Engineering with Social Sciences and Humanities; necessary partnerships in facing contemporary (un)sustainability challenges

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dc.contributor.authorByrne, Edmond P.
dc.contributor.authorKeohane, Kieran
dc.contributor.authorRevez, Alexandra
dc.contributor.authorBoyle, Evan
dc.contributor.authorMcGookin, Connor
dc.contributor.authorDunphy, Niall P.
dc.contributor.authorO'Neill, Claire
dc.contributor.authorHarris, Clodagh
dc.contributor.authorHughes, Ian
dc.contributor.authorSage, Colin
dc.contributor.authorBarry, John
dc.contributor.authorÓ Gallachóir, Brian
dc.contributor.authorMullally, Gerard
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-01T15:16:11Z
dc.date.available2023-02-01T15:16:11Z
dc.date.issued2023-01-17
dc.date.updated2023-01-31T10:45:49Z
dc.description.abstractTraditionally, the relationship between engineering, social sciences, and the humanities (SSH) has often been, to varying degrees, fraught, imbalanced and/or non-existent. Engineering has oftentimes been guilty of envisaging SSH as either providing a ‘soft’ window dressing or counterbalance to ‘hard’ projects representing ‘real’ progress, or to be used to more effectively ‘communicate’, for example in overcoming public reticence around such projects. The stories, histories, (her)stories, myths, language, text, images, art, provocations and critical insights which emanate from and characterize SSH are in this (dulled and marginalized) context more likely to be conceived as mere frivolous pursuits to help fill and support leisure time or promote cultural pursuits. This, we argue, not just feeds into the disconnect between respective disciplinary approaches, but seriously and dangerously miscomprehends the value (and values) that SSH can and indeed must bring to the table, in particular when facing emerging and emergent contemporary interconnected challenges around (un)sustainability. SSH can also benefit from such authentic and pragmatic engagement with engineering and science, while highlighting the necessary and invaluable contribution it can make to society, and across our universities, in particular in facing contemporary meta-challenges. This chapter draws upon academics and practitioners from both sides of the house in an Irish university context, who have journeyed together upon such pathways. The terrain and nature of some of these journeys are described, including some of the inherent difficulties and challenges. We highlight the need for journeying together with ‘disciplinary humility’, as equal partners, if we hope to make authentic progress. Finally, some historic and contemporary examples of potential points of convergence are proposed.en
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dc.identifier.citationByrne, E., Keohane, K., Revez, A., Boyle, E., McGookin, C., Dunphy, N., O’Neill, C., Harris, C., Hughes, I., Sage, C., Barry, J., Ó Gallachóir, B. and Mullally, G. (2023) 'Engineering with Social Sciences and Humanities; Necessary partnerships in facing contemporary (un) sustainability challenges?', in Christensen, S. H., Buch, A., Conlon, E., Didier, C., Mitcham, C. and Murphy, M. (eds.) Engineering, Social Sciences, and the Humanities: Have Their Conversations Come of Age?, pp. 375-393. Cham: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-11601-8en
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/978-3-031-11601-8en
dc.identifier.eissn1879-7210
dc.identifier.endpage393en
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-031-11603-2
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-031-11601-8
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-031-11600-1
dc.identifier.issn1879-7202
dc.identifier.startpage375en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/14180
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSpringer Natureen
dc.relation.ispartofEngineering, Social Science, and the Humanities: Has Their Conversation Come of Age?
dc.rights© 2022, the Editors and the Authors, under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher.en
dc.subjectTransdisciplinarityen
dc.subjectEngineering educationen
dc.subjectSocial sciencesen
dc.subjectSociologyen
dc.subjectSustainabilityen
dc.titleEngineering with Social Sciences and Humanities; necessary partnerships in facing contemporary (un)sustainability challengesen
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