Circus Interdisciplinary Summer School 2026
We at CIRCUS offer an enriching three-day school where participants will have the opportunity to further develop their skills in cross-disciplinary collaborations, deepen their knowledge of cross-disciplinarity, and explore tools for working across disciplines. Also, the summer school serves to challenge habitual ways of thinking and explore new ways of navigating academia in a sustainable and reflective manner.
This course is aimed at
- Doctoral student
- Researcher with a doctoral degree
Topic
- Career support
About the course
Possibilities, challenges & opportunities when engaging in cross-cutting research collaborations
Are you also dreaming of warm summer days filled with inspiring discussions on inter-, multi- and cross-disciplinary research? Then don’t miss out on CIRCUS’ Interdisciplinary Summer School 2026!
Who can apply to the summer school?
Senior PhD students (year three and beyond), junior researchers, seasoned tenured lecturers and professors employed at Uppsala University. If you are completing a Ph.D., you will need the approval of your supervisor or Director of Studies at your department.
There is room for up to 23 participants. We aim to have a mixed group of different disciplines, genders, seniorities, and research backgrounds.
We will, in case of oversubscription, favour early submissions while also striving for a fruitful diversity.
Summer School Alumni are warmly welcome to attend our newly added module on the afternoon of August 13th! More information TBA.
A priceless summer school at no cost
- Free of charge (lunch, dinner and activities included!)
- For participants employed at Campus Gotland: Travel from Gotland and three nights at a modest Uppsala hotel are provided for. This is funded in collaboration between CIRCUS and the Advisor to the Vice-Chancellor for Campus Gotland.
Aim of the summer school
- To provide opportunities for capacity-building regarding different kinds of cross-cutting research.
- To provide a thorough orientation about the literature on different forms of interdisciplinarity as well as some ‘hands-on’ experience.
- To examine the possibilities, challenges and opportunities that come with research collaborations across disciplinary boundaries.
Learning objectives
- Scholarship: Participants should be able to describe the key concepts used in discussions about interdisciplinarity and summarise some broad tenets of key literature within cross-cutting research.
- Practice: Participants should be able to relate common challenges in cross-disciplinary research to tools and practices that can address these challenges.
Voices from Summer School Alumni
Find out what some participants said about previous summer schools!
- Interview with Summer School teacher Catelijne Coopmans (in English)
- Interview with Summer School participant Jecinta Atieno Okumu (in English)
- Interview with Summer School participant Oleksandra Khalaim (in English)
- Interview with Summer School particpant Claes Wrangel (in Swedish)
- Interview with Summer School participant Cajsa Bartusch Kätting (in Swedish)
Circus and UUniFI
Since January 2026, Circus is part of UUniFI, Uppsala University’s initiative to promote boundary-crossing and challenge-driven research on complex societal problems. Interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary collaborations feature prominently on the research agenda for the future. Since this transition we are now Circus – The Institute for multi- and interdisciplinarity.
Format
- Lectures/seminars discussing relevant research on the aforementioned topics.
- Practice-oriented and interactive workshops.
- Language: Flexible with Swedish when possible, English when necessary.
- Single and parallel sessions.
- Summer school faculty is from UU as well as other universities.