Resources

Team Science

4C receives guidance from the Team Science Acceleration Lab (TSAL) at UC Irvine. Other resources for team science collated by TSAL are:

Collaboration and Team Science: A Field Guide

Convergence: Facilitating Transdisciplinary Integration of Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Beyond

Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Science (NASEM report 2015)

Fostering the Culture of Convergence (NASEM report 2019)

Integration and Implementation Insights Blog

International Network for the Science of Team Science (INSciTS)

NCI Team Science Toolkit

Northwestern University Team Science Resources

Idea tree: A tool for brainstorming ideas in cross-disciplinary teams

UCI Academic Personnel: Identifying Faculty Contributions to Collaborative Scholarship

Strengthening the Ecosystem for Effective Team Science

University of Southern California Team Science Site

What is Convergence? (National Science Foundation online resource)

Let’s Make Work Better (Google re:Work)

Mentorship

Some of the resources below were collated by the Center for Improved Mentored Experiences in Research (CIMER)

Career Development

Branchaw, J., Pfund, C., McDaniels, M., Black, S. (2021). Training PhD Students to Successfully Navigate Research Mentoring Relationships. Letter in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Sancheznieto, F., & Byars-Winston, A. (2021). Value, Support, and Advancement: An Organization’s Role in Faculty Career Intentions in Academic Medicine. Journal of Healthcare Leadership, 13, 267–277.

Sorkness, C. A., Scholl, L., Fair, A. M., & Umans, J. G. (2019). KL2 mentored career development programs at clinical and translational science award hubs: Practices and outcomes. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 4(1), 43–52.

Mentors in 4C are encouraged to use Individual Development Plans (IDPs) with their mentees. Information on IDPs and their use can be found here

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Retention

Culturally Aware Mentoring

Byars-Winston, A., & Butz, A. R. (2021). Measuring Research Mentors’ Cultural Diversity Awareness for Race/Ethnicity in STEM: Validity Evidence for a New Scale. CBE—Life Sciences Education, 20(2), ar15.

Womack, V. Y., Wood, C. V., House, S. C., Quinn, S. C., Thomas, S. B., McGee, R., & Byars-Winston, A. (2020). Culturally aware mentorship: Lasting impacts of a novel intervention on academic administrators and faculty. PLoS ONE, 15(8).

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