Integrative research in the university context: Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, the Australian National University
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2005
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Dovers, Stephen
Wasson, Robert
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International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publishing
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At a time of increasing interest and advocacy in integrated and policy-oriented research, this paper offers an empirically-based view of the intellectual and practical challenges of undertaking such research. It analyses the experience of a long-standing university research and postgraduate training centre from 1973-2004: the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies at The Australian National University. The paper discusses staff development issues, cross-disciplinary understanding, organisational requirements for collaborative research, postgraduate and early career considerations, a range of integrative frameworks, and the tensions that arise for interdisciplinary research in the political and economic operating environments of modern universities.
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interdisciplinarity, environment, research, policy, universities
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Journal of Research Practice 1.2 (2005): Article M4
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