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Nolan, R., Siedlok, F., & Hibbert, P. (2026). Reimagining Interdisciplinarity: Sensitization, Reflexivity, and Mobilization Across Landscapes of Practice. Journal of Management Studies. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.70158

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🎙️ Welcome to Revise and Resubmit, where we pause for a moment with ideas that might otherwise pass quietly through the crowded corridors of academia.

Today, we turn to a fascinating new paper, “Reimagining Interdisciplinarity: Sensitization, Reflexivity, and Mobilization Across Landscapes of Practice,” by Ryan Nolan, Frank Siedlok, and Paul Hibbert.

📚 Published online on 11 September 2026 in the prestigious Journal of Management Studies, this is a paper from an FT50 journal, published by the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

And perhaps what makes this paper especially interesting is that it asks us to reconsider something we have become rather accustomed to praising: interdisciplinarity.

We often speak of bringing disciplines together as though collaboration were a matter of drawing the right organisational chart, creating the right structures, or placing the right people around the same table. But what happens when the table itself becomes a place of negotiation, uncertainty, and sometimes quiet disagreement?

🌱 Nolan, Siedlok, and Hibbert invite us to look at interdisciplinary research not simply as something we have, but as something we do. Through practice theory, they introduce three ideas: sensitization, reflexivity, and mobilization. Together, these offer a way of understanding how researchers recognise different ways of knowing, navigate competing professional responsibilities, and somehow make collaboration possible without forcing everyone into one supposedly unified reality.

For early career researchers, this may feel particularly familiar. The desire to collaborate can coexist uneasily with disciplinary expectations, career pressures, evaluation systems, and the persistent question of whether the work will still “count.”

✨ Perhaps the deeper invitation of this paper is to stop asking only, What is interdisciplinarity? and begin asking, How is it sustained, negotiated, and sometimes unravelled in practice?

So, as we enter this conversation, here is the question I want to leave quietly with you:

🤔 If interdisciplinarity is less about bringing different disciplines into agreement, and more about learning how to live and work productively with their differences, what might we need to change about the way we lead, evaluate, and experience research itself?

🙏 A warm thank you to Ryan Nolan, Frank Siedlok, and Paul Hibbert, and to the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. for bringing this important work into the scholarly conversation.

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