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By
Dr\u00a0Gabriella Santini<\/strong>
PhD Anthropology\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cInterdisciplinary research is the key to addressing global challenges\u201d,\u00a0they say. So why did I feel like I was swimming against the current on my own interdisciplinary\u00a0<\/em>research journey?\u00a0<\/p>\n

I am a PhD anthropology student working at the intersection of biodiversity conservation and animal behaviour. My doctoral research examines how human-nonhuman interactions are shifting due to wildlife conservation initiatives, employing tools from both anthropology and ethology. Consequently,\u00a0I\u2019ve\u00a0found myself working extensively with ecologists and biologists, both during fieldwork and within higher education spaces, such as conferences and workshops. Initially, I did not\u00a0anticipate\u00a0that it would be difficult, given anthropology\u2019s inherently interdisciplinary nature. After all, our discipline blends methods and theories from the arts, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Furthermore, anthropologists champion \u2018knowledge co-production\u2019,\u00a0purportedly fostering\u00a0openness and adaptability when venturing beyond their comfort zone. As such, the discipline has many geographers,\u00a0biologists\u00a0and natural scientists-turned-anthropologists.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Yet\u00a0I\u2019m\u00a0consistently struck by my encounters with colleagues on the science side. Given that conservation has, for some time, been integrating social sciences into its framework, I was surprised to discover that we often seem not only to speak different languages but also to perceive the world through fundamentally distinct lenses. But this is not the issue, really. I appreciate that interdisciplinary research, as Daniel et al. (2022, 2) articulate, entails integrating \u201cresearch methods, knowledge, assumptions, and frameworks from separate disciplines to address a shared research question.\u201d\u00a0Inevitably, there will be some communication issues that hinder collaboration, and we try to work past that.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

What I mostly took issue with are the hierarchies of knowledge that\u00a0still seem to permeate\u00a0various academic disciplines\u00a0\u2013\u00a0something also noted by\u00a0Elixhauser\u00a0et al. (2024). I often felt like my findings were considered \u2018less valid\u2019 than measurable, quantifiable data that can be neatly displayed on a graph.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

I was at a conservation conference in April 2025 attended by students from various fields across the globe, yet conservation social scientists were\u00a0few and far between. I was the only anthropologist. The feedback I received from the conference judges on my presented project was: \u201cResults feel a little qualitative\/anecdotal.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Reading those words, I was incensed. Despite the conference organisers\u2019 professed openness to conservation social scientists, this comment felt remarkably tone-deaf. It displayed a profound insensitivity to the methods, evidence, and dissemination strategies central to the very scholars they claimed to welcome.\u00a0\u00a0I mean, social scientists produce exactly that: qualitative data. Not to mention that, as an anthropology student, I spent\u00a0considerably more\u00a0time in the field than most other students at the conference, learned two\u00a0local languages, and forewent the comfort of a conservation base camp.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What\u2019s\u00a0particularly frustrating is that this\u00a0isn\u2019t\u00a0an isolated incident. Throughout my four-year journey straddling social and natural sciences,\u00a0I\u2019ve\u00a0encountered\u00a0variations of these kinds of comments repeatedly: \u201cOh,\u00a0you\u2019re\u00a0what? An anthropologist?\u201d \u201cYour data\u00a0probably won\u2019t\u00a0be publishable in a \u2018real\u2019 scientific journal.\u201d \u201cYou aren\u2019t getting enough data points for your work to be meaningful.\u201d And the list goes on.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This\u00a0often fuelled\u00a0self-doubt, making me question my ability to\u00a0conduct\u00a0my research correctly. I wondered whether conservationists took me seriously. Could they sense my lack of confidence? Would the fact that I am not a \u2018real scientist\u2019\u00a0bar me from accessing certain spaces,\u00a0perhaps even\u00a0my own field site? I am even afraid to commit these thoughts to paper, worried that the colleagues I made on the science side might read this and discredit my work.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Indeed, academia\u00a0seems to be\u00a0moving beyond disciplinary silos, with growing enthusiasm for projects that break out of traditional boxes. In fact, aspirations to increase interdisciplinarity feature prominently in\u00a0UCL\u2019s Strategic Plan 2022\u2013\u00a027<\/a>.\u00a0Yet, as an anthropologist who ventured into conservation biology, I\u00a0can\u2019t\u00a0help but feel that this excitement is often more lip service than reality. Crossing disciplinary boundaries sounds great in theory, but in practice, it can be fraught with practical,\u00a0ontological\u00a0and epistemological challenges.\u00a0<\/p>\n

First, there are the awkward moments when you try to explain your project. Each time I\u00a0attempted\u00a0to articulate my work, I was met with puzzled\u00a0looks\u00a0\u2013\u00a0anthropologists questioning my methods and conservationists doubting my\u00a0expertise. This made\u00a0doing\u00a0the PhD an even more isolating experience.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Second\u00a0\u2013\u00a0and closely tied to the first point\u00a0\u2013\u00a0is the struggle to secure funding. Interdisciplinary projects often fall between the cracks of established funding categories (Bromham et al. 2016; Daniel et al. 2022). Funders seem wary of proposals that\u00a0don\u2019t\u00a0fit neatly into a single discipline, making it harder for researchers like me to access resources for innovative work. As a result, the relentless pursuit of funding can hamstring interdisciplinary researchers like\u00a0myself, diverting time and energy away from actual research and inevitably\u00a0impacting\u00a0the quality and quantity of our scholarly contributions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Third, there are\u00a0loads of academic barriers, including the\u00a0timeframe\u00a0given to complete your project. Interdisciplinary projects take more time: \u201cTime is needed to find\u00a0interested collaborators, generate a shared language and goal, and read unfamiliar literature\u201d (Daniel et al. 2022, 3). I still had to undertake a year of ethnographic fieldwork\u00a0on top<\/em>\u00a0of the four months of ethological fieldwork with lions I had to conduct. Because of\u00a0the\u00a0lack of funding and time, I was under extreme pressure in my field site and struggled with my mental health. Not to mention the difficulty\u00a0of finding outlets for publication: journals tend to be discipline-specific, which leads to fewer citations for\u00a0interdisciplinary work (ibid.<\/em>). Once we\u00a0do\u00a0get published, we\u00a0are expected to\u00a0be familiar with and adapt to different writing styles and evidence standards.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Finally,\u00a0there\u2019s\u00a0the imposter\u00a0syndrome.\u00a0It\u2019s\u00a0that persistent voice inside your head that undermines you as\u00a0you\u2019re\u00a0struggling with the practical realities of points one, two, and three. I had constant doubts about my capability to do things right. As Borden et al. (2011) note, what constitutes \u2018knowledge\u2019 and \u2018evidence\u2019 is a cultural construct\u00a0determined\u00a0by discipline; each field has developed its own standards for what constitutes high-quality work. I feared\u00a0I\u2019d\u00a0give myself away if I\u00a0didn\u2019t\u00a0meet those standards or know\u00a0how to\u00a0speak\u00a0their jargon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the end, I made it work. I completed my fieldwork,\u00a0though much later than my colleagues,\u00a0and have\u00a0submitted\u00a0and defended my thesis on time. I am proud of the network\u00a0I\u2019ve\u00a0built for myself, and the project that\u00a0emerged\u00a0from collaborations with Maasai communities and conservation practitioners. However, feeling like I was constantly fighting time and funding, I\u00a0haven\u2019t\u00a0been able to\u00a0participate\u00a0in as many conferences,\u00a0seminars\u00a0and workshops as my peers. I\u00a0truly believe\u00a0that undertaking an interdisciplinary project has set me back professionally, rather than bolstering my career, though only time will tell.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

If the very institutions (e.g., universities, funders,\u00a0workshop\u00a0and conference convenors) that champion interdisciplinary collaboration simultaneously perpetuate disciplinary silos, what future awaits anthropologists who dare to explore other disciplines, theories, and methodologies? And what about researchers from outside anthropology who wish to adopt our ways of thinking without feeling like\u00a0they\u2019re, in the words of Chua et al. (2020), \u2018co-opting\u2019 social sciences?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Interdisciplinary research needs more than just enthusiastic rhetoric. It requires structural support. Funding bodies must\u00a0recognise\u00a0the value of boundary-crossing work and offer targeted grants for interdisciplinary projects at every level, whereby reviewers must\u00a0actually be\u00a0open to creativity and unorthodoxy as opposed to applying the standards of their own discipline (Daniel et al. 2022). Moreover, academic institutions should give researchers undertaking unconventional or interdisciplinary work more time to complete their projects, including getting published and attending conferences. They should also foster environments where researchers feel encouraged, not alienated, to step outside their comfort zones.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For me, becoming an anthropologist-turned-ecologist was not just about learning new methods.\u00a0It was about embracing uncertainty and finding ways to connect across epistemological divides.\u00a0It was messy and uncomfortable at times, but it also opened doors to collaborations that enriched my perspective on conservation,\u00a0science\u00a0and\u00a0anthropology. Most importantly, my project resonated with the Maasai communities I worked alongside, because it was designed with them in the end. And to me,\u00a0that\u2019s\u00a0the partnership that matters the most.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Dr. Santini presenting her research!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

References<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bechtel, William. 1986. \u201cThe Nature of Scientific Integration.\u201d In\u202fIntegrating Scientific Disciplines<\/em>, edited by William Bechtel, 3\u2013\u00a052. Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Boden, Daniel, Maura Borrego, and Lynita K.\u00a0Newswander. 2011. \u201cStudent Socialization in Interdisciplinary Doctoral Education.\u201d\u202fHigher Education<\/em>\u202f62 (6): 741\u2013\u00a0755.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bromham, Lindell, Russell Dinnage, and Xia Hua. 2016. \u201cInterdisciplinary Research Has Consistently\u00a0Lower Funding Success.\u201d\u202fNature<\/em>\u202f534 (7609): 684\u2013\u00a0687.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n

Chua, Liana, Mark E. Harrison, Hannah Fair, Sol Milne, Alexandra Palmer, June Rubis, Paul Thung, et al. 2020. \u201cConservation and the Social Sciences: Beyond Critique and Co\u2013\u00a0Optation. A Case Study from Orangutan Conservation.\u201d\u202fPeople and Nature<\/em>\u202f2 (1): 42\u2013\u00a060.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n

Daniel, Kristy L., Myra McConnell, Anita Schuchardt, and Melanie E. Peffer. 2022. \u201cChallenges Facing Interdisciplinary Researchers: Findings from a Professional Development Workshop.\u201d\u202fPLOS ONE<\/em>\u202f17 (4): e0267234.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n

Elixhauser, Sophie, Zofia Boni, Nata\u0161a Gregori\u010d Bon,\u00a0Ur\u0161a\u00a0Kanjir, Alexandra Meyer, Frank Muttenzer, Mareike Pampus, and Zdenka\u00a0Sokol\u00ed\u010dkov\u00e1. 2024. \u201cInterdisciplinary, but How? Anthropological Perspectives from Collaborative Research on Climate and Environmental Change.\u201d\u202fEnvironmental Science & Policy<\/em>\u202f151: 103586.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n

This piece is a response to Temporalities<\/em>, the theme of our 2026 print issue, which you can read here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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