within the multidisciplinary relationship. Multidisciplinarity is very closely related to crossdisciplinarity ... or the politics of literature . Crossdisciplinarity describes any method, project and research activity ... from other relevant disciplines. In crossdisciplinarity, topics are studied using foreign methodologies ... . Crossdisciplinarity is distinctly different from Interdisciplinarity because of the relationship that the disciplines ... crossdisciplinarity transdisciplinary studies multidisciplinary approach knowledge expert skill ... more details
The Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities , located in Seattle, Washington, is one of the largest and most comprehensive humanities centers in the United States. Housed in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington UW , it offers UW scholars a spectrum of local opportunities for intellectual community and grant support that advances crossdisciplinarity , collaboration , and research while networking them nationally and internationally. History In 1987, the UW s College of Arts and Sciences established the University of Washington Center for the Humanities with a mandate to support interdisciplinary activities. Ron Moore and Leroy Searle served as formative leaders of the Center. In 1997, Barclay and Sharon Simpson endowed the Center, which was renamed the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, in tribute to Barclay Simpson s father, a life long supporter of humanistic education. Kathleen Woodward was named Director of the Center in 2000 she continues to lead it today. http depts.washington.edu uwch about history Programs and Initiatives Collaboration and Crossdisciplinarity All Center programs are grounded in collaboration and crossdisciplinarity . The Center provides funding and support for fellowship programs, research clusters, graduate student interest groups, conferences, and symposia, allowing faculty and graduate students to exchange ideas and develop individual and collaborative projects together with other faculty, students, visiting scholars, and community practitioners. Between 2000 and 2010, the Simpson Center funded 98 faculty fellowships and 56 dissertation fellowships supporting scholars from 26 campus units across the humanities, arts, social sciences, and professional schools. The Center also supports large scale projects funded by major foundations and agencies. Recent examples include the American Music Partnership with KEXP FM of Seattle Paul G. Allen Family Foundation , 2009 2011 , the Sawyer Seminar on ... more details
wikify date January 2010 Unreferenced date January 2010 Established in 1988, the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes serves as a site for the discussion of issues germane to the fostering of Crossdisciplinarity crossdisciplinary activity and as a network for the circulation of information and the sharing of resources within the humanities and Interpretive sociology interpretive social sciences . CHCI has a membership of over 180 centers and institutes that are remarkably diverse in size and scope and are located in the United States , Australia , Canada , China , Korea , Finland , Taiwan , Ireland , United Kingdom , and other countries. Mission and History Established in 1988, the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes CHCI serves as an arena for the discussion of issues germane to crossdisciplinary activity in the humanities and as a network for the circulation of information and best practice s related to the organizational and management dimensions of humanities centers and institutes. Including Organizational and Individual Affiliate members, CHCI currently has a membership of 183 organizations in the US, Europe , Asia , and Pacific Rim . CHCI produces a major Annual Meeting of its membership, maintains a content rich website , produces an annual print directory, and serves as a re circulator for information about its members via LISTSERV listservs and its website. Members of the Consortium also assist one another with ideas, evaluation, and other forms of service. The organization is headed by a President, and is governed by an International Advisory Board of member directors and other leaders in the humanities. CHCI was established in 1988 as the product of two meetings The Institutional Impact of Institutes at the University of California Humanities Research Institute UCHRI, now based at the University of California, Irvine , convened by Murray Krieger , and an organizational meeting at the 1988 meeting of the American Council of Learned ... more details
refimprove date November 2010 Occupational safety and health OSH is a crossdisciplinarity cross disciplinary area concerned with protecting the safety , health and quality of life welfare of people engaged in Employment work or employment . The goal of occupational safety and health programs is to foster a safe and healthy work environment. ref Oak Ridge National Lab Safety Document http www.ornl.gov ref As secondary effects, OSH may also protect co workers, family members, employers, customers, suppliers, nearby communities, and other members of the public who are impacted by the workplace environment as well as reduce medical care, sick leave and disability benefit costs. OSH may involve interactions among many subject areas, including occupational medicine , occupational hygiene occupational or industrial hygiene , public health , safety engineering industrial engineering , chemistry , health physics and ergonomics . Definition Since 1950, the International Labour Organization ILO and the World Health Organization WHO have shared a common definition of occupational health. It was adopted by the Joint ILO WHO Committee on Occupational Health at its first session in 1950 and revised at its twelfth session in 1995. The definition reads Occupational health should aim at the promotion and maintenance of the highest degree of physical, mental and social well being of workers in all occupations the prevention amongst workers of departures from health caused by their working conditions the protection of workers in their employment from risks resulting from factors adverse to health the placing and maintenance of the worker in an occupational environment adapted to his physiological and psychological capabilities and, to summarize, the adaptation of work to man and of each man to his job The main focus in occupational health is on three different objectives i the maintenance and promotion of workers health and working capacity ii the improvement of working environment and work ... more details
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