Science today is carried out by many people working together, across disciplines, and across sectors. Science at its most creative and innovative works in networks where people are able to exchange ideas and knowledge.
At Inter-change Research, we focus on change, innovation, and the formation of new inter-disciplinary or inter-sectoral collaborations, across academic institutions, governance, education and industry.
What we do:
mixed method approaches to gain detailed and fine-grained understandings of domains of interest.
facilitate activities and events that allow people to explore questions from different angles and perspectives, and to get creative in their research collaborations.
deliver research-led reports and policy recommendations
Why the name ‘Inter-Change’?
Science and communication are all about exchange.
Science and communication have in common something called the CHIASM.
The word CHIASM comes from the Ancient Greek for a crossing.
A CHIASM happens in biology when chromoses exchange genes.
The CHIASM is also a figure of speech in rhetoric. It happens when two sentences have the same elements, but inverted.
In both cases, there is an exchange, a crossing over between two things, so that each thing takes on some element of the other.
Annamaria’s background in philosophy and social studies of science and her curiosity about the overlaps between science and the arts led her to notice and become fascinated by this idea of exchange and crossing over that occurs in both of them and drives their creativity.
Inter-Change Research aims to foster exchange for productive collaborations between scientists of different disciplines, and between scientists and industry, governance or policy partners.