DESIGN: Driving Culture Change in a Federation of Biological Societies via Cohort-Based Early-Career Leaders

设计：通过基于队列的早期职业领袖推动生物协会联盟的文化变革

• 批准号: 2334679
• 负责人: Yvette Seger
• 金额: $ 49.96万
• 依托单位: Federation of Amer Societies For Exper Biology
• 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: 2024-04-01 至 2026-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2334679&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: DESIGN; Driving; Culture; Change; Federation

Scientific societies can play a major role in creating a professional culture that is welcoming to individual researchers who are from groups historically excluded from science. The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) is an association of 26 member societies in the biological sciences and will use its resources and connections to drive this culture change to benefit diverse early-career researchers. A federated approach across multiple societies is valuable to expanding the reach of the project, allowing FASEB to affect culture change on a larger scale in biology through its member societies. In this project, FASEB will analyze and define barriers to inclusivity in the entrenched culture and identify mechanisms to overcome these barriers. In addition, the project will provide mentorship, support, and leadership training to cohorts of early-career researchers from historically excluded populations and assist them in engaging in society roles. Through this mechanism of increased involvement, leadership, and recognition of their efforts, participants will develop a sense of belonging and grow to serve as change agents as they develop as leaders in their home societies. With new cohorts forming annually, this culture change impact will continue to grow over the years.This project aims to change the current culture of biological societies that negatively affects diverse early-career researchers. The cultural focus is on active participation in society activities; the ability to enter society leadership positions; and invitations into cultural norms needed for retention in a research career, such as networking, collaborative grant applications, publications, and conference attendance. The project objectives are to (1) document the current baseline related to current policies and practices and recommendations to promote inclusion from FASEB’s member societies; (2) pilot a cohort-based project for early-career researchers that provides mentorship, support, and leadership training and demonstrates increased engagement in societies, sense of belonging, and ability to serve as a change agent; and (3) create an infrastructure for change through identified strategies, resource sharing across member societies, and outreach. Strategies to address barriers will serve as the foundation for future support to be shared across societies and will provide a framework for the participants to act as change agents. Evaluation data from the pilot implementation will provide preliminary evidence of the effectiveness of initiating culture change through mentoring, leadership training, and virtual community support. Project data will examine the effectiveness of propagating resources and change strategies through multiple societies using a federated approach.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.

科学学会可以在创造一种欢迎来自历史上被排除在科学之外的群体的个人研究人员的专业文化方面发挥重要作用。美国实验生物学学会联合会 (FASEB) 是一个由 26 个生物科学和生物科学领域会员组成的协会。将利用其资源和联系来推动这种文化变革，使不同的早期职业研究人员受益，跨多个学会的联合方法对于扩大该项目的影响范围非常有价值，使 FASEB 能够通过其成员在生物学领域更大规模地影响文化变革。社会。在这个在该项目中，FASEB 将分析和定义根深蒂固的文化中包容性的障碍，并确定克服这些障碍的机制。此外，该项目还将为来自历史上被排斥人群的早期职业研究人员提供指导、支持和领导力培训，并为他们提供帮助。通过这种增加参与度、领导力和对其努力的认可的机制，参与者将培养一种归属感，并随着每年新群体的形成而成长为变革推动者。 ，这种文化变革的影响将会持续下去该项目旨在改变对不同的早期职业研究人员产生负面影响的当前生物社会文化。保留研究生涯所需的资源，例如网络、合作资助申请、出版物和会议出席。该项目的目标是 (1) 记录与当前政策和实践相关的当前基线以及促进 FASEB 成员学会包容性的建议； (2) 试点队列项目早期职业研究人员提供指导、支持和领导力培训，并表现出对社会的更多参与、归属感和作为变革推动者的能力；(3) 通过确定的战略、成员之间的资源共享创建变革的基础设施；解决障碍的策略将成为未来跨社会共享支持的基础，并将为参与者充当变革推动者提供框架，试点实施的评估数据将提供有效性的初步证据。通过指导、领导力培训和项目数据将使用联合方法检查多个社会传播资源和改变策略的有效性。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。