¡®Jealousy¡¯ and ¡®lack of community¡¯ hit interdisciplinary research

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 ¨C 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 ¨C 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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