About this Event
Creating & Sustaining Interdisciplinary Research Teams
- a panel discussion with the Smartwear team
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
12:00 - 1:30 pm MT
- Hybrid event
1-103 or virtually over Zoom
Inter-disciplinary and trans-methodological research teams are a key ingredient in impactful inquiry. How do you form relationships in such teams? Organize for success? Ensure meaningful collaborations across disciplines and approaches? In this lively moderated panel discussion, U of A members of the NFRF-funded “Smartwear Revolution” project share their insights.
~join us in person or online for the first CIRCA (Crafting Interdisciplinary Research Collaborations and Approaches) event, held in conjunction with the launch of the Transforming Research for Social Impact (TRSI) hub~
Panelists:
Vivian K. Mushahwar, PhD (CRC in Functional Restoration & Professor, Medicine and Neuroscience & Mental Health Institute; Director, iSMART; and Project Lead of Smartwear Revolution)
Taymy Caso, PhD (Associate Professor, Counselling Psychology; Director, IREACH Lab; Vice Director, iSMART, University of Alberta)
Marilène Oliver, MA, MPhil, and MSc Imaging (Associate Professor, Department of Art & Design, University of Alberta)
Adalberto Loyola Sanchez MD, MSc and PhD (Associate Professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta)
Michelle Whaling (Sr Research Administrator, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry)
The panel will be moderated by Prof Sara Dorow, a co-director of the TRSI.
Thank you & we hope to see you there!
-the TRSI Team
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Tory Building, University of Alberta, 11207 Saskatchewan Drive Northwest, Edmonton, Canada
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