Project: Interdisciplining the University: Prosp...
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Interdisciplining the University: Prospects for Sustainable Knowledge Production | |
Description: | Project leader: Mikko E.M. Salmela, Department of Political and Economic Studies, University of Helsinki Funding: € 480 000, Academy of Finland, 01.09.2016 - 28.02.2021 This project scrutinizes the tensions that arise from the recent shift from discipline-driven to more demand-driven university research, which is characterized by a greater significance of inter- and transdisciplinarity. We examine the implications of these tensions for the social and cognitive mechanisms that give scientific knowledge its distinctive epistemic character. While such mechanisms are emphasized in the philosophy of science, their nature and operation in changing institutional contexts is not well understood. To fill this gap, we conduct a philosophically grounded, yet policy relevant, case study at Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT), which is currently undergoing a radical structural change. We explore how the reorganization of LUT research into strategically designed interdisciplinary research platforms influences the dynamics of knowledge production, and evaluate the consequences of these changes for the epistemic sustainability of university research. |
Keywords: | science governance, organizational change, academic knowledge production, inter- and transdisciplinarity, research platforms |
Short title: | Interdisciplining the University |
Period: | 01.09.2016 - 28.02.2021 |
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Martina Merz (internal) |
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Mikko Salmela
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Miles MacLeod (external) |
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Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaften
Institut für Gesellschaft, Wissen und Politik
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University of Helsinki, Department of Political and Economic Studies
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University of Helsinki, Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (TINT)
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University of Twente, Department of Philosophy
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