Interdisciplinary collaborations: business as unusual?

Sylvia Brugman, Anke de Vrieze

Wageningen University and Research

The workshop will introduce an assessment strategy that can reward interdisciplinary work as an integrated and embedded part of the academic career. We aim to inspire and explain interdisciplinary scientists need to be rewarded and feel at home in the tenure track. In this interactive workshop, the Centre for Unusual Collaborations (CUCo) wants to illustrate the often difficult and slow, but fun process of interdisciplinary work. Participants will speak with aliens and experience disciplinary grounding and perspective taking, the first two necessary steps for successful interdisciplinary collaboration. We hope to inspire those involved in assessment committees and involved in the career progress decision making process to rethink the way interdisciplinarity is assessed.