Implementation Grant: The Center for Diverse Leadership in Science - Transforming the Geoscience Culture to become more Diverse, Equitable, and Just

实施资助：科学多元化领导中心 - 转变地球科学文化，使其变得更加多元化、公平和公正

• 批准号: 2228198
• 负责人: Aradhna Tripati
• 金额: $ 749.07万
• 依托单位: University of California-Los Angeles
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-11-01 至 2027-10-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2228198&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Implementation; Grant; Center; Diverse; Leadership

This project will build on an existing model for cultural transformation in the geosciences that has been developed by the Center for Diverse Leadership in Science. The social context of doing science is emphasized through leadership development, the practice of team-based science, and through intentional relationships and partnerships that disrupt traditional hierarchies. One component of this effort will study how to impact people to grow their awareness of and respect for different knowledge systems in geoscience, and pro-social skills, to thereby have the capacity for healthy, effective, transdisciplinary geoscience research and practice. The project leaders will examine the impact of the program on participants’ identities as scientists and cultural change agents. The program activities will focus on moving cohorts of early career fellows through the educational and career trajectory being intentional about their environment, and providing mentorship with peers, previous trailblazers, and trained faculty for leadership, modeling, and network development. Project leaders will maintain continuity and health in relationships with people and partners, including regional community-based organizations, tribal authorities, and minority-serving institutions, so they can continue to steer efforts for community-driven science, engaged research, and respectful collaborative experiences. At the same time, project leaders will support community- and network-building initiatives led by early career fellows, including the Environmental Justice Working Group, Veterans in Green STEM, and the Navajo Scholars Network. Project leaders will continue to organize and work to engage departments, universities, and professional societies in the shared learning and practices in support of equity, cultivating institutional contexts by impacting professionalization processes and implementing change strategies.The project will engage geoscience early career fellows, community experts who are honorary fellows, faculty fellows, and core staff, adding to more than 100 individuals per year. This project will provide opportunities for empowering, supporting, and retaining people from structurally excluded groups in earth system science and green STEM fields, including people of color, LGBTQIA+, veteran, and disabled geoscientists and community members, to become the innovators, scientific, and social leaders needed by society. This work will build capacity in the geosciences and in academic and non-academic institutions for community-centered work relating to environmental science and justice that includes diverse ways of knowing and knowledge creation. Project leaders will train the next generation of geoscientists, who will learn from each other, from academics, and from community experts, thereby contributing to workforce development and innovative science. The fellows will grow and apply their knowledge of geoscience and enhance their skills as leaders and champions of diversity, equity, inclusion, justice, access, and belonging. Project leaders propose that cultivating leadership skills through communities of learning and practice will not only have immediate impact but will enable the network of environment- and community-focused scholars to share their experiences and lessons learned with their peers and mentees for years to come. This project will support sustainable and equitable partnerships between the Center, universities, community-based organizations, and tribal authorities, and the activities will have impact beyond participating institutions.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.

该项目将基于现有的科学领导中心开发的地球科学文化转型模型。通过领导力发展，基于团队的科学实践以及破坏传统等级制度的有意关系和伙伴关系来强调进行科学的社会背景。这项工作的一个组成部分将研究如何影响人们对地球科学和亲社会技能的不同知识系统的认识和尊重，从而具有健康，有效，跨学科的地球科学研究和实践的能力。项目负责人将研究该计划对参与者作为科学家和文化变革推动者身份的影响。该计划活动将着重于将早期职业研究员的同伙通过教育和职业轨迹进行有意的环境，并与同龄人，以前的开拓者和受过训练的教师提供领导，建模和网络发展的教师。项目负责人将在与人和合作伙伴的关系中保持连续性和健康状况，包括区域社区组织，部落当局和少数派服务机构，因此他们可以继续为社区驱动的科学，参与的研究和尊重的协作经验而努力。同时，项目负责人将支持由早期职业研究员领导的社区和网络建设计划，包括环境正义工作组，绿色STEM的退伍军人和纳瓦霍学者网络。项目负责人将继续组织和努力，使部门，大学和专业社会参与共同的学习和实践，以支持公平，通过影响专业化流程和实施变更策略来培养机构环境。该项目将与早期的职业伙伴，社区专家，荣誉专家，荣誉伙伴，教职员工和核心工作人员以及每年超过100个个人增加。该项目将为赋予，支持和保留人员的能力，支持和保留在地球系统科学和绿色STEM领域的团体中，包括有色人种，LGBTQIA+，退伍军人和残疾地球科学家和社区成员，成为社会所需的创新者，科学和社会领导者。这项工作将在地球科学以及学术和非学术机构中建立能力，以与环境科学和正义有关的社区为中心的工作，其中包括潜水员的了解和知识创造方式。项目负责人将培训下一代的地球科学家，他们将从学术界和社区专家互相学习，从而为劳动力发展和创新科学做出贡献。研究员将增长并运用他们对地球科学的了解，并提高他们作为多样性，公平，包容，正义，获得和归属感的领导者和拥护者的技能。项目领导者建议，通过学习和实践社区培养领导能力不仅会立即产生影响，而且还将使以环境和社区为中心的学者网络分享他们的经验和经验，并在未来几年与同龄人和月经学到的经验。该项目将支持中心，大学，基于社区的组织和部落当局之间的可持续合作伙伴关系，并且这些活动将在参与机构之外产生影响。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优点和更广泛影响的审查标准通过评估来通过评估来支持的。