UNC Research Week | ACTS Presents: Successful Collaborative Writing in Team Science
Thursday, October 24, 2024 | 2:00 – 3:00pm ET
Join our ACTS Team, RENCI’s Dr. Julie Horvath and Brandy Farlow host a workshop-style event teaching participants essential skills across all stages of the writing process—from brainstorming to drafting and editing. Key topics include addressing diverse scientific perspectives, conflict resolution, managing authorship, using technology and generative AI, defining contributor roles, and assessing document readiness for submission. By focusing on effective organization and collaboration, the workshop aims to enhance grant writing, research publications, and communication within interdisciplinary teams.
View a recording of the webinar below or here.
ACTS: From Competition to Collaboration: Fostering a Data Sharing Culture for Collaborative Team Science: Insights from the NIH HEAL Data Ecosystem
Thursday, October 17, 2024 | 12:00 – 1:00pm ET
Open, accessible research data provides a foundation for scientific discovery and paves the way for team science-based collaborations. Despite clear benefits to data sharing and increased emphasis on making federally funded research outcomes public, data sharing hesitancy remains common. We will explore that hesitancy, discuss what can be done to improve data sharing and explain how to encourage better scientific collaboration through large-scale data sharing efforts like the one in the NIH Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) Initiative. We will highlight work underway in the NIH HEAL Data Ecosystem (HDE) to engage with NIH HEAL-funded investigators and promote data sharing, exploring practical strategies research data administrators and stewards employ within the HEAL Data Ecosystem to overcome hesitancy and create a culture of data sharing to benefit collaboration and knowledge integration within and across scientific research teams seeking to end the opioid crisis.
View a recording of the October webinar below or here.
ACTS: The Role of AI as a Team Member in Scientific Research
Thursday, September 19 | 12:00 – 1:00pm ET
Join Dr. Jim Spohrer, retired IBM and Apple executive. Jim will review the history of artificial in and the challenges of keeping up with accelerating change, such as fixing the “hallucination” problem, addressing energy consumption, and answering vital questions regarding the ownership and control of AI tools. Then, he will lead attendees through an exploration of possible future roles for AI as a team member in scientific research. Learning to invest wisely in these changes will require significant advances in the science of team science.
View a recording of the June webinar below or here.
ACTS: Leadership Considerations in Collaborative Team Science
Thursday, June 13, 2024 | 12:00 – 1:00pm ET
Join Dr. Dorothy Carter (Michigan State University) as she discusses leadership in scientific collaborations. Dr. Carter shares key challenges facing leaders of large, interdisciplinary ‘multi-team system’ projects. Her presentation draws from her research on multi-team system collaboration, as well as her extensive experiences working closely with scientific leaders, to provide practical guidance for leading interdisciplinary multi-team system projects.
View a recording of the June webinar below or here.
ACTS: Introduction to Understanding and Assessing Teamwork Processes
Thursday, May 9, 2024 | 12:00 – 1:00pm ET
Join Dr. Stephen M. Fiore, Director of the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory, Professor with the University of Central Florida’s Cognitive Sciences Program in the Department of Philosophy and Institute for Simulation and Training, and a leader in research on the science of team science. Dr. Fiore is a founding board member, and past-president of the International Network for the Science of Team Science (INSciTS). He will present, in conversation with Chris Lenhardt, Senior Research Scientist with the Earth Data Science Group at RENCI, addressing topics to include an introduction to some of the fundamental collaborative science research processes, teamwork, and how to assess collaborative science teamwork. They will also cover how teams can provide feedback to improve their collaborations. Participants will have the opportunity to take part in the question and answer, providing their own queries and/or responses to discussed topics.
View a recording of the May webinar below or here.
ACTS: Team Science and the Academic Research Enterprise
Thursday, April 11, 2024 | 12:00 – 1:00pm ET
Enjoy this discussion from our April 11 webinar where you’ll learn about Team Science practices from key stakeholders at UNC Chapel Hill; as well as several other campus institutes utilizing Team Science to advance research. Listen in on this discussion surrounding terminology, critical aspects of successful Team Science efforts, as well as pitfalls to avoid, and a robust Q & A conversation.
View a recording of the April webinar below or here.
