Adventures in urban science and beyond
E-Book, Englisch, EPUB
ISBN: 978-1-80008-215-1
Verlag: UCL Press
Format: EPUB
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Building on this systems focus, the book first establishes the basics of interdisciplinarity. Then, by drawing on the author’s experience of doing interdisciplinary research, and working from his personal toolkit, it offers general principles and a framework from which researchers can build their own interdisciplinary toolkit, with elements ranging from explorations of game-changers in research to superconcepts. In the last section, the book tackles questions of managing and organising research from individual to institutional scales.
Alan Wilson deploys his wide experience – researcher in urban science, university professor and vice-chancellor, civil servant and institute director – to build the narrative. While his experience in urban science provides the illustrations, the principles apply across many research fields.
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Preface
Prologue: A Research Autobiography
Part I: Interdisciplinary Research: A systems Approach
1 Interdisciplinary research
2 Being interdisciplinary
Part II: Doing Interdisciplinary Research
3 How to start
4 Establishing a research base-1: system models
5 Establishing a research base-2: data
6 Doing the research: different kinds of problem solving
Part III: Tricks of the trade
7 Adding to the toolkit: explorations
8 Adding to the toolkit-2: more on superconcepts
Part IV: Managing and Organising Research
9 Managing research, managing ourselves
10 Organising research
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