Clean future: Wellbeing in "dirty work”

Which pitfalls do researchers encounter in interdisciplinary collaborations, and why is interdisciplinary research so vital in overcoming the challenges of our age? A journalist from DUB, Utrecht University’s independent news site, attended the recent screening of CUCo’s documentary, 1 + 1 = 3, which takes a closer look at the process of interdisciplinary collaboration within the Structures of Strength team.

At the end of last year, Ohad Ben Shimon approached CUCo with the question: can I do fieldwork at CUCo? As we didn’t yet have a role to facilitate that, we needed to create one. We’re proud to introduce Ohad here – as our first unusual researcher-in-residence!

Corinne Lamain and Jillian Student, writing for Integration and Implementation Insights (i2Insights), highlight the power of embodied and creative practices like dance and poetry in bridging diverse forms of knowledge

The members of the Power of One team reflect on the challenges (much discomfort!), but definitely also the benefits (for example, the complementarity of different approaches). Read about collaboration, finding balance, tension, meaningful compromises, and more in the short paper.

The Better Wave than Worry team focuses on early signals, that occur everywhere in society. The team makes a series of videos about its members and their role in the project. Mark Sterken and Frank van Steenbeek are the first members to feature in this series, please watch their videos!

Power of One’s Jojanneke van den Toorn joined the Travelling Concepts on Air podcast for a discussion about the concept of privacy. What do people experience as private and what differences are there? And how is privacy used as a political tool?