Interdisciplinary research has been of interest for a long time, yet there is still much we do not understand about how to stimulate collaboration across research disciplines (Newman, 2023). Scholarship on this topic has been largely theoretical (ibid.) and there has been little empirical investigation. As we increasingly try to address global-scale wicked problems (complex challenges that lack clear solutions or boundaries), generating empirical data relating to practical strategies for connecting researchers and encouraging them to work together across disciplinary boundaries, is a necessity. Scholars have started to explore this in the areas of education and doctoral training programmes (e.g. Carr et al., 2018), and to a lesser extent at the research organisation level (e.g. Bark et al., 2016), but few studies have empirically evaluated a specific research project(s). The inclusion of stakeholder contributions and different ways of knowing (trans-disciplinarity) complicates this even further.

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