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Tools

Tools for Cross-Disciplinary Research Development

The Global Arts + Humanities has developed two tools for use across the university: collabORATE (a card deck) and Project Impact (a digital platform). These tools are the result of extensive multi-year collaborations with faculty, staff and students at every stage of development — from conceptualization to design and testing.

collabORATE

COLLABORATE helps to translate disciplinary assumptions and practices for use in new contexts and/or applications; promote disciplinary self-awareness about methods and practices; create new conceptual, methodological and theoretical innovations to transform discipline-specific approaches to address common issues; amplify the ability of researchers to reach wider audiences and communicate diverse viewpoints. collabORATE embeds a keen awareness of the ethical and processual in every stage of research.

Project Impact

PROJECT IMPACT is a digital tool that emphasizes qualitative metrics. It is generative and evaluative and can be used at multiple phases of a project by cross-disciplinary teams and individual PIs. Additional uses include assistance with year-end reporting, grant writing, mission statements and envisioning project parameters. The tool was collaboratively developed by GAH, Associate Professor Sébastien Proulx (Design), design graduate students Nina Wolf and Mahkameh Mallah Zadeh and ASC Tech.