Project Incubation: Training Undergraduates in Collaborative Research Ethics

项目孵化：培养本科生合作研究伦理

• 批准号: 2316154
• 负责人: Gunnar Kwakye
• 金额: $ 8.99万
• 依托单位: Oberlin College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-02-01 至 2025-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2316154&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Project; Incubation; Training; Undergraduates; Collaborative

This incubation award supports a team of researchers from diverse disciplines at a liberal arts college and Historically Black Colleges and Universities who will work with community partners in Alabama to develop curricular materials and a pilot workshop on the ethics of research. The project’s aim is to develop a network of researchers to respond to community directions rooted in best practices to facilitate justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in environmental research. Inclusion of community partners as knowledge keepers and mentors – and as co-creators of the project’s goals – offers a unique opportunity to develop ethical and responsible methods of collaborative research design and practice and to model such partnerships, with the goal of empowering communities. The project team will recruit and train a diverse group of students in best practices for collaboration to create actionable guidelines for environmental justice communities, ethics boards, and educational institutions. The project will enable faculty, undergraduates, and community partners to learn from one another, with the shared intention of benefiting communities in Alabama and training students on research ethics and environmental justice. The team will use a three-phase process to develop and validate a new framework for training students in the ethics of community-engaged research. The remote planning phase will create the framework by utilizing community-engaged approaches to center the voices of local community members and organizers to develop ethical and responsible methods of collaborative research design. In the synergy phase, researchers, students, and community leaders will work together to refine and disseminate the initial framework through collaborative coursework. At the workshop phase, students will learn best practices for collaboration with environmental justice communities as well as methods of geospatial data, environmental pollutant sampling, and oral narrative data collection using software tools. The project will pilot a curriculum and methodology for training a diverse cohort of undergraduates in ethical research with environmental justice communities, its synergy with environmental change and climate mitigation and adaptation, and best practices for facilitating institutional commitment to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. Outcomes of the project will be assessed and refined through an iterative online process with community members, organizers, and partners.This project is funded by the Directorate for Biological Sciences and managed by the ER2 Program of the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences.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.

该孵化奖支持一所文科学院和历史悠久的黑人学院的潜水学学科研究人员团队，他们将与阿拉巴马州的社区合作伙伴合作，开发现代材料和研究研究道德的试点研讨会。该项目的目的是建立一个研究人员网络，以应对源于最佳实践的社区指示，以支持正义，公平，多样性和在环境研究中的包容。将社区合作伙伴包括为知识守护者和导师，以及作为项目目标的共同创造者 - 为开发合作研究设计和实践的道德和负责任的方法提供了独特的机会，并为赋予社区权力的目标建模。该项目团队将招募和培训一群学生团体，以合作的最佳实践，为环境正义社区，道德委员会和教育机构创建可行的准则。该项目将使教师，本科生和社区伙伴能够互相学习，并共同打算使阿拉巴马州的社区受益，并培训学生有关研究伦理和环境正义的培训。该团队将使用三相过程来开发和验证一个新的框架，以培训学生的社区参与研究伦理。远程计划阶段将通过使用社区参与的方法来创建框架，以将当地社区成员和组织者的声音集中，以开发合作研究设计的道德和负责任的方法。在协同阶段，研究人员，学生和社区领导者将通过协作课程共同努力来完善和传播初始框架。在研讨会阶段，学生将学习与环境正义社区合作的最佳实践，以及使用软件工具的地理空间数据，环境污染物采样和口头叙事数据收集的方法。该项目将试行与环境司法社区的道德研究中多样性的本科生的课程和方法，其与环境变化，缓解气候的适应性以及支持机构对司法，公平，多样性和包容性的机构承诺的最佳实践的协同作用。该项目的成果将通过与社区成员，组织者和合作伙伴的迭代在线流程进行评估和完善。该项目由生物科学局资助，并由社会，行为和经济科学局的ER2计划管理，该项目通过评估NSF的审查范围来审查了Infactia and Iffectia and Founltial and Foulltial and Foulltial and Foulltial的支持。