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.”
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.
