This session will be focused on professional development, reflecting on and discussing the challenges of being an interdisciplinary scholar in disciplinary settings and developing interdisciplinary ‘fluency’.

Interdisciplinary approaches have great value and strengths. However, being interdisciplinary can also make it more difficult to communicate with scholars and professionals in more ‘disciplined’ fields. Applying for opportunities and operating within these more disciplinary settings is not always easy.

The session will reflect on the speaker’s own experiences of issues in trying to break into more disciplinary settings and discuss some tentative lessons learned on ways to approach these issues. It will then invite discussion from participants to help develop strategies for developing greater fluency and flexibility as interdisciplinary students and scholars.

This is a closed event for RegNet staff, visitors and students only.

About the speaker

Walter G. Johnson is a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University at the Center for Law and the Biosciences. His work focuses on the governance of emerging technologies using socio-legal and interdisciplinary approaches. He recently completed his PhD at the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at ANU.

COVID protocols

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This seminar presentation is in-person only. Registration is not required for in-person attendance as neither the ANU nor ACT Health conduct contact tracing.

If you require accessibility accommodations or a visitor Personal Emergency Evacuation Plan please email regnet.communications@anu.edu.au.

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