Failure Modes of Engineering (FeME) is a network re‑imagining how engineering responds to global challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss, and the unequal ways these crises affect women, children, and under‑represented communities. Drawing on the concept of failure modes *(*a systems‑engineering tool for understanding how and where things break down) FeME examines how engineering practices can fall short socially, environmentally, and structurally, and how they might be reshaped to better serve people and planet.
No Boundaries is organised by Failure Mode 5: Transdisciplinary Engineering, one of FeME’s six core Failure Modes. Failure Mode 5 focuses on overcoming disciplinary silos by bringing engineering into dialogue with the social sciences, arts, policy, and lived experience, recognising that complex global challenges cannot be addressed from a single perspective. Through this conference, Failure Mode 5 creates space for collaborative, creative, and inclusive practices that explore how transdisciplinary approaches can lead to more just, resilient, and effective ways of working.
Find out more about FeME here.
The DiveIn Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) is an EPSRC‑funded centre for doctoral training at the University of Glasgow focused on diversity‑led, mission‑driven, and interdisciplinary research. Rather than centring doctoral training around a single discipline or theme, DiveIn brings together researchers from across engineering, computing, physical sciences, and beyond to work collectively on complex global challenges such as beyond net zero, planetary health, the digital divide, and transforming health and healthcare.
Interdisciplinarity sits at the heart of DiveIn’s approach. By fostering collaboration across disciplines, sectors, and lived experience, and by embedding creativity, inclusion, and co‑creation into doctoral training, the CDT supports new ways of thinking about how research is shaped, who leads it, and how it delivers real‑world impact. In collaboration with FeME, DiveIn is co‑organising No Boundaries to showcase and celebrate transdisciplinary practices that challenge traditional research structures and open space for more connected, imaginative, and socially responsive forms of knowledge‑making.
Find out more about the DiveIn CDT here.