Collaborative Research: Implementation Grant: Active Societal Participation In Research and Education

合作研究：实施补助金：社会积极参与研究和教育

• 批准号: 2326774
• 负责人: Lora Harris
• 金额: $ 581.7万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-04-15 至 2029-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2326774&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Implementation; Grant; Active

The Active Societal Participation In Research and Education (ASPIRE) program seeks to expand the places and people involved in meeting challenging environmental and climate change issues through supporting and encouraging geoscience research co-managed by scientists and community members. The vision of ASPIRE is that supporting place-based, community-based work will simultaneously attract, recruit, and retain a wider diversity of early career scientists in Geoscience, as well as strengthen public trust in Geoscience to address the local-to-global environmental issues threatening our world. ASPIRE recognizes that the urgency of these issues means work to develop geoscientist leaders must be accompanied by meaningful and equitable exchange with under-resourced communities that have often been left out of environmental research and solutions. The goal is to shift academic cultures in ways that can support these efforts by developing a learning ecosystem that engages early career scientists (Pathmakers) and community members in a phased curriculum that 1) offers a virtual discussion series to have broad impact for a large number of participants, 2) offers immersive institutes for early career scientists to participate in person and in community for training around ethical and equitable best practices, 3) provides support both financially and through mentoring for these new leaders to carry out co-produced research in equitable exchange working groups, 4) connects Changemakers from administrative leadership roles in an innovation incubator to pursue broad policy change and 5) cultivates a community of practice for participants to grow and communally learn from one another.There is a documented tendency in the sciences to discount the experiences, knowledges, perspectives and priorities of non-dominant communities. The ASPIRE program outlines a mechanism for transformation of the Geosciences that reverses institutional discounting of non-dominant priorities, and supports and elevates asset-based framing of community cultural capital. This project continues work to understand geoscience boundary spanners who “have a foot in both worlds” of mainstream geoscience and community. The project pursues a theory of change that place-based, community-based research, co-produced with boundary spanners, becomes a catalyst for cultural transformation in both the Geosciences and in community collaborations. Research questions examine the core leadership competencies that contribute to the application of leadership theory to boundary spanning work, and determine how a two-cohort Pathmaker and Changemaker model can actively engage power structures in mainstream science to effect meaningful institutional change. This work will raise the visibility and relevant application of the geosciences within marginalized communities and ultimately help increase participation from places and peoples that have been historically underrepresented in STEM.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.

积极的社会参与研究和教育计划（ASPIRE）计划通过支持和鼓励科学家和社区成员共同管理和鼓励地球科学研究来扩大挑战环境和气候变化问题的地点和人员。 Aspire的愿景是，基于社区的支持，基于社区的工作将仅吸引，招募并保留了地球科学的早期职业科学家的广泛多样性，以及对地球科学的强烈公众信任，以解决威胁我们世界的地方到全球环境问题。 Aspire认识到这些问题的紧迫性意味着必须通过与资源不足的社区进行有意义且公平的交流来实现地球科学家领导者，这些社区经常被遗留在环境研究和解决方案之外。 The goal is to shift academic cultures in ways that can support these efforts by developing a learning ecosystem that engages early career scientists (Pathmakers) and community members in a phased curriculum that 1) offers a virtual discussion series to have broad impact for a large number of participants, 2) offers immersive institutes for early career scientists to participate in person and in community for training around ethical and equitable best practices, 3) provides support both financially and through mentalizing for these new leaders为了在公平交流工作组中进行联合制作的研究，4）将变革者与创新孵化器中的行政领导角色联系起来，以购买广泛的政策变更，5）培养一个实践社区，供参与者互相成长和相互学习。科学中有一种记载的趋势，即违反非义务社区的经验，知识，观点和优先事项。 ASPIRE计划概述了地理科学转变的机制，该机制颠倒了非优先优先级的机构折现，并支持并提升了基于资产的社区文化资本的基础。该项目继续努力了解地球科学边界跨越，他们“踏入两全其美”的主流地球科学和社区。该项目追求一种变革的理论，该理论基于社区，基于社区的研究，与边界跨越共同制作，成为地球科学和社区合作中文化转型的催化剂。研究问题研究了有助于将领导理论应用于边界跨越工作的核心领导能力，并确定如何在主流科学中积极参与主流科学的权力结构以实现有意义的机构变革。这项工作将提高地球科学在边缘化社区中的可见性和相关应用，并最终有助于增加从历史上不足以代表的地点和人的参与。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响来审查审查标准，通过评估来诚实地认为，通过评估来诚实地支持。