SHAPE-ID : Shaping Interdisciplinary Practices in Europe
To illustrate the roles that Arts, Humanities and Social Science research and creative practice can play in inter- and transdisciplinary research, we have produced short accounts of innovative research projects, funding schemes, organisations and infrastructures. These case studies can be downloaded as PDF documents.
Read the SHAPE-ID case study of The Atlas of Holocaust Literature – a digital map of the Warsaw Ghetto – based on selected testimonies, which illustrates fruitful interdisciplinary cooperation between researchers from different domains: digital humanities, Holocaust studies and cartography.
Read the SHAPE-ID case study on a series of arts and humanities-led research projects investigating human-chicken interactions in the UK and Ethiopia.
Project website: Cultural and scientific perceptions of human-chickens interactions website
Project website: Going Places – Empowering Women, Enhancing Heritage and Increasing Chicken Production in Ethiopia
Project website: Causing a Flap: using chicken-based research to transform education, poultry production and human well-being
Read the SHAPE-ID case study of SIENNA, an arts and humanities-led research project on ethical and legal frameworks around human genomics, human enhancement and human-machine interaction.
Read the SHAPE-ID case study of the KPLEX project, which examined how humanities and cultural researchers can deal with messy data and the implications of their approaches for big data research.
Read the SHAPE-ID case study about the Dance Engaging Science project, where researchers and members of the performing arts industries met to examine dance and learn from each other.
The transdisciplinary RURITAGE project turns rural areas into laboratories to show how natural and cultural heritage can act as engines for regeneration.
Read the SHAPE-ID institutional case study of the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute which showcases experiences and lessons on building a culture supportive of inter- and transdisciplinary research.
Listen to a longer interview with Caitriona Curtis, Executive Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub, about the Hub’s journey to building a culture of interdisciplinarity (29 mins).
Read the SHAPE-ID case study on the University of Utrecht Liberal Arts and Sciences Programme, where students design their individual curriculum cutting across the Humanities, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences.
Read the SHAPE-ID funding case study on the UK Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Science in Culture Theme which fosters collaboration between the arts and humanities and STEM disciplines.
Read the SHAPE-ID funding case study describing how the Irish Research Council developed innovative funding support for interdisciplinary research and encouraged Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences leadership of inter- and transdisciplinary research.
Read the SHAPE-ID infrastructure case study on CLARIN, the European Research Infrastructure for Language Resources and Technology which provides the arts, humanities and social sciences with tools for transdisciplinary research.
Read the SHAPE-ID infrastructure case study on DARIAH, the European Research Infrastructure Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities which provides ICT tools for transdisciplinary research in the arts and humanities.
