We investigate how interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity are practiced, supported, and funded to improve their responsiveness in addressing societal challenges. Who participates in interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary research? Why? With which constraints and which impact? These are some of the questions our group addresses in different research projects. Our goal is not only to advance knowledge production on these topics, but also to inform the policy and funding sectors.
Our group works at the interface between Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Cultural Studies of Science. We apply a cultural approach as a mode of inquiry and draw concepts and methods from a range of disciplines.
We are involved in courses at the Department for Environmental Systems Sciences and we supervise Bachelor and Master theses of students interested in the science-policy interface, the methodological development of inter- and transdisciplinary research or cultural aspects of science practices.
The CSTS Group is part of the Transdiciplinarity Lab at ETH Zurich and actively participates and contributes to different national and international networks such as: the external page Global Alliance for Inter- and Transdisciplinarity and the external page Europnean Alliance for Social Sciences and Humanities.
