Greetings, Education and Training SIG members!

We hope everyone's 2025 has started well.

We are delighted to announce our next SIG meeting on Monday, February 3, 2025, and this email is also a gentle nudge to please complete the survey on which Working Group(s) you would like to join.

Monday, February 3, 2025:
12:00 PM EST / 17:00 GMT / 18:00 CET

Title:

Toolkitting: An unrecognized form of expertise for overcoming fragmentation in inter- and transdisciplinary research 
Presented by Dr. Bethany Laursen, of the University of Michigan

As curated collections of resources, toolkits are becoming a prominent way of sharing knowledge within and across fields, including the science of team science. But toolkits are often created in isolation from each other, re-creating the fragmentation they seek to overcome. Moreover, many toolkits are not user friendly or maintained. Toolkitting is a bundle of practices including the creation, use, maintenance, funding, and study of toolkits, and it requires its own expertise. This recent paper from the ITD Alliance Working Group on Toolkits & Methods highlights the fragmentation in the toolkits landscape, the toolkitting expertise needed to overcome this fragmentation, and the ITD Toolkits Inventory, a resource for smarter toolkitting.

Dr. Bethany Laursen studies, develops, uses, and evaluates tools that help people make sense of wicked problems. She is a Team Science Specialist at the University of Michigan and a member of the Toolbox Dialogue Initiative. Bethany coordinates the Toolkits & Methods Working Group for the Global Alliance for Inter- and Transdisciplinarity (ITD Alliance) and she maintains the consultancy Laursen Evaluation & Design, LLC. 

Here is the Zoom link to join this meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84905625809?pwd=coknFsGXGX8tsoJ0G2o8XjJ8t3i7no.1  

Best Wishes,
Sawsan, Angela, and Alison
Co-chairs, INSciTS Education and Training SIG