Mapping Interdisciplinary Expertise

Understanding the culture, learning and resourcefulness needed to work in interdisciplinary teams

Welcome to the home of “Developing Interdisciplinary Expertise in Universities” (DP200100376), a Discovery Project located at The University of Sydney, part of Sydney Nano’s Catalysts projects and funded by the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council. With this project, we are investigating interdisciplinary cultures, learning, work and resourcefulness and understand the socio-material nature of interdisciplinary learning and interdisciplinary expertise in the context of epistemic cultures.

Interdisciplinary Cultures

How do research and innovation communities create interdisciplinary knowledge?
Capturing and mapping the main epistemic features and mechanisms that characterise interdisciplinary knowledge work, expertise, teaching and learning.

Interdisciplinary Learning

How do interdisciplinary teams learn? Identifying how learning is woven into the on-going everyday work of interdisciplinary R&D and establishing the main epistemic features of productive learning activities and environments.

Interdisciplinary Work & Resourcefulness

How do team members’ personal resourcefulness interacts with joint learning and shared construction of interdisciplinary knowledge?
Examining what it takes for individuals to develop the resourcefulness needed to tackle interdisciplinary challenges.

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Tools and resources to spark up interdisciplinary work

There are a range of frameworks, toolkits and associations addressing interdisciplinary practice from which we will draw over the course of our study. Below are some which you might find useful in your own work in interdisciplinary projects. This list is of course not exhaustive: please suggest further good resources in the comments or directlyContinue reading “Tools and resources to spark up interdisciplinary work”

July 28, 2021