IDEAS Office of Interdisciplinary Studies serves as a university-wide incubator for interdisciplinary research by providing an interdomain institutional space for cross-pedagogical learning, while entrenching its core principles, ethos in core application of interdisciplinary thought and praxis across social sciences. Through sustained engagement with scholars interested in working beyond the narrow contours of their own disciplines, IDEAS facilitates collaborations across JGU Schools and Institutes to create a novel research ecosystem and thought architecture within each multidisciplinary research constellation.

​IDEAS hosts interdisciplinary research constellations that produce working papers, reports and scholarly publications, builds partnerships with civil society stakeholders and think-tanks, holds research outreach events for scholars, practitioners, policy makers, and others, and delivers cutting-edge training programmes for government, scholars, and third-sector organizations.