The paper "Making and taking time: Work, funding and assessment infrastructures in inter- and trans-disciplinary research" examines discrepancies between visions and realities in inter- and trans-disciplinary research, by focusing on the role of temporal imaginaries,structures, and practices prevalent in contemporary academia. It is a chapter in Bianca Vienni Baptista and Julie Thompson Klein (eds.) Dynamics of inter- and trans-disciplinarity within institutions: Cultures and communities, spaces, and timeframes (Routledge).