How can academic knowledge be connected with the realities and needs of communities, practitioners, policymakers or other groups affected by the challenges you study? And how could these perspectives help you ask better research questions and make your findings more useful?
Join the interactive workshop Beyond disciplinary boundaries: How can transdisciplinary research enrich your PhD? for practical examples, discussion and a hands-on group exercise.
21 September 2026 | 13:30–15:00
FTZ 315
The workshop is aimed primarily at PhD students and academic staff interested in exploring how a transdisciplinary approach can inform their research questions, methods, partnerships and outcomes.
Speakers: Dr. Margreet van der Burg (Wageningen University) Dr. Stephanie Leder-Büttner (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)
The workshop will also feature their contribution “Disconnected Visions and Collaborative Gaps: Situatedness and positionality in transdisciplinary research on collective farming in India and Nepal.”
No previous knowledge of transdisciplinary research is required. Participants are encouraged to bring a one-sentence description of their PhD topic or research idea.