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: 2326775
• 负责人: Marco Hatch
• 金额: $ 100.79万
• 依托单位: Western Washington University
• 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=2326775&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 (ASPIRE) 计划旨在通过支持和鼓励由科学家和社区成员共同管理的地球科学研究，扩大参与应对具有挑战性的环境和气候变化问题的场所和人员。ASPIRE 的愿景是支持。基于地方、社区的工作将同时吸引、招募和保留更广泛的地球科学领域的早期职业科学家，并增强公众对地球科学的信任，以解决威胁我们世界的本地到全球环境问题。那这些问题的紧迫性意味着培养地球科学家领袖的工作必须伴随着与资源不足的社区进行有意义和公平的交流，而这些社区往往被排除在环境研究和解决方案之外。我们的目标是转变学术文化，以支持这些努力。通过开发一个学习生态系统，让早期职业科学家（Pathmakers）和社区成员参与分阶段课程，1）提供虚拟讨论系列，对大量参与者产生广泛影响，2）为早期职业科学家提供沉浸式机构参与亲自和社区中围绕道德和公平最佳实践进行培训，3) 为这些新领导者提供经济支持和指导，以便在公平交换工作组中开展共同研究，4) 将变革者从创新孵化器中的行政领导角色与创新孵化器中的行政领导角色联系起来追求广泛的政策变革，5) 培养一个实践社区，让参与者成长并共同学习。科学界有一种低估非主流社区的经验、知识、观点和优先事项的趋势。轮廓一种地球科学转型机制，扭转非主导优先事项的机构折扣，支持和提升社区文化资本的基于资产的框架。该项目继续致力于了解“涉足主流世界”的地球科学边界跨越者。该项目追求一种变革理论，即与边界跨越者共同开展的基于地点、社区的研究成为地球科学和社区合作中文化转型的催化剂。有助于将领导理论应用到跨界工作中的能力，并确定两群 Pathmaker 和 Changemaker 模型如何积极参与主流科学中的权力结构，以实现有意义的制度变革。这项工作将提高领导力理论的可见性和相关应用。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。