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In February 2015聽Mirjam Held, PhD student for the Nunavut region of the Fish-WIKS project, 聽had the opportunity to attend a PhD Winter School on interdisciplinary research at the University of Basel in Switzerland. The week-long school focused on understanding interdisciplinarity, how to achieve relevant results on sound methods and hands-on group work within the framework of research on sustainable development. Here she shares a synopsis of the discussions about defining interdisciplinarity and interdisciplinary research.

Interdisciplinarity is a term that is not easily understood as the scholarship of interdisciplinarity is characterized by a lack of a uniform terminology. In the strictest sense of the term,聽interdisciplinarityrefers to the combination of two (or more) disciplines to create a new discipline that is positioned between the parent disciplines and thus better able to address research situated at the overlapping boundaries of two disciplines. Examples of such inter-disciplines are biochemistry, geophysics and oceanography which, in the academic setting, are often at par with more traditional disciplines such as mathematics, biology or history.

This inevitably raises the question of what is a discipline. According to Moti Nissani (1995), 鈥渁聽discipline聽can be conveniently defined as any comparatively self-contained and isolated domain of human experience which possesses its own communit