Weaving Lines of Inquiry: Promoting Transdisciplinarity as a Distinctive Way of Undertaking Sport Science Research

Sports Medicine - Open

James Vaughan¹  Duarte Araújo²  Carl T. Woods³  James Rudd⁴  Keith Davids⁵ 

[1] AIK Football, Research & Development Department, Stockholm, Sweden;School of Human Movement and Nutritional Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia;CIPER, Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal;Institute for Health and Sport, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia;Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo, Norway;Sport & Human Performance Research Group, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK;

关键词: Team science;    Knowledge;    Innovation;    Translation;    Disciplinisation;    Transdisciplinary;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s40798-021-00347-1

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

The promotion of inter- and multidisciplinarity — broadly drawing on other disciplines to help collaboratively answer important questions to the field — has been an important goal for many professional development organisations, universities, and research institutes in sport science. While welcoming collaboration, this opinion piece discusses the value of transdisciplinary research for sports science. The reason for this is that inter- and multidisciplinary research are still bound by disciplinary convention — often leading sport science researchers to study about a phenomenon based on pre-determined disciplinary ways of conceptualising, measuring, and doing. In contrast, transdisciplinary research promotes contextualised study with a phenomenon, like sport, unbound by disciplinary confines. It includes a more narrative and abductive way of performing research, with this abduction likely opening new lines of inquiry for attentive researchers to follow. It is in the weaving of these lines where researchers can encounter new information, growing knowledge in-between, through, and beyond the disciplines to progressively entangle novel and innovative insights related to a phenomenon or topic of interest. To guide innovation and the development of such research programmes in sport science, we lean on the four cornerstones of transdisciplinarity proposed by Alfonso Montuori, exemplifying what they could mean for such research programmes in sport science.

【 授权许可】

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