In September 2021, the London Interdisciplinary School (LIS) opened its doors to a founding cohort of 65 students, offering an interdisciplinary undergraduate degree spanning beyond the siloed nature of traditional higher education. Our curriculum — the first of its kind in the UK — enables students to study related concepts and theories from multiple disciplines. This innovative way of learning gives students an opportunity to explore multiple disciplinary perspectives in order to understand and tackle complex problems.

So we created something called the LIS Network: a growing group of organisations who want to use interdisciplinarity to make change. These organisations span the public, private, and third sectors. In other words, we work with people from government, business, and charities, to make sense of complexity and find opportunity within.