Toolbox Dialogue Initiative – Starting the Dialogue

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Meet complex problems </br> with complex responses

Meet complex problems
with complex responses

We improve cross-disciplinary collaboration in research and practice

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Workshops Conducted

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Workshop Participants

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Peer-Reviewed Publications

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Presentations Delivered

Who We Are

The Toolbox Dialogue Initiative is a consulting and research group based at Michigan State University that includes members from ten US universities. We facilitate collaborative capacity building with partners around the world, and we investigate the practice of collaborative research, including team science, with an emphasis on understanding cross-disciplinarity and knowledge production.

LATEST NEWS

October 1, 2021
News
The Toolbox Dialogue Initiative Center Opens at Michigan State University
In June 2021, the Toolbox Dialogue Initiative (TDI) Center was created to provide research-based capacity building services to teams and communities around the world. Usi...
March 31, 2021
News Workshop
TDI innovates to include ongoing dialogue with teams
Dr. Graham Hubbs and Dr. Sanford Eigenbrode are embedding the Toolbox approach in the everyday workings of a cross-disciplinary team at their home institution, the Univer...
March 29, 2021
News Publication
New TDI research on facilitating values work in team science
TDI researchers Dr. Bethany Laursen, Dr. Chad Gonnerman, and Dr. Steve Crowley just published an open access article about the Toolbox approach to dialogue and how it can...

OUR RESEARCH

The Toolbox Dialogue Initiative is committed to the evidence-based facilitation of collaborative, cross-disciplinary research and practice, as well as to theoretical reflection on these complex modes of knowledge-focused collaboration. As an ongoing research concern, we regularly publish both empirical and theoretical work, including these recent pieces: