Unit name | Advanced Interdisciplinary Research Design |
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Unit code | GEOGM0015 |
Credit points | 15 |
Level of study | M/7 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 4 (weeks 1-24) |
Unit director | . Fannin |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
Students will combine this unit with one of four pathway-specific units (one for each interdisciplinary pathway) and relevant research training in quantitative and qualitative methods. The pathway units are Contemporary Debates in Sustainable Futures, Global transformations: Issues and Trajectories, Contemporary Debates in Lifestyle Behaviours and Public Health and Conceptual Issues in Security, Conflict, and Human Rights. |
School/department | School of Geographical Sciences |
Faculty | Faculty of Science |
The module will fulfil the ESRC requirement for training in core research design, collection and analysis skills by addressing the on the ground characteristics and challenges of doing interdisciplinary research. On completion of the module students will be able to critically assess concepts such as interdisciplinarity, multidisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity. They will have an acquired knowledge and practical skills of how a range of research methods can be integrated in an ethically sound manner to examine interdisciplinary problems, and will have developed an appreciation of the importance of pertinent inter-disciplinary thinking.
On completion of the unit, students will be able to:
This module will be delivered in sections by each of the three partner institutions.
Formative: development of a group presentation
Summative: Assignment of 3,000 words. (100%)
A course reader will be made available via Blackboard (or equivalent VLE) as the literature in this area is expansive. Indicative resources include:
Barry, A., Born, G. and Weszkalnys, G. (2008) Logics of interdisciplinarity. Economy and Society, 37(1): 20-49. Collins, H. and R. Evans (2002) The Third Wave of Science Studies: Studies of Expertise and Experience. Sage, London. Delanty, G. (2001) Challenging knowledge. The university in the knowledge society. Society for Research into Higher Education and Oxford University Press, Buckingham. Etzkowitz, H. and L. Leydesdorff (2000) The dynamics of innovation: from national systems and Mode 2 to a triple helix of university-industry-government relations. Research Policy 29, 10923. Nowotny, P. Scott and M. Gibbons (2001) Re-Thinking Science: Knowledge and the Public in an Age of Uncertainty. Polity Press, Cambridge. Repko, A. (2008) Interdisciplinary Research: Process and theory. Sage, London. Report of the Gulbenkian Commission on the Restructuring of the Social Sciences (1996) Open the Social Sciences. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
Taylor, P. J. (1996) Embedded statism and the social sciences: opening up to new spaces. Environment and Planning A 28, 191728. Weingert, P. and N. Stehr (2000) Practising Interdisciplinarity. University of Toronto Press, Toronto