Interdisciplinary research at Creative Manchester
As one of the University’s four research platforms, Creative Manchester convenes, develops and sustains interdisciplinary research communities across The University of Manchester, and supports engagement with strategic partners locally, nationally and globally.
Facilitating interdisciplinary research and fostering collaboration lies at the heart of the University’s research strategy and informs Creative Manchester’s aim to support and enable research projects that emanate from vastly different disciplines at the University.
We have created a suite of short online training resources centred around four interdisciplinary research projects to help answer the questions:
- What is interdisciplinary research?
- What are the key considerations for interdisciplinary projects?
- What are the benefits, value and impact of interdisciplinary research?
To answer these questions, please see the short videos, centred around Creative Manchester's three research themes Creativity, Health and Wellbeing, Creative Industries and Innovation and Creative and Civic Futures.
"Tackling Interdisciplinarity in Research” was a half-day event that brought together researchers from across the University to discuss the challenges and opportunities of developing interdisciplinary research. The event was targeted at anyone who is interested in developing interdisciplinary projects and covered a variety of different areas:
- Lightning talks that highlight real life experiences with conducting interdisciplinary research
- Funding opportunities that look at current and future calls for proposals
- A Q&A session that covers the need to know ethical requirements from export controls, to data management plans, to ethics
This cross-platform event was hosted by Creative Manchester in collaboration with Sustainable Futures, Digital Futures and Healthier Futures.