August 11th: Leading Engaging Virtual Meetings

Click here to view the August 11th webinar featuring Dr Amy Climer, CEO/Founder, Climer Consulting. In this lively and informative installment, Amy shares and demonstrates techniques to deliver high-quality virtual meetings. She uses Zoom and other tools to engage the audience, and build sustained participation throughout the entire webinar, and shares strategies that you can readily and seamlessly integrate into your own meetings to facilitate productive and equitable discussion among all your meeting participants. Even the most experienced virtual facilitators will learn something from this video!

If you'd like to connect with Dr. Amy Climer, you can reach out to her at https://climerconsulting.com.

Global efforts in developing and promoting a new profession of integration experts and expertise in inter- and trans-disciplinary collaborative research.

July 14th: Global efforts in developing and promoting a new profession of integration experts and expertise in inter- and trans-disciplinary collaborative research.

Click here to view the July 14th webinar featuring Drs Sabine Hoffmann, Christine Ogilvie Hendren, Kristine Glauber, Julie Thompson Klein, Tobias Buser and Gabriele Bammer. In this webinar, we aim to coalesce a working group which will develop and execute a set of shared goals within the aim of professionalization for knowledge integration professionals. We are first presented with a landscape of global professional groups working towards the development and promotion of a named role within the academy for knowledge integration professionals, including INTEREACH, the Global Alliance for Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research and Education, and the work of Gabriele Bammer in developing the field of Integration and Implementation Sciences (i2S). The presenters describe the scaffolding of practitioner roles within an inter- and trans-disciplinary research endeavor, and expound upon that of Interdisciplinary Executive Scientist, describing competencies, functions, and placement within the academy. Notes from this discussion can be found at this link, which capture a proposal of working group activities. If you are interested in participating in the global working group on professionalization, please contact the organizers by emailing intereach@duke.edu.

Understanding and Managing Different Intellectual Personalities on Scientific Teams

January 14th: Understanding and Managing Different Intellectual Personalities on Scientific Teams 

Click here to view the January 14th webinar featuring Kevin Weinfurt, Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Population Health Sciences in the Duke University School of Medicine. Dr. Weinfurt is also Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Duke University Medical Center and a faculty member of the Duke Clinical Research Institute; Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience; and a Faculty Associate of the Trent Center for the Study of Medical Humanities and Bioethics. Drawing on earlier work from American psychologist and philosopher William James, Dr. Weinfurt defines and discusses intellectual personalities and their potential impact on science teams. For each personality type, Dr. Weinfurt offers strategies for understanding and working with groups that contain extreme versions of these types. 

November 12th: Careers in Team Science Facilitation: Creating the Container for Successful Collaboration

Click here to view the November 12th webinar featuring Carrie Kappell, Independent Facilitator and Consultant at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS). In this webinar Dr Kappell shares her personal history and path towards being an independent consultant and interdisciplinary facilitator, and some common anecdotal themes teased from personal narratives from other colleagues. Through this network of colleagues, she has been able to distill a broad overview of how institutes are employing and engaging interdisciplinary facilitators and the various business models used to support them. Dr Kappell also shares some resources for training and opportunities.  

October 8th: The Project Manager’s Role in Interdisciplinary Research

Click here to view the October 8th webinar featuring Reilly Henson, Project Manager in the Department of Forest Resources & Environmental Conservation at Virginia Tech. In this webinar, Reilly shares with us the story of her academic and career paths in the Environmental and Social Sciences, to her current role as a Project Manager for an interdisciplinary team of 20. This narrative provides both a personal account, as well as the specific hiring-language and practices used by her institution, and serves as a jumping off point for discussing how institutions are creating and sustaining these roles and the people in them. She also shares some lessons-learned from project management in academia.

September 10th: Considering Community-based Research in Team Science: Boundary Spanning Beyond the University

Click here to view the September 10th webinar featuring Connie McGuire and Victoria Lowerson-Bredow, Directors of Community Relationships and Engaged Scholarship respectively in the Community-based Research Initiative of the Newkirk Center for Science & Society at the University of California, Irvine. In this webinar, our guests describe their process for developing guiding values and principles for the Initiative and how they feed into their current activities. They then share “stories of encounters” and meta-analysis of the intersections of community-based and team-based research, which have led to the development of three conceptual tools for relational work, which can be found at this link. 

August 13th, 2019: myRESEARCHnavigators make connections to facilitate effective startup and conduct of research

Click here to view the August 13th webinar featuring the myRESEARCHnavigator Team, from the Duke Office of Research Initiatives. In this webinar we hear from this interdisciplinary team of connectors – connectors of people, resources and processes - about what works, programmatically, to help start-up and fuel effective research: from a “self-service” web portal to a “full-service” research navigation hotline. Topics include programs, best-practices, success metrics and how to do this work on the cheap for small research programs.

July 9th, 2019: Team work and the Tech Sector

Click here to view the July 9th webinar, featuring Dr. Kennan Kellaris Salinero, Executive Director and cofounder of ReImagine Science. It was through Dr Salinero’s experiences in various academic and biotech settings that she began to see gaps in how the scientific community was doing science, particularly in cooperation and collaboration within the genomic sciences. This launched her on a journey, which she shares with us, of learning from Silicon Valley’s lessons and forays into understanding what factors, especially interpersonal, facilitate effective team work. Her talk features an overview of various process tools employed by the tech sector and some analysis of their effectiveness, along with great resources for further exploration! You can find her slides here. 

April 9th, 2019: The Natural History Institute: Transdisciplinary Research Perspectives from the Field

Click here to view the April 9th webinar, featuring Dr. Tom Fleischner of The Natural History Institute and Prescott College. Dr Fleischner walks with us down his interdisciplinary path from political philosophy, public lands management, field biology and wilderness education and shares with us the lessons he learned through his practice of Natural History, which he defines as “The practice of intentional focused attentiveness and receptivity to the more-than-human world guided by honesty and accuracy.” He argues that Natural History is a field that requires input from science, art and the humanities. His talk and the discussion that follows touches on emotionality, especially love, the importance of stories and following your passion. 

March 12th, 2019 Intrapreneurship for Academic Researchers

Click here to view the March 12th webinar, in which Jacqueline Smith poses a question that drives her work at Arizona State University, “What if universities were as nimble as startups?”. Jacqueline serves as the Associate Vice President of the Office of University Initiatives, which employs the principles of intrapreneurship such as design thinking, research and collaboration, and rapid prototyping to launch new initiatives in support of ASU’s charter and strategic plan. Drawing on examples from her work, she offers a framework for the iteration and generation of ideas and questions, and a development scheme for moving towards opportunity-orientation in your own organization.