EAGER: Exploring Customized STEM Employment Approaches for People with Disabilities

EAGER：探索为残疾人定制的 STEM 就业方式

• 批准号: 2334313
• 负责人: Christina Carnahan
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: University of Cincinnati Main Campus
• 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: 2023-10-01 至 2025-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2334313&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Exploring; Customized; STEM; Employment

This project is conducting early-stage, exploratory research to investigate customized employment approaches for restructuring STEM workplace settings and employment practices to increase access and inclusion for postsecondary students with disabilities. The work reflects that of an EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) award. The University of Cincinnati is partnering with Siemens Corporation to address two research questions: 1) Can customized employment approaches be used to create jobs that meet both the needs of STEM employers and individuals with intellectual disabilities (ID)? and 2) What tools best support employers and disability specialists in identifying STEM positions? Using a multiple case study approach, the researchers are gathering and analyzing data from employer and employee interviews, workplace observations, and employee writing samples. The project includes an advisory board with individuals with ID, family members of people with ID, and STEM employers. There is an external evaluator to provide feedback to the investigators and to assess the success of the research. This research was created in response to the Workplace Equity for Persons with Disabilities in STEM and STEM Education solicitation (NSF 23-593). The solicitation activities support fundamental, applied, and translational research that advances knowledge and practice about diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible STEM and STEM education workplaces and postsecondary training environments for persons with disabilities. The solicitation states that EAGER proposals explore work in its early stages on untested but potentially transformative research ideas or approaches. EAGER projects must focus on one or more of the solicitation's three research themes and this award focuses on the solicitation’s first research theme: “studying barriers and solutions to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in STEM workplaces and postsecondary training settings.” The research findings that are being generated from this project inform how STEM industry employers structure job descriptions to create more inclusive opportunities for technically skilled workers with disabilities. There is potential for the project activities and the results to be used by other investigators to conduct fundamental and/or applied research to further study customized employment for persons with disabilities in STEM. The project team is presenting the research at professional conferences and using social media podcasting. This Workplace Equity for Persons with Disabilities in STEM and STEM Education award was funded by the NSF’s Eddie Bernice Johnson INCLUDES Initiative, which seeks to motivate and accelerate collaborative efforts to advance and sustain systemic change that broadens participation in STEM at scale.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.

该项目正在进行早期，探索性研究，以调查用于恢复STEM工作场所环境和就业实践的定制就业方法，以增加中学后残疾学生的访问和包容性。这项工作反映了探索性研究（急切）奖的早期概念赠款。辛辛那提大学与西门子公司合作解决了两个研究问题：1）可以使用定制的就业方法来创造满足STEM员工和智障人士（ID）的需求的工作？ 2）哪些工具最能支持雇主和残疾专家识别STEM职位？使用多种案例研究方法，研究人员正在从员工和员工访谈，工作场所观察和员工编写样本中收集和分析数据。该项目包括一个顾问委员会，该顾问委员会拥有具有ID的个人，具有ID的人的家庭成员和STEM雇主。有一个外部评估可以向研究人员提供反馈并评估研究的成功。这项研究是为了应对STEM和STEM教育招标的残疾人的工作场所公平（NSF 23-593）。招标活动支持基本，应用和翻译的研究，以了解潜水员，公平，包容和易于访问的STEM和STEM教育工作场所以及针对残疾人的高等教育环境的知识和实践。渴望的建议指出，在未经测试但潜在的变革性研究思想或方法的早期阶段探索工作。急切的项目必须重点关注Solarization的三个研究主题中的一个或多个，该奖项的重点是Solarization的第一个研究主题：“研究STEM Works和中学培训环境中多样性，公平，包容性和可及性的障碍和解决方案。”从该项目信息中产生的研究发现，STEM行业员工如何构建工作描述，为技术熟练的残疾工人创造更多包容性的机会。项目活动的潜力和其他研究人员使用的结果有可能进行基本和/或应用研究，以进一步研究STEM中残疾人的定制就业。该项目团队正在专业会议上介绍研究，并使用社交媒体播客。 NSF的埃迪·伯尼斯·约翰逊（Eddie Bernice Johnson）资助了STEM和STEM教育奖的残疾人的这一工作场所公平性，该倡议包括主动权，该计划旨在激励和加速协作努力，以促进和维持系统性变化，以扩大STEM参与STEM的参与，以表现出NSF的法规宣传和诚实的范围，这是由诚实的支持者进行的。