This article reports on a study that followed up on an initial interdisciplinary project and focused specifically on the experiences of researchers involved in practice-based interdisciplinary research. We share an approach to research evaluation that focuses on the experiences of those conducting the research rather than the outputs. The study allowed those involved in the initial successful project to reflect post hoc on their experiences. We show that neglecting fundamental conceptions about how the research is conceptualized can lead to challenges with the research itself. In addition to alternative understandings of research and concepts, practical and logistical issues, whilst seeming trivial, feed into communication issues such as misunderstanding of terms and language. We argue that tensions and confusions around the very nature of the research—what was being researched, and what was valued as research, epistemological differences between the disciplinary perspectives—need to be explored and interrogated in order to maximize the benefits of interdisciplinary research. We conclude with considerations of the relationship between interdisciplinary research in a team and identity work of team members, and the implications this may have for research design, an area of research evaluation that certainly needs further exploration.

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研究人员在基于实践的跨学科研究中的经验

本文报道了一项研究，该研究是对一个初始跨学科项目的后续研究，并特别关注参与基于实践的跨学科研究的研究人员的经验。我们分享了一种研究评估方法，该方法侧重于进行研究的人的经验，而不是产出。该研究允许参与最初成功项目的人事后反映他们的经验。我们表明，忽视有关如何将研究概念化的基本概念可能会导致研究本身面临挑战。除了对研究和概念的另类理解之外，实际和后勤问题虽然看起来微不足道，但也会引发沟通问题，例如对术语和语言的误解。我们认为，围绕研究本质的紧张和困惑——正在研究什么，什么被认为是研究，学科观点之间的认识论差异——需要被探索和审问，以最大限度地发挥跨学科研究的好处。最后，我们考虑了团队中的跨学科研究与团队成员的身份工作之间的关系，以及这可能对研究设计产生的影响，这是一个肯定需要进一步探索的研究评估领域。