EAGER International Type II: Inclusiveness and Diversity as Building Blocks of Resilient International Research Teams in the Age of COVID-19

EAGER International Type II：包容性和多样性是 COVID-19 时代有弹性的国际研究团队的基石

基本信息

批准号：
2114474
负责人：
Gregory Kiker
金额：
$ 29.8万
依托单位：
University of Florida
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2021-02-01 至 2024-01-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2114474&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
EAGER International Type II Inclusiveness

项目摘要

Recent COVID-related events have significantly disrupted many international teams, especially those focused on basic and applied research in developing countries. Collaborative groups at all stages of development are impacted, including long-standing teams, recently established teams, and groups in the making. While impromptu transitions to online, video conferencing have allowed basic communications to continue as a stopgap measure, significant knowledge gaps remain in building resilient, adaptive and innovative research teams into the post-COVID future. Traditionally, international research teams have been built based on efficiency in satisfying funding priorities, past alliances, ease of communication and similarity of institutional culture. Such teams may not be inclusive and diverse beyond a superficial level required to be competitive by funding priorities. We hypothesize that international research teams can be designed to be more resilient and that inclusiveness and diversity are key considerations in building resilient teams. We propose to study three exemplars of trans-disciplinary research groups, all working in Africa on complex socio-ecological issues ranging from food security, land use planning and ecosystem services. (1) Large, successful, well-established teams, (2) Recently established teams (FY 2020) disrupted in their first year with COVID-related limitations and (3) New teams attempting to form in the post-COVID, “new normal” of closed borders and virus hotspots. Team resilience will be quantified using semi-quantitative (Resilience Matrix after Linkov et al., 2013) and quantitative (Network Science) approaches. The Resilience Matrix approach integrates multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) to integrate disparate sources of quantitative and qualitative information regarding team resilience in Respond/Recover/Adapt phases of resilience across different domains of collaborative activities (physical, cyber and social). Instead of utilizing aggregated metrics, a network science approach would represent team connectivity across the same domains as networks interconnected by links and nodes. These interconnected networks will be stress-tested through disruption of link and node connectivity or degradation of functional recovery, efficiency and adaptation capacities. Subsequently, team designs and connection structures will be compared for emergent qualities related to team performance. Our goal is to quantify resilience in several research teams and assess how the inclusiveness and diversity results in better research outcomes along with recovery and adaptation to the COVID-19 crisis.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.

最近，与Covid相关的事件严重破坏了许多国际团队，尤其是那些专注于发展中国家基础和应用研究的团队。在各个发展阶段的协作小组都受到影响，包括长期的团队，最近成立的团队和组成的团体。尽管即兴到在线过渡，视频会议使基本沟通能够继续作为定格措施，但在建立韧性，适应性和创新的研究团队中，重要的知识差距仍然存在于后来的未来。传统上，国际研究团队是基于满足资金优先，过去的联盟，沟通便捷和机构文化相似性的效率而建立的。这样的团队可能没有包容性，并且通过资金优先级具有竞争力所需的表面水平的分歧。我们假设国际研究团队可以设计为更具抵抗力，而包容性和多样性是建立弹性团队的主要考虑因素。我们建议研究跨学科研究小组的三个示例，所有这些典范都在非洲工作，从事复杂的社会生态问题，包括粮食安全，土地使用计划和生态系统服务。（1）大型，成功，成就良好的团队，（2）最近成立的团队（2020财年）在第一年被与共同相关的限制而陷入困境，以及（3）试图在封闭界和病毒热点的“新正常”中形成的新团队。将使用半定量（Linkov等人，2013年）和定量（网络科学）方法来量化团队的弹性。弹性矩阵方法集成了多准则决策分析（MCDA），以整合有关团队弹性的定量和定性信息的不同来源，这些信息在响应/恢复/调整协作活动（物理，网络和社会）跨不同领域的响应/恢复/适应弹性阶段。网络科学方法不使用汇总指标，而是代表与链接和节点互连的网络相同的域上的团队连接。这些相互联系的网络将通过链接和节点连接性的破坏或功能恢复，效率和适应能力的降解来进行应力测试。随后，将比较团队设计和连接结构与团队绩效相关的新兴质量。我们的目标是量化几个研究团队中的韧性，并评估包容性和多样性如何导致更好的研究成果以及对COVID-19危机的恢复和适应性的恢复和适应。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的评估来审查审查标准来通过评估来通过评估来支持的。