Original publishing date: Mar 24, 2021

Recently Structures of Strenght’s Amir Raoof wrote a blog wherein he discusses interdisciplinarity and its relation to Darwin’s law. Below you can read an excerpt of his blog.

What do interdisciplinarity and Darwin’s law have to do with each other? In this blog, dr. Amir Raoof , Assistant Professor of Hydrogeology and Geochemistry and member of the Utrecht Young Academy, discusses interdisciplinarity in the context of selection and mutation in species survival. 

“Interdisciplinary collaboration is a major goal in our research policy. Administrators at different levels promote and champion interdisciplinarity. Despite this, interdisciplinarity is not doing well. In this blog I present you an analogy between interdisciplinarity and Darwin’s law, and use this as an argument to promote getting interdisciplinarity out of managers’ mouths and into researchers’ hands and minds.

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