跨学科研究（transdisciplinarity），指一种多学科相互融合以实现一个全局目标的研究策略。它适用于涉及两个或多个领域的研究，例如对生物制药研究中计算机建模系统的研究（见生物信息学）。跨学科研究可让起源于一个领域的观念或研究方法应用于其他领域，例如民族志（ethnography），这个研究方法起源于人类学，现在在其他领域中已经广泛使用。跨学科研究也已经应用到艺术和人文领域，在人类学领域尤其广泛使用。

Transdisciplinarity connotes a research strategy that crosses many disciplinary boundaries to create a holistic approach. It applies to research efforts focused on problems that cross the boundaries of two or more disciplines, such as research on effective information systems for biomedical research (see bioinformatics), and can refer to concepts or methods that were originally developed by one discipline, but are now used by several others, such as ethnography, a field research method originally developed in anthropology but now widely used by other disciplines.