One of the major areas of emphasis in academia in recent years has been interdisciplinary research, a trend that promises new insights and innovations rooted in cross-disciplinary collaboration. This book is designed to help students understand the tools required for stepping beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries and applying knowledge and insights from multiple fields. Relentlessly focused on practical applications, the book will enable students to plan and execute their own interdisciplinary research projects.
- Acknowledgements
- Part 1. The Handbook
‘The What’
- 1. Introduction
- 2. What is science?
A brief philosophy of science
- 2.1 What is science?
- 2.2 Moving through the Science Cycle
- 3. The disciplines
- 3.1 Academic disciplines: A brief history
- 3.2 Our definition of a discipline
- 3.3 Classification of academic disciplines
- 4. Interdisciplinarity
- 5. Complexity: the main driving force behind interdisciplinarity
- 5.1 Complex (adaptive) systems
- 5.2 Complexity broken down into drivers of interdisciplinarity
- 6. Interdisciplinary integration
- 6.1 Communication as a first step to integration
- 6.2 Integration techniques
- Part 2. The Manual
‘The How’
- 7. The interdisciplinary research process
- 7.1 The IIS model of interdisciplinary research
- 7.2 Planning your research project
- 8. The problem
- Step 1. Identify problem or topic
- Step 2. Formulate preliminary research question
- 9. Theoretical framework and research question
- Step 3. Develop theoretical framework
- Step 4. Finalize research question
- Step 5. Formulate sub-questions
- 10. How to collect and analyze your data
- Step 6. Develop research methods and design
- Step 7. Data collection and analysis
- 11. Discussion and conclusion(s)
- Step 8. Interpret results, discuss research & draw conclusion(s)
- Part 3. Interdisciplinary research in practice
- 12. Interdisciplinary research example: fogponics
- Step 1. Identify problem or topic
- Step 2. Formulate preliminary research question
- Step 3. Develop theoretical framework
- Step 4. Finalize research question
- Step 5. Formulate sub-questions
- Step 6. Develop research methods and design
- Step 7. Data collection and analysis
- Step 8. Interpret results, discuss research & draw conclusion(s)
- 13. Interdisciplinary careers
- Further reading
- References
- References Research projects undertaken by IIS students
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