This video features the two tools presented in the Boundary Spanning Tools for Research Teams series. The tools address knowledge integration. Integrating different ways of knowing can provide transformative insights into the complex problems that research teams often engage.
Tool 1: The Give & Take Matrix is presented by Sibylle Studer (head of project methods at the Network for Transdisciplinary Research (td-net)) and Michael Stauffacher (co-director of the Transdisciplinarity Lab at ETH Zurich), both located in Switzerland. The matrix is useful for identifying pieces of knowledge to be shared between subparts of inter- and trans-disciplinary projects. It helps to clarify each subproject's contribution to the whole and how the various contributions can best be connected.
Tool 2: Argument Standard Form is presented by Bethany Laursen, an independent consultant with Laursen Evaluation & Design, LLC and Assistant Dean of the Graduate School at Michigan State University in the USA. The tool is a logically-ordered list of the main reasons to believe that something is true. Anyone’s perspective can contribute a premise or part of one and therefore the tool shows how different knowledges can be integrated through logic-based reasoning. The tool can also be used to evaluate knowledge integration to see if it makes sense and includes all relevant perspectives.
The Boundary Spanning Tools for Research Teams series is hosted by Bethany Laursen and the webinar series overall is organised and presented by Kristine Glauber, Program Director, Team Science Core, Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Duke University, North Carolina USA.
For access to the resources mentioned in the webinar see the Intereach website (link below).
The webinar was broadcast and recorded on 13 April 2021. The webinar series is a project of the Interdisciplinary Integration Research Careers Hub (Intereach) at [ Ссылка ], which provides mechanisms for communication, education, and collaboration among those interested in a community of practice around the interdisciplinary and integrative functions critical to team science research. Intereach is a special interest group of the International Network of the Science of Team Science.
