Welcome to our research information page! This project is funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Our goal is to understand research teams distributed across locations to understand how researchers successfully collaborate on topics while working apart from each other. Since the 2020 Global Pandemic, distributed (i.e., virtual) research teams have become more common. Understanding how team members negotiate their collaborative research with their other obligations will benefit the scientific community through improving our theoretical knowledge of virtual teams and the advice we can give to virtual research teams to become more successful.
We focus particularly on what happens during and between meetings for a wide variety of research teams. We will collect data through surveys after and between meetings. We will also quantitatively analyze recorded team meetings. This means that we will not analyze the content of communications but the dynamics of member interactions. Further, no member of our research team will ever see a video of any researcher they might know in our study. Further, all survey data is anonymized through a response identity code using your birth month and the first three letters of your birth city.
You can learn more about our research team here.