Abstract: During my career, I have undertaken research on my own and with different groups of people. Working on my own and within my research team, the research tended to be inward looking, focusing on one topic only. When researching with other groups, particularly in software process and global software development, the research became more outward focused, as each group brought different knowledge to the work. Expanding this outward focus, increasingly working with disciplines outside software engineering, has brought a richness to my research, which, I believe, could not have been the case if I had continued with an inward focus. There is much value to be achieved through doing interdisciplinary research, considering topics where disciplines intersect. We often think of interdisciplinarity as bringing together topics which might be seen as miles apart from each other, an example being healthcare and software engineering. But, I will also discuss interdisciplinarity as it pertains to topics in which the knowledge is more closely aligned, an example being agile methods and global software development. I will present examples of research from the interdisciplinary environment which has helped to move disciplines forward. During COVID-19, for example, we saw how healthcare changed due to software. Implementation of e-Pharmacy systems could not have happened without prior research on how pharmacy works in practice combined how regulations on security and privacy should be implemented in software. We have a new understanding about how companies are implementing hybrid software processes because of the HELENA project. Apart from the research itself, there is other value achieved from interdisciplinary research - such as working with researchers outside our immediate field and publishing in interdisciplinary venues. I do recognise that it is not all plain sailing - there are difficulties to be faced. However, my view is that the value outweighs these difficulties. Using successful research stories from recent Lero projects, my argument is that there is value in interdisciplinary research.