Building collaboration and interdisciplinarity
Our strategic ambitions include to build on our record of path-breaking interdisciplinary research and to bring the world’s best people together, combining expertise from across disciplines to understand and find new solutions to society’s biggest questions. This means our priorities include accelerating interdisciplinary research. Here are the ways we help colleagues work together to solve global problems.
What is interdisciplinary research?
Interdisciplinary research is understood to achieve outcomes (including new approaches) that could not be achieved within the framework of a single discipline. Interdisciplinary research features significant interaction between two or more disciplines and / or moves beyond established disciplinary foundations in applying or integrating research approaches from other disciplines. It has reciprocal research benefits for all the disciplines involved. (Source: UKRI)
Team Research
Training and development activities to explain and support our interdisciplinary model.
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Resources
Guidance, videos and articles on 'how to do' interdiscplinary research.
Funding
Internal funding for interdisciplinary and collaborative research.
Case Studies
Read more about our funded interdisciplinary projects.
Research platforms
Focus and resources to connect, drive and amplify interdisciplinary collaborations, supporting external engagement, impact and innovation projects in Greater Manchester and beyond.
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UMRI support
A governance framework, structures and resources to support interdisciplinary research.
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Research institutes
Bringing disciplines together to facilitate leading-edge research and meet the external demands of government, business and communities, to achieve world-leading status.
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