Interdisciplinary Research: Challenges and Opportunities
Ni#nAgarwal,Informa#onScience,[email protected]
EricWiebelhaus-Brahm,SchoolofPublicAffairs,[email protected]
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AGENDA • Interdisciplinary/collaborative research projects
• Challenges • Opportunities
• Suggestions
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RESEARCH PROJECTS
INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATIONS
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CYBER COLLECTIVE ACTION NSF-funded, medium size ($750,000) , 4-year study on advancing understanding of cyber-collective actions manifesting in online social movements.
Cyber Collective Action
Organizational Behavior
Social Science
Information Science
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HEALTH INFORMATICS NSF-funded, large ($1,000,000) , 3-year study that addresses the fractured nature of healthcare information, and the lack of engagement of individuals in their own healthcare.
Six universities Over 10 partners
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Information fusion
Medicine
Big data/cloud
architecture
INFLUENCE OPERATIONS DoD-funded, over $1.3 million, multi-year study to examine information campaigns, misinformation and propaganda dissemination to influence thinking, provoke hysteria & chaos, and effect instability.
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Social Science
Communication
Information Science
BEYOND WORDS Norwegian Research Council-funded multi-year 11 country study to examine the implementation record of the recommendations of Latin American truth commissions.
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Activists/Practitioners Social Science Law
PEACE, JUSTICE, DEVELOPMENT UK Economic and Social Research Council-funded multi-year project to develop a multinational partnership of academics and activists that seeks to build capacity among victims and activist groups pursuing a multi-faceted justice agenda in Colombia, Sri Lanka, Syria, and Uganda.
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Social Science
Activists/Practitioners Law
CHALLENGES
INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH
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CHALLENGES • Resources
• Time commitments • Different languages
• Publication outlets
• Performance evaluation (tenure/promotion)
• Not all collaborative efforts will be successful
• FAIL FORWARD!!!
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OPPORTUNITIES
INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH
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REAL WORLD PROBLEMS • Opportunity to work on real-world problems
• Gerontology • Transitional justice • Information/cyber warfare • Health informatics
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FUNDING • NSF
• Science, Technology, and Society • Law & Social Sciences • Information and Intelligent Systems
• NIH
• Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research • DoD (ONR, ARO, AFOSR/AFRL)
• MURI (up to $7.5m for 5 years), • Minerva, etc.
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SUGGESTIONS
INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH
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TEAMING UP • Conferences
• Conference/workshop grants • Program reviews
• Proposal panel reviews
• Talk to/visit program officers
• Find out program thrusts (even propose) • Find out ‘star’ performers in their programs • Offer to collaborate
• Equipment grants
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SHAMELESS AD... 10th year of Social Computing Conference
http://sbp-brims.org/, Washington D.C., July 5-8, 2017.
Travel awards available for disciplinary minorities sponsored by ONR, ARO
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THANK YOU!
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