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IJE Advance Access originally published online on May 24, 2007
International Journal of Epidemiology 2007 36(3):690; doi:10.1093/ije/dym106
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2007; all rights reserved.

Letters to the Editor

What is the role of an interdisciplinary researcher?

James A Smith1,2,* and Gemma E Carey1,3

1Discipline of Public Health, School of Population Health & Clinical Practice, University of Adelaide.
2Discipline of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Adelaide
3Discipline of Anthropology, School of Social Sciences, University of Adelaide.

* Corresponding author Discipline of Public Health, University of Adelaide, Level 9 – Tower Building (MDP 207); 10 Pulteney St, Adelaide SA 5005, Australia. E-mail: james.smith@adelaide.edu.au

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John Lynch's editorial entitled ‘it's not easy being interdisciplinary’ struck a chord for those involved in interdisciplinary research.1 This was an enlightening editorial which raises, in our opinion, salient points relating to the complexity of engaging in interdisciplinary research. He specifically mentions that ‘the challenges of interdisciplinarity remain largely the same as they did 60 years . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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