Many colleagues who have become active in AIS have experienced that their membership has entailed friendships with like-minded people, thanks to Bill Newell's creation of a welcoming atmosphere from which both individuals and the organization have benefitted. Musing upon the words behind the acronym AIS, and anticipating its historic first…

This study explores what academics in one major university in Great Britain (The Great Western University) perceive interdisciplinary research (IDR) to be, and in doing so, differentiates it from associated concepts, such as multidisciplinary research and transdisciplinary research, found in the research literature. This study is important because…