AI and Society: A Pathway from Interdisciplinary-alone to Interdisciplinary Research

The Response to and Impact of the Ebola Epidemic: Towards an Agenda for Interdisciplinary Research

Background The 2013-2016 Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic in West Africa was the largest in history and resulted in a huge public health burden and significant social and economic impact in those countries most affected. Its size, duration and geographical spread presents important opportunities for research than might help national and global health and social care systems to better prepare ...

The Interdisciplinary Research Process

This book provides case studies of the performance of interdisciplinary research. It is hoped that these case studies will prove instructive both to students and other scholars as they perform interdisciplinary research. This introductory chapter does not provide a detailed overview of these case studies: Brief descriptions of each chapter are provided in the Preface, and a discussion of lesson...

Interdisciplinary health research: perspectives from a process evaluation research team.

BACKGROUND Interdisciplinary health research (IDHR) is increasingly encouraged and is often a specific requirement for research grants provided by health research funding councils worldwide. There is consensus that research expertise and scholarship from a diverse range of disciplines are necessary to examine questions relating to complex health and social concerns for which single disciplinar...

Building interdisciplinary research models: a didactic course to prepare interdisciplinary scholars and faculty.

Many academicians assume that anyone can engage in interdisciplinary research, but it is clear that successful interdisciplinary efforts require mastery of specific competencies that can be learned and improved. This paper describes the development and implementation of a course designed for Master's, pre- and postdoctoral students and research faculty on models of interdisciplinary research sk...

Interdisciplinary Research in Physics