Solving the world’s complex problems will be so much harder if higher education is confined to disciplinary silos. Universities must encourage work across departments to develop creative and innovative answers to global challenges.
Solving the world’s complex problems will be so much harder if higher education is confined to disciplinary silos. Universities must encourage work across departments to develop creative and innovative answers to global challenges.
Empathy, listening and imagination must remain central to how we educate future leaders, writes Lu Liu. The human qualities that make innovation meaningful are at risk when universities over-emphasise technical capability
Interdisciplinarity can often be treated as an institutional side project. But embedding it into university structures can change everything. Here’s how
A data visualisation expert talks about leading the global Human Reference Atlas initiative and how collaboration enables researchers to think far bigger
Research that crosses disciplines strengthens networks, diversifies expertise and moves thinking beyond inherited boundaries, but effective interdisciplinarity takes time, curiosity and willingness to tackle cultural and structural obstacles
Creating an environment in which interdisciplinary research can tackle complex real-world problems is about institutional culture and allowing scientists to follow their intellectual curiosity
At the University of Colorado Boulder, building world-class interdisciplinary research starts with time, institutional scaffolding and rethinking academic incentives
For the Brazilian agriculture system, interdisciplinary collaboration presents quantum technologies that could help feed the world’s growing population
