Tobi Hilde, Kampen Jarl K
1Biometris, Wageningen University and Research, PO Box 16, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands.
2Statua, Dept. of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Antwerp University, Venusstraat 35, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium.
Qual Quant. 2018;52(3):1209-1225. doi: 10.1007/s11135-017-0513-8. Epub 2017 Apr 27.
Many of today's global scientific challenges require the joint involvement of researchers from different disciplinary backgrounds (social sciences, environmental sciences, climatology, medicine, etc.). Such interdisciplinary research teams face many challenges resulting from differences in training and scientific culture. Interdisciplinary education programs are required to train truly interdisciplinary scientists with respect to the critical factor skills and competences. For that purpose this paper presents the Methodology for Interdisciplinary Research (MIR) framework. The MIR framework was developed to help cross disciplinary borders, especially those between the natural sciences and the social sciences. The framework has been specifically constructed to facilitate the design of interdisciplinary scientific research, and can be applied in an educational program, as a reference for monitoring the phases of interdisciplinary research, and as a tool to design such research in a process approach. It is suitable for research projects of different sizes and levels of complexity, and it allows for a range of methods' combinations (case study, mixed methods, etc.). The different phases of designing interdisciplinary research in the MIR framework are described and illustrated by real-life applications in teaching and research. We further discuss the framework's utility in research design in landscape architecture, mixed methods research, and provide an outlook to the framework's potential in inclusive interdisciplinary research, and last but not least, research integrity.
当今许多全球性科学挑战需要来自不同学科背景（社会科学、环境科学、气候学、医学等）的研究人员共同参与。这类跨学科研究团队面临着诸多因培训和科学文化差异而产生的挑战。需要跨学科教育项目来培养具备关键因素技能和能力的真正跨学科科学家。为此，本文提出了跨学科研究方法（MIR）框架。MIR框架的开发旨在帮助跨越学科界限，尤其是自然科学与社会科学之间的界限。该框架经过专门构建，以促进跨学科科学研究的设计，可应用于教育项目，作为监测跨学科研究各阶段的参考，并作为以流程方式设计此类研究的工具。它适用于不同规模和复杂程度的研究项目，并且允许采用多种方法组合（案例研究、混合方法等）。MIR框架中跨学科研究设计的不同阶段通过教学和研究中的实际应用进行了描述和说明。我们进一步讨论了该框架在景观设计研究、混合方法研究设计中的效用，并展望了该框架在包容性跨学科研究以及最后但同样重要的研究诚信方面的潜力。
