May 11th: Boundary Spanning Tools for Research Teams, Session 4: Reflexivity & Readiness
Click here to view the May 11th INTEREACH webinar, the fifth and final installment in our Spring 2021 series on Boundary Spanning Tools for Research Teams. In this episode we are introduced to two (2) tools to help teams in the work of preparing for and reflect on how they will conduct their work together. The tools presented can help with reflexivity processes and awareness of our collective readiness to collaborate, including unlocking our hidden assumptions, bodily knowledge, and moral imagination.
First, Dr Antonietta Di Giulio, senior researcher at the University of Basel, presents her tool “Evaluation Criteria for Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research”, a comprehensive set of questions with instructions that can be used for internal evaluation and reflection on a project's inter- and transdisciplinary quality. Dr Di Giulio provides some bounding meta-information about the tool’s creation to provide our listeners with a contextual understanding of its intended use. The tool was published by the Swiss outlet Panorama, and the pdf is available at this link.
Next, Margot Greenlee shares with us her tool “Model the Metaphor”, which she employs as Artistic Director of BodyWise Dance to help teams better understand their perspectives, creative capacity, and overall readiness to work together. In demonstrating the tool’s use, Margot invites participants to explore their own creative space using poetic language, common household items and sense of fun, all while letting go of the internal editor and judge to make and build a model for a team, of which they are a member. This method serves as a way to reflect and gain new perspective and appreciation for what the team has accomplished and what lies ahead.