CAIRIBU Collaborative Science Tools
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.
Resources
Use these resources to:
- Create a shared team vision
- Discuss your team’s composition, roles, and responsibilities
- Discuss your team’s outputs (i.e. publications, intellectual property/patents, datasets, etc.)
- Discuss your team’s culture
- Discuss how your team functions and what processes are necessary
- Discuss your team’s project management plan and infrastructure
- Discuss how your team can work together to create, implement, and maintain a Collaboration Plan
Youtube Videos
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 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 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
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 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
ARCTICS Session: 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