Participants of this think tank will explore concepts that are meant to bind teams but often become barriers and sources of division in teams. Trust and scholarly vision are key to understanding the value and benefit from team science, and individuals can sometimes feel that entering into collaboratives increases vulnerability and unnecessary risks. With well-designed organizational practices that encourage and reward collaboration, such threats to collaboration can be minimized. This think tank will benchmark practices from other institutions, explore how GW can better adopt collaborative reward and recognition practices, and make recommendations that increase collaborative trust.
AIMS:
- To review faculty code across GWU to understand current reward and recognition standards for team science.
- To identify recommendations for University administration that address existing benefits and the challenges to reward systems.
- To survey stakeholders across the University to describe perceived benefits and challenges, including trust, capacity, value, for researchers that want to participate in team science.
