Over the weekend, Steve Fuller published this blog post which has understandably been the object of many complaints. Steve is one of a number of people who have accounts which enable them to post directly on the site, without the… Read More ›
Interdisciplinarity 
The Liberated Mathematician Stands Up to Gender and Race Inequality in Academia
This week, Dr. Piper Harron, mathematics professor based at the University of Hawaii, and a vocal feminist and supporter of under-represented groups in the academic mathematics community, published a provocative blogpost on the website of the AMS (American Mathematical Society), in… Read More ›
A new project on the lived experience of interdisciplinarity
We’ve launched a new project on the lived experience of interdisciplinarity with these four pieces: Negotiating spaces of interdisciplinarity by Sinead D’Silva The lived experience of interdisciplinarity in social research by Murray Goulden Reflective Practice and Interdisciplinary Approaches to ‘Digital Social Research’ by William Housley Interdisciplinarity defines… Read More ›
Negotiating spaces of interdisciplinarity
By Sinead D’Silva A few years ago I would confidently have said that I am a sociologist, and nobody would have been able to tell me otherwise. My BA in sociology was followed by an MA in Social and Cultural Geography… Read More ›
The lived experience of interdisciplinarity in social research
By Murray Goulden My first experience of interdisciplinarity was genuinely exciting to be a part of. To some degree of course the quality of the experience was shaped by the particular focus of research, and the characters of those on… Read More ›
Interdisciplinarity defines us as medical educators
By Mairead Corrigan, Jenny Johnston and Helen Reid We are a small research group working in medical education (#meded), a job which entails embracing and challenging subject, epistemological and methodological boundaries. One of us is a sociologist and two of… Read More ›
Reflective Practice and Interdisciplinary Approaches to ‘Digital Social Research’
By William Housley Reflecting on interdisciplinarity in the context of digital social research is a worthwhile exercise. There is a significant discrepancy between the rhetoric of interdisciplinarity and its actual practice and accomplishment. Sociology, as a global disciplinary enterprise, has participated… Read More ›