Burch Karly, Guthman Julie, Gugganig Mascha, Bronson Kelly, Comi Matt, Legun Katharine, Biltekoff Charlotte, Broad Garrett, Brock Samara, Freidberg Susanne, Baur Patrick, Mincyte Diana
University of Auckland, Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand.
University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.
Agric Human Values. 2023 May 1:1-11. doi: 10.1007/s10460-023-10438-2.
Interdisciplinary research needs innovation. As an action-oriented intervention, this Manifesto begins from the authors' experiences as social scientists working within interdisciplinary science and technology collaborations in agriculture and food. We draw from these experiences to: 1) explain what social scientists contribute to interdisciplinary agri-food tech collaborations; (2) describe barriers to substantive and meaningful collaboration; and (3) propose ways to overcome these barriers. We encourage funding bodies to develop mechanisms that ensure funded projects respect the integrity of social science expertise and incorporate its insights. We also call for the integration of social scientific questions and methods in interdisciplinary projects , and for a genuine curiosity on the part of STEM and social science researchers alike about the knowledge and skills each of us has to offer. We contend that cultivating such integration and curiosity within interdisciplinary collaborations will make them more enriching for all researchers involved, and more likely to generate socially beneficial outcomes.
跨学科研究需要创新。作为一种以行动为导向的干预措施，本宣言始于作者作为社会科学家在农业和食品领域的跨学科科技合作中的经历。我们借鉴这些经验来：1）解释社会科学家对跨学科农业食品技术合作的贡献；（2）描述实质性和有意义合作的障碍；（3）提出克服这些障碍的方法。我们鼓励资助机构制定机制，以确保资助项目尊重社会科学专业知识的完整性并纳入其见解。我们还呼吁在跨学科项目中整合社会科学问题和方法，并呼吁STEM和社会科学研究人员对我们每个人所能提供的知识和技能都抱有真正的好奇心。我们认为，在跨学科合作中培养这种整合和好奇心将使它们对所有参与的研究人员更有意义，并更有可能产生社会效益。
