Apart from disciplines like law, medicine and education, others can provoke bemused looks among the public and “dismissive frowns” from academics in other departments. In this special piece from Times Higher Education (THE), several academics demystify their fields and explain ...

Despite having been around since the 1970s, interdisciplinary research in Australia is still a relatively neglected field, but one that could achieve much more, a new report has found. The Australian Council of Learned Academies (ACOLA) has just released Strengthening ...