Transdisciplinary qualities in practice doctorates

Methodological Innovation in Practice-Based Design Doctorates

This article presents a selective review of recent design PhDs that identify and analyse the methodological innovation that is occurring in the field, in order to inform future provision of research training. Six recently completed design PhDs are used to highlight possible philosophical and practical models that can be adopted by future PhD students in design. Four characteristics were found i...

96 Practice - based Doctorates and Questions of Academic

Nurturing communities of practice for transdisciplinary research

Transdisciplinary research practice has become a core element of global sustainability science. Transdisciplinary research brings with it an expectation that people with different backgrounds and interests will learn together through collective problem solving and innovation. Here we introduce the concept of “transdisciplinary communities of practice, ” and draw on both situated learning theory...

Informatics Doctorates in Europe

This report describes the results of an investigation about the different forms of the Informatics doctorate, which has been carried out for the ECSS 2012 Summit of Informatics Europe in Barcelona. After a motivation in section 1, we first describe the simple investigation method used in section 2. Then, we give in section 3 a characterization of the Dissertation process and in section 4 also o...

Transdisciplinary research in sustainability science: practice, principles, and challenges

There is emerging agreement that sustainability challenges require new ways of knowledge production and decision-making. One key aspect of sustainability science, therefore, is the involvement of actors from outside academia into the research process in order to integrate the best available knowledge, reconcile values and preferences, as well as create ownership for problems and solution option...