Some time ago, I was looking at a funding body’s policies and came across the word ‘trans-disciplinary’. I am sure that I am not the only one amused by the proliferation of the prefixed-disciplinary family (multi-, inter-, intra-, cross- …). As a mathematical modeller I have worked at the interface between different disciplines for some time and a common question is: how do these whatever-disciplinary teams work ?
http://blogs.nature.com/soapboxscience/2013/04/10/how-multidisciplinary-work-was-made-meaningful-for-me/?WT.mc_id=FBK_NPG