Papadopouli and Sabharwal argued for the need to raise standards within the community, which might require more visible workshops and conferences and a willingness to reject papers that make no attempt to justify their underlying assumptions. The panelists also emphasized the need for multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary research to support different layers of the systems (from the physical...

The use of epidemiology in documenting the mortality experience in complex emergencies has become pervasive in humanitarian practice. Recent assessments in Iraq and Darfur have provoked much discussion on the assessment of mortality in scientific and policy spheres. In this context, the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative held an inter-di...

This article explores the profoundly gendered nature of the split between the disciplines of economics and sociology that took place in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, emphasizing implications for current efforts to bring the fields more closely together. Drawing on historical documents and feminist studies of science, it investigates the gendered processes underlying the divergence of ...

Health policy has been termed a ‘chameleon concept’, referring to its ability to take on different forms of disciplinarity as well as different roles and functions. This paper extends Paton’s analysis by exploring the paradox of health policy as a field of academic inquiry—sitting across many of the boundaries of social science but also marginalised by them. It situates contemporary approaches ...

The landscape of in vitro diagnostic (IVD) devices encompasses a broad range tests that have been used to detect and diagnose pathogens, especially tropical diseases, for decades. COVID-19 pandemic exemplified the greater need bringing IVDs from laboratory directly consumer, recent outbreaks such as mpox, Sudan ebolavirus, Marburg virus further reinforce this need. increased emergence disease r...

In this paper we describe findings from the literature on cross-disciplinary teaching of mathematics to undergraduates, as part of a review of cross-faculty teaching of science subjects at the University of Technology, Sydney. Disciplinary differences in teaching styles can inform difficulties faced by engineering and business students. The necessity for varied teaching approaches was illuminat...

We review research from our laboratory that attempts to pull apart the functional and neural mechanisms of visual search using converging, inter-disciplinary evidence from experimental studies with normal participants, neuropsychological studies with brain lesioned patients, functional brain imaging and computational modelling. The work suggests that search is determined by excitatory mechanism...

This chapter discusses an action research study towards the development of a decision framework to support a fully integrated multi disciplinary Building Information Model (BIM) using a Model Server. The framework was proposed to facilitate multi disciplinary collaborative BIM adoption through, informed selection of a project specific BIM approach and tools contingent upon project collaborators...