Researcher-level innovation in interdisciplinarity

At the researcher level, the objective to enhance interdisciplinary capabilities has been taken to mean the ability and confidence of researchers to operate in interdisciplinary contexts, to combine techniques and data sets from different disciplines and to cross-fertilise ideas and concepts.

Funded projects have been required to meet the interdisciplinary training needs of their researchers and postgraduates. The provision has been supplemented by programme-level workshops on interdisciplinary research methods and approaches to data integration.

The Programme has also included small-scale trials with interdisciplinary postgraduate studentships and early career interdisciplinary fellowships.