Expert Comment: Is an interdisciplinary research approach key to tackling global challenges?

Published on February 25, 2025

Professor Christine Gerrard, Director of The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) and Professor of eighteenth-century literature and culture, explores interdisciplinary research as a 'magic bullet' to tackle major global challenges such as climate crisis, democratic stability and global health inequity.
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