Interdisciplinary Diversity in the iSchool Community
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Interdisciplinary research is both challenging and increasingly imperative to addressing many intellectual, social and practical problems. This poster presents a proposed empirical study of interdisciplinary diversity in the iSchool community. Developing a better understanding of the factors that allow interdisciplinary academic endeavors to survive and thrive is useful to both the iSchools, for which the research would provide strategic feedback, and to the broader scientific community as a means of insight into cultivating interdisciplinary research. The proposed study is expected to contribute a methodological approach for evaluating diversity in an interdisciplinary community that will provide an objective basis for self-evaluation and community-level comparisons, and empirical results that explore the relationship between interdisciplinary intellectual inputs and interdisciplinary scholarly outputs in the iSchools.
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