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More than a Conference: The 6th SSH Energy Workshop
The 6th SSH Energy Workshop, held on 16–17 June 2026 at ETH Zurich, brought together around 70 experts and researchers to discuss energy communities from social sciences, humanities and transdisciplinary perspectives. Read more about two days of exchange, reflection and discussion on justice, participation and the communities shaping energy transitions.
Anne-Sophie Schaltegger successfully defended her PhD!
On May 12, our group member Anne-Sophie Schaltegger defended her PhD thesis titled “A social and cultural perspective on interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research assessment: Learning from three Swiss funding schemes”.
New Publication: Learning by Doing; Methodological Implications in Studying Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research Practices
Congratulations to Bianca Vienni Baptista, Group Leader at the CSTS group and Victoria Herbig, former Scientific Assistant and Master’s student in the CSTS lab on their latest publication! Their collaboration has led to a compelling new article titled: "Learning by Doing; Methodological Implications in Studying Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research Practices.”
Reconceptualizing Practice‑Based Research as Embedded Transdisciplinarity
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.
Open call for short monographs: Intersections in Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research
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.