Interdisciplinary Discourse

Overview

This book uncovers exactly what is involved when researchers from different disciplines engage with one another in research projects. The authors identify the opportunities and difficulties involved in interdisciplinary engagement, and challenge current claims about where the greatest difficulties are to be found.

Part One: Introduction to Interdisciplinarity

The first part of the book introduces interdisciplinarity and identifies key issues that influence our understanding of it.

Part Two: Research Findings

The second part of the book presents the findings of research based on over 50 hours of recording and nearly 450,000 words of transcript drawn from a number of university faculties, concluding with a discussion of how this might inform interdisciplinary practice.

Audience

The book is accessible to the non-specialist reader while also being of interest to social scientists working in professional and academic communication.