Interdisciplinary trainee networks to promote research on aging: Facilitators, barriers, and next steps

Figures & data

Table 1. How valuable is your experience with [the network]? Frequencies by faculty/school.

	Faculty/School
	Health Sciences	Social Sciences	Sciences	Engineer-ing	Human-ities	Business	Total
No or Low Value	3	1	0	0	0	0	4
Moderate or High Value	22	6	12	3	1	2	46
Total	25	7	12	3	1	2	50

Table 2. How valuable is your experience with [the network]? Frequencies by training level.

	Training Level
	Under-graduate	Master’s	PhD	Post-doctoral	Other	Total
No or Low Value	0	1	3	0	0	4
Moderate or High Value	6	10	19	9	1	45
Total	6	11	22	9	1	49

Table 3. How valuable is your experience with [the network]? Frequencies by length of membership.

	Length of Membership
	Less than a year	More than one year	Total
No or Low Value	1	2	3
Moderate or High Value	22	23	45
Total	23	25	48

Figure 1. Numbers of new connections made by all network members with University and community members (percentages).

Table

	Number awarded	Number applied to but not awarded
Travel awards	(numerical inputs)
Scholarship awards
Grants (i.e., research funding)
Research recognition (e.g., poster, talk or paper award)

Table

	Number awarded	Number applied to but not awarded
Travel awards	(numerical inputs)
Scholarship awards
Grants (i.e., research funding)
Research recognition (e.g., poster, talk or paper award)

Table

	Yes	No
Training positions (e.g., started a new degree or specialized program)
Research positions at McMaster University (e.g., paid research assistant or research coordinator positions with your primary supervisor or another faculty member)
Research positions at other institutions (e.g., paid research assistant or research coordinator positions at another institution)
Jobs outside of academia (e.g., part-time/summer or full-time scientist, clinician, community programmer, engineer, etc.)

Table

Position of new connections	Estimated number of people
	0	1–2	3–4	5+
Undergraduate students
Graduate students
Post-doctoral fellows
Faculty members
McMaster staff
Industry or Community Organizations
Older adults
Other affiliates (e.g., faculty from other universities, special guests, etc.)

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Faculty/School	Estimated number of people
	0	1–2	3–4	5+
Health Sciences
Social Sciences
Science
Engineering
Humanities
Business
Don’t know