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Emeka Patrick Okonji; Gbadamosi Morufu; Amuda Mohammed Hakeem Olawale – Journal of Research Administration, 2024
The University of Lagos is one of Nigeria's premiere Universities, established in 1962 with core values emphasizing commitment to quality academic learning and character, integrity, continuous improvement of staff professionalism and competence, as well as a strong commitment to cutting-edge research. In 2012, the University established the…
Descriptors: Research Administration, Interdisciplinary Approach, Partnerships in Education, Educational Research
Meeting the Climate Emergency: University Information Infrastructure for Researching Wicked Problems
Donald J. Waters – ITHAKA S+R, 2025
Commissioned by the Coalition for Networked Information, this report examines the role of research universities in addressing complex societal challenges. It focuses on climate change, which is best characterized as a "wicked" problem. Such problems are difficult to define and lack clear solutions in part because they involve multiple…
Descriptors: Climate, Research Universities, Social Problems, College Role
Ayar, Mehmet C.; Yalvac, Bugrahan – Journal of Engineering Education, 2022
Background: Laboratory studies explore the norms and characteristics of scientific practice and explain the constructive nature of knowledge production. However, how learning and research are sustained in engineering research laboratories at the graduate level requires further investigation. Purpose: We explored the cultural characteristics of an…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Engineering Education, Mentors, Learning Processes
Woiwode, Hendrik; Froese, Anna – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
Interdisciplinary research is a popular mode of knowledge production that becomes intensively promoted by research centers all across the globe. Despite the facilitation of interdisciplinary research, however, scholars working in these centers are 'disciplined.' Career promotions, funding decisions and scientific publishing are based on…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Research, Researchers, Research and Development Centers
Mäkinen, Elina I.; Evans, Eliza D.; McFarland, Daniel A. – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2020
Due to investments in interdisciplinary research endeavors, the number and variety of interdisciplinary research centers have grown exponentially during the past decades. While interdisciplinary research centers rely on varied organizational arrangements, we know little about the conditions and processes that mediate collaborative arrangements and…
Descriptors: Research and Development Centers, Interdisciplinary Approach, Institutional Cooperation, Universities
Turner, V. Kelly; Benessaiah, Karina; Warren, Scott; Iwaniec, David – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2015
Scholars have enumerated unique challenges to collaborative interdisciplinary research, many of which evade prescriptive solutions. Some of these challenges can be understood as "essential tensions," necessary and persistent contradictory imperatives in the scientific process. Drawing from interviews with internationally renowned…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Interdisciplinary Approach, Research and Development Centers, Conflict
Brownley, Martine W. – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2012
Given the academic specialization endemic today in humanities disciplines, some of the most important work of humanities centers has become promoting education about the humanities in general. After charting the rise of humanities centers in the US, three characteristics of centers that enable their advancement of larger concerns of the humanities…
Descriptors: Specialization, Humanities, Intellectual Disciplines, Research and Development Centers
Hansen, Birgitte Gorm – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2011
Whether celebratory or critical, STS research on science-industry relations has focused on the blurring of boundaries and hybridization of codes and practices. However, the vocabulary of boundary and hybrid tends to reify science and industry as separate in the attempt to map their relation. Drawing on interviews with the head of a research center…
Descriptors: Industry, Research and Development Centers, Botany, Biology
Flannery, Daniel J.; Singer, Mark I. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2015
Established in the year 2000, the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education is a multidisciplinary center located at a school of social work that engages in collaborative, community-based research and evaluation that spans multiple systems and disciplines. The Center currently occupies 4,200 sq. ft. with multiple offices and…
Descriptors: Violence, Prevention, Program Evaluation, Social Work
Sanusi, Zainal Abidin; Khelghat-Doost, Hamoon – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to share the experience of Universiti Sains Malaysia in promoting the sustainable development agenda through its leadership role in the Regional Centre of Expertise (RCE) Penang using an "inside-out approach". Design/methodology/approach: This paper describes the institutional structure, policies and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Case Studies, Agenda Setting
Glied, Sherry; Bakken, Suzanne; Formicola, Allan; Gebbie, Kristine; Larson, Elaine L. – Journal of Research Administration, 2007
Interdisciplinarity has become the model of scholarly inquiry generally espoused by many who seek federal research funding. Interdisciplinary research centers pose challenges to academic settings and to investigators. In a conference of directors of diverse research centers at a single research university we found that the challenges facing…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Research and Development Centers, Research Universities, Sustainability

Buchtel, Foster S. – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1972
Interdisciplinary research centers provide an important part of the university's response to the shifting programmatic needs of our society. (Author)
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Interdisciplinary Approach, Research and Development Centers, Social Problems

Gallagher, James J. – American Psychologist, 1979
Some of the presumed advantages that research centers and institutes have over the individual investigator are: (1) the ability to study large and/or long-range problems; (2) increased interaction with multidisciplinary colleagues; (3) the development of new and improved instrumentation; (4) their potential role in communications and…
Descriptors: Institutional Characteristics, Interdisciplinary Approach, Research, Research and Development Centers
Pignataro, Louis J.; McShane, William R. – Engineering Education, 1979
The Transportation Training and Research Center of the Polytechnic Institute of New York is discussed, along with some issues that must be considered when interdisciplinary research is to be performed at an academic institution. (BB)
Descriptors: Engineering, Interdisciplinary Approach, Research, Research and Development Centers

Blank, Deidre M. – Journal of Professional Nursing, 1993
Describes the offerings of a multidisciplinary research center, the Monell Chemical Senses Center, and highlights the advantages and disadvantages of fellowships in such a setting. (JOW)
Descriptors: Fellowships, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Nursing Education