Learning, Knowledge and Behaviour

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• work collaboratively with students from other disciplines to critically explore the relevance of an interdisciplinary approach to Learning, Knowledge, and Behaviour.
• engage with other disciplines in a topic area relevant to the broad themes of Learning, Knowledge, and Behaviour.
• use communication skills to facilitate and enrich an understanding of the value of an interdisciplinary approach to the study of topics in Learning, Knowledge, and Behaviour.

By its nature this module supports the development students engaged in postgraduate research on a diverse range of topics associated with a wide range of disciplines. It will therefore focus on developing a deeper understanding of some of the challenges and affordances of working in an interdisciplinary research environment.

Common themes covered the each module are likely to include:

• the challenge of synthesising the underpinning philosophical, conceptual and theoretical perspectives from multiple disciplines;
• principles of research design associated with interdisciplinary research;
• an overview of specific ethical considerations associated with interdisciplinary research;
• communication skills for working within interdisciplinary research environments;
• communicating interdisciplinary research to a range of stakeholders;
• maximising impact from interdisciplinary research studies.

Teaching and learning methods

Through a series of workshops, seminars and activities such as visits students broaden their research perspectives in order critically view aspects of their own research and the applied nature of their studies through multiple disciplinary lenses.

Resources & Reading list

Internet Resources

The relationship between interdisciplinarity and impact: an exploratory study, commissioned by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

Textbooks

Sherif, M and Sherif, C. W. (Eds.) (2009). Interdisciplinary relationships in the social sciences.. Transaction Publishers.

Repko, A. F., Newell, W. H. and Szostak, R (2011). Case studies in interdisciplinary research. Sage Publications.

Griffin, G., Medhurst, P., & Green, T. (2006). Interdisciplinarity in Interdisciplinary Research Programmes in the UK. University of Hull.

Summative

Summative assessment description

Referral

Referral assessment description

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External