Literature recommendations for ITD research
This page provides a list of ITD research guides, toolkits, handbooks and (research) publications that complement the guidelines for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary (ITD) research. All materials are available online or in the library of the University of Tartu.
Guidelines
Toolboxes
Courses
🧑🎓 Baseli Ülikool: Partnering for Change: Link Research to Societal Challenges
Handbooks
📖 ITD Alliance. (2024). Handbook - Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research. Tasuta PDF.
📖 Hemström, K., Simon, D., Palmer, H., Perry, B., & Polk, M. (2021). The Td knowledge co-production guide book. Tasuta PDF.
📖 Eds. Hirsch Hadorn, G., Hoffmann-Riem, H., Biber-Klemm, S., Grossenbacher-Mansuy, W., Joye, D., Pohl, C., Wiesmann, U., Zemp, E. (2008). Handbook of Transdisciplinary Research. Saadaval Tartu Ülikooli raamatukogus.
📖 Eds. Lawrence, R. J., (2023). Handbook of Transdisciplinarity: Global Perspectives. Saadaval Tartu Ülikooli raamatukogus.
📖 Eds. Downey, G. L. ja Zuiderent-Jerak, T. (2021). Making & Doing: Activating STS through Knowledge Expression and Travel. Saadaval Tartu Ülikooli raamatukogus.
Research publications
General
📄 Network for Transdisciplinary Research. Pidevalt uuenev TD-teaduse ülevaade.
📄 Pohl, C., Klein, J. T., Hoffmann, S., Mitchell, C., & Fam, D. (2021). Conceptualising transdisciplinary integration as a multidimensional interactive process. Environmental Science & Policy, 118, 18-26.
📄 Jahn, T., Bergmann, M., & Keil, F. (2012). Transdisciplinarity: Between mainstreaming and marginalization. Ecological economics, 79, 1-10.
📄 Lang, D. J., Wiek, A., Bergmann, M., Stauffacher, M., Martens, P., Moll, P., Swilling, M., & Thomas, C. J. (2012). Transdisciplinary research in sustainability science: practice, principles, and challenges. Sustainability Science, 7(SUPPL. 1), 25-43.
📄 Brandt, P., Ernst, A., Gralla, F., Luederitz, C., Lang, D. J., Newig, J., Reinert, F., Abson, D.J., & Von Wehrden, H. (2013). A review of transdisciplinary research in sustainability science. Ecological economics, 92, 1-15.
📄 Hansson, S., & Polk, M. (2018). Assessing the impact of transdisciplinary research: The usefulness of relevance, credibility, and legitimacy for understanding the link between process and impact. Research Evaluation, 27(2), 132-144.
📄 Djinlev, V ., Dallo, I., Müller, S. M., Surchat, M., von Rothkirch, J., Wenger, A., & Späth, L. (2023). Challenges and strategies in transdisciplinary research – early career researchers’ perspectives. GAIA-Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 32(1), 77-212.
📄 Carew, A. L., & Wickson, F. (2010). The TD wheel: a heuristic to shape, support and evaluate transdisciplinary research. Futures, 42(10), 1146–1155.
Vajalikud oskused
📄 Stokols, D. (2014). Training the next generation of transdisciplinarians.
📄 Guimarães, M. H., Pohl, C., Bina, O., & Varanda, M. (2019). Who is doing inter- and transdisciplinary research, and why? An empirical study of motivations, attitudes, skills, and behaviours. Futures, 112, 102441.
At the beginning and during the project
📄 Pearce, B. J., & Ejderyan, O. (2020). Joint problem framing as reflexive practice: Honing a transdisciplinary skill. Sustainability Science, 15(3), 683–698.
📄 Pearce, B., Adler, C., Senn, L., Krütli, P., Stauffacher, M., & Pohl, C. (2018). Making the link between transdisciplinary learning and research. Transdisciplinary theory, practice and education: The art of collaborative research and collective learning, 167-183.
📄 Killian, C. (2017-2018). I would prefer not to: Dilemmas in Collaboration. Collaborative Anthropologies 10 (1-2), 95-123.
📄 Lieu, J., Martinez-Reyes, A., Groome, P., Mangalagiu, D., Pearce, B. J., Witajewska-Baltvilka, B., & Møller, R.-E. D. (2023). Inclusive stakeholder engagement for equitable knowledge co-production: Insights from the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme in climate change research. GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 32(1), 138–143.
📄 Archibald, M. M., Lawless, M. T., de Plaza, M. A. P. et al. (2023). How transdisciplinary research teams learn to do knowledge translation (KT), and how KT in turn impacts transdisciplinary research: a realist evaluation and longitudinal case study. Health Res Policy Sys 21, 20.
📄 Pohl, C., Krütli, P., & Stauffacher, M. (2017). Ten Reflective Steps for Rendering Research Societally Relevant. GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 26(1), 43–51.
📄 Muhonen, R., Benneworth, P., & Olmos-Peñuela, J. (2020). From productive interactions to impact pathways: Understanding the key dimensions in developing SSH research societal impact. Research Evaluation, 29(1), 34-47.
Results
📄 Pärli, R., Fischer, M., & Lieberherr, E. (2022). What are the effects of transdisciplinary research projects in the global North and South? A comparative analysis. Current Research in Environmental Sustainability, 4, 100180.
