Table 5.

Recommendations for the Training Continuum.

Theme	Quote
Concrete skills
Rigorous methodological training	“[We need to] expect/teach more rigorous methods which will lead toward more rigorous funding which will lead toward better representation.” (Participant #54)
Scholarly paper writing	“I was very well prepared for conducting thoughtful, well-planned research in my field. However, I lacked more preparation in writing up the research and sharing it widely.” (Participant #56)
Obtaining grant funding	“One area that my school did not cover very well was funding. So I participated in a post doc after graduating which gave me experience applying for/developing grant proposals.” (Participant #77)
Underlying faculty success skills
Directing and building an independent research program	“I was not fully prepared for this position in terms of additional methodological training and clarity of complex, transdisciplinary program of research.” (Participant #58)
Charting developmental trajectory of research	“We were very prepared for the research end. There was less discussion about building to a larger grant from smaller ones.” (Participant #69)
Expansive thinking	“[I was] much less prepared in terms of ... thinking more expansively about research that can address grand challenges, which I think needs to be approached from an interdisciplinary perspective. Essentially, I had no training at all on affecting public policies and translating findings into practice” (Participant #10)
Translating research to community impact	“Because I work in a department that is not my department of doctoral training, I feel that I was moderately prepared for transdisciplinary work. The rigorous methods training works well in any department; however, I was not prepared in terms of translating results into community action.” (Participant #37)
Teamwork: navigating conflict and tension on research teams	“I think I was prepared to carry out inter/multidisciplinary work extremely well; however, the doctoral program prepared me moderately for navigating tensions within a research team— particularly as a junior scholar bringing together senior faculty from other disciplines. So, I was not just a participant of transdisciplinary research, I was an organizer of it and of faculty with decades of research expertise. There were multiple layers that I needed to coordinate and navigate, in addition to bringing together everyone’s expertise, and this was a challenge.” (Participant #89)
Teamwork: communication skills	“ ... [social work scholars need] ‘soft’ communication skills, being able to speak the language of other disciplines.” (Participant #89)