Team science can be hard, but it doesn’t have to be! In this seminar series, The MC2 Center Team Science team will present approaches and tools you can apply immediately to enhance your collaborative work.
Registration is required to attend. Each seminar will be recorded and made available to members of the MC2 Center Community through a secure Synapse site.
Our first seminar in this series will be led by Dr. Betsy Rolland, Associate Director, Team Science, on Wednesday, January 17, 2024, 11:00 AM – Noon PT / 2:00 – 3:00 PM ET.
Leading High-Impact Science Teams: Opportunities and Challenges in Team Science
Did your most recent collaboration leave you drained and grateful it was over? Or did it leave you so energized your team immediately started to tackle the next challenge? As the complexity of doing science continues to increase and funding agencies focus resources on supporting interdisciplinary teams, many researchers find themselves building, leading, and managing interdisciplinary teams with little training or support. In this seminar, Dr. Betsy Rolland, Associate Director, Team Science, at Sage Bionetworks, will present findings from the field of the Science of Team Science, including the opportunities and challenges of conducting science in interdisciplinary teams and available tools and approaches for increasing the effectiveness of your team.
Dr. Betsy Rolland is the Associate Director for Team Science at Sage Bionetworks. Prior to joining Sage in July, she served as the Director of Team Science + Research Development for the Carbone Cancer Center and the Institute of Clinical and Translational Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She holds a PhD in Human Centered Design & Engineering and a Master of Library & Information Science, both from the University of Washington, and a Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Rolland’s research focuses on coordination and collaboration in team-science projects, including how to design, build, and evaluate infrastructure to support complex, multi-investigator initiatives. Before joining UW-Madison, she was a post-doctoral Cancer Prevention Fellow at the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Rolland has served as the Principal Investigator for the coordinating centers for several NIH-funded research initiatives, as well as leading an NLM-funded study of information behaviors in Clinical and Translational Research teams. Dr. Rolland was the 2021 recipient of the Association for Clinical and Translational Science Award for Team Science. She also recently completed a certificate in professional coaching and has been coaching early-stage investigators in building sustainable team science research programs.
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