Session 6- Thursday, March 5th, 2026
Transdisciplinary research brings together experts from diverse fields along with practitioners and stakeholders, and blends theoretical insights with practical experience into a unified process. Since the ultimate purpose of this method is to develop holistic, real-world solutions to challenges that no single discipline can fully address on its own, transdisciplinary research goes beyond the boundaries of individual disciplines and creates new frameworks to tackle complex problems. In a 300-level research course that introduces transdisciplinarity as an approach that integrates biological, psychological, cultural, and social perspectives into biobehavioral health research, we explored how generative artificial intelligence may contribute to the process of generating and integrating a variety of epistemic perspectives. This presentation will describe the pedagogical approach to the use of AI in this course, as well as the findings of our subsequent autoethnographic study guided by the questions, "Can AI function as an epistemic perspective in transdisciplinary research and knowledge production more generally?" and "How can AI contribute to transdisciplinary research?"
This session will be held on ZOOM- Session ID- 6097757805
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The presenters will be Andjela Kaur, Assistant Teaching Professor, Biobehavioral Health, Kiara Padilla, Student, Biobehavioral Health and Cora Oberly, Student, Biobehavioral Health
Andjela H. Kaur, PhD, Assistant Teaching Professor, Biobehavioral Health and Rehabilitation and Human Services
Andjela H. Kaur, PhD, is an Assistant Teaching Professor in Biobehavioral Health and Rehabilitation and Human Services at Penn State Lehigh Valley. Her research focuses on the political economy of disability, inclusive teaching, as well as globalization and disability. Andjela is curious about the ways in which generative AI influences the production of new knowledge.