• As a team leader, you are responsible for setting the overall vision and direction of the project, selecting and forming an effective team, and ensuring progress on the project. However, you are not expected to know all of the answers. We hope that team leaders will engage students in the research process, and expect students (with some support), to help accomplish the project goals. 
• Student application review: Story+ manages a central intake process for student applications. We expect teams to review and make decisions on student applications in a timely manner. You may NOT accept students on to your team outside of the central process but you are absolutely encouraged to send students to our application portal. 
• Team activities and accomplishments: Please keep us informed of your team’s progress by sending any products, events or announcements to Lou, Jules, and/or fhi@duke.edu so that we can help share your team’s work. 
• Reporting: At the end of the year, we expect all team leaders to: 1) complete a short evaluation survey and 2) provide, upon request, a brief summary of outputs. Some themes may request additional reporting.
• Issues: We know that issues will emerge on occasion related to either students, the research project or an unforeseen incident. Please keep us apprised and know that we are here as your partner in trying to help your team resolve issues.

• Story+ is built upon the foundational values of care, inclusion, and community. Our primary objectives are to enable undergraduate and graduate students to participate in rigorous, hands-on humanities research, to facilitate collaborative and creative research transmission, to support faculty and community-based interdisciplinary humanities research, and to promote teamwork and interdisciplinarity as humanities modes of work.  
• Our values also animate how we reach out for partnerships across Duke and beyond Duke, in the projects we solicit and select, in the ways we recruit and support students, and in our common programming throughout the summer.  We understand that our work is done with and within a privileged institution of higher education that has a historically complicated relationship with research subjects, objectification, and positivism. To generate humanistic research means paying attention to how structures and systems influence the collection of evidence, methods of analysis, and communication of results and to our particular identities and contexts as researchers.
• This embrace of situated knowledge does not require that Story+ projects adhere to certain topics, modes of work, or presentation practices; it does however, require a self-awareness about the choices any particular project makes from subject matter, to methodology, to communication with the public, to divisions of labor, and supervisory authority. As such, we ask all potential and participating partners to consider how you might (no matter your topics or goals) acknowledge, address, or understand intertwining systems of oppression (ableism, racism, sexism, heterosexism, etc.) as you plan and undertake your research.

Code of Conduct Statement: Together we’ll aim to create a research environment that respects all cultures, backgrounds, identities, and views and a research community where belonging, respect, and reciprocity are at the heart of our communication and practice. Together we’ll honor our collaborators’ perspectives, identities, and diverse ways of thinking and we’ll hold each other accountable for doing so. Story+ is an inclusive space where all students have an equal right to research, learn, and express themselves. We will not tolerate harassment or harms of any form.