Interdisciplinary Research Career Development: Roadmaps & Practical
Strategies*
SocWl 590B (Renumbered from 577)
Winter Mondays 1:30-4:20
3 credits
Contact Dr. Paula Nurius ( <mailto:nurius@uw.edu> nurius@uw.edu) about
interest and for information
Graduate seminar creating a forum for students spanning multiple disciplines
to
1) learn about national trends increasing need for interdisciplinary
and transdisciplinary readiness in research careers as well as translations
between research and real world application,
2) focus on tools and strategies to increase one's capacities and
readiness for inter/transdisciplinary research oriented careers,
3) engage collaboratively with peers from other disciplines in these
aims, and
4) hone your interdisciplinary career roadmaps for graduate training
and beyond.
Context & Purpose:
Worldwide, social, environmental, and health systems are struggling to
respond effectively to chronic and emerging threats to health and
well-being, deepening disparities, rapidly changing environments, pressing
fiscal constraints, and an multi-level array of factors that transfer risk
and resilience across lifespans, generations, and populations. Meeting such
interlocking challenges requires development of educational architecture
that fosters cross-disciplinary understanding of complex underlying
determinants, the ability to translate that knowledge into effective, high
impact, and sustainable action, and capacity for interprofessional
effectiveness in the emergent models of science, practice, policy, and
politics.
Yet, opportunities for discipline-spanning deep engagement between graduate
students are limited. Join us in building a temporary learning community to
practice the "doing" of interdisciplinary interaction, yet also an eye to
practical needs such as sharpened career statements, optimizing course
choices and mentorship experiences, advancing one's own programmatic or
scholarly progress, and having a clearer picture of one's near future career
roadmap.
