Building Connections

Collaborative Collision is centered on the Research Profile—short, focused presentations designed to communicate who you are as researcher, and let others know your unique skills, interests, and opportunities. Research Profiles also discuss specific ways you might help, or be helped by, a collaborator, making it easy to identify other researchers that you may be interested in working with. Research profile presentations are limited to three minutes and slides must follow the format available for download here. 

Not sure what to put in your Research Profile? Check out examples from past events here!

"So much of initiating multi-disciplinary collaborations is based on team-building and conversations. Both the Collaborative Collision and the Seed Fund support effective team building and encourage formative success. This is greatly appreciated – and from my perspective quite unique in academic institutions. Keep it up, please!"

"Collaborative Collision helps foster a sense of research community and connection with other faculty and staff colleagues around campus, even in a Zoom environment. Attending has led to several collaborations and many more collegial discussions about research on and beyond campus."

"I participated in the Children and Families Collaborative Collision a couple years ago and it was an incredibly helpful event for me on multiple fronts. At the time I was a Director of a grant funded community based program in one of the ISPA centers and I didn't have a lot of opportunities to network with faculty in the various academic departments.

Through the Collaborative Collision event, I met several other faculty members with research interests or resources related to my program. The most significant outcome was meeting two new colleagues and developing a research study together that we are still currently implementing. I really appreciate these Office of Research Development events!"

"The COVID-19 collaborative collision was a little different in that we didn’t have the opportunity to engage in an idea-sharing event, but the opportunity for funding encouraged us to form a new partnership among faculty members in Communication Sciences and Disorders in order to seek to understand how the early months of the pandemic were affecting children with disabilities and their families.  We have submitted one manuscript, have two more in preparation, and our team is continuing to discuss plans for additional projects and outside funding!"