Target group: doctoral and postdoctoral researchers

This four-part workshop supports researchers in building, strengthening, and sustaining effective interdisciplinary collaborations in onsite and remote settings. Through collaborative activities, practical techniques, and critical reflection, participants will explore common collaboration challenges, co-create solutions to address them, and develop approaches for actively shaping collaboration dynamics. Workshop activities draw on participants’ experiences shared before and throughout the workshop. What to expect in each session is outlined below.

Objectives:

• Analyse barriers in interdisciplinary collaborations and develop solutions to address them
• Identify visible and invisible roles that sustain collaborations
• Practice techniques for effective communication and conflict resolution
• Explore and co-create approaches to maintain a positive research culture in dynamic collaborative environments
• Analyse collaborative processes and examine own role in supporting interdisciplinary collaboration

Requirements: Participants are expected to attend all three sessions and one self-organised digital collaboration group meeting after Session 1 to complete a collaborative task. A preparatory reflection task should be completed one week before Session 1.

Facilitator: Dr Iva Ognjanovic (CERes)

Diese Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt. // This event will be held in English.

• Part 1: Mon, 1 Mar 2027, 14:30–17:00, Building strong foundations: Collaboration dynamics, roles, and communication (in person)

  This session lays the groundwork for effective interdisciplinary collaboration by examining collaboration processes and common barriers through the lens of Tuckman’s (1965) stages of team development. Participants explore visible and invisible roles in collaborative work inspired by Kantor’s (2012) Four Player Model and practice communication using Starr’s (2008) active listening technique. The session concludes with a collaborative co-creation activity.

  Venue: CERes, Schlossplatz 6, room 001

• Part 2: 2–12 Mar 2027, Self-organised digital collaboration group meeting (Zoom)

  Between Parts 1 and 3, participants meet once in small groups in a digital setting to complete a collaborative task and observe collaboration dynamics in practice.

• Part 3: Mon, 15 Mar 2027, 14:30–17:00, Strengthening collaboration: Positive research culture and conflict resolution (in person)

  This session uses Schein’s (2017) culture model as an analytical framework for identifying assumptions, values and behaviours that support or hinder interdisciplinary collaboration. Participants apply the Harvard negotiation method to analyse and address a short collaboration-conflict scenario.

  Venue: CERes, Schlossplatz 6, room 001

• Part 4: Tue, 16 Mar 2027, 14:30–17:00, Thriving in dynamic environments: Remote collaboration and adaptability to change (Zoom)

  Drawing on Clark’s (2020) Four Stages of Psychological Safety model, this session explores the specific challenges of interdisciplinary collaborations in changing research environments and online settings. Participants examine common failure modes and explore strategies for sustaining collaboration in shifting circumstances.

Anmeldung

If you would like to participate in this event and it is already marked as fully booked, you are welcome to join the waiting list. It often happens that registered participants cancel their attendance, which creates available spots. Free spots are allocated in the order of waiting list registrations. If spots become available within 72 hours before the event starts, we will notify several registrants simultaneously. These spots will then be allocated on a ‘first come, first served’ basis.