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.

基于现场的研究是许多地球科学研究计划不可或缺的一部分，可以为科学家和其他参与者带来独特的挑战。现场工作通常是在包括知名研究人员及其学生在内的团队中进行的，这些研究人员及其学生引入了复杂的动力动力。这些条件会带来挑战和压力源，从而增加了对敌对行为的脆弱性，例如欺凌，骚扰和其他基于身份的排他性行为。在现场运动中解决安全性，基于身份的骚扰和其他排他性行为的需求越来越紧迫，以确保安全和生产性的研究环境。这项工作通过增加现场团队的准备并改变现场工作团队的文化来支持基于现场的地球科学社区，从而具有包容性，支持性，热情，无歧视和富有成效的效率。该项目是FieldSafe与AdvanceGeo合作伙伴关系之间的协同努力，以支持研究人员满足新的NSF提案要求，以将现场安全计划纳入所有基于现场的建议，并支持其他研究资助机构和学术机构中的机构变革计划。这尤其是新颖的，因为迄今为止，尚未对专注于现场安全和/或反骚扰和/或用于设计包容性现场活动的工具的培训的有效性进行。该项目的目标是（1）（1）创建并广泛地创建现场安全，反骚扰，反骚扰，反骚扰，反旁观者和旁观者培训证书通过在线培训和竞选平台（2）在网上进行竞选（2）工具（2）（2）（2）（2）（2）（2）（2）（2）（2）（2）（2）（2）（2）（2）（2）这些培训和支持工具用于现场文化的变化。该项目对利用合并的自定义在线课程以及同步指导的汇报和反思会议的计划的有效性产生了新的知识，以支持所有现场环境中的包容性文化的发展。该项目的结果将为研究现场工作的文化和安全提供强大且可转移的研究设计和工具。该研究将为培训的教学顺序和实施以及该培训的应用如何根据不同的现场环境而变化。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的智力优点和更广泛的审查标准通过评估来评估的，这将为培训的教学顺序和实施以及该培训的应用如何变化。