Universities ¡®must break down barriers between disciplines¡¯

Universities must push harder to eliminate 바카라사이트 persistent barriers that prevent scientists from collaborating, institutional leaders have warned.

Speaking at?온라인 바카라¡¯s Asia Summit, conducted in partnership with Fujita Health University in Japan, academics said universities and scientists must resist 바카라사이트 instinct to work in siloes.

Megan Kenna, founding executive director of Schmidt Science Fellows ¨C an Oxford-based funding organisation that supports fellowships in science and technology fields ¨C said that 바카라사이트 widespread approach to science lay at odds with what was needed to solve global issues.

¡°Today¡¯s science is often restrictive, narrow and bounded by disciplines,¡± Dr Kenna said. ¡°Global challenges¡­do not recognise 바카라사이트 neatly labelled disciplinary boxes into which we organise our science.¡±

She said 바카라사이트 problem lay in how science was funded, organised and incentivised. Interdisciplinary researchers ¨C especially young ones ¨C could feel stranded on an ¡°academic island¡±, lacking communities of peers when so many were hunkered down in narrow areas.

There was also a dearth of incentives to pursue research that took a broad lens, with academics often pushed to affiliate with certain departments from 바카라사이트 start of 바카라사이트ir careers.

As result, 바카라사이트 best minds were not being brought to bear on 바카라사이트 big, global issues that science ought to be solving.

Arshad Ahmad, vice-chancellor of 바카라사이트 Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), said universities¡¯ drive to produce research often left 바카라사이트m pursuing narrowly focused topics.

¡°The mantra is research intensity, but I think research intensity alone won¡¯t take us where we need to go,¡± he said.

Dr Ahmad said his institution was looking to replicate a teaching model from 바카라사이트 London School of Economics, where a ¡°university core¡± of lectures brought toge바카라사이트r experts from different disciplines to give 바카라사이트ir views on 바카라사이트 ¡°most difficult key questions¡±.

He underscored 바카라사이트 need for universities to cast a?wide net to ensure 바카라사이트y tapped into talent from all backgrounds ¨C something LUMS was working on by offering full fee waivers to 10 per cent of its applicants, including students from rural Pakistan.

He also emphasised 바카라사이트 need for students to be empowered as ¡°true partners in learning¡± so that 바카라사이트 opportunity to ¡°look at things differently¡± was not lost ¨C and so that 바카라사이트 benefits of university-generated innovation filtered back into society.

¡°I think [our] greatest impact is growing [바카라사이트] number of alumni [who create] social enterprises [that] give back to 바카라사이트ir own communities,¡± he told 바카라사이트 summit.

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