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Jane Ohlmeyer Presents at EU R&I Days Session on Integrating Social Sciences and Humanities

SHAPE-ID Coordinator Professor Jane Ohlmeyer presented at the EU Research & Innovation Days Session 'Me and My Society - Integrating the Social Sciences and Humanities' on 24th September. The session focused on the future of the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) in science and research policy and was organised as a co-design exercise with audience members following short presentations by the three panel members. Jane spoke about the importance and under-representation of the Arts and Humanities in interdisciplinary research, drawing on some early findings from SHAPE-ID and proposing that 'AHSS' replace 'SSH' to put the Arts and Humanities at the…

Supporting Inter- and Transdisciplinary Academic Careers

We still have a long way to go before inter- and trans-disciplinary (ITD) careers become “normalised” within our institutions and early career ITD researchers still face significant career disadvantages. Catherine Lyall reflects on the ITD 2019 conference and her new book Being an Interdisciplinary Academic.

SHAPE-ID to Contribute to Euresearch Switzerland Webinar on ‘Horizon 2020 Opportunities for Social Sciences and Humanities’

SHAPE-ID Research Fellow Dr Bianca Vienni Baptista of ETH Zurich will introduce SHAPE-ID as part of a webinar organised by Euresearch, the Swiss guide to European research and innovation, on 16 October 2019. The webinar will be led by Dr Joël Graf, Swiss National Contact Point (NCP) for Social Sciences and Humanities, Security and Science with and for Society, who will discuss opportunities for Social Sciences and Humanities stakeholders (academics, NGOs, companies etc.) in European funding programmes, with a focus on collaborative research projects in the Societal Challenge 6 Work Programme. The webinar is free but registration is required. Full…

SHAPE-ID Participating in Positioning the Humanities in the 2020s Symposium

SHAPE-ID is looking forward to presenting a Poster and Lightning Talk at the Herrenhausen Symposium: Positioning the Humanities in the 2020s next week. The symposium is organised by the Volkswagen Foundation and the German U15 Universities and takes place on 10-12 September in Hannover. The exciting and wide-ranging programme includes several sessions addressing questions central to SHAPE-ID's concern to improve the potential for interdisciplinary collaboration between disciplines within the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (AHSS), and between AHSS and other scientific disciplines, particularly Bridging the Gap Between Different Research Cultures and The Humanities' Contribution to Meeting the Challenges of a…

The Crises of Democracy: a Case for Interdisciplinarity

What do cultural trauma, climate change and technology have to do with democracy? And why is interdisciplinarity important? Dr Elspeth Payne discusses these questions in the context of her research on the contemporary media and the headlines that shape today’s world.

Upcoming SHAPE-ID Seminar with Julie Thompson Klein at ETH Zurich: “Disentangling inter- and transdisciplinary research”

SHAPE-ID partners at the Transdisciplinarity Lab (TdLab) in ETH Zurich will host a seminar on early results from the SHAPE-ID literature review on 17 September 2019, with a keynote presentation by Professor Julie Thompson Klein, Professor of Humanities Emerita in the English Department at Wayne State University, International Research Affiliate of the TdLab and a valued member of the SHAPE-ID Expert Panel. The seminar, Disentangling inter- and transdisciplinary research: factors, understandings and processes in collaborative research, will discuss the first results of SHAPE-ID informed by Professor Klein's experience and expertise. Using inputs and insights from the literature, the focus will…

Finding a Home Between Disciplines: Perspective of a Doctoral Student

Where and how does an early career interdisciplinary researcher 'fit'? Emer Emily Neenan reflects on the 2019 LERU doctoral summer school and the challenge of finding - or making - a place between disciplines.

Reflections on an Interdisciplinary Funding Scheme: Perspective of a Research Officer

While there are opportunities in large funding programmes like Horizon 2020, within its Societal Challenges pillar and other collaborative aspects of the programme, the barriers to entry for initiating collaborations under these kinds of programmes can be quite high, especially for researchers at an earlier stage in their careers. Research Officer Maureen Burgess reflects on efforts by the Irish Research Council to enable Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences leadership in interdisciplinary research.

SHAPE-ID planning a busy conference season as two major ITD conferences take place in Europe

SHAPE-ID partners will present at a number of upcoming conferences on inter- and transdisciplinarity taking place in September and October 2019. International Transdisciplinary Conference 2019 Td-net (Network for Transdisciplinary Research) organised its first International Transdisciplinary Conference 11 years ago. Since then, the field has developed considerably and this year’s conference, hosted by the University of Gothenburg (10-13 September), will bring together this growing body of practitioners and researchers who are working on different types of collaborative research to examine the state of the art in both research and practice across sectors and disciplines. Registration is now open, with early bird…

SHAPE-ID Project Meeting and Co-Design Workshop

SHAPE-ID project partners met at ISINNOVA's offices in Rome from 13-14 June for our second project meeting and Co-Design Workshop. We spent a morning reviewing progress so far, sharing insights on AHSS integration from the existing literature on interdisciplinary research, discussing plans for completing upcoming project deliverables and agreeing on an overall approach for our learning case workshops. This was followed by a very productive workshop that took place over a full afternoon and a second morning, where we began to work out the details of each of the six workshops. The purpose of the Co-Design Workshop was to develop…