Transdisciplinarity in Teaching and Learning Around the Globe 

Tertiary Institutions around the world recognise that complex societal issues require responses that are cross disciplinary.

Some tertiary institutions have been teaching transdisciplinarity for many years while many others are increasingly introducing transdisciplinarity into their curriculum. 

We list here some of the tertiary institutions offering transdisciplinarity in their curricula and provide links to their TD sites, offerings, conversations. And in some cases, their publications.  Some of these pages also contain useful information and resources.  

 

AUSTRALIA 

University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
The TD School 

 

Australian National University (ANU) 

TD Learning Framework

TD framework – toolkit (research)

 

Murdoch University, Perth 

Breadth Units 

 

CANADA 

Calgary University 

Discussion Document on TD 

 

University of British Columbia (UBC) 

The value of TD learning 

 

 ENGLAND 

London School of Economics (LSE) 

The LSE 100 Course 

TD PhDs (blog) 

 

University College London (UCL)  

Shape the Future of UCL Grand Challenges 

Grand Challenges: Impacts and Outputs 

Transdisciplinary Practice for Engineering 

 

University of Exeter  

European Centre for Environment and Human Health 

Environment and Sustainability Institute 

Grand Challenges 

Climate and Environment Emergency 

 

GERMANY

University of Cologne 

Interdisciplinary Forum 

 

Berlin University

Doing Transdisciplinary Research in Global Health 

 

 IRELAND 

University of Galway  

Designing Futures Transdisciplinary Modules 

 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Claremont Graduate University 

Transdisciplinary Studies

  

Binghamton University, SUNY 

Transdisciplinary Areas of Excellence

 

Northern Illinois University 

Transdisciplinary-Interdisciplinary Approaches

 

Virginia Tech 

Summer Transdisciplinary Curriculum

 

Washington University 

Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures

 

University of California San Francisco 

Postdoctoral Transdisciplinary Research Fellowship

 

SWITZERLAND 

ETH Zurich  

Transdisciplinary Case Studies

 

THE NETHERLANDS

Athena Institute 

 

Publications about transdisciplinary curriculum initiatives from around the world 

 

Australia 
  • Australian National University (Bammer et al., 2023) 
  • University of Newcastle (Brewer et al., 2008) 
Brazil 
  • Federal University of Bahia & University of São Paulo (Rocha et al., 2020) 
Canada 
  • School of Public Health, University of Saskatchewan (Riley & Proctor, 2022) 
  • University of British Columbia (Ramachandran et al., 2022) 
China 
  • Tongji University, Shanghai (Jia et al., 2019) 
Finland 
  • Aalto University, Helsinki (Chemi & Du, 2017) 
Germany 
  • Technical University of Munich (Egerer & Suda, 2023) 
Mexico 
  • Tecnológico de Monterrey (Montesinos et al., 2023) 
New Zealand 
  • Unitec (Napan, 2012) 
South Africa 
  • Cape Peninsula University of Technology (Mokhele & Pinfold, 2021) 
Spain 
  • The University of Málaga (Griffith, 2023) 
Switzerland 
  • University of Bern (Herweg et al., 2021) 
Turkey 
  • Ozyegin University (Kilic-Bebek et al., 2023) 
UK 
  • Royal College of Art and Imperial College London (Wojdecka et al., 2021) 
  • Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University (Hugill & Smith, 2013) 
USA 
  • Center for Institutional Courage, Wayne State University (Gómez, 2023) 
 
  • College of Architecture and Urban Studies and Honors College, Virginia Tech (Velez et al., 2022) 
 
  • Biology Department, Spelman College (Ayalew et al., 2022) 
  • University of Illinois (Keck et al., 2017) 
 
  • Georgia Institute of Technology (Zeagler et al., 2021) 
The Netherlands 
  • Athena Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Tijsma et al., 2023)  
  • University of Twente (Visscher et al., 2022) 
 
  • CZO (a national college of health care training) (Pool et al., 2023) 
 
  • University of Groningen (Dambre et al., 2022)