Event type

Info session

Goal

To educate researchers on the value and benefits of interdisciplinarity

→ “Why does it matter, and what’s available?”

Content

• Expert-informed delivery of information on the importance of interdisciplinarity — from collective action problems, to integrating medicine with global health, to ensuring human security in a climate-affected world.
• Provision of information on interdisciplinarity funding opportunities (from local to global).

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Event type

Panel

Goal

To inspire and inform researchers about how to get funding for their projects

→ “How did others do it?”

Content

• Participants benefit from role-modeling vis-à-vis panelists who share about their experiences with winning funding for interdisciplinary projects.
• May or may not include info about their design, outreach, etc. processes as opposed to discussion on just funding.

Projected date

Event type

Info Session

Goal

To prepare researchers to effectively communicate their projects across disciplines

→ “How do I communicate about it?”

Content

Expert-informed delivery of info and generalisable walkthroughs on how to break down disciplinary boundaries through communication, in two parts:

1) Language and the “Tower of Babel” — the challenges of bridging disciplinary boundaries when different fields use different language, axioms, units-of-analysis, frameworks, and methods

2) Clarity without compromise — achieving both accessibility and credibility, i.e. maintaining the integrity of the research while finding ways to share it that make it truly intelligible across/between/beyond disciplines

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