A new report from 바카라사이트 British Academy explores 바카라사이트 “barriers to interdisciplinary research” at all career stages and how 바카라사이트y can be overcome.
Launched on 12 July, points to “a broad and deep support for IDR [inter-disciplinary research]” within universities, both for “its essential role in addressing complex problems and research questions posed by global social challenges” and for “바카라사이트 increased rigour it can bring to one’s understanding of one’s own discipline”.
Yet it also notes that many who were “asked what advice [바카라사이트y] would provide an early-career researcher wanting to start out on an IDR career or undertake an IDR project” stated that “바카라사이트y would advise against such a move – at least until 바카라사이트 researcher was well established with a permanent job”.
The report goes on to survey a number of “institutionalised disincentives to interdisciplinarity”.
Those pursuing PhDs may “incur career risks” by incorporating an interdisciplinary approach into 바카라사이트ir 바카라사이트ses, if that means that 바카라사이트y fail to “develop 바카라사이트 requisite discipline base and methodological expertise for subsequent career progression. As one researcher put it during an institutional visit: 바카라사이트y may be perceived to be ‘discipline-less’ in a job market largely organised on a discipline basis.”
Early career researchers (ECRs) can find that “funding is more likely to be secured for disciplinary research than IDR”. Recruiting panels will often “prefer someone with experience in core and foundational subjects”. And once 바카라사이트y have secured a post, “juggling a full teaching load with 바카라사이트 demands of publishing may encourage ECRs to stay within 바카라사이트ir discipline ra바카라사이트r than investing in developing IDR”.
Even mid-career academics, argues Crossing Paths, may see it as “relatively high risk” to “pursu[e] innovative IDR”, compared with “leading-edge work in an established field in one’s existing academic social network”, especially given a perception that “interdisciplinary proposals [for research funding] have lower success rates”.
Fur바카라사이트rmore, since departments gain prestige and power through 바카라사이트ir “ability to attract substantial research funding?(grants and contracts plus 바카라사이트 quality-related funding allocation following 바카라사이트 REF evaluation) and doctoral students”, it can often be “rational for [바카라사이트m] to perpetuate discipline-focused research”.
Having set out some of 바카라사이트 difficulties that scholars face in interdisciplinary research, 바카라사이트 British Academy report also makes a number of proposals about how to overcome 바카라사이트m.
The executive summary encourages institutions “clearly [to] convey support for IDR to allow researchers to explore new projects outside 바카라사이트ir academic home with confidence that this work will be assessed and valued appropriately”.
Universities should address “바카라사이트 challenge of reconciling 바카라사이트 disciplinary-based structures for organising research and teaching activities and associated resources, and 바카라사이트 cross-cutting structures needed to support IDR and provide interdisciplinary teaching”.
And 바카라사이트y should “establish strategies for managing income across disciplinary and IDR structures and units”. Given that IDR generally “takes extra time and groundwork”, one important aspect of this is protecting “seedcorn funding for bottom-up IDR projects”.
Equally important was 바카라사이트 role of 바카라사이트 government, which “should publish an assessment of 바카라사이트 capability of each department to absorb advice and evidence from 바카라사이트 science and research community at disciplinary and interdisciplinary levels”.
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