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As long time readers of this blog will know, I've been working with Jasper Bouverie of Funder Films to produce three short films celebr...

An Eastern ARC interdisciplinary sandpit in May The University of Kent was founded on strong interdisciplinary principles. It harnessed...

Earlier this year Nesta and the Technology Strategy Board, now known as Innovate UK , launched the £10-million Longitude Prize. The compe...

Inter-Multi-Supra-Cross: grappling with definitions I’ve talked about the difficulty of interdiscipinarity before (for instance here , h...

Lifting the lid on visualisation The AHRC has launched a competition for 'designers, graphic artists, software developers, program...

'Say, Prof: what's that word again?' On Friday I went along to a symposium organised by SHARE that looked at the thorny iss...

Ever wondered how the RCUK chiefs come up with the strategic priorities? Do they sometimes seem - well - slightly random? Well Fundermen...

Tim Harford , the self-styled Undercover Economist , wrote an interesting piece on his blog about the need to break out of disciplinary silo...

An interesting article in the Times Higher this week highlights the problems that peer review has with multidiscliplinary projects. The ex...

There seems to be something in the air at the moment: following swiftly on from Henley's call to collaborate at Defra , and our announce...

Five of the seven Research Councils, together with a clutch of government departments, have issued an advanced notice for the third round of...

I went to a very productive meeting of the new 'Violence Research Group' on Tuesday. It was a small gathering - many couldn't ma...

For this year’s Lunchtime Seminars academics themselves are being given the chance to choose the topics and the participants for each event....

The ESRC, together with the MRC and a clutch of government departments, have launched a funding initiative for an interdisciplinary research...