What they really mean when they say they want interdisciplinary researchers, Barrett says, «is that they want traditional researchers
doing interdisciplinary work for free.»
Not exact matches
Today, the average paper has four times as many authors as it
did then and the
work being
done is far more
interdisciplinary and
done at greater distances than in the past.
By
working flexible hours in part - time jobs until 1995 when she went back to
working full time, Morrison was able to
do what meant most to her: She nursed both her sons, now 26 and 24 years old, raised them, finished her undergraduate degree in
interdisciplinary studies — and also managed to maintain her professional status.
Do they find
interdisciplinary work and socially relevant
work exciting?
An
interdisciplinary doctoral programme at the Carl - von - Ossietzky - University of Oldenburg tries to figure out what
works and what doesn't.
But the idea of single - subject research didn't really make the leap to medicine of the body until the early 1980s when Gordon Guyatt, a Canadian physician now known as a founder of evidence - based medicine, began
working in an
interdisciplinary department at McMaster University in Ontario, with psychologists, biostatisticians, ethicists and clinical epidemiologists all
working together.
Meunier's research exemplifies the
work being
done at The New Polytechnic, addressing difficult and complex global challenges, the need for
interdisciplinary and true collaboration, and the use of the latest tools and technologies, many of which are developed at Rensselaer.
«We had hundreds of people from all over the world participating, from prestigious labs to people who don't even
work in biology,» says Federica Eduati, who carried out the analyses and is an EMBL
interdisciplinary postdoctoral fellow (EIPOD) at EMBL - EBI.
If I had one piece of advice to give to young people interested in
interdisciplinary work, it would be this: You don't have to know everything.
«The
work done serves as an exemplar for how the power of
interdisciplinary and inter-institutional genomic science has the potential to save people's lives in New York and beyond.»
That's a good thing to
do if you're
working in a field that's very
interdisciplinary.»
These young scientists — who have received their PhD —
do the yeoman's
work in our 19 laboratories and spark groundbreaking
interdisciplinary research with their colleagues.
I would encourage
interdisciplinary studies, or at least some experiences where you're getting a better understanding of the
work that's being
done in an area where you think philosophy is going to be relevant, or an area where you want to take it.
When teachers and students explore the array of educational angles within a single
work of art, notes the Art Institute's Robert Eskridge, «all of a sudden you have this
interdisciplinary challenge that doesn't fit neatly into this class period followed by that one, and the idea of «teamwork» isn't relegated to after school.»
In order to
do that, there's lots of discussion about creativity, collaboration, communication, and
interdisciplinary work joining the arts and sciences with mathematics.
They especially have been focusing on answering the question of when these
interdisciplinary courses
work well for students, and when they don't
work so well, with their conclusions based on solid assessment data.
As budgets in public higher education tighten, we actively seek ways to
do more through collaboration and
interdisciplinary work.
A final word about
interdisciplinary work —
do not underestimate its difficulties.
34 And, much can be gained from reaching out to academics in other specialties who
do have expertise in empirical
work, potentially leading to
interdisciplinary work that could reach a broader audience.35 Long sums up the point well: «If we want legal writing as a discipline to be taken seriously, we must be able to show, throughrigorous studies, that we engage in serious legal writing scholarship.»
While there will always be opportunities for pure legal theorists, especially at the most elite and established law faculties, there is an increasing willingness among the academic community to not only train their students on the use of technology in the classroom, but also participate directly in the development of this technology, often in an
interdisciplinary relationship with other faculties (for example, the
work we're
doing with Duke Law).
But it is not only technology that is this driver, but
work done by folks with a complement of
interdisciplinary skills and ambition.
Kogan then set up GSR to
do the
work, and proposed to Wylie they use the data to set up an
interdisciplinary institute
working across the social sciences.
Daily activities a Patient Care Representative performs include contacting patients via telephone after an appointment, obtaining medical history,
doing data entry
work, answering to patient inquiries, and developing
interdisciplinary care plans.