Welcome to TILT

TILT is a toolkit for interdisciplinary learning and teaching. It offers a collection of ideas, methods and resources to support anyone interested in the possibilities of working across, and beyond, disciplines. Whether you are a university student, a secondary school teacher, a researcher in education, or a course designer, this site will help you develop interdisciplinary approaches and connect across boundaries with others working in this expanded field.

• WHAT IS INTERDISCIPLINARITY?
• WORKING WITH CHALLENGES
• COLLABORATION
• INTERDISCIPLINARY METHODS
• ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES
• ETHICAL PRACTICE

The toolkit includes insights from interdisciplinary learners and educators, references to relevant publications, teaching resources, and videos from the interdisciplinary classroom. In this video, David Overend and Jenny Scoles introduce the toolkit and its sections and share their hopes for how it might be used.

While the content is closely related to programmes delivered by Edinburgh Futures Institute at the University of Edinburgh, the toolkit is available to support learning and teaching in a range of interdisciplinary contexts.

You can contact the team here. We would be delighted to hear from anyone with questions, suggestions, or proposals for future work. We are open to enquiries from doctoral and postdoctoral researchers working in this area.

Contributors / Acknowledgements

Created by the Crossing the Line research team: David Overend (principal investigator), Seongsook Choi, Andy Cross, Clare Cullen, David Jay, Jenny Scoles and M. Winter. Films by Simon Dures. Design by Shuxuan Zhang. Supported by Lorna Campbell, Charlie Farley, Emma Craigen, Mary Collacott, Gavin McCabe and Patrycja Mitrut. Further contributions by Elaine Brown, Chris Blunt, Mark Peace, Mark Huxham, Victoria Tait, María Angélica Madero, Amy Aukland, Rebecca Mahar, Sabine Rolle, Joanna Sadler, Glen Cousquer, Roddy Mcdougall, Polly Dipper, Pauline Ooko, Alexa Pukall, Adrian Cheung, Katie Capella, Rimjhim Relan, Jinru Yu, Cynthia Naydani, Dongwei Wang, Niki Taylor, Caroline Dunford, Martina Cerna, Yuemiao Ma, Joe Noteboom, Adam Ferron, Mahsa Shahbandian, Caitlin Hall, Rosa Ross, Imogen McCall, Henry Romain, Liz Anderson-Whymark, Susan Scott, Christine Goulding, Sean Porter and Eda Ulus. Thank you to all the staff and students on the MA(hons) Interdisciplinary Futures at Edinburgh Futures Institute.

TILT was developed by a large team of interdisciplinary learners and educators at the University of Edinburgh, informed by consultation with experts at London Interdisciplinary School, London School of Economics, Manchester Metropolitan University, Anglia Ruskin University, and Edinburgh Napier University.

Funded by the Principal’s Teaching Award Scheme (PTAS) at the University of Edinburgh. We gratefully acknowledge that funding for PTAS is provided by the University of Edinburgh’s Development Trust through the Edinburgh Fund.

All content is licensed as CC BY 4.0 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International).

This license requires that re-users give credit to the creator. It allows re-users to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format.

For citations, the following details should be used:

Overend, D., Choi, S., Cross, A., Cullen, C., Dures, S., Jay, D., Scoles, J., Winter, M. and Zhang, S. (2024). TILT: Toolkit for Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching, blogs.ed.ac.uk/tilt/. University of Edinburgh.

A full list of references for the TILT site is available here.