2024 – colloque du GDR Rift
Workshop on interdisciplinarity

Workshop on interdisciplinarity

Animated by Christel Tiberi & Stéphanie Gautier-Raux

25 participants

The workshop was dedicated to the interdisciplinarity: how can we promote and favour interdisciplinary studies? What are the difficulties and how can we tackle them?

What is interdisciplinary for you?
Two types of frameworks:

• Researchers from different disciplines gather, discuss together and a common question arises
• A common question/interest/object gather researchers from different disciplines and they work together to address the problem.

What are the difficulties for interdisciplinarity?

• Access to the other disciplines
• Lack of interdisciplinary journals to publish
• Lack of acknowledgement for interdisciplinary students, collaborative work
• Different languages (discipline oriented)

What can favour interdisciplinary?

• workplaces
  • meetings
  • colloquium
  • local and international extend
  • field work / visit
• time
  • to find collaborators
  • to adapt to a common frame/language
• Sharing, communicating
  • Colloquium
  • Exchange (students, researcher, teaching)
• Society issues
  • Easiest to publish and to be visible.
  • Not necessary in all projects though

Proposition:

• Go on a common field trip in the middle of the colloquium, and organize workshops associated to the field trip just after to favour project initiation and discussions.
• Favour teaching exchange (through lecturer/professor invitation in foreign institutions, student exchanges)
• Keep interdisciplinary colloquium
• Create an interdisciplinary journal on the rift (open-access, free, Multilanguage)
• Start on-line training / lessons
  • The participants agree to initiate a small “in a nutshell” lessons database
  • 4-5 slides are expected in which each participant can summarize the method, skill, analyse he/she has and can share.
  • The slides will be accessible for all on the GDR website
  • Deadline: 1st July 2024