Research Day 2011

InterDisciplinary Research

Date: November 10, 2011 (full-day)
The Research Day 2011 focuses on the opportunities and challenges of disciplinary and interdisciplinary research. The programme will answer basic questions to understand what disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity mean in theoretical and practical research:

How can we define disciplinary and interdisciplinary research?
How do we organise disciplinary and interdisciplinary research?
Why interdisciplinary research? What are the benefits? What are the problems?
Which competences do we need to carry out disciplinary or interdisciplinary research?
Where are best practice examples at Research School or RUB?

An introducing keynote provides a theoretical background of both – disciplinary and interdisciplinary - research and gives an overview over ideas, definitions and objectives. A plenary table in the afternoon highlights three exceedingly interdisciplinary research projects on campus and will illustrate the practical side of the topic. This perspective will be completed by the strategic perspective of RUB on interdisciplinary research presented by the Rector.

The aim of the Research Day is to facilitate the communication and understanding of research across the sections and to raise the interest and awareness for research activities beyond disciplinary boundaries. Specially in the presentations (talks, experiments, videos) and poster presentations across sections you will have the opportunity to do both: to get to know more about the research projects in neighboured or very different research fields and to communicate your project to a highly interdisciplinary community of researchers.The Research Day is planned and organized by a team of doctoral fellows of Research School, who designed the programme and invited the speakers

Programme

Time	Programme
9:30 – 10:00	Registration, Poster Set-Up
10:00 – 10:15	Welcome by Prof. Dr. Nils Metzler-Nolte (Speaker Research School)
10:15 – 11:15	Keynote Prof. Dr. Klaus Mainzer (Philosophy and Theory of Science, TU München, Germany) Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Research: Challenges of Complexity in 21st Century Science
11:15 – 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00	Panel 1: Learning and Learning Strategies Cross Sections Presentations by Doctoral Fellows of Research School Psycholinguistics – How psychology works to solve linguistic issues Joined Presentation of different projects by Christina Clasmeier, Johanna Kauffeldt, Inga Weitzig Linguistic distance and the language fluency of immigrants Ingo Isphording Productive failure in learning: do students really have to fail themselves? Katharina Westermann Qualitative data analysis –using interviews with students as an example Lisa Rauschelbach
11:30 - 13:00	Panel 2: Methods and Methodological Aspects Cross Sections Presentations by Doctoral Fellows of Research School Sooner or later- The influence of insecurity on timing of first birth Michael Kind Prediction of tunneling induced settlements using the methods of artificial intelligence Jelena Ninic Dead Man Walking: The impact of over-education on life satisfaction Jan Kleibrink Bringing order to chaos - Machine-learning in astronomy Peter-Christian Zinn Organizing media harm Jan Schank
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 – 14:30	My project in a nutshell! Project Dating
14:30 – 16:30	Poster Presentations across the sections by Doctoral Fellows of Research School 14:30 - 15:30 even Poster Numbers 15:30 - 16:30 uneven Poster Numbers Your Voting for the Poster Prize: 1. Prize: 150,- €, 2. Prize: 100,- €, 3. Prize: 50,- € (within each section)
16:30 – 18:00	Key Panel Presentation and Discussion: Prof. Dr. Estrid Sørensen, Mercator Research Group Spaces of Anthropological Knowledge, Ruhr-University Bochum Prof. Dr. Denise Manahan-Vaughan, Research Department of Neuroscience, Ruhr-University Bochum Prof. Dr. Anja Mudring, Research Department Interfacial Systems Chemistry, Ruhr-University Bochum Prof. Dr. Elmar Weiler, Rector Ruhr-University Bochum
18:00 - 18:15	Awarding Poster Prizes by Prof. Dr. Nils Metzler-Nolte
from 18:15	Informal Get-Together (optional)

Childcare

Additional child care during the Research Day

In case you will need surplus hours of childcare in addition to the regular childcare hours for your full participation of the Research Day, you will be refunded from Research School.
Please find the receipt/ “Quittung” here. We kindly ask you to hand it in (important: signed by the nanny) during the office hours of Maria Sprung.
(Office hours: Monday: 14:30 – 15:30 and Thursday: 11:00 – 12:00
You are most welcome!

Research Day 2011