Study of New Strategies to Combat Harassment in Engineering

工程中反骚扰新策略研究

• 批准号: 2000448
• 负责人: Mala Htun
• 金额: $ 119.95万
• 依托单位: University of New Mexico
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2000448&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Study; New; Strategies; Combat; Harassment

Researchers from New Mexico State University (NMSU) will implement an EHR Core Research (ECR) program research project. This ECR program supports work that advances fundamental research on STEM learning and learning environments, broadening participation in STEM, and STEM workforce development. The study will assess whether and how bystander intervention training - a successful approach in other contexts such as universities and the U.S. military - can be refined, adapted, and delivered to reduce sexual harassment and change institutional climates in engineering. The study will include two multi-method field studies. In the field studies, the researchers will engage engineering faculty as bystander trainers of their own students on two university campuses (NMSU and University of New Hampshire) to assess whether their involvement fosters greater commitment to combat harassment, as predicted by the Dobbin et al. managerial engagement approach to organizational change (2015). The proposed research will contribute to scientific knowledge about the components and conditions of effective norm-based strategies to reduce harassment and encourage bystander intervention in the engineering workplace.The researchers will use focus groups and surveys to explore the impact on faculty and students of their participation in providing bystander training as engineering faculty and receiving the training from engineering faculty as engineering students. The research is expected to inform strategies to combat harassment against vulnerable individuals which are typically underrepresented in engineering, such as engineers that are women, engineers of color, and LGBTQ engineers. The two campuses have significant enrollment of first generation and underrepresented minority students in engineering. The field studies will illustrate how to foster leaders' commitment to change engineering climates and how to modify the engineering professional curriculum to increase the retention of diverse individuals and their professional confidence. While this project is primarily funded by the ECR program, additional support has been provided by the Directorate for Engineering's Broadening Participation in Engineering (BPE) program.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

新墨西哥州立大学 (NMSU) 的研究人员将实施 EHR 核心研究 (ECR) 计划研究项目。该 ECR 计划支持推进 STEM 学习和学习环境的基础研究、扩大 STEM 参与以及 STEM 劳动力发展的工作。该研究将评估是否以及如何改进、调整和实施旁观者干预培训（在大学和美国军队等其他环境中是一种成功的方法），以减少性骚扰并改变工程领域的制度氛围。该研究将包括两项多方法实地研究。在实地研究中，研究人员将让两所大学校园（新罕布什尔州立大学和新罕布什尔大学）的工程教师作为自己学生的旁观者培训师，以评估他们的参与是否能促进更大程度地致力于打击骚扰，正如 Dobbin 等人所预测的那样。组织变革的管理参与方法（2015）。拟议的研究将有助于增进有关有效的基于规范的策略的组成部分和条件的科学知识，以减少骚扰并鼓励旁观者干预工程工作场所。研究人员将利用焦点小组和调查来探讨其参与对教师和学生的影响提供作为工程教师的旁观者培训，并作为工程学生接受工程教师的培训。 这项研究预计将为打击针对弱势群体的骚扰提供信息，这些群体在工程领域通常代表性不足，例如女性工程师、有色人种工程师和 LGBTQ 工程师。这两个校区招收了大量第一代工程专业的少数族裔学生。实地研究将说明如何培养领导者对改变工程气候的承诺，以及如何修改工程专业课程以增加多样化个人的保留和他们的专业信心。虽然该项目主要由 ECR 计划资助，但工程理事会的扩大工程参与 (BPE) 计划提供了额外的支持。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值进行评估，被认为值得支持以及更广泛的影响审查标准。