Interdisciplinary PhD School - Module 2

Interdisciplinary Research: Epistemic issues Theories, Processes and Academic career

INTERDISCIPLINARITY – TRANSFORMATION – CREATIVITY

Wednesday 08 - Friday 10 November 2017

University of Geneva (Valais Campus) - Sion

Deadlines for registration: 18 September 2017

This module aims to sensitize and train doctoral students to the theories and concepts that underpin interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research. By explaining the origins and recent developments of interdisciplinarity from the perspective of history, philosophy and epistemology of the sciences, doctoral students are trained and cognitively equipped to understand motivations and reasons for engaging in transformative research between and beyond disciplinary boundaries.

The theories and models of interdisciplinarity, as well as the different concepts of disciplinarity, pluridisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity, are defined in such a way as to make them accessible to doctoral students for implementation in their thesis path. The stages of an individual and/or collaborative interdisciplinary research process are also dealt with, on the basis of examples and in a spirit of discovery, innovation and creativity. PhD students will finally undertake a self-reflexive approach on the place of interdisciplinarity in their thesis research (conceptual, theoretical, epistemological issues), its potentialities and its pitfalls/limitations, as well as its impact on their past, present and future academic identity and trajectory (career plan, evaluation, publication, strategies).

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