Five Key Strategies for Organizing Interdisciplinary Scientific Events to Strengthen Careers, Collaborations, and Creativity.
| Autor: | Schulz AK; Department of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA., Schwaner MJ; Department of Movement Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, 3001, Belgium., Manafzadeh AR; Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies, Yale University, CT 06520, USA.; Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Yale University, CT 06520, USA.; Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, CT 06511, USA. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Integrative and comparative biology [Integr Comp Biol] 2024 Sep 27; Vol. 64 (3), pp. 769-775. |
| DOI: | 10.1093/icb/icae050 |
| Abstrakt: | Science is becoming increasingly interdisciplinary; the widespread emergence of dedicated interdisciplinary journals, conferences, and graduate programs reflects this trend. Interdisciplinary scientific events are extremely valuable in that they offer opportunities for career advancement, especially among early career researchers, for collaboration beyond traditional disciplinary echo chambers, and for the creative generation of innovative solutions to longstanding scientific problems. However, organizing such events can pose unique challenges due to the intentionality required to meaningfully break down the barriers that separate long-independent disciplines. In this paper, we propose five key strategies for organizing and hosting interdisciplinary scientific events. The recommendations offered here apply both to small symposia aiming to contribute an interdisciplinary component to a larger event and to broad interdisciplinary conferences hosting hundreds or thousands of attendees. (© The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology.) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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