Click here to view the February 9th INTEREACH Webinar, the second installment in our Spring 2021 series on Boundary Spanning Tools for Research Teams. In this episode we are introduced to two (2) tools for building team cohesion, presented by Anne Heberger Marino and Merel van Goch & Iris van der Tuin. To start us off, Anne Heberger Marino, Founder of Lean-to Collaborations, a consultancy focused on creating conditions for highly effective collaboration across disciplinary boundaries, shares a tool called Four Levels of Listening, developed by Otto Scharmer and MIT’s Presencing Institute. This tool is designed to help individuals and groups build awareness of how they listen to each other; that effective listening is a widely recognized competency for Team Science practitioners speaks to the importance of implementing this framework in both our daily personal and professional activities.
Next, Dr van Goch, Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Utrecht University, and Dr van der Tuin, Professor of Theory of Cultural Inquiry at Utrecht University and Director of its School of Liberal Arts, present their tool “The Pressure Cooker”. This tool, which was originally developed by our presenters for a conference on interdisciplinary education, is based on Repko & Szostak’s 2020 book Interdisciplinary Research: Process and Theory. The Pressure Cooker tool introduces participants/students to the challenges of interdisciplinary research by guiding them through a 10-step, process that includes 1) Setting up the research, by defining the problem 2) Establishing the disciplinary foundation, by studying the defining elements of the relevant disciplines and 3) Integrating the disciplinary elements by identifying conflicts and common ground. The process is designed to be accomplished in 90 minutes, however, a useful feature of this tool is that is highly adaptable for different conditions, including for this webinar.
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