How to Manage International Multidisciplinary Research Projects


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This insightful How to guide is expertly crafted to assist mid-career academic and non-academic researchers in preparing for new and innovative ways of working in international multidisciplinary environments.




How to Use Conversational Storytelling Interviews for Your Dissertation


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Introducing the idea of conversational storytelling interviewing (CSI) as an ‘indirect’ method of interviewing, David Boje and Grace Ann Rosile explore this innovative methodological framework as a way for respondents to tell their own story, without resorting to structured or semi-structured interviews.




Doing Multidisciplinary Research on Religion


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Religion is increasingly visible in the contemporary world as a complex phenomenon – requiring multidisciplinary research to do justice to the complexity. Multidisciplinary research is however, though lauded by many, notoriously difficult to bring to fruition. This volume takes on the challenge to bridge the gap. Contributions formulate the challenges many have faced, but few yet analysed and put into the hands of researchers concrete tools with which to set about designing and executing multidisciplinary research on religions, beliefs and religious behaviour. In an era where research funding increasingly expects interdisciplinary collaboration it provides guidance on constructive pathways and pitfalls to avoid. Contributors are: Riho Altnurme, Anders Bäckström, Lori G. Beaman, Karin Borevi, Leon van den Broeke, Valerie DeMarinis, Victoria Enkvist, Jonny Långstedt, Annette Leis-Peters, Anna-Sara Lind, Martha Middlemiss Lé Mon, Cecilia Nahnfeldt, Per-Erik Nilsson, Peter Nynäs, Margit Warburg, and Anne-Laure Zwilling.




Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research


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Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research examines current interdisciplinary research efforts and recommends ways to stimulate and support such research. Advances in science and engineering increasingly require the collaboration of scholars from various fields. This shift is driven by the need to address complex problems that cut across traditional disciplines, and the capacity of new technologies to both transform existing disciplines and generate new ones. At the same time, however, interdisciplinary research can be impeded by policies on hiring, promotion, tenure, proposal review, and resource allocation that favor traditional disciplines. This report identifies steps that researchers, teachers, students, institutions, funding organizations, and disciplinary societies can take to more effectively conduct, facilitate, and evaluate interdisciplinary research programs and projects. Throughout the report key concepts are illustrated with case studies and results of the committee's surveys of individual researchers and university provosts.










Handbook of Research Methods in Careers


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This Handbook of Research Methods in Careers serves as a comprehensive guide to the methodologies that researchers use in career scholarship. Presenting detailed overviews of methodologies, contributors offer numerous actionable best practices, realistic previews, and cautionary tales based on their vast collective experience of research in the discipline.




NASA SP-7500


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Research Methodologies In Multidisciplinary Subjects (Volume-1)


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Research Methodologies in Multidisciplinary Subjects In a multidisciplinary approach, experts from different fields work together to solve an issue, drawing on their own areas of expertise to provide comprehensive solutions that are neither isolated nor biased which is presented in this handbook. You may know that law and public health face ever-changing difficulties that need fresh viewpoints from many disciplines. On the other hand, in reality, experts often fall back on tried-and-true methods from their respective fields when faced with a challenge. In order to answer research questions more thoroughly than with only one method, the mixed methods approach combines quantitative and qualitative techniques. The contemporaneous and coordinated design may compensate for the shortcomings of any technique, which is a major benefit of using a mixed methods approach. While quantitative studies could not provide enough information to fully grasp a phenomenon's setting, qualitative studies conducted in isolation might introduce bias and fail to provide applicable results. Hence, a multidisciplinary approach is required for the scientific examination of several concerns. The knowledge, experience, and perspective of professionals from different domains are pooled in a multidisciplinary approach. The book give clarity about use of interdisciplinary research methods in addressing societal challenges and several other methods. In a nutshell, this kind of study allows the investigator to have a comprehensive grasp of the issue at hand. Through the integration of diverse ideas from many academic and scientific disciplines, researchers have the opportunity to generate fresh insights and even uncover unexplored areas of knowledge.