Inclusive Collaboration Toolkit, created by the CREDITS Community of Practice. Illustration shows a diverse group of people in a meeting, with one person presenting data charts to three others sitting at a table.

Inclusive Collaboration Toolkit

Created by the CREDITS Community of Practice.

A curated set of resources for research development professionals and collaborative team members.

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CREDITS logo: Center for Research, Excellence, and Diversity in Team Scholarship.

Improve Your Research Leadership Capacity

The Center for Research, Excellence and Diversity in Team Scholarship (CREDITS) is an integrated research and training program to increase and enhance Team Scholarship (TS) and collective intelligence capacity, effectiveness, and excellence.

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CREDITS Community of Practice for Research Development Professionals

Work collaboratively to design new materials, tools, and training workshops/modules to help research development professionals develop and support diverse and inclusive science teams at their institutions.

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Testimonials

  • I learned tangible skills to help me do Team Scholarship – specifically around communicating expectations and management styles with senior team members, as well as strategies for thinking about how to ensure that my team science work results in favorable reviews and promotions for myself.
  • This helps me understand my team needs from my labs to my colleagues. I gained new insights into leadership, support for being a woman in science, and empowerment to come back to my home institution and lead!
  • I’ve been implementing what I’ve learned ever since and the productive results are already clear and will certainly increase in future.
  • This helps me understand my team needs from my labs to my colleagues.

About

CREDITS logo: Center for Research, Excellence, and Diversity in Team Scholarship.

The Center for Research, Excellence, and Diversity in Team Scholarship (CREDITS)

Collaborative, interdisciplinary team-based research has become increasingly central in scientific discovery. Team scholarship garners more funding, and more impactful research and publications. Having a strong network of collaborators and mentors is critical to a productive and successful academic career.

The Center for Research, Excellence, and Diversity in Team Scholarship (CREDITS) hosts Retreats and Institutes to promote team science competencies and leadership capacity of faculty, researchers, post-doctoral scholars, and research administrators.

CREDITS Retreats and Institutes feature interactive and engaging presentations, workshops, breakout sessions, and one-on-one consultation on team science dynamics and leadership, research design, and proposal writing.

Sponsors

Logos of sponsors: NSF (National Science Foundation), ADVANCE, The Elsevier Foundation, UCSB, San Diego State University, UC Merced, and CSU Channel Islands.