Instead of a linear progression of high school to college to work to professional engineer qualification to retiring someday, these pathways show that engineers can be much more broadly interdisciplinary and engage with multiple fields, both within engineering and with disciplines such as art or business.
The priorities and themes offer a framework for a variety of stakeholders, including those who develop priorities for research funding, interdisciplinary teams engaged in genomics research, and policymakers grappling with how to use the products born of genomics research to address public health challenges.
There are few studies that examine the processes that interdisciplinary teams engage in and how we can design health information systems (HIS) to support those team processes.
Here, faculty members have the freedom to pursue interdisciplinary projects while engaging their undergraduates in research.
The growing group of researchers engaged in this field led to the emergence of 'Land Change Science' as a separate, interdisciplinary, research field engaging scientists across the social, economic, geographical and natural sciences [ 5,6].
However, despite all participants engaging in interdisciplinary research, there were variations in how researchers defined and conceptualized interdisciplinary research.
With a 2012 study showing that top ranking journals "span a less diverse set of disciplines than lower ranking journals", this could disincentivise young researchers engaging in interdisciplinary research.
Also offered are cooperative grants for groups engaging in interdisciplinary research and core-competence grants for cohesive research units doing research of strategic importance.
The central driver for engaging in interdisciplinary research was the need for different knowledge sectors to contribute towards understanding a complex health research area; this sample was predominantly comprised of a seasoned group of researchers who recognized that many health questions could not be answered effectively within a single discipline.
The two sub-themes for connecting and engaging were 1) interdisciplinary and consumer collaboration and, 2) partnerships and engagement with state health and local health services.
