Interdisciplinary Conference 2023

We are interested in how interdisciplinary learning and teaching can be transformative.

• How is this transformation designed and reflected at both module and programme level?
• In what ways do you create a space for interdisciplinarity and communicate any values that might be implicit in interdisciplinary study and research?
• How do you measure the impact of interdisciplinary study in the short, medium or longer term?
• Interdisciplinary thinking can be challenging - how do you engage your students?

We are interested in ways that you have found to create or facilitate an interdisciplinary community of learning.

• What kinds of structures are in place in your own institution, and how have you overcome administrative, organisational or disciplinary cultural barriers?
• How might you provide a learning space which gives students the courage to work with interdisciplinarity and its inherent uncertainties?

Presentations which include practical steps to establish or extend interdisciplinary communities are especially welcome.

Assessing interdisciplinary work is one of the most challenging aspects in interdisciplinary learning and teaching. There are not established ‘rules’ of knowledge or accepted benchmarks of success.

By its very nature, the assessment of interdisciplinary activities must be broad and inclusive, but this also means it is difficult to fit into a rubric or to ‘quantify’. In addition, members of the teaching team often bring their own notions of what is ‘correct’ based on their own epistemological backgrounds.

We are looking for ways that you have found to measure the critical engagement required for successful interdisciplinary outcomes.