By Maria Helena Guimarães, Olivia Bina and Christian Pohl
2. Olivia Bina (biography)
3. Christian Pohl (biography)
If disciplines shape scientific research by forming the primary institutional and cognitive units in academia, how do researchers start being interested in and working with a transdisciplinary approach? How does this influence their career development?
We interviewed 12 researchers working in Switzerland who are part of academia and identify as ‘transdisciplinarians’.
They described seven types of motivations: