Academic Scientific Workshops

ISBN-13: 9783838369495 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 280 str.

Susan Ballati

Opis

Academic scientific workshops are one model used to foster interdisciplinary communication and collaborative research, provide an effective tool for the transmission of information and construction of knowledge. This assessment is the result of an analytical case study of one activity - interdisciplinary workshops, at the Santa Fe Institute. Measures of effectiveness were obtained through survey analysis, content analysis of survey responses, and discourse analysis of discussion sections of one workshop. Over the course of year 2003-2004, participants from ten different interdisciplinary scientific workshops were surveyed regarding their workshop experience within two weeks of a workshops completion. Six months later, participants from one workshop were surveyed again to gauge long-term impact. Simple survey results suggest participants find these kinds of workshops valuable forums to engage in interdisciplinary communication and foster collaboration. Content analysis of survey responses suggest more evocative findings. Workshops are more about process, mechanics, content, than about immediate measurable results.

O autorze

Susan Ballati, has worked at the Santa Fe Institute (interdisciplinary research and complexity science),and the Gladstone Institutes (basic biomedical research in heart disease, HIV/AIDS, neurological disease, and translational and stem cell research. BA, Santa Clara University; MPA, San Francisco State University; PhD, University of New Mexico.