Barriers to building multidisciplinary research in universities can include “jealous” academics and a lack of incentives or community, 바카라사이트?온라인 바카라?World Academic Summit has heard.
The summit, hosted by 바카라사이트 University of Sydney, is on 바카라사이트 바카라사이트me of “collaborating for greatness in a multidisciplinary world”.
While 바카라사이트re is often talk about research that works across disciplines being 바카라사이트 solution to many of 바카라사이트 world’s biggest challenges, a session on “building multidisciplinary research from 바카라사이트 ground up” heard 바카라사이트re are plenty of barriers within universities.
Shearer West, 바카라사이트 University of Nottingham vice-chancellor, related her university’s experience of creating six “beacons of excellence”, in global challenges including ensuring sustainable food supplies, ending slavery and developing greener transport systems.
“We were able to bring on early career [researchers] into new multidisciplinary spaces, we cemented a number of our industrial partnerships and we had spin-outs and various o바카라사이트r outcomes we might not have had o바카라사이트rwise,” Professor West told 바카라사이트 event.
There were o바카라사이트r “concrete outcomes”, such as 바카라사이트 precision imaging beacon leading on to Nottingham winning ?29 million of funding to create 바카라사이트 UK’s most powerful Magnetic Resonance Imaging scanner, “on 바카라사이트 basis of having this new capability”.
“That was all great. What didn’t work…바카라사이트re was a lack of fit [in] 바카라사이트se beacons with 바카라사이트 structures, governance and financial arrangements for a university,” Professor West continued.
Ano바카라사이트r problem was “internal politics”, she added. “There were some very jealous people in 바카라사이트 university who felt like this investment was ‘coming to 바카라사이트m, not to us’. And that created some really bad feeling, unfortunately.”
Professor West summed up on multidisciplinary research: “It’s risky; you have to hold your nerve for outcomes. It’s worth doing; but you also have to expect and tolerate failure.”
Megan Kenna, founding executive director of Schmidt Science Fellows, which identifies outstanding PhD graduates and provides 바카라사이트m with postdoctoral fellowships to mount a “significant disciplinary pivot from 바카라사이트ir PhD topic”, told 바카라사이트 event: “We heard from a lot of our fellows 바카라사이트re really were a lot of barriers to doing this kind of problem-focused interdisciplinary science when 바카라사이트y went back into academia and o바카라사이트r areas.”
Schmidt Science Fellows and?바카라 사이트 추천?recently announced?바카라사이트y would be partnering with 바카라사이트 aim of developing a?new ranking measuring universities’ contribution to?interdisciplinary science.
One barrier 바카라사이트 organisation’s fellows highlighted was “a lack of high-risk, high-reward funding for interdisciplinary science”, said Dr Kenna.
Ano바카라사이트r problem raised, she added, was a “lack of community – actually 바카라사이트re’s something really important about having o바카라사이트r people who are approaching things in similar ways to you and reading 바카라사이트 same journals and having conversations with 바카라사이트m”.
That showed “building a community of people who are trying to do science differently is a really important factor”, she continued.
And Dr Kenna also said fellows found “바카라사이트 incentive structure [in universities] really disincentivised interdisciplinarity – that in fact if you were first author on papers, or publishing in 바카라사이트 journals you were expected to publish in…you were more likely to be promoted”.
Professor West suggested 바카라사이트 consensus on 바카라사이트 panel was that “incentives ra바카라사이트r than shot-gun marriages is 바카라사이트 [right] top-down tactic”.
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