Team Science
Team science is a collaborative effort to address a scientific challenge that leverages the strengths and expertise of professionals trained in different fields. Many institutions recruit professionals who can help with team science approaches for clinical and translational research.
This introductory online module describes the evidence supporting the value of working across disciplines and the science of how we can do this well. Learners will be able to recognize the value of Team Science and describe the Science of Team Science, a field of study which is aimed at understanding what makes science teams work well.
Resources
Resources:
- Duke CTSI Team Science Core
- INSciTS is the member-based, 501(c)3 non-profit organization of team science and the Science of Team Science (SciTS) field.
- Integration and Implementation Sciences (i2S): Improving research impact on complex real-world problems.
- The Intereach Community: Interdisciplinary Integration Research Careers Hub - Developing the profession and professional development for interdisciplinary researchers.
- The Mendeley collaborative library for Science of Team Science is an open-source resource that is communally maintained by members of the International Network for the Science of Team Science (INSciTS). Email Kristine Glauber for access.
- Strategies for Team Science Success - Book
- The Team Science Toolkit is an online resource serving to help researchers engage and adapt Team Science principles into their research.
- Coalesce - Science of Team Science: Training module that teaches the fundamentals of Team Science, and how to effectively use Team Science.
- Collaboration and Team Science Field Guide: The NIH Cancer Institute has developed a Collaboration and Team Science Field Guide with excellent guidance around conducting and collaborating in team science.
- Recognizing Team Science Contributions in Academic Hiring, Promotion, and Tenure
- Online, cross-disciplinary team science training for health and medical professionals: Evaluation of COALESCE (teamscience.net)
- The Diversity-Innovation Paradox in Science
Team science is a collaborative effort that leverages the strengths and expertise of professionals trained in different fields to address a scientific challenge. Team science activities are collaborative and often cross-disciplinary (which includes multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinary) approaches to answering research questions about particular phenomena.
The SciTS field is concerned with understanding and managing circumstances that facilitate or hinder the effectiveness of collaborative science and evaluating the outcomes of collaborative science.
Epistemic Humility is humility or modesty regarding one's own knowledge and recognizing the limits of one's own knowledge.
Interview
Kristine Glauber, Ph.D.
Program Director, Team Science
Duke Clinical & Translational Science Institute
Amalia Turner, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology
CTSI Team Science Core Affiliate
