Dear friends,
What I have been saying for the last few years in the local context, and I just get ignored.
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/universities-paying-lip-service-interdisciplinary-research
The article I assumed is paywalled. So here is my extract of the take-home messages (less than or equal to 10% for fair research purposes with payment; I pay a subscription):
“New Times Higher Education data suggest that universities are not walking the talk on interdisciplinary science, with about a third of participating global universities failing to reward staff for cross-disciplinary research or to measure the success of such work.”
“The data, which relate only to interdisciplinary research in science subjects, was collected for a preliminary analysis conducted in association with Schmidt Science Fellows. The aim is to develop a new ranking measuring universities’ contribution to interdisciplinary science.” [I suggest that similar findings would be made from data on the humanities and social science]
“On average, across all responding institutions, there were 0.07 job adverts for interdisciplinary science researchers per academic staff member in the 2021 academic year.”
“The figures show that the world’s traditional research hubs – such as the US, the UK and Australia – are much less focused on interdisciplinary research than the main higher education systems in Asia.”
“Rick Szostak, an economics professor at Canada’s University of Alberta and author of the book ‘Integrating the Human Sciences’, said the world’s top-ranked universities ‘may give lip service to interdisciplinarity but still prioritise publications in disciplinary journals’, while university administrators do not necessarily have ‘a very good idea about how best to support this’ work.”
I have made the extracts by ignoring the statements of corporate excuses.
Kind regards,
Neville.
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