Publication Chair's Editorial - Beyond Conventional Dialogues: Trandisciplinary Research at the University of Calgary

Abstract

The contributions compiled in this issue resist easy categorization and, hence, were not assembled around a predetermined theme. They arrived independently, from researchers working across biomedicine, environmental engineering, education, community health, artificial intelligence, and the humanities. What emerges, nevertheless, is a coherent range of methods, disciplines, and empirical contexts that reflect the uniquely transdisciplinary research environment of the University of Calgary. Yet, beneath this diversity also lies a shared orientation and collective push against the boundaries that have long defined conventional scholarship across different fields. It is in that spirit of productive discontent that we introduce twenty-seven (27) recently completed and ongoing graduate students’ research presented at the 2026 Peer Beyond Graduate Research Conference.