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，以调查定制就业方法，以反映重组 STEM 工作场所环境和就业实践，以增加残疾专上学生的入学机会和包容性。这是一项早期概念探索性研究补助金 (EAGER) 的工作。辛辛那提大学正在与西门子公司合作解决两个研究问题：1）能否使用定制的就业方法来创造满足 STEM 雇主和智障人士 (ID) 需求的就业机会？ 2) 哪些工具最能支持雇主和残疾专家确定 STEM 职位？研究人员使用多案例研究方法收集和分析来自雇主和雇员访谈、工作场所观察和雇员写作样本的数据。智障人士、智障人士的家庭成员以及 STEM 雇主有一名外部评估员向调查人员提供反馈并评估研究的成功程度。 STEM 和 STEM 教育征集(NSF 23-593)。征集活动支持基础、应用和转化研究，以促进有关残疾人的多元化、公平、包容性和无障碍 STEM 和 STEM 教育工作场所和高等教育培训环境的知识和实践。 EAGER 提案探索早期阶段未经测试但具有潜在变革性的研究想法或方法，EAGER 项目必须重点关注征集的三个研究主题中的一个或多个，该奖项重点关注征集的第一个研究主题： “研究 STEM 工作场所和高等教育培训环境中多样性、公平性、包容性和可及性的障碍和解决方案。该项目产生的研究结果告知 STEM 行业雇主如何构建职位描述，为技术熟练的工人创造更具包容性的机会。”其他研究人员有可能利用该项目活动和结果来开展基础和/或应用研究，以进一步为残疾人在 STEM 领域定制研究就业。使用社交媒体播客。 STEM 领域残疾人工作场所公平和 STEM 教育奖由 NSF 的 Eddie Bernice Johnson INCLUDES Initiative 资助，该计划旨在激励和加速协作努力，以推进和维持系统性变革，从而扩大 STEM 的大规模参与。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。