This book uncovers exactly what is involved when researchers from
different disciplines engage with one another in research projects. The
authors identify the opportunities and difficulties involved in
interdisciplinary engagement, and challenge current claims about where
the greatest difficulties are to be found. The first part of the book
introduces interdisciplinarity and identifies key issues that influence
our understanding of it. The second part of the book presents the
findings of research based on over 50 hours of recording and nearly
450,000 words of transcript drawn from a number of university faculties,
concluding with a discussion of how this might inform interdisciplinary
practice. The book is accessible to the non-specialist reader while also
being of interest to social scientists working in professional and
academic communication.