Practical reading on interdisciplinary collaboration?
Paul Steinberg
Paul Steinberg
Dear GEP Colleagues,
Thank you to those who provided such valuable suggestions for readings on interdisciplinary collaboration. I have compiled the responses below along with the names of the GEP-ed participants who kindly brought these to my attention.
With best wishes,
Paul Steinberg
(Recommended by Mike Maniates, Yale-NUS College, Singapore)
Charles Duhigg, What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team,
New York Times, February 28, 2016.
(Recommended by Michele Betsill, Colorado State University)
Mattor, Katherine, Michele Betsill, Heidi Huber-Stearns, Theresa Jedd, Faith
Sternlieb, Patrick Bixler, Matthew Luizza, Antony S. Cheng, and Environmental
Governance Working Group. "Transdisciplinary research on environmental
governance: a view from the inside." Environmental science & policy 42
(2014): 90-100.
(Recommended by Syma Ebbin, University of Connecticut)
SA Ebbin. 2020. Immersing the arts: Integrating the arts into ocean
literacy. Parks Stewardship Forum, The Interdisciplinary Journal of Place-Based
Conservation Volume 36, Issue 3.
SA Ebbin. 2020. Humanizing the Seas: A Case for Integrating the Arts and
Humanities into Ocean Literacy and Stewardship. Parks Stewardship Forum, The
Interdisciplinary Journal of Place-Based Conservation, Volume 36, Issue 3.
(Recommended by both Leeann Sullivan, Colby College and Jonathan Rosenberg,
Illinois Institute of Technology)
Brown Rebekah, R., Deletic Ana, and Wong Tony H. F. Interdisciplinarity.
"How to catalyse collaboration." Nature 515 (2015): 315-317.
(Recommended by Christie Nicoson, Lund University)
Mobjörk, Malin, Camilla Berglund, Mikael Granberg, and Magnus Johansson. 2020.
“Sustainable Development and Cross-Disciplinary Research Education: Challenges
and Opportunities for Learning.” Högre Utbildning 10 (1): 76.
(Recommended by Benjamin Hofmann, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science
and Technology)
Lisa Deutsch, Brian Belcher, Rachel Claus, Sabine Hoffmann (2021). Leading
inter- and transdisciplinary research: Lessons from applying theories of change
to a strategic research program, Environmental Science & Policy, Volume
120, Pages 29-41.
Pohl, C.; Thompson Klein, J.; Hoffmann, S.; Mitchell, C.; Fam, D. (2021)
Conceptualising transdisciplinary integration as a multidimensional interactive
process, Environmental Science and Policy, 118, 18-26,
(Recommended by Alastair Iles, University of California Berkeley)
Gunilla Oberg, Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies: A Primer 1st Edition,
Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Lélé, Sharachchandra, and Richard B. Norgaard. "Practicing
interdisciplinarity." BioScience 55, no. 11 (2005): 967-975.
(From a syllabus circulated on the AESS forum, forwarded courtesy of Christopher
Jeffords, Indiana University of Pennsylvania)
Owens, K., V. Eno, J. Abrams, & D. Bedny. Comic-Con: Can Comics of the
Constitution Enable Meaningful Learning in Political Science? PS: Political
Science and Politics 53, no.1 (2019): 161-166.
On Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 7:20 PM Paul Steinberg <stei...@g.hmc.edu>
wrote:
Dear GEP Colleagues,Can anyone recommend a well-written article that provides practical tips on how to engage in interdisciplinary collaborations?I am on a committee designing a new required course on "social impact" at Harvey Mudd College, which consists of STEM majors pursuing a well-rounded education including the humanities, social sciences, and the arts.As the folks on this list-serve know well, to have a positive impact on the world requires collaboration across social and professional boundaries. I would like to assign one or more readings (or other instructional media) that would be appropriate for advanced undergraduates. We already have solid readings on community engagement strategies.If you know of excellent materials that would perhaps not be ideal for students, those could still provide useful content for associated lectures and discussions.Thank you in advance for any leads. Following GEP-ed norms, kindly reply to me rather than to the whole group, and I will compile the replies and share them out in short order.With best wishes,Paul Steinberg
Professor of Political Science and Environmental Policy