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SHAPE-ID present new Guide for Research Managers and Administrators at EARMA Conference

SHAPE-ID were pleased to present on building capacity for quality SSH integration at the Annual Conference of the European Association of Research Managers and Administrators (EARMA) on 16 April. Dr Doireann Wallace and Maureen Burgess (Trinity College Dublin) presented on SHAPE-ID key findings, preconditions for successful SSH integration, and a guide produced for the SHAPE-ID toolkit, to support pre-award Research Managers and Administrators in their work of preparing researchers to apply for collaborative research projects and support proposal development.   The toolkit will be launched at our event on 10 June 2021 - register here to attend.

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Transdisciplinary Dialogues: Research Partnerships for Impact

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

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…

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

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…

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SHAPE-ID webinar on funding interdisciplinary research

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…

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Professionalising Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research Expertise

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.
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SHAPE-ID webinar on interdisciplinarity and the Neurohumanities

SHAPE-ID’s third webinar asked what the experiences of researchers working in the emerging area of the Neurohumanities can teach us about the challenges and potential of interdisciplinary research between the Arts and Humanities and STEM disciplines. Why engage in such research and how are researchers navigating the significant distances between their respective disciplines? Representing perspectives from different disciplines and at different career stages, panellists Professor Thomas J Carew (New York University), Professor Sonja Smets (Institute for Logic, Linguistics and Computation, University of Amsterdam) and Amelia McConville (Trinity College Dublin), discussed challenges and best practices from their own experience of engaging…

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