienni-Baptista, Prof Isabel Fletcher, Prof Catherine Lyall, along with contributions from Dr Doireann Wallace and Dr Jane Ohlmeyer. As the first ever comprehensive reader for inter-…

Foundations of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research Interview

Listen to Dr Bianca Vienni-Baptista and Dr Isabel Fletcher's interview on their new reader from Bristol University Press, Foundations of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research, on the New Books Network.

SHAPE-ID Webinar: LERU Report

On Tuesday 23 May, SHAPE-ID Coordinator Professor Jane Ohlmeyer hosted a discussion with a panel of experts on the recently-released LERU report, “Implementing interdisciplinarity in research-intensive universities: good practices and challenges.” The report is an important update to their seminal 2016 report “Interdisciplinarity and the 21st Century Research Intensive University,” whose findings have been referenced worldwide. The webinar explored what has changed in the research landscape since both the 2016 report and the 2021 SHAPE-ID findings and toolkit, as well as what changes are still necessary across funding, policy and research performing organisations. SHAPE-ID was delighted to welcome the report’s…

LERU Report: “Implementing interdisciplinarity in research-intensive universities: good practices and challenges”

LERU has published their 2023 report on interdisciplinarity in research-intensive European universities, which builds upon many of SHAPE-ID’s findings and recommendations.

Interdisciplinary Research (IDR) Peer Review

Dr Sara Shinton, director of the Future Leaders Fellows Development Network, reports on the network's Interdisciplinary Research training event from November 2022.

Chapter Discussion: Differing Definitions of Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity

Dr Bianca Vienni-Baptista discusses the findings of her latest chapter based on her work on SHAPE-ID's extensive literature review, highlighting the value of multiple perspectives in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research.

A collision of perspectives creates innovation: A societal partner view

Jess Majekodunmi, a managing director at Accenture The Dock, Accenture’s flagship R&D and Global Innovation Center in Dublin, highlights the importance of interdisciplinarity for innovation.

Delivering impact: perspectives from SHAPE-ID

Dr Giovanna Lima, the Arts and Humanities Research Impact Officer at Trinity College Dublin, shares her insights on helping the SHAPE-ID project to optimise its impact.

EU research bodies encouraged to adopt ‘world class’ resource to enable AHSS integration & interdisciplinarity

The European Commission’s independent review of SHAPE-ID suggests that its new web-based toolkit be adopted by the European Commission and other national funders as a reference resource in their funding programmes and for training for expert evaluators.

“What do you do all day?”: a case for the arts in the neoliberal university

Orlaith Darling, PhD researcher at Trinity College Dublin, makes a compelling case for why the Arts and Humanities matter, and why other disciplines should be called on to defend their contribution to society.