Interdisciplinary collaboration
The problems faced by society, such as global warming, ageing populations and sustainable growth, will need input from a number of disciplines.
But traditional boundaries between disciplines or knowledge communities create specialised and insular research agendas. By creating opportunities for such communities to interact, we can create new knowledge, produce innovations and start to solve society’s major challenges.
We aim to promote innovative models for promoting cross-disciplinary research in the UK and to understand the cultural and institutional barriers that need to be overcome for such research to flourish. We aim to measure the short- and long-term impact of these interventions so that others can implement the lessons from our work.
Universities United
Universities United will test an interdisciplinary approach to innovation within the universities sector, with a particular focus on innovations for social impact.
Crucible
Crucible offers 30 early-stage career researchers an opportunity to develop new collaborations across disciplines.
Carbon Crucible
Carbon Crucible encourages interdisciplinary collaborations between early- to mid-career researchers to spark innovative solutions to tackle the big issues in energy research.
Design London
The Royal College of Art (RCA), Imperial College and NESTA are collaborating on the creation of a world-class £5.8 million multidisciplinary centre.
Science for Humanity
Science for Humanity aims to engage UK scientists to help provide sustainable solutions to the problems that people face in developing countries.