Click here to view the February 12th webinar, in which Amanda Vogel provides a brief overview of the aims, history and achievements of the Science of Team Science (SciTS) community, and explains its culmination in the recently established professional association, the International Network for the Science of Team Science (INSciTS). Dr. Vogel serves as the founding membership chair for INSciTS and provides details about membership benefits and the vision for the community, including the annual SciTS conference and the formation of special interest groups. Christine Hendren then presents the aims, history and achievements of Intereach and future plans now that Intereach has become a special interest group of INSciTS. Discussion follows.
October 23rd, 2018: Intereach Community: Sharing Research Resources and Approaches
Click here to view the October 23rd webinar, a working session hosted and moderated by Intereach Webinar Co-Chairs Dr. Karen Demby and Dr. Kristine Glauber. This month’s discussion was held as an opportunity to hear from community members and foster deeper connections by sharing of success stories and establishing shared goals. Karen and Kristine held interactive discussions with those who called in, and welcomed input at any time sent to the listserv at intereach@duke.edu. Topics included:
What topics and/or guests would be of interest for Spring 2019 and beyond? (Our other archived webinars may give you an idea of what we’ve already discussed).
What TEAM SCIENCE resources and tools from the TEAMS SCIENCE TOOLKIT (or other resources, e.g. TeamScience.net, Collaboration and Team Science: A field Guide) did people find most helpful, or want more of? Attendees (and archive watchers alike) are invited to share what has helped in overcoming challenges.
November 12th, 2018 - Avoiding Frankenstein’s Monster: Proposal Writing for Teams!
Click here to view the November 12th Intereach webinar, presented by Lauren Gee, Research Development Associate of the Office of Campus Research Development in the Office of the Vice Provost for Research at Duke University. In this practical and helpful interactive webinar, Lauren covers best practices for grant-writing as part of a team, ensuring a product that looks cohesive and intentional rather than patchwork. Elements of these best practices, including development of a shared vocabulary, mapping a project team’s writing vision, and developing a shared timeline, are highly applicable to grant writing but also beyond this, for success in team projects throughout implementation.
September 11th, 2018: Co-Navigator: Hands-On Interdisciplinary Problem Solving
Click here to view the September 11th seminar from the developers of the CoNavigator tool: Katrine Lindvig, Line Hillersdal and David Earle. They first introduce the tool and its use currently, typically to map out a singular event and navigate through complex problems while better understanding the contextual nature of interdisciplinary collaboration. They then broaden the discussion to explore net steps for using the tool as an ongoing resource over the entire course of a problem-solving trajectory, and invite discussant (or archived webinar-watchers’, it’s not too late!) input. Visit www.conavigator.org to learn more.
Katrine Lindvig PhD is an educational ethnographer at the Department of Science Education, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She specializes in interdisciplinary education, especially the linkages between interdisciplinary research and interdisciplinary teaching practices.
Line Hillersdal PhD is a social anthropologist and Assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She specializes in interdisciplinary research collaboration and is particularly involved in how research objects are configured in collaborative practices.
David Earle is a concept developer and partner at Braintrust, an academic think tank based in Copenhagen, Denmark. He develops visual and tactile tools and methods to help students learn to navigate through their academic knowledge, and to work more effectively in multi- and interdisciplinary teams.
August 24th, 2018: The Importance of Transdisciplinary Multiscale Theorizing and Research to Address Societal and Global Challenges in the 21st Century
Click here to view the August 24th webinar presented by Dr. Dan Stokols, Research Professor and Chancellor's Professor Emeritus of Social Ecology in the Departments of Psychology and Social Behavior and Planning, Policy, and Design, and founding dean of the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine. Professor Stokols discusses transdisciplinary, multi-scale theorizing and research aimed at better understanding and ameliorating some of the pressing societal and global challenges of the 21st Century. He provides an excellent overview on systems approaches to sustainability, and particularly on people’s transactions with their social and physical environments and how they influence personal and public health.
April 4, 2018: Gender & Team Science: Toward Improving Effectiveness of Research and Collaboration
Click here to view the April 4th webinar presented by Dr. Holly Falk-Krzesinski on the topic of Gender and Team science, drawing on a growing array of empirical research and literature review work that she and others have contributed to the Science of Team Science on gender issues in team science. In this webinar she reviewed and presented relevant literature with a focus on evidence-based policy implications, highlighting clearly how research institutions can improve their understanding of how gender issues can affect science outcomes and how they might improve their practices and institutional support. Dr. Falk-Krzesinski is Vice President of Global Academic Relations at Elsevier, Adjunct Senior Instructor in the School of Professional Studies at Northwestern University, and founder of the National Organization of Research Development Professionals (NORDP).
March 14, 2018: The R3 Graduate Science Initiative at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Click here to view the March 14th webinar presented by Gundula Bosch PhD, Program Director and Assistant Scientist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, who joined us to present the R3 (Rigor, Reproducibility, Responsibility) Graduate Science Initiative that she is involved in developing. The mission of the R3 program is to provide graduate students with critical thinking and creative problem solving skills, and to enhance students' capacities to communicate, view science in a broader context and through the lens of social responsibility. Watch this webinar to learn about the background and development of the course, key elements of the course and how it is taught, along with reflections on the challenges of introducing such a course into an already crowded curriculum, along with how its effectiveness can be evaluated.
November 30, 2017: Motivating Investment in Interdisciplinary Infrastructure: What Can One Person Do?
Click here to view the November 30th webinar presented by Dr. Michael O’Rourke, Interim Director of the MSU Center for Interdisciplinarity, Professor of Philosophy, and faculty in AgBioResearch and Environmental Science & Policy at Michigan State University. Dr. O’Rourke shares his thoughts on how to gather resources, data, and good arguments for investing in interdisciplinary research, in its infrastructure, and in hiring and training capable staff. Reflecting on multiple interdisciplinary pursuits over the course of his career, he shares details about successful and unsuccessful strategies for building interdisciplinary capacity in an academic institution.
October 26, 2017: Team Science Education and Training
Click here to view the October 26, 2017 webinar presented by Dr. Sawsan Khuri, Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter Medical School and freelance consultant. Dr. Khuri presents a variety of approaches institutions take to provide team science training to their research communities and offers a comparative analysis between US and UK. She summarizes curricular and methodological resources available for those wishing to establish team science training at their own institutions, and advocates strongly for a communally grown clearing-house website to house these resources as well as on-going discussions. As a start toward this goal, she invites comments to The Team Science Glossary where all stakeholders are invited to offer their input on terms and definitions.
July 12, 2017: AAAS Community Engagement Fellows Program (CEFP)
Click here to view the July 12, 2017 webinar presented by Dr. Lou Woodley and Dr. Jennifer Davison. Program Director Lou Woodley gives an overview of the new AAAS Community Engagement Fellows Program (CEFP) to support community engagement professionals in science (https://www.aaas.org/cefp/about); the CEFP is currently in its pilot year with a class of 19 Fellows. As one of the Fellows, Jennifer Davison shares what is involved in participation and the benefits she has experienced thus far. Jen and Lou also discuss their involvement on one of the program's project teams that is exploring the roles and job descriptions of scientific community managers.