{"product_id":"investigating-interdisciplinary-collaboration-theory-and-practice-across-disciplines-the-american-campus-9780813585888","title":"Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn theory, interdisciplinary collaboration breaks down artificial divisions between different departments, allowing more innovative and sophisticated research to flourish. But does it actually work this way? \u003cem\u003eInvestigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration\u003c\/em\u003e puts the common beliefs about such research to the test, using empirical data gathered by scholars from the US, Canada, and the UK.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A most welcome contribution, filled with richly detailed case studies conducted by a stellar array of scholars. This volume scrutinizes key assumptions of the case for interdisciplinarity.\" -- Jerry A. Jacobs * U. Pennsylvania, author of In Defense of Disciplines *\u003cbr\u003e\"Interdisciplinary collaboration has been established as valuable to scientific creativity and vital to bringing knowledge effectively to major public issues. But discussion of what this means and how it works are still too often vague. This book will help, because it offers thoughtful and indeed disciplined case studies of how interdisciplinary collaboration works in practice.\" -- Craig Calhoun * London School of Economics and Political Science *\u003cbr\u003e\"This high quality volume makes a crucial contribution to our empirical understanding of the worlds of interdisciplinarity at a time when they are generating a great deal of interest from funding agencies, academic administrators and scholars alike. This book should be required reading for all concerned.\" -- Michele Lamont * Harvard University, author of How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgement *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForewordHelga Nowotny\u003cbr\u003e  PrefaceScott Frickel, Mathieu Albert, and Barbara Prainsack\u003cbr\u003e  Introduction: Investigating InterdisciplinaritiesScott Frickel, Mathieu Albert, and Barbara Prainsack\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Part I: Interdisciplinary Cultures and Careers\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 1: New Directions, New Challenges: Trials and Tribulations of Interdisciplinary ResearchDave McBee and Erin Leahey\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 2: The Frictions of Interdisciplinarity: The Case of the Wisconsin Institutes for DiscoveryGregory J. Downey, Noah Weeth Feinstein, Daniel Lee Kleinman, Sigrid Peterson, and Chisato Fukuda\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 3: Epistemic Cultures of Collaboration: Coherence and Ambiguity in InterdisciplinarityLaurel Smith-Doerr, Jennifer Croissant, Itai Vardi, and Timothy Sacco\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 4: Interdisciplinary Fantasy: Social Scientists and Humanities Scholars Working in Faculties of MedicineMathieu Albert, Elise Paradis, and Ayelet Kuper\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Part II: Disciplines and Interdisciplinarity\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 5: Some Dark Sides of Interdisciplinarity: The Case of Behavior GeneticsAaron Panofsky\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 6: A Dynamic, Multidimensional Approach to Knowledge ProductionRyan Light and jimi adams\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 7: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Change in Six Social Sciences: A Longitudinal ComparisonScott Frickel and Ali O. Ilhan\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Part III: Changing Context of Interdisciplinary Research\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 8: “An Electro-Historical Focus with Real Interdisciplinary Appeal”: Interdisciplinarity at Vietnam-Era StanfordCyrus C.M. Mody\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 9: Interdisciplinarity Reloaded? Drawing lessons from “Citizen Science”Barbara Prainsack and Hauke Riesch\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 10: One Medicine? Advocating (Inter)disciplinarity at the Interfaces of Animal Health, Human Health and the EnvironmentAngela Cassidy\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Notes on Contributors","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405791994199,"sku":"9780813585888","price":28.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813585888.jpg?v=1730493634","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/investigating-interdisciplinary-collaboration-theory-and-practice-across-disciplines-the-american-campus-9780813585888","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}