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

WOODS, Carl T., RUDD, James, ARAÚJO, Duarte, VAUGHAN, James and DAVIDS, Keith (2021). Weaving Lines of Inquiry: Promoting Transdisciplinarity as a Distinctive Way of Undertaking Sport Science Research. Sports Medicine - Open, 7 (1), p. 55.

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Abstract: 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.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	** From Springer Nature via Jisc Publications Router ** Licence for this article: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ **Journal IDs: pissn 2199-1170; eissn 2198-9761 **Article IDs: publisher-id: s40798-021-00347-1; manuscript: 347 **History: published 12-2021; online 03-08-2021; published 03-08-2021; registration 19-07-2021; accepted 16-07-2021; submitted 07-04-2021
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Current Opinion, Team science, Knowledge, Innovation, Translation, Disciplinisation, Transdisciplinary
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1186/s40798-021-00347-1
Page Range:	p. 55
SWORD Depositor:	Colin Knott
Depositing User:	Colin Knott
Date Deposited:	05 Aug 2021 11:20
Last Modified:	05 Aug 2021 11:30
URI:	https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/28904

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