If possible it would be good to get beyond sappy agreement about the fact that interdisciplinary research is an absolute good. We know it is.

We will organise the panel like Gardeners Question Time in the UK (one of the BBC’s oldest radio programmes in case you haven’t ever heard it. The format is very simple: The presenter says: Mr. Bloggs from Manchester has a question: and then Mr Bloggs poses his question (“I’ve an interdisciplinary research project, forskalis cocreationis, planted on the north wall of a difficult research institution with poor soil. What is the best way of making it bloom?” and then the panel give their advice…