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Boundary Spanning Tools for Research Teams


Series Description: Today’s research teams span many boundaries, including disciplines, social cultures, gender, race, sectors, methodologies, organizations, and more. Success is hard work! This 5-part series will introduce 8 tools that can help, plus general principles you can apply across cases. Each webinar will include two different presenters who will each describe a tool and give us some hands-on practice with it. Participants will share their experiences and questions.

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Flex your learning muscles with additional resources created just for this series: an online catalogue of the tools covered and a set of custom worksheets that can become part of your new “DIY Boundary Spanning Field Notebook.” Learn by watching and listening, practicing, reading, and recording your own thoughts and experiences.

Dates, Topics and Speakers :

1/12/21 - Tools Intro - Bethany Laursen. Tools presented:

  • Tools vs Methods

  • General Principles of Tool Use

2/9/21 - Building Team Cohesion - Anne Heberger Marino & Merel Goch. Tools presented:

  • 4 Levels of Listening

  • Pressure Cooker

3/9/21 - Conflict Transformation - Hannah Love, Gabriele Bammer. Tools presented:

  • Consensus Spectrum

  • Principled Negotiation

4/13/21 - Knowledge Integration - Sibylle Studer & Michael Stauffacher, Bethany Laursen. Tools Presented:

  • Give & Take Matrix

  • Argument Standard Form

5/11/21 - Reflexivity & Readiness - Antonietta Di Giulio, Margot Greenlee. Tools Presented

  • Evaluation Criteria for Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research

  • Model the Metaphor

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