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CAIRIBU 2023 Collaborative Science Workshops

In 2023 the CAIRIBU Interactions Core collaborated with Team Science expert, Whitney Sweeney, PhD from the  University of Wisconsin Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR), to design and facilitate a 5-part virtual workshop series on Collaborative Science. Objectives of the series included understanding the benefits and challenges of collaborative research, assembling research teams, building consensus, identifying team roles, and creating and maintaining healthy and high-functioning research teams. Each workshop was followed 2 weeks later by a separate, optional, virtual “community of practice” session for discussion, Q&A, brainstorming, and problem-solving. Dr. Sweeney’s slides from each workshop are below. 

If you are interested in joining a viewing party with a group of other individuals, write to CAIRIBU@urology.wisc.edu so the CAIRIBU Interactions Core can organize it to fit your schedule.

Resources:

      1. Create a shared team vision
      2. Discuss your team’s composition, roles, and responsibilities
      3. Discuss your team’s outputs (i.e. publications, intellectual property/patents, datasets, etc.)
      4. Discuss your team’s culture
      5. Discuss how your team functions and what processes are necessary
      6. Discuss your team’s project management plan and infrastructure
      7. Discuss how your team can work together to create, implement, and maintain a Collaboration Plan

View the session recordings on the CAIRIBU YouTube Channel

Session 1: Forming Successful Research Teams

This session covers:

-Types, forms, and stages of collaboration
-Benefits and challenges of collaboration
-Identifying team mission, vision, and goals
-Effective team composition and assembly

Session 4: Setting Your Science Team Up for (Measuring) Success

This session covers:

-Benefits and challenges of team evaluation
-Articulating components of a team evaluation plan
-Identifying metrics to assess progress throughout stages of project lifecycle

Session 2: Psychological Safety and Team Success

This session covers:

-Defining trust and psychological safety
-Impact of team culture on performance
-Methods of fostering healthy team cultures

Session 5: Leading Your Team to Success

This session covers:

-Understanding challenges in leading translational teams
-Applying transformational leadership to translational science
-Applying leadership strategies to promote team science best practices

Session 3: Successful Team Communication

This session covers:

-Developing deep knowledge integration for shared understanding
-Coordinating team resources, systems, and processes
-Incorporating effective feedback
-Resolving conflicts

ARCTICS Session: Making the Most of Your Collaborations: Best Practices for Trainees

This Advancing the Research Capacity of Trainees and Investigators at early-Career Stages (ARCTICS) session covers:

-Skills and strategies that trainees can use now as a part of their current interdisciplinary collaborations as well as in the future when they lead their own teams