And notably, this May, for the fourth year running, Harvard FXB awarded an interdisciplinary qualification in child protection to Harvard graduate students who mastered the curriculum.
Many of our students also engage in interdisciplinary work, taking courses and often earning qualification in secondary fields such as Film and Visual Studies, Medieval Studies, Music, and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality.
A qualification from a technomathematics or interdisciplinary institute may provide an advantage, but excellent pure mathematicians with interesting curriculum vitae may also land an industrial job if they demonstrate eagerness to work on industrial topics.
Later on, this turned out to be an important qualification for successfully working in an interdisciplinary research team, which was my first assignment after I graduated from university.
At the same time, industry should be more flexible in its employment strategies, creating positions for interdisciplinary, multilingual, highly technically and personally skilled scientists whose qualifications do not fit within tight job profiles.
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 Master of Professional Studies in Agriculture and Life Sciences and the Masters of Professional Studies in International Development are 12 month programs which provide an interdisciplinary program of study for those who have experience in international development and are seeking to upgrade or update their educational qualifications.
Given the interdisciplinary character of IR and the known turf battles around interventional medicine [1, 37, 38], deficiencies in the key qualification of radiation protection may ultimately heat discussions, which is why radiologists should be the primary experts and correspondents of IR.
Qualifications, arguably.
Qualifications: See specific qualifications above.
