Description: What system factors set team science up for success? What factors, if left to chance, can jeopardize the effectiveness and outcomes of collaborative teams? These questions have fueled Rebecca's passion and inspired her research, teaching, and service over many years. In the seminar, she will describe five key system factors that support collaboration along with a comprehensive framework that she employs to: 1) evaluate overall project readiness for team science; 2) cultivate conditions for generative, productive, and fun team-based cycles of inquiry; and 3) to assess the relationship between collaboration, project outputs, and the attainment of long-term desired outcomes. Seminar participants will have an opportunity to make sense of the materials and ideas with one another, and to brainstorm how these approaches might be tailored to support the work that they do in their own unique setting. The seminar will include case examples that demonstrate how the factors and framework can be used to study the process and effects of collaboration in a range of contexts, including K12 education, and the health, human, and social service sectors. Rebecca is eager to learn from you, and to hear how you think about fostering a thriving environment for team science!

Speaker: Rebecca Woodland - University of Massachusetts-Amherst

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