Expertise is an important component of a successful team but it is clearly not the only one. Trust and the ability to work together in a collegial and constructive way is essential (Happell, 2010). It is essential not to pay ‘lip service’ to the notion of teamwork, it is not a euphemism for working with friends or using a research opportunity as a way to pay back favours from the past. Instead the research team should be assembled with integrity and at the outset expectations of each member defined, and roles and responsibilities delineated. This includes authorship protocols, as being named as an advisor for example, would not necessarily mean automatic inclusion as an author on any output arising from the study. Again the logic test applies and the team needs to make sense and be defensible.