How to catalyze a collaboration

September 2023

Interdisciplinary collaborations are essential for effective science that is able to engage with real-world problems. They are also really difficult and genuine interdisciplinarity, where there is a degree of fusion between discplines, is rare. Annamaria Carusi was lucky enough to be involved in one of those rare cases, the CIAO project, which used a framework initially developed for regulatory toxicology, to build up knowledge about the pathways of Covid19. What did we learn along the way? Four essential ingredients for productive interdisciplinarity: 1) proactive management and leadership; 2) organisation; 3) making things explicit; 4) forging a common language together. Read more.

Crossing boundaries of sciences, methods, approaches and organisations: A podcast series

As part of the BeAMS project, Annamaria Carusi, Director of Interchange Research, hosted a series of conversations with scientists in different contexts and organisations, asking them how they go about cross-disciplinarity in all its forms. Learn more about the series, and find links to the episodes, here.

False dichotomy between scientific excellence and positive research culture

September 2023

As long as humans act together to produce research, it cannot but be cultural. Research and culture are not each other’s opposite; culture is something like science’s unconscious, shaping behaviour (and science!) without our being aware of it. This is what I argue, with Shomari Lewis-Wilson of Wellcome, in this opinion piece published by THES, 19th September 2023.