Rebordering the borders created by multidisciplinary sciences: A study

Kannan, Srinivasan (2010): Rebordering the borders created by multidisciplinary sciences: A study.

Abstract

Emergence of “Glass ceiling” like phenomena in the minds of professionals doing research in a multidisciplinary subject needs to be studied. For an example, computational neurosciences(CNS) comprises of neurology, cognitive science, psychology, computer science, physics, mathematics, information technology, radiology, anthropology, sociology, and biology. When a specialist doing research in a multidisciplinary science like computational neuroscience, know less about other disciplines. This at times leads to tension among the members of the multidisciplinary group. This may create an environment where some members feel excluded. This may also lead to a power structure among different professionals. In case of CNS, the biological scientists feel the computational and engineering sciences may use their mathematical power to control them. On the other hand the engineering scientists feel they need to learn more about biology to understand CNS. The highly technical medical specialist such as Electro physiologists were also feeling like the biologists. As computational neurosciences gaining more importance, it is important to understand the interaction among the scientists from different disciplines and its effect on the development of discipline. The present paper is an attempt to study the dynamics of the members of the multidisciplinary group, who have done their short course on CNS.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Multidisciplinary Research, Computational Neuroscience, interaction, education, research
• Subjects: A - General Economics and Teaching > A3 - Collective Works; I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education and Research Institutions > I23 - Higher Education ; Research Institutions; D - Microeconomics > D8 - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty > D89 - Other; A - General Economics and Teaching > A2 - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics > A29 - Other; D - Microeconomics > D4 - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design > D40 - General; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J2 - Demand and Supply of Labor > J24 - Human Capital ; Skills ; Occupational Choice ; Labor Productivity

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