Scientific Collaboration - Strategies for Successful Research Teams

A narrative guide to help scientists improve their collaboration techniques and build trusting relationships with their research teams.

The days of scientists conducting solitary inquiries in isolated labs are effectively over, with most researchers instead collaborating in cross-functional teams. In addition to mastering the technical skills necessary in their respective fields, scientists must now learn strategies for better communication and relationship building to succeed in reaching increasingly sophisticated and interdisciplinary research goals. In Scientific Collaboration, biosecurity researcher and animal disease ecologist Jeanne M. Fair shares exciting-and occasionally cringeworthy-stories of scientists working together as an approachable way to introduce and explain the principles crucial to effective scientific collaboration.

From the global community of scientists measuring sea ice decline to cooperative private-public sector investigations of