Calls

14.01.25

Call for Papers: Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching Conference: Interdisciplinary Integration: Engaging students with Interdisciplinary Thinking and Doing 

London School of Economics and Political Science

This year's conference will focus on examining the methods that engage and inspire students to think across disciplinary boundaries and challenge traditional subject-focused thinking and practice.

Many educational institutions trumpet their interdisciplinary approaches and opportunities, but there is still a disconnect between what is offered and how students perceive and understand what it means to think in an interdisciplinary way. Experience suggests that engagement is the most powerful tool for deeper cognitive understanding, but how is this achieved for students who may not be ready to travel the interdisciplinary road? How do universities find ways to make interdisciplinary thinking relevant, important and worthwhile in an increasingly marketised educational context?

If interdisciplinary opportunities are to retain their importance, they need to meet - and exceed - student expectations. Interdisciplinary experiences need to be meaningful to students and offer value, even if this is not recognised immediately – the lasting impacts of these experiences are often the most powerful for students’ future study and career pathways.

Conference themes

All submissions should address one or more of the following conference themes. You will be asked to identify the relevant theme(s) when submitting your application:

Creating opportunities for Interdisciplinary activities

What needs to be in place to make interdisciplinary activities successful? What has worked - or not worked  - in engaging and leading students on the interdisciplinary journey? Do these need to be compulsory or optional? How do you attract students to ‘interdisciplinary’ thinking? What educational literature or teaching theory helps to support and develop interdisciplinary thinking and action?

Places for Interdisciplinary learning and teaching

Is there an ideal ‘place’ for interdisciplinary experiences? What environmental or structural elements need to be arranged to support interdisciplinary opportunities? Does interdisciplinarity happen when you arrange for interdisciplinary groups - or do you need more? Where do ‘co-curricular’ or ‘extra-curricular’ activities fit? How do we best avail of ‘one-off’ opportunities versus more embedded programmes or curricula?

Outcomes from Interdisciplinary opportunities and engagement  

What do students ‘get’ from interdisciplinary study? Do they understand the impact of their experiences? What value - if any - do they attach to the experiences? Are students telling us things in their actions or feedback that can help to ensure future cohorts are better able to take on the challenges of interdisciplinary thinking? What ways can we capture this and share it? What kinds of assessments are most valuable and appropriate in identifying and articulating the value of interdisciplinary experiences?

Submission Deadline: 14 January 2025

Conference Date: 10 April 2025

31.03.25

Transdisciplinary Engineering for Sustainability Decisions

Frontiers in Sustainability

Transdisciplinary engineering is the emerging approach to build a capacity in engineering to effectively collaborate across academic-industry/government or community boundaries, and to integrate knowledge across academic disciplines, including the social sciences. This is critical to developing effective decision tools in organizations with the resources to affect material change on the environment and society - including at government level and industrial level in manufacturing and product development. We are looking for papers that explore how decision support in engineering settings can be augmented by collaborating across knowledge communities or how engineering analysis can support decisions in non-engineering settings like government policy making or community decisions in the context of sustainability - for clean water, air, low carbon energy, food and agriculture.

 

Application Deadline: 31 March 2025

30.01.25

Analysing interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity in whole systems energy research: experiences from the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC)

University of Edinburgh

The School of Social and Political Science (SPS) at the University of Edinburgh is offering a 3-year PhD studentship on ‘Analysing interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity in whole systems energy research’.

Complex socio-technical challenges, such as energy system transition, invite an interdisciplinary response - cutting across disciplinary boundaries and divides between researchers, policymakers and others. Within UKRI’s Energy and Decarbonisation theme, the Whole Energy Systems (WES) research area seeks to integrate knowledge across research councils, and, as a cornerstone of UKRI WES research, UKERC is expected to demonstrate the benefits of working across disciplinary boundaries, and across research-stakeholder divides.

In practice, this is far from straightforward. Academic research is normally conducted on well-established disciplinary lines, so that integrative interdisciplinary research is challenging and disruptive. There is a need for good empirical evidence on key questions such as: how can interdisciplinary research strategies overcome disciplinary silos and academic-stakeholder divides? Which research methods and tools are effective? How can integrative interdisciplinary research usefully inform decision-making in key policy areas?

Application Deadline: 30 January 2025

15.02.25

Open Call Early-Career Fellowships 2025–2026

ETH Zurich

We invite international applications as well as applications from scholars and artists currently affiliated with one of the Collegium’s supporting institutions, ETH Zurich, the University of Zurich, and the Zurich University of the Arts. The Collegium welcomes diversity and is committed to provide a family friendly workplace. Therefore, we acknowledge care work, part-time employment, or career breaks and consider applications proposing joint research in job-sharing.

With its early-career fellowship program, the Collegium nurtures an environment for promising academics and artists at a critical stage of their career. The program supports courageous projects that cut across and transgress disciplinary boundaries in unconventional ways. As part of their application, each fellow proposes an interdisciplinary event centered on their work, contributing to the Collegium's academic and artistic program.

The fellowship can be used to develop a proposal for a major interdisciplinary grant, such as an ERC or SNSF Starting Grant, or an SNSF Ambizione Grant. It is not intended to support doctoral dissertations. We also encourage small interdisciplinary teams of up to three people to apply with a joint project.

Application Deadline: 15 February 2025

20.01.25

Call for Abstracts: The Lifespan: Perspectives on Ageing and the Life Course form the Medical Humanities, the Healtch Sciences and Age Studies

King's College London

Ageing is too often seen as an inevitable period of decline at the end of life. The UKRI-funded research programme The Sciences of Ageing and the Culture of Youth (SAACY), based at the Centre for the Humanities and Health at King’s College London, a research hub invested in the human dimensions of healthcare, looks at how we can overcome this cultural pessimism by understanding ageing as a lifelong process rather than something that happens at the end of our lives. Older age poses challenges and opportunities just like every other phase in life.

This conference is interested in the synergistic capacities of ageing research across the humanities, social and medical/life sciences invested in ageing as a lifelong process. SLSAeu and SAACY join for this conference to share research at the many intersections of science, literature and the arts.

Please submit your 250-word abstract alongside a 50-word biography by 20th January 2025. Formats include paper presentations (20 minutes) and discipline-crossing panels (including participants from three disciplines, one of whom the moderator). We also encourage sector-crossing panels that include artists and writers, and welcome art events. Proposals for discipline-crossing panels spanning sciences/medicine, social sciences, the humanities, and the arts are especially welcome.

Conference Date: 4 - 6 June 2025

Deadline for Abstracts: 20 January 2025

22.12.24

Call for Proposals: Pathways Communication Program

futureearth

The Pathways Communication Grants Program seeks to ensure that scientific contributions supporting the development of pathways for sustainability reach relevant audiences beyond the scientific community. To promote wider uptake and understanding of pathways for sustainability, the grant supports the dissemination of scientific findings of place-based research projects via innovative formats and practices.

Researchers, including PhD students, who are affiliated with universities and/or research institutions are invited to submit proposals for communication products that aim to disseminate scientific outcomes developed within inter- and/or transdisciplinary place-based research projects on pathways for sustainability, and are addressed to the broader public. This grant supports the communication of research that has already been completed. Proposals to fund research studies and/or include data collection will not be considered.

Submission Deadline: 22 December 2024

06.12.24

Call for papers for Special Issue in “The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension”

various organizers

Agricultural research recognizes more and more that complex challenges of shifts to sustainable agriculture cannot be addressed by top-down knowledge transfer implying linear views of knowledge (Macken-Walsh, 2019; Moschitz et al., 2015). Accordingly, the prominent concept of Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKIS) aims for collaborative and iterative learning of a variety of actors in order to develop innovative solutions (Sutherland and Marchand, 2021).

This Special Issue connects the discussion on collaborative learning with the role of transdisciplinary approaches and co-design for agricultural innovations. Transdisciplinary approaches and co-design aim at fostering knowledge exchange and mutual learning processes between practitioners and interdisciplinary research teams (Basche et al., 2014; Busse et al., 2023; Francis et al., 2008; Gugganig et al., 2023; Paganini and Stöber, 2021). Knowledge integration between heterogenous actors with different values and logics of action can enable the development of innovative solutions and generate knowledge that is taken up in practice (Frank et al., 2022; Otte et al., 2018; Paganini and Stöber, 2021; Prager and Nicholas, 2024; Schäfer and König, 2018; Zscheischler et al., 2022). The adoption of transdisciplinary or co-design approaches in Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems can potentially contribute to their methodological and conceptual refinement (Harrahill et al., 2022). Advisors play a crucial role in transdisciplinary and co-design projects as they can act as intermediaries between practitioners and scientists. In this way their role expands and facilitation tasks are added to knowledge exchange (Klerkx, 2020; Macken-Walsh, 2019).

Abstract-Submission Deadline: 06 December 2024

07.12.24

Call for Sessions Proposals: Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress (SRI)

SRI Congress 2025

Since 2021, SRI has united global leaders in research, government, civil society, and business to meaningfully advance sustainability. The SRI Congress offers an exceptionally inclusive and inspiring global platform for co-creating state-of-the-art solutions and innovations; building a coalition of the willing to achieve a sustainability transformation. SRI is co-convened by Future Earth, the Belmont Forum, and local co-organizers. The Congress is in North America for the first time this year - Chicago, Illinois! SRI2025 will build on the work done in Oceania, African, Latin American, and European-hosted events.

Building on the spirit and progress of previous events, the University of Illinois System (UI) is hosting this year’s Congress. UI is working with the Belmont Forum and Future Earth to host a generative event so that each participant leaves with action items, new connections, and increased hope. Our future is not inevitable; we have solutions for the climate and the many other issues facing humanity and our planet, and it’s time to act. We want Congress participants to leave feeling energized to implement solutions in their best way, whether it's with their communities or with their companies. Your contributions are critical to reaching this goal.

We invite you to submit session proposals around the issues and challenges facing us,  potential solutions, and the questions you want answered. Your proposals are critical to SRI2025 being innovative and inclusive: Covering a wide range of topics and engaging participants to collectively achieve a goal. The SRI Congress team will work with session organizers to design sessions that are interactive, informative and inclusive, making sure we provide all participants a range of ways to engage.

This call for contributions is open to any group of people working to develop and implement the solutions we need to create a more sustainable, equitable, inclusive, and just future. We invite session proposals from groups of people from all sectors including, but not limited to: research, government, business, philanthropy, art, communications, technology, and civil society. All submissions will be reviewed by the SRI2025 Program Team.

Proposal-Deadline: 07 December 2024

Congress-Date: 16-19 June 2025

15.11.24/01.04.25

Call for papers: Mountain Tourism—Trends and Transformations Toward Sustainability and Resilience

MRD

What are current trends in mountain tourism and how do they impact communities and ecosystems amid global change and overtourism? How can tourism be codeveloped and governed to benefit mountain livelihoods while protecting cultural and natural heritage? Mountain Research and Development invites empirical analyses of tourism trends and impacts, systematic assessments of transformative solutions for sustainable tourism, and review-based agendas for future policy, development action, or research on tourism. Notices of intent are due by 15 November 2024, full papers by 1 April 2025.

Read the detailed call for papers:

https://www.mrd-journal.org/issue/mountain-tourism-trends-and-transformations-toward-sustainability-and-resilience/

Read about the journal’s section policies, guidelines, and submission procedure:

https://www.mrd-journal.org/

31.03.25

Call for Applications: 3 Month Executive Diploma Program 2025

Institute for Peace and Dialogue

Institute for Peace and Dialogue (IPD) call for applicants from all over the world countries to join 3 Month Executive Diploma Programs for 2025 Year Intake which surrounding special instruction focus to give the participants valuable education, wide professional experience and fruitful network which graduates can apply their gained skills to build successful worldwide career in state, private and public sectors in numerous positions as Senior Manager, Diplomat, Judge, Mediator, Arbitrator, Human Resources Manager, Case Manager, Program Coordinator, Public Relations Manager, Mentor, Coacher and etc. relevant jobs in middle, senior and executive level.

Applicants can choose and study one or more of the following mentioned Diploma Program:
- Diploma in Conflicts Management & Mediation (CMM)
- Diploma in Project Management (PM)

- Diploma in Leadership & Human Resources Management (LHRM)
 

One of the privileges of the study type is class days only surrounding 3 working days per week which creating suitable environment and enough opportunities for participants exists more free time to travel, research or participate in other useful events and programs as well spend more available free time with their friends, partners and family members while studying 3 Month Executive Diploma Program.
Additional advantages of Diploma Program participants will be chance to visit the local-regional institutions/companies, besides this we will invite guest speakers to share and talk their real work life experience.
Our trainers and speakers not only will share with you about the knowledge and skills also about their company, network and career life success stories which could be valuable factors and views for you to consider in catching easy your future dreamed career.

Deadline for Applications: 31 March 2025

31.05.25

Sustainability and Co-creation, Learning Interactions between Education and Business Sectors

Discover Sustainability

Collection Information and Aims:

Corporate sustainability learning can take many forms and occurs in different sectors and domains of society. The increasing legal and social demands for sustainability in the business sector, also requires now forms of learning, including co-creation with externals and in an inter-sectoral context, especially in the light of the emerging global crises and their resulting impact of a changing and vulnerable environment for the business world. Considered as an instrument for solving complex problems in creative settings, because it leverages a wide range of resources experiences and ideas otherwise unexplored, co-creation can be integrated more in actions towards sustainability.

This topical collection aims to contribute to the under-researched field of interrelation of “Co-creation” and “Sustainability”.

The collection will explore the intersection between the concepts of “Co-creation” and “Sustainability and give practical guidance, by focusing mainly on interdisciplinary research, methodological contributions and theoretical frameworks, advanced empirical research, case studies and experimental initiatives, that highlight innovation in the field, emerging new forms and practices, within science-business co-creation for sustainability. The collection will emphasise the 17SDGs, not as a learning framework bur as a useful guideline in re-designing existing learning processes, in order to adjust or specify existing learning components, guarantee substantial performance and encourage new forms of inter-organizational learning. By exploring these interrelations, the collection contributes to the research community and to the organizations in enhancing their understanding of a common learning space for knowledge transfer and co-creation, as a common instrument for synergized actions and thus revealing the hidden potential for sustainability.

Submission Deadline: 31 May 2025

31.01.25

Prix de la Meilleure Thèse Transdisciplinaire en Management 2025

FNEGE

Le Prix FNEGE de la thèse transdisciplinaire en Management a vocation à récompenser les meilleurs travaux doctoraux en sciences de gestion dont le sujet aborde plusieurs disciplines de management ou dépasse leurs frontières traditionnelles. Les thèses éligibles doivent avoir été soutenues entre le 1er janvier et 31 décembre 2024, dans un établissement d’enseignement supérieur français. Les jeunes docteurs de nationalité étrangère peuvent participer à cette sélection. Les thèses rédigées en anglais et sur articles sonst acceptées par la FNEGE.

Date limite de candidature: 31 janiver 2025

Jury: Avril 2025

Cérémonie de remise du prix FNEGE: Juin 2025

30.04.25

Call for manuscripts: Special issue of Sustainability: Explore Sustainable Development in Multiple Dimensions for Human Well-Being

sustainability

Research on the intersection between well-being and sustainable development is gaining more attention in light of increasing global challenges and the pressure to achieve global commitments for sustainability. Environmental psychology, which explores the relationship between humans and the external world, in the last decade, has been more sustainability- and policy-oriented, encompassing sustainability at larger levels of analysis and life domains beyond resource management, as well as in an interdisciplinary context.

Expanding environmental psychology to embrace multiple dimensions of sustainable development can be important for understanding the tensions that arise between needed action and challenging behavior changes. These can be seen as requirements that reduce subjective well-being, as ecosystem degradation does not have an immediate effect on well-being, and because critical sustainability transformations will trigger individual and collective action.

In this regard, this Special Issue is focused on exploring the intricate connection of multiple dimensions of sustainable development and human well-being. Global priorities have shifted toward well-being and sustainable development, which are both priorities in global agendas but are somehow pursued in separate directions.

This collection of works aims to advance research in this field and contribute to synergizing sustainability and well-being research agendas. The aim is to do so by showcasing articles from various disciplines, including environmental psychology in an interdisciplinary context, that challenge concepts of sustainability even beyond the triangular framing, considering a broad definition of well-being that is not only limited to a state of existence that fulfills various human needs (having, loving, being, and doing). In this way, we can embrace the idea that human well-being is inseparable from the nature and vitality of ecosystems.

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2025