Network for Transdisciplinary Research td-net
Questions to evaluate inter- and transdisciplinary research proposals
Pohl, C. Perring-Chiello, P, Butz, B, Hirsch Hadorn, G, Joye, d, Lawrence, R, Nenntwich, M, Paulsen, T Rossini, M, Truffer, B, Wastl-Walter, D, Wiesmann, U, Zinsstag, J (2011)
Currently there are no widely established and approved criteria and procedures to evaluate inter- and transdisciplinary research. Based on the state of the discussion at td-net and in the scholarly literature the present report suggests a number of questions to evaluate inter- and transdisciplinary research proposals (Tab. 4). The questions place emphasis on the quality of synthesis and integration. They differ depending on which of the three major purposes of inter- and transdisciplinary research is being foregrounded: fundamental understanding, problem solving or reflection-in-action.
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Toolkitting: an unrecognized form of expertise for overcoming fragmentation in inter and transdisciplinarity
Laursen, B, Vienni-Baptista, B, Bammer, G, Di Giulio, A, Paulsen, T, Robson-Williams, M, Studer, S (2024)
A growing number of inter- and transdisciplinary (ITD) toolkits provide methods, processes, concepts, heuristics, frameworks, and other resources for designing and implementing ITD research. A brief overview of the currently fragmented toolkits landscape is provided, fleshed out through descriptions of four toolkits.
Gaia Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society
Two decades of transdisciplinarity in Switzerland: Past, present, future
Paulsen, T, Küffer, C (2023)
Switzerland has been a stronghold of transdisciplinarity in the past decades, thanks in particular to saguf and td-net. td-net’s 20 years anniversary is an opportunity to recall the past and look ahead.