Transdisciplinary Insights

Bergmann, Matthias , Thomas Jahn, Tobias Knobloch, Wolfgang Krohn, Christian Pohl, Engelbert Schramm (2012) Methods for Transdisciplinary Research: A Primer for Practice. Berlin: Campus argue that we will generally have to combine methods or develop new ones.

Their first strategy involves first identifying research tasks and then the combination of methods that are best suited to achieving these [Note that this must involve some familiarity with the strengths and weaknesses of different methods]

Their second strategy involves developing new methods [This largely means developing novel combinations of methods and/or novel types of data]