Is interdisciplinary research career-suicide? Share your experience

Funders are beginning to support early-career researchers to conduct this work through doctoral training centres and projects with a focus on research at the intersections between disciplines. Yet, these types of research have been called "career suicide" for young academics and a British Academy report suggested that early-career researchers should first "cultivate their academic home" as a base to conduct interdisciplinary research.<br />We want to understand early-career researchers own experiences and perspectives of MIT-disciplinary (multi-, <br />inter-, or trans-disciplinary*) research as part of a larger study into the culture of science. <br /><br />Please help us by completing this 15 minute survey.<br /><br />The survey asks you about:<br />Your past and current experiences of MIT-disciplinary research;<br />The motivations, challenges and rewards that you associate with MIT-disciplinary research; <br />The level of support or hindrance that you receive in any MIT-disciplinary research that you undertake <br />Your suggestions as to how support for future MIT-disciplinary research should be approached, <br />particularly in relation to early-career researchers.<br /><br />Please share widely! Post on twitter or facebook: <br />Early-career researchers – whats your experience of #interdisciplinary research? <br />http://bit.ly/2qZrY1C #ECRchat <br />#PhDchat@greenscientists<br /><br />*For the purposes of this survey, we define multidisciplinary as people from different disciplines working together; <br />interdisciplinary as integrating knowledge and methods from different disciplines at the outset of a project; <br />and transdisciplinary as involving researchers from different disciplines and other stakeholders variously <br />in the design, execution and implementation of research.