Modern Languages Research: Towards a Challenge-Based Interdisciplinary Model
Journal: Modern Languages Open
Year: 2023

This article draws on the experience of the multi-institution, multidisciplinary research programme Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies, funded by the AHRC under its Open World Research Initiative, to argue that research in Modern Languages has important things to say about key issues of our time. This implies a challenge-based model for research conducted in an interdisciplinary framework. As Klein and Newell (1998) argue, interdisciplinary studies address topics tha