This article reviews the literature on research using teams, including
interdisciplinary teams, teams that span universities and are geographically
distant, and teams using qualitative and mixed methods. It reports experiences of
two multi-year, externally funded, multiple-university research teams that used both
qualitative and quantitative methods. It concludes with suggestions for others
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