Transdisciplinary Research Seminar 2024 - 2025

Objectives

The aim of the Transdisciplinary Research Seminar is to develop a better understanding of the ethical, epistemological, methodological, practical and institutional issues involved in transdisciplinary research, based on a cross-analysis of the experiences of various UCLouvain research teams.

This seminar is aimed at all UCLouvain scientists who wish to share, deepen and consolidate their transdisciplinary research practices. Three times a year, a research team will invite participants to discover and discuss their research work in situ. Once a year, as part of the Conference on Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research for Sustainable Development, international experts will bring an outside perspective to our discussions.

“We use the term transdisciplinarity to refer to research that (1) tackles real life problems, (2) addresses the complexity of these problems by involving a variety of actors from science and practice and accounting for the diversity of their perspectives, and (3) creates knowledge that is solution-oriented, socially robust, and transferable to both scientific and societal practice”

Hoffmann, Sabine, Christian Pohl, and Janet G. Hering. “Methods and Procedures of Transdisciplinary Knowledge Integration: Empirical Insights from Four Thematic Synthesis Processes.” Ecology and Society 22, no. 1 (2017).

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Scientific Committee

• Prof. Isabelle Aujoulat (SSS –IRSS - Institut de Recherche Santé et Société)

• Prof. Mathieu Berger (SSH – IACS - Institut d'analyse du changement dans l'histoire et les sociétés contemporaines)

• Prof. Tom Dedeurwaerdere (SSH-JURI - Institut pour la recherche interdisciplinaire en sciences juridiques)

• Prof. Florence Degavre (SSH – IACS - Institut d'analyse du changement dans l'histoire et les sociétés contemporaines)

• Prof. Julie Hermesse (SSH – IACS - Institut d'analyse du changement dans l'histoire et les sociétés contemporaines)

• Prof. Daniela Perrotti (SST - LAB Louvain research institute for Landscape, Architecture, Built environment )

• Prof. Sophie Vanwambeke (SST-ELI - Earth and Life Institute)

• Prof. Jean-Philippe de Visscher (SST – LAB  Louvain research institute for Landscape, Architecture, Built environment )

• Prof. Marnik Vanclooster (SST – ELI Earth and Life Institute)

• Prof. Sandy Tubeuf (SSS, IRSS Institut de Recherche Santé et Société)

• Cécile Ponsar (SSS – IRSS Institut de Recherche Santé et Société)

• Charlotte Bréda (SSS – IRSS Institut de Recherche Santé et Société)

• Michel De Jonghe (SSS – IRSS Institut de Recherche Santé et Société)

• Prof. Sandra Soares Frazão (SST – IMMC Institute of Mechanics, Materials and Civil Engineering)

• Coralie Helleputte (SSH – LIDAM Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modeling in economics and statistics)

• Amaury Peeters (Louvain Cooperation)

• Prof. Marthe Nyssens (Pro-rectrice Transition et Société)

Coordination team

Pierre Mersch (UCLouvain-ADRE), Prof. Jean-Philippe De Visscher (UCLouvain - LAB)