Transdisciplinarity

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Adler, C., Hadorn, G. H., Breu, T., Wiesmann, U., & Pohl, C. (2018). Conceptualizing the transfer of knowledge across cases in transdisciplinary research. Sustainability Science, 13(1), 179-190.

Allen-Scott, L. K., Buntain, B., Hatfield, J. M., Meisser, A., & Thomas, C. J. (2015). Academic institutions and one health: building capacity for transdisciplinary research approaches to address complex health issues at the animal–human–ecosystem interface. Academic Medicine, 90(7), 866.

Bernstein, J. H. (2015). Transdisciplinarity: A review of its origins, development, and current issues. Journal of Research Practice, 11(1), R1.

Bracken, L. J., Bulkeley, H. A., & Whitman, G. (2015). Transdisciplinary research: understanding the stakeholder perspective. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 58(7), 1291-1308.

Cao, L. (2023). Trans-AI/DS: transformative, transdisciplinary and translational artificial intelligence and data science. International Journal of Data Science and Analytics, 1-13. doi.org/10.1007/s41060-023-00384-x

Cundill, G., Roux, D., & Parker, J. (2015). Nurturing communities of practice for transdisciplinary research. Ecology and Society, 20(2).

Dankwa-Mullan, I., Rhee, K. B., Stoff, D. M., Pohlhaus, J. R., Sy, F. S., Stinson Jr, N., & Ruffin, J. (2010). Moving toward paradigm-shifting research in health disparities through translational, transformational, and transdisciplinary approaches. American Journal of Public Health, 100(S1), S19-S24.

Gell-Mann, M. (2013). Ideas for change: The power of trans-disciplinary research to transform society. [video]. (4:48 minutes). World Economic Forum. Available on: Ideas for Change - The Power of Trans-Disciplinary Research to Transform Society - Murray Gell-Mann

Grigorovich, A., Pia, K., & Sixsmith, J. (2016). Transdisciplinary research and innovation: Improving development and uptake of technologies to support persons with dementia. Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association, 12(7), P153-P154.

Hadorn, G. H., Biber-Klemm, S., Grossenbacher-Mansuy, W., Hoffmann-Riem, H., Joye, D., Pohl, C., ... & Zemp, E. (Eds.). (2008). Handbook of transdisciplinary research (Vol. 10, pp. 978-1). Dordrecht: Springer.

Hofkirchner, W. (2017). Transdisciplinarity needs systemism. Systems, 5(1), 15.

Hunsinger, J. (2005). Toward a transdisciplinary internet research. The Information Society, 21(4), 277-279.

Hyun, E. (2011). Transdisciplinary higher education curriculum: a complicated cultural artifact. Research in Higher Education Journal, 11, 1.

Jahn, T., Bergmann, M., & Keil, F. (2012). Transdisciplinarity: Between mainstreaming and marginalization. Ecological Economics, 79, 1-10.

Jahn, T., & Keil, F. (2015). An actor-specific guideline for quality assurance in transdisciplinary research. Futures, 65, 195-208.

Jao, L., & Radakovic, N. (Eds.). (2017). Transdisciplinarity in mathematics education: Blurring disciplinary boundaries. Springer.

Kemp, S. P., & Nurius, P. S. (2015). Preparing emerging doctoral scholars for transdisciplinary research: A developmental approach. Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 35(1-2), 131-150.

Kessel, F., & Rosenfield, P. L. (2008). Toward transdisciplinary research: historical and contemporary perspectives. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 35(2), S225-S234.

Klein, J. T. (2008). Evaluation of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research: a literature review. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 35(2), S116-S123.

Klein, J. T. (2015). Reprint of “Discourses of transdisciplinarity: Looking back to the future”. Futures, 65, 10-16.

Kueffer, C., Hadorn, G. H., Bammer, G., Van Kerkhoff, L., & Pohl, C. (2007). Towards a publication culture in transdisciplinary research. Gaia, 16(1), 22-26.

Lakehead, I. (2015). Multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary- [video]. (1:26 minutes). Available on: Multidisciplinary, Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary

Lawrence, R. J. (2015). Advances in transdisciplinarity: Epistemologies, methodologies and processes. Futures 65, 1-9.

Lawrence, M. G., Williams, S., Nanz, P., & Renn, O. (2022). Characteristics, potentials, and challenges of transdisciplinary research. One Earth, 5(1), 44-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2021.12.010

Leavy, P. (2016). Essentials of transdisciplinary research: Using problem-centered methodologies. Routledge.

Leblanc, T. (2009). Transdisciplinary design approach. In Creativity and HCI: From experience to design in education (pp. 106-122). Springer, Boston, MA.

Maguire, K. (2015). Transdisciplinarity as translation. In Transdisciplinary professional learning and practice (pp. 165-177). Springer, Cham.

McClam, S., & Flores-Scott, E. M. (2012). Transdisciplinary teaching and research: what is possible in higher education?. Teaching in Higher Education, 17(3), 231-243.

Mejía, G. M., Henriksen, D., Xie, Y., García-Topete, A., Malina, R. F., & Jung, K. (2023). From researching to making futures: a design mindset for transdisciplinary collaboration. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 48(1), 77-108. doi.org/10.1080/03080188.2022.2131086

Mendenhall, E. (2018). The Georgetown symposium on global mental health: Transdisciplinary perspectives. Global Public Health, 13(9), 1145-1151.

Merck, J., & Beermann, M. (2015). The relevance of transdisciplinary teaching and learning for the successful integration of sustainability issues into higher education development. In Integrative approaches to sustainable development at university level (pp. 19-25). Springer, Cham.

Michigan Technological University. (2017). The transdisciplinary approach. [video]. (3:50 minutes). Available on: The Transdisciplinary Approach

Mitchell, R. C. (2016). Transdisciplinarity in child and youth studies: Meanings & values. [Power Point].

Mitchell, C., Cordell, D., & Fam, D. (2015). Beginning at the end: The outcome spaces framework to guide purposive transdisciplinary research. Futures, 65, 86-96.

Mokiy, V., & Lukyanova, T. (2022). Prospects of integrating transdisciplinarity and systems thinking in the historical framework of various socio-cultural contexts. Transdisciplinary Journal of Engineering & Science, 13. doi.org/10.22545/2022/00184

Montuori, A. (2019). Creating social creativity: Integrative transdisciplinarity and the epistemology of complexity. In The Palgrave handbook of social creativity research (pp. 407-430). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.

Nicolescu, B. (1999, April). The transdisciplinary evolution of learning. In symposium on Overcoming the underdevelopment of learning at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Montreal, Canada.

Nicolescu, B. (2005). Towards transdisciplinary education. TD: The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 1(1), 5-15.

Nicolescu, B., & Ertas, A. (2008). Transdisciplinary theory and practice. The Academy of Transdisciplinary Learning & Advanced Studies. USA: TheATLAS.

Park, J. Y., & Son, J. B. (2010). Transitioning toward transdisciplinary learning in a multidisciplinary environment. International Journal of Pedagogies and Learning, 6(1), 82-93.

Pasquier, F., & Nicolescu, B. (2019). To be or not to be transdisciplinary, that is the new question. So, how to be transdisciplinary?. Transdisciplinary Journal of Engineering & Science, 10. Doi: 10.22545/2019/0110

Polk, M. (2015). Transdisciplinary co-production: Designing and testing a transdisciplinary research framework for societal problem solving. Futures, 65, 110-122.

Popa, F., Guillermin, M., & Dedeurwaerdere, T. (2015). A pragmatist approach to transdisciplinarity in sustainability research: From complex systems theory to reflexive science. Futures, 65, 45-56. (Available here: https://ac.els-cdn.com/S0016328714000391/1-s2.0-S0016328714000391-main.pdf?_tid=57c916dc-e71d-4060-9ac1-45ea1b331d99&acdnat=1550722830_844e26e47310b9087d018e730cf81859)

Radakovic, N., O’Byrne, W. I., Negreiros, M., Hunter-Doniger, T., Pears, E., & Littlejohn, C. (2022). Toward transdisciplinarity: Constructing meaning where disciplines intersect, combine, and shift. Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 71(1), 398-417. doi.org/10.1177/238133772211135

Rousseau, D., Wilby, J., Billingham, J., & Blachfellner, S. (2016). The scope and range of general systems transdisciplinarity. Systema: Connecting Matter, Life, Culture and Technology, 4(1), 48-60.

Roux, D. J., Nel, J. L., Cundill, G., O’farrell, P., & Fabricius, C. (2017). Transdisciplinary research for systemic change: who to learn with, what to learn about and how to learn. Sustainability Science, 12(5), 711-726.

Satterfield, J. M., Spring, B., Brownson, R. C., Mullen, E. J., Newhouse, R. P., Walker, B. B., & Whitlock, E. P. (2009). Toward a transdisciplinary model of evidence‐based practice. The Milbank Quarterly, 87(2), 368-390.

Scholz, R. W., & Steiner, G. (2015). Transdisciplinarity at the crossroads. Sustainability Science, 10(4), 521-526.

Schmitz, K. H., Ochoa, A., Price, R. S., Hegde, V., Hoelscher, D. M., & Demark-Wahnefried, W. (2017). Transdisciplinary research on energetics and cancer: From adipose tissue to the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Summit Recommendations. Obesity, 25, S7-S8.

Shusterman, A. (2013). Answers - The future of education: Transdisciplinary learning [video]. (1:56 minutes). Schools4Tomorrow. Available on: Answers - The Future of Education: Transdisciplinary Learning

Stokols, D., Harvey, R., Gress, J., Fuqua, J., & Phillips, K. (2005). In vivo studies of transdisciplinary scientific collaboration: lessons learned and implications for active living research. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 28(2), 202-213.

Syme, S. L. (2008). The science of team science: assessing the value of transdisciplinary research. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 35(2), S94-S95.

Thieme, A., Wallace, J., Meyer, T. D., & Olivier, P. (2015, July). Designing for mental wellbeing: towards a more holistic approach in the treatment and prevention of mental illness. In Proceedings of the 2015 British HCI Conference (pp. 1-10). ACM.

ThinQ. (2015). Transdisciplinary thinking i. [video]. (35:25 minutes). Available on: Transdisciplinary Thinking 1

Thompson, M. A., Owen, S., Lindsay, J. M., Leonard, G. S., & Cronin, S. J. (2017). Scientist and stakeholder perspectives of transdisciplinary research: Early attitudes, expectations, and tensions. Environmental Science & Policy, 74, 30-39.

Trujillo, C. M., & Long, T. M. (2018). Document co-citation analysis to enhance transdisciplinary research. Science Advances, 4(1), e1701130.

Van Zyl, I. (2022). Towards a unified concept of transdisciplinary research. Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 18(1), 1-2. dx.doi.org/10.4102/td.v18i1.1279

Other Resources

Levinson, M. (2016). Transdisciplinarity: Thinking inside and outside of the box. Edutopia.

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