While you alone may have identified a need, conducting research is a team endeavor. In order to answer your research question, you’ll need mentors to guide you, collaborators to work alongside you, staff to provide administrative and clinical support, and any number of other stakeholders to provide specific input and services. Get to know the traditional roles of the research team here before moving on in the research process.
- What is Team Science?
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- Team Science
- Team science is the collaborative effort of scientists to address research challenges through working together in groups. Most scientific publications today are authored by two or more researchers, often from more than one institution, and/or from different disciplines. Team science (TS) initiatives are designed to promote effective collaboration in these diverse research teams.
- Science of Team Science
- The Science of Team Science (SciTS) is a cross-disciplinary field that encompasses both conceptual and methodological strategies aimed at understanding and enhancing the processes and outcomes of collaborative, team-based research2. It tries to integrate and build on approaches from a variety of disciplines and fields in terms of its theories and methodologies in order to improve effective research team performance.
- Team Science
- Know the Research Team Roles
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- Team Science Training
- Learning modules for performing trans-disciplinary, team-based translational research
- Make Sure Your Team's Workload is Divided Fairly
- This article outlines strategies to help divide tasks amongst the research team.
- The Importance of Engaging Communities in Research
- This article discusses how unmet community needs can inform research studies in what has come to be known as community-based participatory research (CBPR).
- Research Team and Research Environment
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- Learn about best practices in equity, diversity, and inclusion in the following areas:
- Team composition and recruitment processes
- Training and development opportunities
- Inclusion
- Learn about best practices in equity, diversity, and inclusion in the following areas:
- Team Science Training
- Do You Need a Team?
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- Team Basics
- Form a team if the task can benefit from one or more of the conditions listed in this checklist.
- Team Basics
- Forming Your Team
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- Team Formation
- These resources provide help to identify and select the right team members.
- Team Launch
- These resources assist teams in getting off to a strong start.
- Team Chartering
- This guide provides team development actions, ground rules, and an overview of the components and benefits of a team charter.
- Team Charter Template
- Bringing New Members Into Your Existing Team
- Team Formation
- Build a Mentorship Team
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- Building a Mentorship Team
- This NIH article outlines important elements for building successful teams.
- Mentoring Toolkit
- The CTSI-CN Mentoring Toolkit contains resources including mentoring contracts, individualized academic career plans, journal articles, mentoring program curricula and training materials, and assessment tools.
- Making the Right Moves
- Chapter 5: “Mentoring and Being Mentored” outlines important aspects of mentorship and strategies for effective mentoring in your lab.
- Toolkit to Supporting a Mentorship Team (Assessment and Checklist)
- This toolkit was developed to support mentorship relationships across departments: faculty mentorships (tenure, clinical health science (CHS) and clinician teacher (CT) tracks); faculty and clinical learner mentorships; and staff mentorships (clinical, educational, research and administrative).
- Building a Mentorship Team
- Build a Community Advisory Board (CAB)
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- Framing Equity in CAB
- Use these tips and resources to assist your healthcare organization with developing and maintaining an effective CAB
- Framing Equity in CAB
- Managing Team Dynamics
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- Running Effective Meetings
- This 8 minute long video module outlines the Seven Step Meeting, an established process that has been shown to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of meetings.
- Team Meeting Facilitation
- This guide provides an overview of specific competencies that are required to effectively run meetings.
- Dealing with Conflict
- This guide reviews types of conflict, and conflict management steps.
- Building Trust
- This guide provides an overview of building trust among team members, assessing trust, understanding gaps, and incorporating positive changes.
- See Also: How to manage the Decision to Trust
- Encouraging Full Participation
- This 11 minute long TEDx Talk focuses on building a psychologically safe workplace.
- Managing Virtual Communication
- This document outlines five ways to improve communication in virtual teams.
- Running Effective Meetings
- Monitoring and Evaluating Performance
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- Monitoring Team Functioning
- This resource outlines evidenced-based best practices for debriefing.
- Monitoring Team Functioning
- Find Collaborators
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- GW Expert Finder
- GW’s comprehensive university-wide information repository showcases faculty and researchers and their research, scholarship and expertise.
- CTSI-CN Profile Search
- CTSI-CN Research Networking Software
- Cross-Disciplinary Research
- Resources and programs available to support GW faculty and investigators engaged in research across disciplines.
- Association for Clinical and Translational Science
- ACTS supports those who are committed to applying scientific methodologies to accelerate advances in human health.
- Making the Right Moves
- Chapter 12: “Setting up Collaborations” outlines the varieties of collaborations and provides recommendations for successful collaboration.
- GW Expert Finder
- Events
- Resources
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- Northwestern Team Science Training Modules
- Learn to perform trans-disciplinary, team-based translational research.
- Collaboration and Team Science: A Field Guide
- This Field Guide addresses a wide range of team science concepts, from low levels of interaction and integration to highly integrated.
- The International Network for the Science of Team Science
- INSciTS is the member-based, 501(c)3 non-profit organization of team science and the Science of Team Science (SciTS) field.
- Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Science Book
- This book synthesizes and integrates the available research to provide guidance on assembling the science team; leadership, education and professional development for science teams and groups.
- NIH Scientific Workforce Diversity (Toolkit)
- This toolkit guides users through evidence-based interrelated activities that foster an inclusive culture that unleashes the power of diversity to achieve research and institutional excellence.
- Multicultural Competencies (Pre-test)
- Assess your current knowledge about issues related to identity, diversity, and social justice.
- Roadmap Guide to Linking Quality and Equity
- This paper examines conceptual approaches and data on health disparities in the United States and highlights the fact that evaluating health disparities requires some discussion before looking at the data.
- Clinical Conversations (NIH National Library of Medicine)
- This program is intended to support those who interact with patients to support health literacy and discuss related concepts. This program allows clinical trainers or managers to offer brief trainings as a way to offer continuing education that does not take time out of already busy schedules.
- Northwestern Team Science Training Modules
- Institutional Contacts