Collaborative Research: Advancing Collaborations for Equity in Marine and Climate Sciences

合作研究：推进海洋和气候科学公平合作

• 批准号: 2314918
• 负责人: Jennifer Johnson
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: Temple 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: 2023-09-15 至 2026-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2314918&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Advancing; Collaborations; Equity

Marine and climate sciences (MCS) scientists play an important role in society because of their focus on both local and global issues affecting the environment and people. Yet MCS are some of the least diverse STEM disciplines, including limited change in the number of Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) in MCS over the past 40 years. Climate and culture in MCS have been identified as actively contributing to the low participation and retention of BIPOC individuals in the disciplines and their disparate academic and professional outcomes, through gatekeeping, professional barriers, and other obstacles. The purpose of this research project is to examine how Woods Hole Collaborative Network (WHCN) researchers and administrators advance collaborations for equity in MCS and what processes are employed for developing equity-driven and anti-racist educational collaborations, infrastructures, and pathways. Project outcomes will span individual, institutional, and disciplinary level transformations. This research project will investigate the WHCN, a multi-organizational collaboration between six predominantly white institutions located in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The project focuses on three questions: (1) What features among the WHCN promote or inhibit institutional and disciplinary transformation? (2) In what ways has the WHCN pursued equitable collaborations and how has their collaboration evolved over time? (3) What effective and ineffective features of the WHCN’s initiatives can inform MCS collaborations? Drawing from nearly 20 years of WHCN’s programmatic efforts, researchers will utilize an instrumental case study to center the context and processes of a bounded case, with organizations (e.g., institutions) and individuals (e.g., students, scientists, and affiliated staff) as units of analyses. An instrumental case aligns with the project’s goal to develop a model that maps the process and infrastructure for transformation. The research design includes: (1) BIPOC storytelling and standpoint centering through qualitative interviews and qualitative network mapping with Woods Hole-affiliated BIPOC students, scientists, and alumni; (2) organizational and historical analysis through observations of WHCN initiatives, historical analysis of WHCN’s development, and analysis of student data, documented policies, activities, goals and procedures related to WHCN; and (3) model development, which will reflect a replicable and scalable model for equity-centered support in STEM collaborations.This collaborative project is funded through the Racial Equity in STEM Education activities (EDU Racial Equity). The program supports research and practice projects that investigate how considerations of racial equity factor into the improvement of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and workforce. Awarded projects seek to center the voices, knowledge, and experiences of the individuals, communities, and institutions most impacted by systemic inequities within the STEM enterprise. This program aligns with NSF’s core value of supporting outstanding researchers and innovative thinkers from across the Nation's diversity of demographic groups, regions, and types of organizations. Funds for EDU Racial Equity are pooled from programs across EDU in recognition of the alignment of its projects with the collective research and development thrusts of the four divisions of the directorate.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.

海洋和气候科学（MCS）科学家在社会中发挥了重要作用，因为他们专注于影响环境和人民的地方和全球问题。然而，MC是多样化的茎学科中的一些，包括在过去40年中MC的黑色，土著和有色人种（BIPOC）的变化有限。 MC中的气候和文化已被确定为通过守门，专业障碍和其他障碍来积极地促进BIPOC个人在学科及其不同的学术和专业成果中的参与和保留。该研究项目的目的是研究Woods Hole协作网络（WHCN）研究人员和管理人员如何提高MC中的权益合作以及用于开发股权驱动和反种族主义的教育合作，基础设施和途径的哪些过程。项目成果将涵盖个人，机构和学科级别的转变。该研究项目将调查WHCN，这是一项多组织合作，位于马萨诸塞州伍兹霍尔的六个主要白人机构之间。该项目重点介绍了三个问题：（1）WHCN促进或抑制制度和学科转型的哪些特征？ （2）WHCN通过哪些方式进行公平的合作，随着时间的推移，他们的合作如何演变？ （3）WHCN计划的有效和无效的功能可以告知MCS合作？从近20年的WHCN编程努力中，研究人员将利用工具案例研究将有限案件的背景和过程集中，组织（例如机构）和个人（例如，学生，学生，科学家和关联人员）作为分析单位。工具案例与项目的目标保持一致，该目标是开发一个模型，该模型映射了转换的过程和基础架构。研究设计包括：（1）通过定性访谈和与伍兹霍尔相关的Bipoc学生，科学家和校友的定性访谈和定性网络映射以定性访谈和定性网络映射为中心； （2）通过观察WHCN计划，WHCN发展的历史分析以及对学生数据的分析，与WHCN相关的政策，活动，目标和程序进行的分析，组织和历史分析； （3）模型开发，它将反映出STEM协作中以股权支持的可复制和可扩展模型。该协作项目是通过STEM教育活动（EDU种族平等）的种族资产来资助的。该计划支持研究和实践项目，这些项目研究了对种族资产的考虑如何改善科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）教育和劳动力。授予的项目旨在将个人，社区和机构的声音，知识和经验集中在STEM企业中最受系统性不平等影响。该计划符合NSF的核心价值，即支持来自全国各种人口群体，地区和组织类型的杰出研究人员和创新思想家。 EDU种族平等的资金是由EDU的计划组合起来的，以表彰其项目与该局四个部门的集体研究和发展的一致性。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的影响审查标准来通过评估来获得的支持。