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Professor Catherine Lyall gives Keynote at “Back to Fundamentals of Research: Interdisciplinarity”
SHAPE-ID member Prof Catherine Lyall was a keynote speaker at the University of Bologna's international event titled “Back to fundamentals of research: Interdisciplinarity” for their recent position paper, on October 9, 2024. The event featured distinguished speakers and experts…
Preview: Transformative Inter- and Transdisciplinary methods for Global Societal Challenges
Bristol University Press has announced the forthcoming special collection Transformative Inter- and Transdisciplinary methods for Global Societal Challenges. The collection is edited by Bianca Vienni-Baptista, ETH Zürich and David Simon, RHUL, and is dedicated to the memory of the late…
ITD24 – SHAPE-ID Toolkit Interviews
The International Transdisciplinary Conference 2024 (ITD24) is taking place on November 4-8, 2024, at Utrecht University, Netherlands. This year's theme is "Inter- and Transdisciplinarity Beyond Buzzwords: Educational Pathways for Sustainable Research Collaborations." In their conference video, Dr Isabel Fletcher,…
The 47th Association for Interdisciplinary Studies Conference: Shaping the Future in the Era of Polycrisis
The University of Oulu and Oulu University of Applied Sciences are hosting the 47th Association for Interdisciplinary Studies Conference at the Linnanmaa campus from June 4th to 6th, 2025. This marks the second time the AIS organization has held…
SHAPE-ID at RoRI UNDISCIPLINED Workshop
Last December in snowy Hannover, two SHAPE-ID partners, Dr Isabel Fletcher and PD (dozent) Dr Bianca Vienni-Baptista, took part in a workshop organised by the UNDISCIPLINED project, an initiative of the Research on Research Institute (RoRI). RoRI is a…
LERU Report Roundtable: SHAPE-ID Webinar on the 23rd of May
LERU (the League of European Research Universities) recently launched its report “Implementing interdisciplinarity in research-intensive universities: good practices and challenges”. This 2023 report is an important update to LERU’s seminal 2016 report “Interdisciplinarity and the 21st Century Research Intensive University”…
Professor Catherine Lyall shares learnings on how to build “swift trust” in Team Science and Transdisciplinary Collaborations
SHAPE-ID team member Professor Catherine Lyall delivered the opening keynote at the 13th Annual International Science of Team Science Conference (SciTS) on August 02. The keynote was part of an exciting programme in the virtual conference where SHAPE-ID colleagues…
td-net Tour d’Horizon of Literature 2021 published
"What are the publications on inter- and transdisciplinarity published in 2021 that are especially relevant, innovative and/or provocative?" This is the question that underpins the Tour d'Horizon of Literature 2021, which has just been published by td-net. Providing a…
Read the latest SHAPE-ID toolkit review, published by the Association for Interdisciplinary Studies
A review of the SHAPE-ID toolkit by Professor Rick Szostak has been published in Integrative Pathways, the quarterly newsletter of the Association for Interdisciplinary Studies (AIS). Included in the section Interdisciplinary Publications of Note, the column draws attention to…