What is Collaboration Planning? ICTR’s Team Science Core offers 90-minute collaboration planning sessions that engage your team to think through the ways you will work together, proactively addressing the areas that most frequently cause conflict in teams, including authorship, communications, and project management. Originally designed by team-science experts at the NIH and NSF drawing upon decades of research on teams and collaboration, a collaboration plan may be useful in the following ways:
- To help your team create strong team processes from the beginning, which has been shown to result in improved scientific outcomes
- As a template for writing a multi-PI plan
- To address team-science-specific review criteria in future grant applications
- Skill-building for research staff and early-stage investigators in team leadership and collaboration
What will happen during Collaboration Planning? In this session with your team, Dr. Whitney Sweeney will lead you through a guided exercise to craft a plan specific to your project addressing key challenges of team science.
To review the questions covered in a typical session, please see the Collaboration Planning Worksheet.
If you’re interested in a collaboration planning session, please fill out this Google Intake form and the Team Science Core will be in touch with you to schedule a time for this virtual session.
Collaboration Planning focuses on these seven content areas:
