Introduction to Transdisciplinary Research

Intro

Introduction to Transdisciplinary Research introduces transdisciplinary research and the ways it helps address complex societal challenges. It highlights the key concepts of transdisciplinary research including its objectives, principles, phases, and main steps.

What You'll Learn

• The purpose, aims, and core principles of transdisciplinary research

• The main phases and steps used in transdisciplinary projects

• The ways transdisciplinary research is relevant professionally and personally

This course consists of the following three modules:

1. Addressing Complex Challenges

2. Exploring Transdisciplinary Research

3. Connecting with Transdisciplinary Research

By the end of this course, learners will be able to:

✓ Explain the purpose, aims, and core principles of transdisciplinary research (TDR)

✓ Identify the three main phases and the steps used in TDR projects

✓ Reflect on the ways TDR is relevant professionally and personally

✓ Reflect on the complex problems faced in their own research

Who It's For

These online courses are aimed at university professionals, including faculty and staff, who are interested in engaging with inter- or transdisciplinary research concepts. The courses serve to support academics and researchers in becoming transdisciplinary research role models and mentors in their institutions.

Get Prepared

The programme includes practical, interactive worksheets. To engage with the course fully, we recommend you use a laptop.

Course Expert(s)

Tobias Buser

Tobias Buser is a specialist for collaborative research processes, with profound experience in designing, conducting and reflecting on stakeholder engagement for research programmes and projects. As Executive Secretary of the Global Alliance for Inter- and Transdisciplinarity, he has a strong focus on building capacities and supporting international collaboration to advance and foster research approaches and institutional conditions that address pressing societal challenges.

Programme

Foundations of Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research is a four-course programme that supports academics conducting research on complex societal and environmental problems.

Foundations of Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research is organised into four courses. The first course provides a high-level introduction to transdisciplinary research. The second, third, and fourth courses each explore a key phase of the transdisciplinary research process.

These four courses guide researchers through the transdisciplinary research process from research co-design to the co-production of new knowledge to co-implementation. All of the courses are simple and direct, so they can be applied immediately.

Foundations of Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research includes the following online courses: