Celia Lury - Routledge Handbook of Interdisciplinary Research Methods

The landscape of contemporary research is characterized by a renewed interest in the potential of interdisciplinarity. Yet there are few discussions of the development of interdisciplinary methods and their behaviour in the field.

The Routledge Handbook of Interdisciplinary Research presents a bold intervention by showcasing a diversity of stimulating approaches. Over 50 experienced researchers illustrate the challenges, but also the rewards of doing interdisciplinary research through discussions of their own practice and that of others. Each section is dedicated to an aspect of interdisciplinary methodology, including collection, classification, validation and communication to research audiences. Featured projects cover a variety of scales and topics, from small art-science collaborations to the big data of mass observations.

Most importantly, the Handbook presents a distinctive approach, defamiliarizing and reworking established practices such as experimenting, archiving, observing, prototyping and translating. The focus is on knowledge as process, the compounding of methods, and the role of interdisciplinary methods in activating the present.

Celia Lury is Professor and Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick.

Rachel Fensham is Professor of Dance and Theatre Studies and Assistant Dean of the Digital Studio, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne.

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas is a writer on contemporary cinema and a Research Associate at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne.

Sybille Lammes is Professor of New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Leiden.

Angela Last is Lecturer in Environmental Humanities at the University of Leicester.

Mike Michael is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology at the University of Exeter.

Emma Uprichard is Reader at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick.

Edited by Celia Lury , Rachel Fensham , Alexandra Heller-Nicholas , Sybille Lammes , Angela Last , Mike Michael and Emma Uprichard

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Names: Lury, Celia, editor.
Title: Routledge handbook of interdisciplinary research methods /
edited by Celia Lury [and six others].
Other titles: Handbook of interdisciplinary research methods
Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2018. |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018011178 | ISBN 9781138886872 (hardback) |
ISBN 9781315714523 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Interdisciplinary research.
Classification: LCC Q180.55.148 R68 2018 | DDC 001.4dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018011178

ISBN: 978-1-138-88687-2 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-71452-3 (ebk)

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Barbara Adam , Professor Emerita (Cardiff University), is a social theorist who has applied the focus on time to the breadth of social science concerns from education and environmental matters to transport and work and has published extensively on the subject. The future featured mainly as the unresolved part of this agenda-setting work until an ESRC Professorial Fellowship enabled her to concentrate explicitly on this elusive subject. She is founder editor of the journal Time & Society .

Yoko Akama is Associate Professor in Communication Design, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University, Australia. Her research focuses on participatory design practices, and design artefacts, language and processes, and their role in enabling people to live in changing economic, cultural and environmental circumstances.

Catherine Ayres is a PhD candidate in the School of Sociology at the Australian National University. Her research focuses on the sometimes conflicting ways we conceptualize and experience Nature, specifically in the realm of national parks and other protected areas.

Harmony Bench is Assistant Professor in the Department of Dance at Ohio State University. Her writing can be found in Dance Research Journal, The International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, Participations and The International Journal of Screendance , for which she currently serves as co-editor with Simon Ellis. She is working on a book manuscript tentatively entitled Dance as Common: Movement as Belonging in Digital Cultures , as well as Mapping Touring , a digital humanities and database project focused on the performance engagements of early twentieth-century dance companies.

David Bissell is Senior Lecturer in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. He combines qualitative research on embodied practices with social theory to explore the social, political and ethical consequences of mobile lives.

Monika Bscher is Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University, Director of the Centre for Mobilities Research and Associate Director at the Institute for Social Futures. Her research explores the digital dimension of contemporary mobile lives with a focus on IT ethics and risk governance. She edits the book series Changing Mobilities (Routledge) with Peter Adey.

Jane Calvert is a Reader in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Her current research focuses on attempts to engineer living things in the emerging field of synthetic biology. She is interested in interdisciplinary collaborations of all sorts.

Rebecca Coleman is Senior Lecturer in the Sociology Department, Goldsmiths, University of London, where she researches and teaches on visual and inventive methodologies, futures and presents, bodies and images. She is currently working on a multi-media book project titled Engaging Futures: Methods, Materials, Media (in preparation, Goldsmiths Press). She has recently published Deleuze and Research Methodologies (co-edited with Jessica Ringrose, 2013, Edinburgh University Press).