EAGER GERMINATION Collaborative Research: Leveraging a Research Development Professional Network to Catalyze Statewide Innovative and Societally Relevant Research

渴望萌芽合作研究：利用研究开发专业网络促进全州创新和社会相关研究

• 批准号: 2203425
• 负责人: Joshua Roney
• 金额: $ 9.11万
• 依托单位: The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-05-01 至 2025-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2203425&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; GERMINATION; Collaborative; Research; Leveraging

This project is funded through the NSF Directorate for Engineering Germination program, which seeks to foster the development of pedagogical approaches to increase the ability of academic researchers to formulate research questions and ideas with potentially transformative outcomes. Major societal challenges can benefit from large, coordinated solutions that leverage interdisciplinary teams with collaborations from academia, government, industry, and other stakeholders. However, many college and university faculty have limited experience, tools, and support to successfully engage in diverse teams that extend beyond their department, much less their institution. The goal of this project is to create and sustain inter-institutional teams composed of junior and senior faculty members with diverse STEM perspectives and methodologies focusing on pressing regional issues such as coastal challenges. This statewide research intervention project will be developed and supported by research development professionals embedded in higher education institutions across Florida. Broader impacts will accrue from instantiation of interdisciplinary, inter-institutional research teams who develop research projects capable of successfully addressing societal challenges. Success in this project will provide a template for replication and scaling by states and other sizable networks focused on addressing intractable problems with team-based solutions that cross disciplinary boundaries.This project directly addresses gaps in researcher professional development, networking, and support by creating and guiding inter-institutional teams formed around important societal needs and informed by key community stakeholders. It involves a two-stage research intervention that commences with a collaborative learning and ideation event and continues with supported team and project development. The facilitators of these activities will be Research Development (RD) staff from Florida colleges and universities, under the guidance of a faculty expert in team science. These RD professionals are members of FloRDA, a statewide network of research staff from a diverse set of 21 member institutions, including primarily undergraduate and minority-serving institutions. During this program, RD professionals will serve as the “glue” to form and facilitate faculty teams, as connective boundary spanners with institutional knowledge as well as broader knowledge encompassing opportunities for strategic growth, existing community partnerships, and statewide policy and funding initiatives. These facilitators will nurture newly formed research teams into stable groups with aligned goals and defined member roles, leveraging activities designed to enhance knowledge integration and create a shared transdisciplinary framework. Success in this project may enhance understanding of how to implement team science approaches in geographically dispersed groups. It will also be important for charting a path through which RD professionals can foster and support team science spanning multiple and diverse partner organizations.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.

该项目是通过NSF工程发芽计划资助的，该计划旨在促进教学方法的发展，以提高学术研究人员的能力，并以可能的变革结果提出研究问题和思想。重大的社会挑战可以从大型的，协调的解决方案中受益，这些解决方案利用学术界，政府，工业和其他利益相关者的合作来利用跨学科团队。但是，许多大学和大学教师的经验，工具和支持有限，可以成功地参与超越其部门的潜水团队，更不用说他们的机构了。该项目的目的是创建和维持由具有潜水员STEM观点的初级和高级教职员工组成的机构间团队，以及着重于沿海地区挑战等新闻界问题的方法。该全州研究干预项目将由佛罗里达州高等教育机构中的研究开发专业人员开发和支持。跨学科的机构间研究团队的实例化将接受更广泛的影响，这些研究团队开发了能够成功应对社会挑战的研究项目。该项目的成功将提供一个模板，用于通过基于团队的解决方案解决棘手的问题的国家和其他相当大的网络，这些解决方案跨越学科的边界。该项目直接解决了研究人员专业发展，网络和支持方面的差距，并通过创建和指导与社会社区的重要社会中的建立和指导社区的建立跨机构的团队，并由关键社区的利益相关者，并与之相关。它涉及两阶段的研究干预措施，该干预措施从协作学习和思想事件开始，并继续由支持的团队和项目开发。这些活动的促进者将在团队科学专家的指导下，来自佛罗里达大学和大学的研究发展（RD）员工。这些RD专业人员是Florda的成员，Florda是来自21家成员机构的潜水员组成的全州研究人员网络，包括小学本科和少数派服务机构。在该计划中，RD专业人员将作为组成和促进教师团队的“胶水”，作为与机构知识的连接边界跨越，并更广泛的知识增强了战略增长，现有的社区合作伙伴关系以及全州政策和资助计划的机会。这些促进者将护理新成立的研究团队成一个稳定的小组，该小组具有一致的目标和定义的成员角色，利用旨在增强知识整合并创建共享跨学科框架的活动。该项目的成功可能会增强对如何在地理分散群体中实施团队科学方法的理解。这对于绘制路径也将很重要，RD专业人员可以培养和支持跨越多元化合作伙伴组织的团队科学。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并且通过使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估审查标准，认为通过评估被认为是珍贵的支持。