Advancing methods and theories of td

Individual projects

external pageSHAPE-ID is an EU-funded project addressing the challenge of improving interdisciplinary cooperation between the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (AHSS) and STEM (Sciences, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) and other disciplines. The project will examine best and poor practices in AHSS integration through a survey, extensive literature review and a series of learning case workshops with stakeholders. SHAPE-ID will ultimately deliver a toolkit and recommendations to guide European policy makers, funders, Universities and researchers in achieving successful pathways to interdisciplinary integration between AHSS and other Sciences, as well as within AHSS disciplines. SHAPE-ID results will help the European Commission assess the potential of AHSS integration for responding to the significant challenges Europe faces in areas like health, food and agriculture, climate change, technological innovation and security, among others.
external pageShape-ID's open access publications on zenodo
external pageShape-ID's webinars "Shaping Conversations on Interdisciplinary Research"
Together with the td-net of the Swiss Academies we develop a toolbox for the co-production of knowledge between different disciplines and science-society. The tools support collaboration by making explicit assumptions about roles, contributions, expertise, and power. We use and test the tools in teaching and research.
Transdisciplinary research usually takes place in particular socio-cultural context. Still, researchers and practitioners transfer knowledge gained form one case to another. We study this transfer of knowledge across cases together with D-USYS's Environmental Philosophy group and geographers from the University of Bern in an interdisciplinary external pageSNF project.
In the external pagePhD project of Tobias Buser at the University of Bern, it investigated how representatives from business, administration and civil society would shape a transdisciplinary cooperation. This project is part of the COST action external pageTD1408 Interdisciplinarity in research programming and funding cycles (INTREPID).

People from TdLab

Christian Pohl, Bianca Vienni, Gabriela Wülser, BinBin Pearce, Carolina Adler, Tobias Buser

Core publications

Adler, C., Hirsch Hadorn, G., Breu, T., Wiesmann, U., & Pohl, C. (2018). Conceptualizing the transfer of knowledge across cases in transdisciplinary research. Sustainability science 13(1), 179-190. doi: external page10.1007/s11625-017-0444-2
Pearce, B.J., Ejderyan, O. (2019 online first). Joint problem framing as reflexive practice: honing a transdisciplinary skill. Sustainability Science. doi: external page10.1007/s11625-019-00744-2
Pearce, B., Adler, C., Senn, L., Krütli, P., Stauffacher, M., Pohl, C. (2018). Making the link between transdisciplinary learning and research (Chapter 12) in Fam, D., Neuhauser, L., Gibbs, P. (eds), The art of collaborative research and collective learning: Transdisciplinary theory, practice & education, London: Springer (pp 167-183). doi: external page10.1007/978-3-319-93743-4_12
Pohl, C., Krütli, P., & Stauffacher, M. (2017). Ten Reflective Steps for Rendering Research Societally Relevant. GAIA 26(1), 43-51. doi: external page10.14512/gaia.26.1.10