Interdisciplinary Development Initiatives
About the Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program
The Interdisciplinary Development Initiatives Program (IDIs) provides seed funding for projects that further Western’s research and teaching mission, attract scholars and graduate students to our University, and bring prestige to Western. These IDIs, led by leading or emerging academic scholars, will have articulated undergraduate, graduate and research dimensions.
Rounds One through Four of the Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program
The Interdisciplinary Development Initiatives (IDI) Program funded eight projects in 2007-08, five projects in 2008-09, six projects in 2010-11, and four projects in 2012-13. These 23 projects were selected from 58 proposals received.
The funded projects include proposals that aim to develop new institutes, graduate programs, undergraduate programs, and a range of other ventures.
The funded IDIs include:
- Advanced Materials and Biomaterials
- Bone and Joint Health
- Building and Intellectual Community
- Centre for Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction
- Developmental Biology
- Digital Humanities
- Environment & Sustainability
- Graduate Collaborative Program Molecular in Imaging
- Health Across the Lifespan
- Healthy Living Across the Lifespan
- Indigenous Health and Well-Being
- Interdisciplinary Approaches to Linguistics
- Interface of Science and Medicine
- Leadership for Public Health Transformation
- Microfluidics Meets Microbiology
- Migration and Ethnic Relations
- Neuroscience
- Population and Life Course Studies
- Planetary Science and Exploration
- Financial Innovation and Risk in Financial Institutions
- Space Science and Exploration
- Soochow
- Building Teaching and Research Excellence Through the Africa Institute
