For more, we love the "Ways to promote interdisciplinary research" ( (  class="ltx_cite" data-bib-text="@article{Brown_2015, doi = {10.1038/525315a},  url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/525315a},  year = 2015, 
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author = {Rebekah R. Brown and Ana Deletic and Tony H. F. Wong},  title = {Interdisciplinarity: How to catalyse collaboration},  journal = {Nature}  }" data-bib-key="Brown_2015" contenteditable="false">Brown 2015).

• Manage 2015) below.
  
  
  
  Funders
  
  • Manage  funding from an interdisciplinary perspective while reinforcing research impact. Discipline-based agencies must form joint funding programmes.
    
  • Panels should include a balance of experts from the social and biophysical sciences, with a strong appreciation of other disciplines. It is also useful to include end-users of the research (for example, practioners and policymakers).
    
  • Calls for funding should request balance between disciplines and prefer teams that have a proven record of collaboration. Publication in applicants' own disciplines should be essential; publishing in other disciplines is desirable.
    
  Institutions
  
  • Introduce key performance indicators that promote T-shaped researchers. For example, include qualitative measures of impact on policy and practice, as well as conventional academic indices.
    
  • Identify institutional research strengths that show potential for interdisciplinary collaboration and incentivize it through seed grants.
    
  • Reduce transaction costs: for example, through summer schools to develop constructive dialogue skills. Provide platforms — seminars, research workshops, debating competitions — to discuss challenges in cross-disciplinary research and offer insights into the norms and cultures of other disciplines. Co-locate researchers from different disciplines who work on the same grand challenges.
    
  • Invest in interdisciplinary PhD cohorts, co-supervised by academics from diverse departments or faculties.
    
  Publishers
  
  • Invest in and create high-quality interdisciplinary journals, managed by editorial teams or boards of T-shaped researchers.
    
  • Run special issues in high-impact, single-discipline journals that focus on interdisciplinary research.
    
  • Peer reviewers should assess work using their disciplinary expertise, while being tasked to be open to innovations across disciplines.
    
  Researchers
  
  • Build stamina, patience and self-awareness to manage the long journey of establishing a productive interdisciplinary team.
    
  • Put your best ideas forward even if they are unfinished, and be open to alternative perspectives from other disciplines, policymakers, industry practitioners and community members.
    
  • Prioritize depth early on, and embrace breadth by building relationships with those from other fields and practices.