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Elizabeth Snow  \nFraser Health Authority  \nAmy Salmon  \nUniversity of British Columbia  \nRichard Young  \nUniversity of British Columbia  \nHealth care researchers and practitioners are increasingly asked to work across disciplines (or, in keeping with the conference theme, “Between the Tides”) to deal with complex health issues. But working with individuals from different fields is more challenging than it sounds. Working across disciplines can result in tension and miscommunications. Furthermore, to explore interactions among disciplines requires breaking down disciplinary boundaries and creating a common framework and language to define, analyze, and develop new approaches.  \nThis paper explores the benefits and challenges of teaching transdisciplinarity in a disciplinecentred world, including a description of the journey of one post-graduate research training program as it strives to help student researchers break down disciplinary borders and develop a common framework to approach a particular health issue – in this case, the problem of substance misuse and addictions.  \nIntroduction  \nWith thecomplexrecanogdnitareioanffetchtaetd  \nhealth issues are by social, cultur-  \nal, political, physical, psychological, and econom-  \nic factors (Rosenfield, 1992) comes the realization that single disciplines cannot adequately describe a given health problem, nor devise its solution.  \nThus, in order to fully understand any health problem, research from varied disciplines, including basic biomedical research, clinical research, epidemiology, sociology, psychology, and others, is needed. Moreover, the knowledge from each of these disciplines must be synthesized and integrated, as the manifestation of what each of these disciplines studies in people’s actual lives does not occur in isolation. For example, social problems occur alongside, and interact with, physical and health problems in the individual’s life, so keeping sociology separate from the biomedical sciences misses the bigger picture. This speaks to the need for collaboration among researchers from different disciplines. Yet universities are typically structured in discipline-separate “silos” which“foster competitiveness and individualism…more than cooperation and consensus-building”(Poole, Egan, & Iqbal, 2009, p. 148-9) . As Austin, Park, and Goble (2008) noted: “In contemporary academia, there is a tension between disciplinary specialization and the need to acknowledge the complex reality of the 21st century”(p. 557) . Fortunately, there is increasing interest in the value of cross-disciplinary collaborative research in the health sciences (Fuqua, Stokols, Gress, Phillips, & Harvey, 2004; Kessel & Rosenfield, 2008; Scott & Hofmeyer, 2007) . But collaborative research is complicated (Younglove-Webb, Gray, Abdulla, & Thurow, 1999), requiring skills beyond those typically gained in disciplinary training. This paper discusses how one postgraduate research training program worked “between the tides” in its journey towards transdisciplinarity.  \nWhat is Transdisciplinarity?  \nWhile there is some disagreement in the literature on the language used for the different types of collaborative research, many scholars refer to Rosenfield’s (1992) definitions, which describe taxonomy of cross-disciplinary research as:  \n• multidisciplinary research: researchers ad-  \ndress a common problem independently, either concurrently or sequentially, in their own disciplines, in isolation from other disciplines; results are brought together only at the end.  \n• interdisciplinary research: researchers work together to address a common problem, but each researcher works from their own discipline’s base, using their own discipline’s techniques.  \n• transdisciplinary research: researchers work together to consciously transcend their discipline’s conceptual, theoretical and methodological orientation to develop a “shared approach” to res","cbCaieikBclHG8ZR","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaieikBclHG8ZR","pdf",505543,"English","# Introduction\n# What is Transdisciplinarity?\n# History and Evolution of Our Program","[{\"question\":\"Why is collaboration across disciplines important in health research?\",\"answer\":\"Health issues are influenced by interconnected factors across social, cultural, political, physical, psychological, and economic domains. Single disciplines cannot fully describe problems or design solutions, so research must be synthesized across varied fields.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the difference between multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary research?\",\"answer\":\"Multidisciplinary research addresses a common problem independently within separate disciplines and combines results at the end. Interdisciplinary research involves joint work but still relies on each researcher’s own disciplinary base and techniques. Transdisciplinary research transcends disciplinary conceptual and methodological orientations to develop a shared approach and common framework.\"},{\"question\":\"What does transdisciplinary research produce beyond traditional disciplinary work?\",\"answer\":\"It can generate new hypotheses, integrative theoretical frameworks, novel methodological approaches, and evidence-based recommendations for policy and practice, often extending beyond what unidisciplinary, multi, or interdisciplinary efforts achieve.\"}]","Teaching Transdisciplinarity in a Discipline-Centred World | PDF",1792087301,18]