Professional connection map

I have chosen to illustrate the professional communities I belong to using a range of colours, yellow being the groups I belong to and am active in, orange representing the groups I belong to but could be more active in and utalise better and blue as the possible communities I could join. 

1. What other professional communities intersect with or lie at the borders of your own profession? What impact do these communities have on your practice and professional community?
   
   The groups identified in orange and blue highlight those which are at the borders of my own profession.  At present these communities have a limited impact on my professional community, but looking forward I can see the benefits of being an active participant in more communities.
   
2. What are or what would be the benefits and challenges of working in a more interdisciplinary environment?
   
   Some of the benefits of working in an interdisciplinary environment are the ways in which working with others broadens our outlook. It helps us to come up with more innovative ideas than we do when working alone or only with those in a similar context to us. Some of the challenges can be the lack of understanding of the different communicates we come from which can lead to difficulties in implementing and trialing new ideas.