Episode #17: Using New Methods to Support Interdisciplinary Collaboration

One subject we always think about at ZiF is how to support our fellows and their work in the best ways possible since they have to combine all their different disciplinary backgrounds, methods and research cultures in a few months of working together. To come to terms with these differences often takes up quite some of the joint research time. How is it possible to avoid more of the frictional losses and the possible dissatisfaction with interdisciplinary work? What kind of maybe more unusual – meaning within the scientific community – methods could be integrated into the framework of the research group to help them make their work as efficient as possible?  

For the resident research group “Mapping Evidence to Theory in Ecology: Addressing the Challenges of Generalization and Causality” a special kind of group work process came into being and in this episode research group convenor Tina Heger and the coaches Nora Pfützenreuter and Oliver Szasz talk about this unique experience.

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We are grateful for the intro by Niklas Schönfeld, for the voice recordings of Molina Panzner and Erica Shires and for the podcast cover by Corinna Mehl.
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