This page includes all the references from the TILT site, along with further resources to support interdisciplinary learning and teaching projects.

Teaching Matters is the University of Edinburgh’s website, blog and podcast for debate about learning and teaching, for sharing ideas and approaches to teaching, and for showcasing successes. Teaching Matters includes a wide range of blogs exploring Interdisciplinarity.

Crossing the Line is the research project that informed the development of TILT. The project led to publications and presentations, which directly explore interdisciplinary education.

Open Educational Resources in the ‘interdisciplinary’ category, at the University of Edinburgh. Digital resources used in the context of teaching and learning that have been released by the copyright holder under an open licence permitting their use and re-purposing by others. 

The SHAPE-ID Toolkit includes tools and resources to make informed decisions about interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research within Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences alongside societal partners and researchers from Sciences, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. This toolkit provides guidance for policymakers, funders, research performing organisations, researchers and research partners to help make better decisions and promote change in policymaking, funding and educational institutions. 

Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, founded in 1982, is an international, peer-reviewed publication of the Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, dedicated to advancing the theory and practice of the many varieties of interdisciplinarity in the academy and in society at large. Includes an article by the TILT team (Cullen et. al, 2024, ‘Creating Edinburgh: Diffracting interdisciplinary learning and teaching in the contemporary city’).

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