[interdisciplinarity = alien]

Today I attended an induction for research students new to DMU. While I learned about the myriad of forms I have to fill in and the million signatures I will have to collect, I also met someone interesting; Ivor. During the break we had a very animated discussion. We talked about narrative, hypertext, new media, computing technology, undergraduate degrees, postgraduate degrees (and all that red tape), and then we both complained that there is no PG group. (I've already decided to start one like I did at RHUL). Anyway, after our lengthy discussion we found out that I'm in humanities and Ivor is in Computing. We uttered a collective gasp. What?! But we're opposites, there's no way two people from different disciplines can actually communicate with each other (let alone communicate full stop...he was a techie after all!). What did that teach us - how ingrained singularity in academia really is. It's time to branch out and connect with other departments and other discplines. The worst that can happen is realising that there is so much more out there to learn.