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Team Science and Collaborative Research: Tools to Communicate Your Shared Vision
This libguide will point you to essentials resources to improve your knowledge and practice of collaborative research, and, more importantly, team science.
Asst Dean & Director, Research Collaboration and Engagement
Ginny Pannabecker
she/they
Contact:
vpannabe@vt.edu
Newman Library, Room 5092
Office Hours are Flexible:
Contact me to arrange an appointment at: vpannabe@vt.edu
Subjects: Biochemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Systems Biology
Newman Library, Room 5092
Office Hours are Flexible:
Contact me to arrange an appointment at: vpannabe@vt.edu
Subjects: Biochemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Systems Biology
540-231-7980
Website Skype Contact: Virginia.Pannabecker
Team and Lab Welcome Letters
These letters can be useful to set expectations and explicitly communicate vision and goals to welcome new members to a team.
Resources to help you draft a "welcome letter":
- NIH Example Welcome Letter (PDF)A welcome letter template used by the National Institutes of Health
- The ‘Welcome Letter’: A Useful Tool for Laboratories and TeamsBennett, L. M., Maraia, R., & Gadlin, H. (2014). The 'Welcome Letter': A Useful Tool for Laboratories and Teams. Journal of translational medicine & epidemiology, 2(2), 1035.
- Example Welcome Letter from a Graduate Student AdviserThe following is a letter for new colleagues joining the lab, written with graduate students in mind.
- W. Montague Cobb Research Laboratory Welcome LetterA welcome letter to scientists joining a biological anthropology lab at Howard University.
Tools to help draft your collaboration agreeement
- Questions to Consider When Drafting Your Collaboration AgreementThis document contains questions researchers should think about when drafting their collaboration agreement.
- Preempting Discord: Prenuptial Agreements for ScientistThis blog post from the NIH Ombudsman's office details what should go into your collaboration agreement.