What makes a research collaboration not only successful but mutually rewarding across disciplinary divides? As complex challenges call for diverse expertise, scholars face increasing demands to work across epistemological, methodological, and cultural boundaries. This participatory workshop invites current and prospective collaborators to reflect on and strengthen the foundations of interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary research.

 

Bianca Vienni-Baptista, PhD, is Group Leader of Cultural Studies of Science and Technology and lecturer at the Transdisciplinarity Lab at ETH Zurich (Switzerland). Her research focuses on the study of inter- and transdisciplinary knowledge production processes. She is interested in methods and research tools as well as concepts and theories as means of achieving transformative and developmental change. With her team, she implements transdisciplinary research processes for sustainable development, fostering integration of the humanities and social sciences. Her books include, "Institutionalizing lnterdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity Collaboration across Cultures and Communities," co-edited with Julie Thompson Klein (2022, Routledge); "Foundations of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research: a Reader" (2023, Bristol University Press); and “Interdisciplinary Practices in Higher Education: Teaching, Learning and Collaborating across Borders” (2024, Routledge).