Developing Successful Interdisciplinary Teams and Proposals
Monday, February 23, 3:00-5:00 pm
Campus Club Conference Rooms A & B, Coffman Memorial Union
Discovering and developing solutions to the complex problems facing the world in the 21st century requires joining forces across disciplinary boundaries. More and more funding agencies and external sponsors are requiring that grant proposals take an interdisciplinary approach. Working in teams outside your familiar disciplinary field requires new skills and approaches and begins with the way research and scholarly questions are posed and projects are conceptualized.
This workshop will explore various stages of team and project development, from formulating your vision and recruiting your team to successfully meeting the challenges of interdisciplinary research and scholarship. Through dialogue with faculty who have expertise in interdisciplinary work, this workshop will explore a number of questions.
- What is unique about interdisciplinary work?
- How can complementary expertise outside your discipline be identified and located when building an interdisciplinary team?
- How can grant proposals be expanded to include the potential intellectual contributions that diverse disciplines offer?
Panel discussion featuring:
- Linda Bearinger, PhD, MS, FAAN, Professor and Director, Center for Adolescent Nursing, School of Nursing, and Professor, Division of Adolescent Health and Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Medical School
- Arthur Erdman, P.E., Richard C. Jordan Professor and a Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Director, Medical Devices Center
- David Feinberg, Adjunct Associate Professor, Art Department, CCE Personal Enrichment Programs
- Kristen C. Nelson, Professor, Department of Forest Resources and Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology
- Claudia Neuhauser, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Director of the Center for Learning Innovation, University of Minnesota, Rochester; HHMI and Distinguished McKnight University Professor ; Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor; Director of Graduate Studies, Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology
- Scott Selleck, MD, PhD. Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development; Director, Developmental Biology Center; Director, University of Minnesota Autism Initiative
Sponsored by the Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, the Graduate School Office of Interdisciplinary Initiatives and the Office of the Vice President for Research.
Resource Documents
Agenda
Panelist Bio Sketches
Discussion Questions
Resource List
Interdisciplinary Research Articles (Linda Bearinger)
MN Futures Grant Program
NIH Grant Application
AHC Seed Grants
Collaborative Research Questions
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