Best practices for PMing interdisciplinary research - any suggestions for resources?
Hello - brand new member here! I'm interested in project management of interdisciplinary research. I've looked for information on best practices but there are not many resources available. I'd be grateful for any recommendations.
This inquiry is not really discipline specific -- in fact I'm especially interested in learning how to PM broad cross-disciplinary and cross-sector efforts: projects in which members from many different sides of an issue or question recognize a common goal or need and work together to synthesize their varied expertise into a new higher order understanding / framework. This, in turn, informs collaborative research, and the outcome of the research is applied by other project members in practice, the results of which reciprocally inform ongoing research, etc.
One resource I did find very useful is this report on the concept of Boundary Organizations: https://sites.hks.harvard.edu/gea/pubs/huru1.pdf. It offers suggestions on how to facilitate cross-sector collaboration, however it doesn't specifically address the PM role.
(Any chance there's a member of this forum involved in a Boundary Org type of project...?)
Sincere thanks in advance for any advice. Please also let me know if there are any ways I can revise this post to clarify what I'm looking for.
