This glossary is a growing collection of terms that we are building in collaboration with CSCCE community members as part of our work to support the emerging field of scientific community management. Many of these terms are regularly used in our trainings and resources.
Structure of the glossary
The glossary is comprised of different subsections that correspond to specific accompanying resources, such as the CSCCE skills wheel, and our inclusive language glossary.
You can explore the different subsections by browsing the categories indicated in the categories dropdown menu on this page.
We will be adding additional subsections in the coming months and welcome suggestions of areas that you’d like to work on. Please contact info@cscce.org with suggestions and feedback.
Browsing and citing the glossary
You can browse the glossary directly from this page by clicking a word from the complete glossary list below. You can also scan the alphabet for a specific letter and click on it to filter by that letter.
The page for each glossary term includes a corresponding citation for the resource and we request that you refer to that citation when using the terms in your work. Once we have created a first instance of a complete glossary, we will provide a citable DOI for the entire resource.
- a
- Ableist language and behavior
- Accessibility
- Advancement, growth and sustainability
- Advocacy
- Ally/Allyship
- Analysis
- c
- Champions program
- Change management
- CO-CREATE mode
- COLLABORATE mode
- Collaboration
- Community champion
- Community governance
- Community lifecycle models
- Community overview statement
- Community participation guidelines
- Community: shared purpose, belonging, culture
- Conflict resolution
- Consultation and listening
- Content
- Content and programming audit
- Content creation and curation
- Content Management System (CMS) administration
- Content pillar
- Content planning
- CONTRIBUTE mode
- CONVEY/CONSUME mode
- Core values
- Creating a container
- CSCCE Community Participation Model
- Cultural competence
- d
- Data analysis
- Data management
- Data visualization
- DEI / EDI / DEIA / JEDI / DEIB
- Dominant voice / Dominant story
- e
- Editorial
- Emergent
- Emotional integration
- Engagement
- Etiquette
- Evaluation and assessment
- Event planning
- f
- Financial management
- Formal champions
- Framing
- h
- Holding space
- i
- Informal champions
- Intentionality
- j
- Jargon
- k
- Knowledge brokering
- l
- Lived experience
- m
- Marketing and branding
- Media production
- Media relations
- Meeting facilitation
- Member research
- Member types
- Mentoring
- Moderation, mediation and intervention
- Multi-modal programming
- Multimodal programming
- n
- Network-centric leadership
- Networking
- o
- Operational planning and implementation
- Outreach
- p
- Personas
- Product management of technology platforms
- Program design
- Programming
- Proposal development
- r
- Record-keeping
- Recruitment, welcoming and onboarding
- Reflection
- Relationship dashboard
- Reporting
- Restorative approaches
- s
- Scaffolding
- Sexist language
- Shared goals
- Silencing
- Silo
- Social media
- Speaking and presenting
- Stakeholders
- Strategy development
- Synthesis
- Systems administration and maintenance
- t
- Teaching and training
- Technical support
- Time management
- u
- Use of acronyms
- Use of pronouns
- w
- Web and UI design