Course: The challenge of leading networked science

Individual change, teams, and organizational transformation in research

Research takes place in highly specialized environments characterized by professional autonomy and interdependence. Leading in this context requires more than simply coordinating tasks or managing projects: it involves mobilizing people, building trust, fostering collaboration, and creating the conditions for teams to move toward shared goals.

This session proposes a space for reflection and practical work on the main challenges of leadership in research groups, focusing on the relationship between individual change, team dynamics and the transformation of scientific organizations.

Objectives

Reflect on the role of leadership in current research environments.

Identify the personal skills needed to drive change processes.

Analyze the dynamics that foster trust, collaboration, and commitment in teams.

Explore how to move from individual excellence to a collective capacity for research and innovation.

Identifying levers to promote organizational transformation from within the research groups themselves.

Content

1. INDIVIDUAL CHANGE

Leading oneself to lead

Self-awareness, responsibility, and adaptation to change. The role of beliefs, behaviors, and personal influence in team transformation.

2. TEAMWORK

The challenge of building a team

Shared purpose, trust, communication, and collaboration. How to manage professional autonomy, differences, and interdependence in scientific and multidisciplinary teams.

3. ORGANIZATIONAL TRANSFORMATION

From team to organizational transformation

How to create contexts that foster cooperation between groups, collective learning, innovation, and knowledge transfer.

Methodology

Participatory session that will combine conceptual contributions, reflection on practice, exercises and analysis of common situations in the direction and coordination of research groups.

Addressed to

Professionals who lead, coordinate or participate in research groups and structures of ibs.GRANADA, as well as professionals with responsibilities in the management, development and support of research activity.

Registrations

Registration must be completed before 22 2026 de septiembre to attend the event. You can register at the following link https://www.ibsgranada.es/inscripciones-curso-el-reto-de-liderar-la-ciencia-en-red/

• Date y hour: Tuesday September 29 from 2026 at 13h AM
• Location: Online access at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87338720471
• Registration: https://www.ibsgranada.es/registration-to-the-research-sessions-of-the-ibs-grenade/
• Speaker: Francisca Casas-Cordero. Scientific Culture Unit and part of the Decoloniality group at ISGlobal.
• Paper: Introduction to the intersectional perspective and reflections for its application in biomedical research

Intersectionality allows us to understand how, different axes of inequality, such as gender, social class, origin, racialization, disability, age, or immigration status, They do not act in isolation, but rather intersect in specific contexts and produce specific experiences of privilege, exclusion, and vulnerability. In this introductory session sThe session will address its genealogy, its main elements, and some conceptual debates, inviting reflection on its relevance to producing, interpreting, and applying knowledge in biomedical research. Building on this foundation, the session will open a space for collective reflection on the opportunities, challenges, and limitations of incorporating an intersectional perspective into the different phases of biomedical research.