CREDITS Collaboration Toolkit

A curated set of resources for  research development professionals and collaborative team members. When using any CREDITS materials and downloads, please attribute them as follows: CREDITS Collaboration Toolkit (CREDITS – https://credits.ucsb.edu) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Overview of CREDITS CoP Projects

A presentation given at the 2022 NORDP conference, focusing on how RD professionals can play a critical role in contributing to institutional transformation.

Measuring Institutional Change Across Diverse HSIs

These institutional transformation metrics accommodate the diversity of HSIs and how each institution can create frameworks unique to their institutions, including metrics to measure faculty research initiatives and the research enterprise at HSIs.

Curated Toolbox for RD Professionals

A curated set of resources, effective practices, examples, and supporting literature for use by RD professionals.

Harnessing the Benefits of Collaborative Teams

Tools to help research leaders assess and build trust on teams to leverage greater innovation and productivity.


Internal Grant Programs

How to design and implement seed grant and other internal grant programs.

Expanded Research Metrics

Conventional research success metrics, such as “ROI” and research expenditures, can fail to accurately capture the breadth of the research, scholarly, and creative activities that faculty engage in. This tool outlines a process to broaden your use of research metrics.

The Team Science Toolkit

The Team Science Toolkit is an online ‘one stop shop’ that collects and integrates team science resources and knowledge from across disciplines and fields, to make them maximally accessible to anyone interested in team science.

The Team Science Field Guide

This Field Guide was developed to help researchers navigate some of the rocky and murky territory associated with building a team either on their own or at the request of someone in their organization.

Selected Publications

A selection of publication related to the opportunities and challenges of diversity on science teams.

Five Steps to Supporting a Better Research Culture

Report from the UC Davis Crafting Equitable Research Cultures (CERC) Working Group.

Creating Effective Team Environments

An overview of actions and advocacy that RD professional can take with faculty and institutions to advance organizational change for gender and intersectional equity in STEM.