Circus Interdisciplinary Summer School 2025

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 2025!

Application opens 10 April.

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.

There is room for 18 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.

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

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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.