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This book uncovers exactly what is involved when researchers from different disciplines engage with one another in research projects. The authors identify the opportunities and difficulties involved in interdisciplinary engagement, and challenge current claims about where the greatest difficulties are to be found. The first part of the book introduces interdisciplinarity and identifies key issues that influence our understanding of it. The second part of the book presents the findings of research based on over 50 hours of recording and nearly 450,000 words of transcript drawn from a number of university faculties, concluding with a discussion of how this might inform interdisciplinary practice. The book is accessible to the non-specialist reader while also being of interest to social scientists working in professional and academic communication.
Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1: Introduction; Reading it Differently; Finding the 'Inter' in Interdisciplinarity; The Structure of the Book; References; 2: The Disciplinary Landscape; Introduction; A Brief History of the Discipline; Characterising the Discipline; Towards a Definition; Mapping the Disciplines; Knowledge Matters; Disciplinary Growth; Moving Away from the Discipline: Computer Science; Developing Apart from the Discipline: Psychosocial Studies; Doubts About Disciplinary Identity: Applied Linguistics
Conclusion: Working from the DisciplineReferences; 3: Understanding Interdisciplinarity; Introduction; A Brief History of Interdisciplinarity; Definitions; Forms of Interdisciplinarity; Interdisciplinary, Multidisciplinary and Transdisciplinary; Multidisciplinarity and Interdisciplinarity; Transdisciplinarity and Interdisciplinarity; Alternative Formulations; Typologies and Models; Integration; Interdisciplinary Practices; Experiencing Interdisciplinarity; Factors Influencing Interdisciplinary Success; References; 4: Interdisciplinary Interaction; Introduction
Why Interaction Matters Interaction Is a Feature of All Research; Collaboration Depends on Interaction; Epistemic Differences Need to Be Negotiated; Ways of Speaking; Learning the Words and Learning the Language; Common Ground; Interdisciplinary Conversation; Investigating Interdisciplinarity; Case- and Interview-Based Studies; Psychological Approaches; Systems Approaches; Analysing Talk; Discourse Analysis; Methods; Theme-Focused Analysis; Mapping and Mining; Transcription; Data Set; Conclusion; References; 5: Knowledge Exchange in Initial Meetings
Introduction: How Knowledge Matters Epistemics in Talk; Negotiating Knowledge in an Interdisciplinary Meeting; Levels of Knowledge; Providing a Response; Levels of Knowledge Engagement; The Projects; Knowledge Deployment in Initial Meetings; Marking My Place; Telling My Territory; Making Connections; Clarifying Terminology; A Qualification; Conclusion; References; 6: The Collaborative Construction of Knowledge; Introduction; Building Together; Co-constructing Responses; Responding to Challenges; An Interactional Resource for Building Understanding; The Discourse Maker 'So'
Mapping the Feature Informational; Consequential; Timeline; The So-Sequence; Conclusion; References; 7: Disciplinary Identity; Identity Work; The Identity of the Group: Systems Biology; Identities Within the Group: Wets and Dries; Identity and Epistemic Asymmetry; Conclusion; References; 8: How Leadership Works; Introduction; Leadership Review; Distributed Leadership Forms in Interdisciplinary Research Teams; Discursive Approaches to Leadership; Analysis; Distributed Leadership; Emergence of DL; Emerging Leaders: Facilitating Discussion; Emerging Leaders: Steering an Idea
Includes bibliographical references and index.