Building and
Managing
Research Team
Dr. Jordan H. Llego
Objectives
• Describe what is a research team.
• Identify the composition of a research team.
• Recall the stages of group development.
• Make criteria in selecting team members.
• Recognize the difference between authorship and non-authorship tasks
in a research team.
• Summarize the tips to lead an effective research team.
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Let’s start at the very beginning..
How many of You…
• Are part of a team ?
• Have a collaboration you are unhappy with?
• Have had authorship issues on papers ?
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The Research Team
What is a research team?
• It comprises a group of people working together in a
committed way towards a common research goal.
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WHY we want to build Research Group?
• Improve team skills
• Publications
• Deliver Consultations
• Industry problem solving
• Serve the society
• Improve University Ranking
• Improve Higher education
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• When properly build, research teams are not only highly
productive and cut running costs, but are also autonomous
and self-directed. So, no need for a tight supervision.
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Research team diversity
• They may comprise co-investigators, fractional or pooled staff, technical
and clerical staff and postgraduate research students. There may also
be inter- and intra-institutional dimensions and increasingly
international ones.
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Common Composition of a Research Team
• Principal Investigator
• Co-investigator
• Statistician
• Advisory group
• Research Assistant
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Forming the Research
Team
Tuckman’s Stages of Group Development
1. Forming
2. Storming
3. Norming
4. Performing
5. Adjourning
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Selecting team members
• Complementarity of skills: differentiation &
specialization
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technical
executive: problem solving; decision making
interpersonal
Internationalization & commercialization
• Cohesion (shared mental model & work)
• Breeds respect and trust
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Selecting ‘Cohesive’ team members
• Trinity: cognition, attitude, behavior
Feeling
Thinking
• knowledge sharing
• openness
• fairness
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Enthusiastic
Constructive
Supportive
Cooperative
Doing
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Task completion
Coordination
F/U
Monitoring
• Cohesion builds trust
• More trust  less conflict less
bureaucracy & more FUN !
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Assembling a team: Questions to ask
• Team should match research question !!!
• Skill set (but never forget the generalist)
• Research fluency
• Collaborative fluency
• Leadership experience
• Core values
• Compatibility
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Assembling a team: Correlates
• Physical proximity helps
• Tendency for ‘homophily’ (‘ we tend to like people like
ourselves’)
• downside is no ‘creative friction’ essential for good team
science
• Geographic proximity helps
• Challenge of varying time zones
• Training locally vs. searching globally
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Things to assess in teams before starting
• Collaborative readiness
• Skill set
• Experienced leadership
• Funding
• Institutional support
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Authorship
Who Is an Author?
• The International Committee of Medical Journal editors (ICMJE)
recommends that authorship be based on the following 4 criteria:
• Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the
acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND
• Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual
content; AND
• Final approval of the version to be published; AND
• Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that
questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are
appropriately investigated and resolved.
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Non-Author Contributors
• Acquisition of funding
• General supervision of a research group or general administrative
support
• Writing assistance
• Technical editing
• Language editing
• Proofreading.
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Tips to Lead an Effective
Research Team
Tips
1. To lead a team effectively, you must first establish your leadership with
each team member.
2. Consider each employee's ideas as valuable.
3. Be aware of employees' unspoken feelings.
4. Act as a harmonizing influence.
5. Be clear when communicating and facilitate communication.
6. Encourage trust and cooperation among employees on your team.
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Tips
7. Encourage team members to share information.
8. Delegate problem-solving tasks to the team.
9. Establish team values and goals; evaluate team performance.
10. Make sure that you have a clear idea of what you need to accomplish;
that you know what your standards for success are going to be; that you
have established clear time frames; and that team members understand
their responsibilities.
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Tips
11. Use consensus.
12. Set ground rules for the team.
13. Encourage listening and brainstorming.
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THANK YOU!
References
• International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. (2020). Defining the
Role of Authors and Contributors. Retrieved from
http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/roles-andresponsibilities/defining-the-role-of-authors-and-contributors.html
• Mind Tools Team. (n.d.). Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing.
Retrieved from
https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newLDR_86.htm
• Pimp your Science. (2014). How to build a powerful research team.
Retrieved from http://www.pimpyourscience.org/lesson/17/How-to-builda-powerful-research-team.html
• Vitae. (n.d.). Building and managing a research team. Retrieved from
https://www.vitae.ac.uk/doing-research/leadership-development-forprincipal-investigators-pis/building-and-managing-a-research-team
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