Inclusive Collaboration Toolkit

A curated set of resources related to diversity, equity, and inclusion on science teams for  research development professionals and collaborative team members. When using any CREDITS materials and downloads, please attribute them as follows: CREDITS Inclusive Collaboration Toolkit by Center for Research, Excellence, and Diversity in Team Science (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 and broadening participation.

Measuring Institutional Change Across Diverse HSIs

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

JEDI Toolbox for RD Professionals

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

Harnessing the Benefits of Intersectional Diversity on Collaborative Teams

Tools to help research leaders recognize and value intersectional diversity among their team members, and how to assess and build trust on diverse teams to leverage greater innovation and productivity.


Inclusive Internal Grant Programs

How to design and implement seed grant and other internal grant programs that center JEDI principles.

Decolonizing 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 make research-related metrics at your institution more inclusive and equitable.

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 and Leveraging Inclusive Models in Academic 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.