Science facilitation: navigating the intersection of intellectual and interpersonal expertise in scientific collaboration

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This essay defines scientific facilitation as a form of interactional expertise and explains how facilitating scientific teams requires skills in managing interpersonal interactions as well as understanding how different types of disciplinary knowledge integrate in the creation of new knowledge. Next, it explains how this science facilitation expertise may be developed through metacognition. Finally, it… Read more »

NIH: Collaboration Team Science Field Guide

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Collaboration and Team Science: A Field Guide was first published in 2010. For nearly a decade, the Field Guide has served as a valuable resource for scientists participating in or leading a research team.

Inclusive Practice Glossary for Facilitators

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This glossary is intended to be used by facilitators, particularly in the scientific arena when replying to queries or in designing equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI or D&I) workshops. Included are terms thatcome up regularly in our work; this is by no means an exhaustive list.

Facilitator School

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This website congregates dozens of facilitation training programs, and allows you to filter by price, duration, and location.

Team Science Practices Module

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From the Synthesis Skills for Early Career Researchers Course: In this module, we’ll dive into some of the literature underlying our recommended team science practices (the science of team science). We’ll also explore some of the more common types of conflicts that arise in synthesis work and ways to anticipate, prevent (when possible), and resolve… Read more »

Inclusive Facilitation Module

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From the Synthesis Skills for Early Career Researchers course: The success of a collaborative synthesis science project rests in no small part on the ability of the team of researchers to work effectively together and to draw on the full range of expertise, knowledge, and capacity in the group. Effective facilitation of team meetings can… Read more »