The gap between research and practice persists across most disciplines, even though co‑productionist, participatory, and implementation approaches routinely call for bridging it. But what if the problem isn’t the bridge at all, but the distance it presumes? This blog by Nathalie Dupin rethinks practice‑based research as a form of embedded transdisciplinarity, where collaboration becomes part of daily organisational life rather than an activity that must be engineered across boundaries.
How can we look beyond interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity as simple research strategies to something much greater? This book acts as the "first dedicated platform that examines interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity not merely as research strategies, but as evolving fields of scholarship". Consequently, we welcome papers that dive into theoretically grounded & robust investigations, comparative insights, evolution of practices, collaborative governance, and transformative change.
How can universities better integrate inter- and transdisciplinary research and teaching practices? The Investigating Institutional Pathways for Inter- and Transdisciplinarity (PATHWAYS) project addresses this question by examining the institutionalisation of inter- and transdisciplinarity within the 15 Interdisciplinary Thematic Institutes at the University of Strasbourg.
