Interdisciplinary Research and Education (IDRE)

Description

The Interdisciplinary Research and Education (IDRE) community is made up of individuals from diverse academic disciplines and institutional positions involved in IDRE. We engage with each other to improve the knowledge, ability, and capacity for enabling, leading, evaluating, and participating more effectively in IDRE. We welcome you to explore our community pages and attend our next event!.

Aspirations

We aspire to be a vibrant, supportive community focused on expanding our knowledge base and skills for effectively leading IDRE and providing access to best practices, methods and tools that facilitate successful IDRE.

KEYWORDS

Collaboration
IDR
Interdisciplinary
Team science

COMMUNITY MEMBERS

Bañuelos, Jose
Member

Associate Professor

Science - Physics

Science: x-ray and neutron Scattering, separation science, carbon capture, energy storage. Phenomena: ion adsorption/intercalation, ion solvation, mineral nucleation, growth and dissolution, soft matter nanostructure (polymers, proteins, complex fluids),Materials: ionic liquids, polarity switching solvents, deep eutectic solvents, porous materials, planar interfaces

Featured: Awards

Boyer, Eric
Member

Associate Professor

Liberal Arts - Political Science and Public Administration

Public Management, Public-Private Partnerships, Transportation Policy, Knowledge Management, Nonprofit Management, Public Involvement, Disaster Management, Covid-19

Cheon, Hyunjung
Member

Assistant Professor

Liberal Arts - Criminal Justice and Security Studies

Race/Ethnicity and Criminal Justice, Police-Citizen Relations, Risk and Protective Factors for Violence, Comparative Criminology and Criminal Justice, Quantitative Methods

Featured: Awards

Convertino, Christina
Member

Associate Professor

Education - Teacher Education

Community engaged scholarship, Power, Place, Identity

Featured: Awards

Day, Elizabeth
Member

Assistant Professor

Science - Chemistry and Biochemistry

science education research, green and sustainable chemistry, systems thinking, curriculum development and assessment, feminist pedagogy, feminist ethnography,

Featured: Awards

Related Efforts

UTEP Interdisciplinary Research Symposium

Contact: Andrea Tirres

Website

The UTEP Interdisciplinary Research (IDR) Symposium seeks to build on the momentum of campus IDR activities that have included connection-building events & increased interest in interdisciplinary research funds. The symposium typically includes an opening reception with poster presentations followed the next day with various sessions exploring the symposium’s theme. The 2014 theme was Rewarding and Recognizing Interdisciplinary Research. Contact idrutep@utep.edu to help plan the next symposium.

IDR Enhancement Program

Funding: Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (ORSP) & Office of the Provost.

Contact: Andrea Tirres

The Provost and the Office of Research and Sponsored Projects issue a Request for Proposals for interdisciplinary research enhancement on an annual and/or biannual basis. Awards to interdisciplinary teams are typically in the amount of $20,000 per team. Eligibility requirements, authorized use of funds, proposal structure, review processes and criteria, & requirements of awardees are described in the RFP. Term of the award is typically one year. To date, there have been four rounds of funding.

Related Centers

Cyber-ShARE

Related Communities

Community of Engaged Scholars

Cyber-Security

Smart Cities

Team building exercises

Effective Practice

Resource Link

This is a supplement to the article below, which provides examples of team building activities.

Cheruvelil, K. S., Soranno, P. A., Weathers, K. C., Hanson, P. C., Goring, S. J., Filstrup, C. T., & Read, E. K. (2014). Creating and maintaining high-performing collaborative research
teams: the importance of diversity and interpersonal skills. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 12(1), 31–38. doi:10.1890/130001

Wayne State tools for IDR

Effective Practice

Resource Link

A new site with practical information about IDR.

Team Science Toolkit

Effective Practice

Resource Link

This is a website that provides a wealth of resources about leading, supporting, and conducting team science.

Bob William's website

Effective Practice

Resource Link

Bob Williams is an evaluator with lots of experience facilitating group work. His website provides a good selection of methods for a variety of purposes.

DIALOG SOURCES

I3 Move Communities provide a way to share expertise, resources, and community information to the general public. There are numerous tools available, both open source and proprietary, for engaging in dialog and sharing information and knowledge within a closed group.

This community engages in dialog as follows:

None specified to date.