Collaborative Research: FieldSafe - Changing the Culture of Fieldwork in the Geosciences

协作研究：FieldSafe - 改变地球科学领域的实地工作文化

• 批准号: 2307412
• 负责人: Meredith Hastings
• 金额: $ 6.01万
• 依托单位: Brown University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-07-15 至 2026-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2307412&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; FieldSafe; Changing; Culture

Field-based research is integral to many geoscience research programs and can present unique challenges for scientists and other participants. Fieldwork is often conducted in teams that include established researchers and their students, which introduces complex power dynamics. These conditions create challenges and stressors that increase vulnerability to hostile behaviors such as bullying, harassment, and other identity-based exclusionary behaviors. The need to address safety, identity-based harassment and other exclusionary behaviors in field campaigns is growing more urgent to ensure safe and productive research environments. This work supports the field-based geoscience community by increasing field team preparedness and changing fieldwork team culture to be inclusive, supportive, welcoming, discrimination-free and productive. The project is a synergistic effort between FieldSafe and the ADVANCEGeo Partnership to support researchers in meeting the new NSF proposal requirement for the inclusion of a field safety plan in all field-based proposals, and to support institutional change initiatives in other research funding agencies and at academic institutions. This is especially novel because, to date, no research has been conducted on the effectiveness of training focused on field safety and/or anti-harassment and tools for the design of inclusive field campaigns.The goals of this project are to (1) create and widely disseminate a field safety, anti-harassment, and bystander intervention training certificate program through an online course platform, (2) develop a toolkit to support field teams in planning safe and inclusive field campaigns and (3) research the impact of these trainings and support tools for field culture change. This project produces new knowledge of the effectiveness of a program that utilizes a combined self-paced online course combined with synchronous guided debrief and reflection sessions to support the development of inclusive culture in all field environments. The results of this project will contribute a robust and transferable research design and instruments to study the culture and safety of fieldwork. The research will contribute important findings around critical components for the instructional sequence and implementation of training and how the application of this training may vary based on different field contexts.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.

实地研究是许多地球科学研究项目不可或缺的一部分，并且可能给科学家和其他参与者带来独特的挑战。实地考察通常是在包括知名研究人员及其学生的团队中进行，这引入了复杂的权力动态。这些条件带来了挑战和压力，增加了遭受欺凌、骚扰和其他基于身份的排斥行为等敌对行为的脆弱性。为了确保安全和富有成效的研究环境，解决实地活动中的安全、基于身份的骚扰和其他排斥行为的需求变得越来越紧迫。这项工作通过加强现场团队的准备和改变现场工作团队的文化，使其变得包容、支持、欢迎、无歧视和富有成效，从而支持现场地球科学界。该项目是 FieldSafe 和 ADVANCEGeo Partnership 之间的协同努力，旨在支持研究人员满足新的 NSF 提案要求，即在所有基于现场的提案中纳入现场安全计划，并支持其他研究资助机构和学术机构。这是特别新颖的，因为迄今为止，还没有对以现场安全和/或反骚扰为重点的培训的有效性以及用于设计包容性现场活动的工具进行过研究。该项目的目标是（1）创建通过在线课程平台广泛传播现场安全、反骚扰和旁观者干预培训证书计划，(2) 开发工具包以支持现场团队规划安全和包容性的现场活动，以及 (3) 研究这些培训的影响和现场支持工具文化变革。该项目产生了关于该计划有效性的新知识，该计划利用自定进度的在线课程与同步引导的汇报和反思会议相结合，支持在所有现场环境中发展包容性文化。该项目的结果将为研究实地工作的文化和安全提供强大且可转移的研究设计和工具。该研究将围绕培训的教学顺序和实施的关键组成部分以及培训的应用如何根据不同的领域环境而变化提供重要发现。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的评估进行评估，被认为值得支持。智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。