Disciplinary Boundaries Research Articles

Will ChatGPT undermine ethical values in nursing education, research, and practice?

Will ChatGPT undermine ethical values in nursing education, research, and practice?

Emerging infectious diseases and new pandemics: dancing with a ghost! Lessons in inter- and transdisciplinary research in French Guiana, South America

In light of current international public health challenges, calls for inter- and transdisciplinary research are increasing, particularly in response to complex and intersecting issues. Although widely used under the One Health flag, it is still unclear how inter- and transdisciplinary science should be applied to infectious disease research, public health, and the different stakeholders. Here, we present and discuss our common scientific and biomedical experience in French Guiana, South America to conduct and enrich research in vector-borne and zoonotic infectious diseases, with the aim to translate findings to public health and political stakeholders. We highlight the successful progressive dissolution of disciplinary boundaries that go beyond One Health positive-driven assumptions and argue that specific local conditions, as well as strong support from research and medical institutions, have facilitated an emulsion toward inter- and transdisciplinary science. This argument is intended to improve responses to public health concerns in French Guiana and other countries and regions of the world.

Transdisciplinary STEM: Examples of Student Thinking within Nonformal Learning Experiences

Calls for more integrated approaches to STEM have reached every sector of education, including formal and nonformal spaces, from early childhood to tertiary levels. The goal of STEM education as an integrated effort shifts beyond acquiring knowledge in any one or combination of STEM disciplines and, instead, focuses on designing solutions to complex, contextual problems that transcend disciplinary boundaries. To realize this goal, we first need to understand what transdisciplinary STEM might actually look and sound like in action, particularly in regard to the nature of student thinking. This paper addresses that need by investigating student reasoning during nonformal STEM-focused learning experiences. We chose four learning episodes, all involving elementary students working on engineering design tasks, to highlight the various ways transdisciplinary thinking might arise or not. In our analysis, we highlight factors that may have supported or hindered the integration of mathematical, scientific, technological, and engineering ways of thinking. For example, the nature of the task, materials provided, and level of adult support influenced the nature of student reasoning. Based on our findings, we provide suggestions for how to promote transdisciplinary thinking in both formal and nonformal spaces.

On the way to a more global urban study of China

Teo et al.'s (2023) article effectively highlights that producing new narratives or imaginations is key to developing a deeper understanding of both Chinese cities and those of other contexts. However, certain ‘information cocoons’ still require closer consideration, such as the lack of attention given to narratives produced within the state territory of China, over-reliance on political economic analysis, and the impact of disciplinary boundaries.

Neurobiology and crime: A neuro-ethical perpective

Aim: This review draws attention to the ethical dilemmas associated with research into crime and its neurobiological underpinnings.Methodology: The presentation of the paper is based on the methodology of content analysis and a professional analysis following the structure of the article.Findings: The author points to the ethical limits of the neurobiological reasons behind criminal behaviour, and urges moderation and caution in the use of scientific findings in legal proceedings.Value: The study highlights the boundaries of disciplines, especially natural sciences and medicine, and the concerns of researchers, which is a less preferred subject within the field of scientific research.

Reflection on the design of food systems and experiences for sustainable transformations

The importance of food and technology in modern society is undeniable. Technological advances have revolutionized how we produce, distribute and prepare food beyond local boundaries, and even how we eat. Eating is one of the most multisensory experiences in everyday life. All of our five senses (i.e. taste, smell, vision, hearing and touch) are involved. We first eat with our eyes, we can smell the food before we taste it, and then experience its textures and flavours in our mouth. However, the experience does not stop there. The sounds that come both from the environment in which we are immersed in while eating and our interactions with the food (e.g. chewing) and utensils we use to eat further influence our eating experiences. In all that, digital technology plays an increasingly important role, especially using emerging immersive technologies such as virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR). Designing at the intersection between technology and food requires multi-stakeholder commitments and a human experience-centred approach. Furthermore, it is essential to look beyond disciplinary boundaries and account for insights on various levels including the perceptual effects, experiential layers and technological advancements.

The discursive nature of modern science: philosophical understanding

The article attempts to find out the patterns of adequate discursive interpreta-tion of science in conditions of social turbulence. For this, based on the socio-communicative methodology, the author makes sense of the relationship between science and philosophy, and also characterizes the state of the modern scientific debate about science in domestic and foreign scientific discourse in such fields as understanding the tasks of post-nonclassical science (O. Polishchuk, I. Do-bronravova, G. Haken), possibilities of reality transformation by means of techno-science (H. Bashlyar, B. Latour, V. Maryniuk, V. Melnyk), risks of post-academic science development (J. Ziman, O. Kuz, V. Cheshko), modes/types of science (M. Gibbons, H. Novotny, S. Limoges, L. Ryzhko). The main result of the study is the author's definition of the strengths and weaknesses of science in a socially turbu-lent space. Among its strengths, the author attributes such properties as increased scientific attention to applied problems, a higher degree of scientific self-organization, multitasking at different levels and within different types of relation-ships, communicativeness. Among the weaknesses are the risks of science losing fundamentality, disciplinary boundaries, which is accompanied by a loss of clarity in the methodology and criteria of scientific success, as well as the risk of replac-ing scientific truth with non-academic success criteria, such as the economic suc-cess of science, political correctness, etc. It is concluded that in the situation of global transformations and uncertainty which humanity is currently experiencing, new characteristics of science are developing, which help to understand the risks and dangers of moving away from traditional academicism.

Florence Kelley: Pragmatist, Feminist, Socialist

Florence Kelley: Pragmatist, Feminist, Socialist

Using review articles to address societal grand challenges

AbstractWe introduce a special issue of International Journal of Management Reviews that demonstrates how to use review articles to address societal grand challenges—complex, large‐scale issues facing humankind, such as climate change, inequality and poverty. First, we argue that review articles possess unique features that make them particularly useful for addressing societal grand challenges. Second, we discuss three distinct but related roles of review articles in addressing societal grand challenges: (1) advancing theoretical knowledge; (2) advancing methodological knowledge; and (3) advancing practical knowledge. We conclude by providing future directions to enhance contributions of review articles for addressing societal grand challenges further by: (a) spanning disciplinary boundaries; (b) engaging practitioners; and (c) using alternative review approaches.

International collaboration in social work research

This article is premised on the belief that the social work community needs to recognise that collaborative research – nationally or internationally – will take diverse forms. Setting up a standard model for such collaboration is likely to constrain too narrowly opportunities for good research. I begin by considering how ‘collaboration’ has been – and might be – understood within social work and research. I spend the main part teasing out the various senses in which I have sought, and encouraged others, to collaborate. These include developing homes for rigorous social work research, collaborative research and writing, crossing disciplinary boundaries, challenging national myopia, questioning conventional goods and ills, and doing the history of research.

The CANDOR corpus: Insights from a large multimodal dataset of naturalistic conversation.

People spend a substantial portion of their lives engaged in conversation, and yet, our scientific understanding of conversation is still in its infancy. Here, we introduce a large, novel, and multimodal corpus of 1656 conversations recorded in spoken English. This 7+ million word, 850-hour corpus totals more than 1 terabyte of audio, video, and transcripts, with moment-to-moment measures of vocal, facial, and semantic expression, together with an extensive survey of speakers' postconversation reflections. By taking advantage of the considerable scope of the corpus, we explore many examples of how this large-scale public dataset may catalyze future research, particularly across disciplinary boundaries, as scholars from a variety of fields appear increasingly interested in the study of conversation.

Reconsidering the vignette as method

AbstractWhen ethnography is used in fields outside anthropology, vignettes often take a central role. Yet methodological discussions of the vignette are not as central to anthropology as their cross‐disciplinary use might warrant. By dwelling on, but perhaps less stringently guarding, disciplinary boundaries, anthropology can gain a clearer view of its own central tools—in this case, vignettes. Reconsidering these tools holds particular relevance for work on refugee studies, an inherently interdisciplinary field that anthropology has had a key role in shaping. Artistic works focused on refugees are considered here from a meta‐ethnographic perspective that pays attention to the processes through which a specific series of artworks were produced alongside their content. Central to this analysis is the role of the vignette in the artist's presentation of her work, which enables an inquiry into the double role of the vignette as both method and presentation in anthropology.

Eight recommendations to improve the reporting of qualitative social research in urban nature studies

Researchers studying urban nature should engage with qualitative social methods (QSM) because cities are full of people and what they think and feel matters. QSM are associated with a social science research approach that focuses on understanding how people think and behave by collaborating with participants in the generation of knowledge and including these participants - who may otherwise be excluded - in the research process. QSM are based on descriptive, exploratory, and explanatory research procedures that usually involve participant-centred, constructive, subjective, negotiated, and interpretative research techniques. QSM can provide insights about how urban nature influences humans, and, in turn, how humans influence urban nature. The use of QSM is becoming more common in urban nature research. However, there are recurring shortcomings in reporting. Many researchers do not report enough methodological details for a reader to understand what was done, how it was done, and why, as well as the context of the findings. This article is written to encourage QSM researchers to improve their reporting. The article is based on a list of common issues in urban nature research based on QSM emanating from the author’ s experiences using QSM, reviewing QSM studies, and analysing the empirical literature. Eight recommendations for improving QSM reporting are made, including: 1) articulating the “why” of the qualitative approach; 2) describing the data analysis procedures and techniques in more detail; 3) reporting the coding framework; 4) reporting results as insights extracted from data instead of describing the data; 5) describing participant recruitment and data collection strategies; 6) describing the participants; 7) including the questions of the research; and 8) collaborating with QSM researchers. Researchers working at the intersection of humans and nature in cities frequently cross disciplinary and methodological boundaries. Crossing these boundaries is essential for enriching urban nature research. When reporting the findings of research activities that involve QSM, researchers should consider these eight recommendations and describe what they did, how they did it, and why the did it, with more clarity and intention.

Liaison in het ziekenhuiswezen

Liaison in the hospital Healthcare is becoming increasingly more complex. Different types of healthcare providers such as physicians, nurses and physiotherapists specialize to improve their healthcare provision. One of the pitfalls of this evolution is that, due to a lack of knowledge in other healthcare-related domains, no optimal care can be granted to patients presenting with more complex problems that cross the boundaries of the own discipline of expertise. Moreover, due to a lack of dialogue between colleagues, conflicting advices can arise, posing difficulties to the attending physician to make the right decisions for the patient. Thus, collaboration is mandatory to provide optimal patient care. In this article, some active forms of cooperation between different hospital disciplines are discussed, more precisely psychiatry, urology, infectious diseases and geriatrics.

Review of animal transmission experiments of respiratory viruses: Implications for transmission risk of SARS-COV-2 in humans via different routes.

Exploring transmission risk of different routes has major implications for epidemic control. However, disciplinary boundaries have impeded the dissemination of epidemic information, have caused public panic about "air transmission," "air-conditioning transmission," and "environment-to-human transmission," and have triggered "hygiene theater." Animal experiments provide experimental evidence for virus transmission, but more attention is paid to whether transmission is driven by droplets or aerosols and using the dichotomy to describe most transmission events. Here, according to characteristics of experiment setups, combined with patterns of human social interactions, we reviewed and grouped animal transmission experiments into four categories-close contact, short-range, fomite, and aerosol exposure experiments-and provided enlightenment, with experimental evidence, on the transmission risk of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-COV-2) in humans via different routes. When referring to "air transmission," context should be showed in elaboration results, rather than whether close contact, short or long range is uniformly described as "air transmission." Close contact and short range are the major routes. When face-to-face, unprotected, horizontally directional airflow does promote transmission, due to virus decay and dilution in air, the probability of "air conditioning transmission" is low; the risk of "environment-to-human transmission" highly relies on surface contamination and human behavior based on indirect path of "fomite-hand-mucosa or conjunctiva" and virus decay on surfaces. Thus, when discussing the transmission risk of SARS-CoV-2, we should comprehensively consider the biological basis of virus transmission, environmental conditions, and virus decay. Otherwise, risk of certain transmission routes, such as long-range and fomite transmission, will be overrated, causing public excessive panic, triggering ineffective actions, and wasting epidemic prevention resources.

Two Fields, Overlapping Messages: Investigating the Related Concepts of Leisure Studies and Physical Education

ABSTRACT Inter-disciplinarity and bridging disciplinary boundaries is a practice that scholars often strive for within higher education research. Kinesiology encompasses many aspects such as physical activity, physical education and community. In this article, the two fields of leisure studies and physical education are analyzed as a means to argue that these fields have overlapping messages that are currently being missed within scholarship. Using the theory of boundary crossing, this paper will argue that as a result of missing these current messages, we are at risk of disconnecting education from the social context of leisure. As a result of such analysis, this paper presents conclusions on ways in which research and practice can seek to strengthen the connection between these contexts and open new lines of enquiry that would be fruitful to explore.

Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes

The life, career and personality of Jacob Taubes were extraordinary, even by the standards of the twentieth century. The scion of an established rabbinic family in Vienna, he survived the Holocaust because his father accepted a position in Zurich and moved to Switzerland in 1936, just in time to avoid persecution by the National Socialists. Taubes graduated with a PhD from the University of Zurich and was ordained as a rabbi in 1947, then spent the years from 1947 to 1949 at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City, before moving to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem from 1949 to 1952. In 1952 he returned to the USA where he received scholarships from several prestigious universities. From 1956 to 1966 he taught at Columbia University where he became a tenured professor. In 1966, having split his time between New York and Berlin since 1961, he moved permanently to the Free University where he would teach, with interruptions, until his death in 1987. Educated as a theologian and philosopher, Taubes ignored traditional disciplinary boundaries and intervened in sociological, philosophical and theological debates. At the Free University in Berlin, he held a double appointment in Jewish Studies and ‘hermeneutics’, and continued teaching his favourite authors and topics regardless of disciplinary demands and expectations.

Agricultural economics: a discipline in crisis?

ABSTRACT Agricultural economists have continuously raised questions about their role in the wider economy and society since the discipline's establishment. This led to continuous reinvention, development and stretching of the discipline's boundaries. We have seen the same critique by scholars in other disciplines; many of these evolved to thrive or regressed to die. This begs the question, is the agricultural economics discipline evolving and adapting to change or regressing and facing extinction? To answer this evolutionary question, I use the three key pillars that make up the hereditary material of a discipline as a conceptual framework: research, teaching and association. I use several data sets to diagnose the health of each of these pillars to ultimately comment on the health of the discipline. Our findings indicate the weakest pillar as the association. Although our research and teaching pillars are not as strong as we want them to be, we are in the process of reinforcement. In conclusion, the agricultural economics discipline is not in crisis, at least not yet. I also acknowledge that the emergence of crisis does not always lead to the end of a discipline, but it promotes educational reflection and reform to lead to disciplinary evolution.

Wiley Lecture 2022. Communicating climate change with comics: Life beyond apocalyptic imaginaries

AbstractDrawing on my experience with creative research translation, in this work I discuss how comics provide several possibilities to communicate climate change using geographical analysis and anti‐essentialist representations. Comics can be deployed as a multi‐modal method that encourages researchers to use thick description to communicate embodied, intangible, and hidden experiences of life with climate change that are difficult to capture in other ways. Comics are also a powerful way for authors to visualise how life with climate change is multi‐temporal and to capture diverse images of still‐possible and alternative climate futures that move beyond apocalyptic imaginaries to inform debates about the geographies of hope as they relate to climate change. Finally, comics can enhance the participatory nature of research and facilitate a move to more ‘desire‐based’ research frameworks that emphasise character‐driven and anti‐essentialist narratives. The work reported here should be of broad interest among geographers engaging in geohumanities and climate change researchers experimenting with creative methods to narrativise and communicate human experiences of climate change. My intentions are to move beyond disciplinary boundaries; speak to scholars working in the interdisciplinary fields of climate change, comics studies, climate change communication, and visual studies; and invite more engagement with this mode of creative research translation.

On LHRT’s Seventy-Fifth Anniversary

On LHRT’s Seventy-Fifth Anniversary