Pathways to Neurosciences

神经科学之路

• 批准号: 10333647
• 负责人: MARION S BUCKWALTER
• 金额: $ 27.2万
• 依托单位: STANFORD UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-01-12 至 2026-11-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10333647
• 关键词: Academia; Awareness; Behavior; Biology; Brain; Communities; Control Groups; Data; Data Collection; Discipline; Disease; Education; Effectiveness; Elements; Engineering; Engineering Psychology; Environment; Evaluation; Exhibits; Faculty; Fellowship; Funding; Goals; Grant; Growth; Health; Health Technology; Individual; Industry; Institutes; Institution; Knowledge; Laws; Lead; Leadership; Link; Mathematics; Measures; Medicine; Mental Processes; Mentors; Mentorship; Neurosciences; Neurosciences Research; Occupations; Outcome; Paper; Participant; Pathway interactions; Population Heterogeneity; Positioning Attribute; Postdoctoral Fellow; Process; Program Sustainability; Psychology; Randomized; Research; Resources; Schools; Science; Scientist; Social Sciences; Stereotyping; Surveys; Technology; Time; Training; Underrepresented Populations; Universities; Writing; career; career development; career networking; cohort; computer science; design; diversity and inclusion; experience; faculty mentor; follow-up; graduate student; improved; innovation; insight; meetings; microaggression; peer coaching; post-doctoral training; programs; psychosocial; recruit; satisfaction; skills; social; social capital; stem; success; theories

Project Summary Neuroscience research must be transdisciplinary, drawing on the knowledge and practices of such diverse fields as biology, psychology, engineering and computer science. This transdisciplinary approach is further supported by the innovative ideas that stem from a diverse population with a broad set of perspectives. As with many other science, technology, engineering, math, and medicine (STEMM) fields, the field of neuroscience needs to implement strategies that more effectively support individuals from diverse backgrounds to pursue further studies or careers in research. Underrepresented groups (URGs) are less likely to transition from graduate school to postdoctoral training and postdoctoral training to scientific positions in academia or industry. We posit that a sense of belonging promotes academic and professional success generally and that to support recruitment and retainment of URG trainees, issues like stereotype threat, lack of representation, microaggressions, and imposter phenomena need to be countered with mentorship and strategic access to professionals to build a diverse and representative network. Social capital is an additional necessary support to promote professional advancement of URG trainees. To maximize impact on professional advancement, we will focus on graduate students and postdocs and their potential transitions to postdocs and scientists, respectively. Our goal is to increase successful transitions and ultimately diversify neuroscience. Our program, Pathways to Neurosciences, was designed as a social sciences study, using a theory of action that describes psychosocial mechanisms that we hypothesize our program will activate that would lead to desirable outcomes. Our evaluation plan was designed in parallel to maximize useful data for others desiring to design similar programs, and to prioritize iterative data collection that will document how program elements operate over time, as a function of the interactions among elements and participants. In Aim 1 we will establish the Pathways to Neurosciences program and Subaim 1a will utilize a year 1 pilot cohort to optimize program components and processes, including refining ongoing participant surveys. A strength of our plan is that we will in Subaim 1b continue evaluations and adjustments throughout the project. Aim 2 is to determine whether and how the program leads to the hypothesized mechanisms in our theory of action, which are professional networks, safe spaces for interaction, and productive dynamics of interactions. In Aim 3 we will evaluate whether our desired short- and long-term outcomes are achieved by the program compared to control groups. Through this program and strong institutional support, we hope that Pathways to Neurosciences graduates will have increased opportunities and exhibit increased persistence in science and leadership. Ultimately, we will disseminate program design, processes, and insights to others to enable the creation of similar optimized programs at their own institutions.

项目概要 神经科学研究必须是跨学科的，借鉴不同领域的知识和实践 如生物学、心理学、工程学和计算机科学。这种跨学科方法得到进一步支持 来自具有广泛观点的多元化人群的创新想法。与许多其他 科学、技术、工程、数学和医学（STEMM）领域，神经科学领域需要 实施更有效地支持来自不同背景的个人继续深造的策略 或从事研究工作。代表性不足群体 (URG) 从研究生院过渡到研究生院的可能性较小 博士后培训以及学术界或工业界科学职位的博士后培训。我们假设一个 归属感总体上促进学术和职业成功，并支持招聘和 URG 学员的保留、刻板印象威胁、缺乏代表性、微侵犯和冒名顶替等问题 需要通过指导和战略性接触专业人员来应对这种现象，以建立一个多元化和 代表网络。社会资本是促进专业进步的额外必要支持 URG 学员。为了最大限度地影响职业发展，我们将重点关注研究生和 博士后以及他们分别向博士后和科学家的潜在转变。我们的目标是增加 成功的转变并最终使神经科学多样化。我们的项目“神经科学之路”是 被设计为一项社会科学研究，使用描述心理社会机制的行动理论 我们假设我们的计划将会启动，从而带来理想的结果。我们的评估计划是 并行设计，以最大限度地为希望设计类似程序的其他人提供有用的数据，并确定优先级 迭代数据收集将记录程序元素如何随时间运行，作为 要素和参与者之间的相互作用。在目标 1 中，我们将建立神经科学之路 计划和 Subaim 1a 将利用第一年的试点队列来优化计划组成部分和流程， 包括完善正在进行的参与者调查。我们计划的一个优势是我们将在 Subaim 1b 中继续 整个项目的评估和调整。目标 2 是确定程序是否以及如何引导 我们行动理论中的假设机制，即专业网络、安全空间 互动，以及互动的富有成效的动态。在目标 3 中，我们将评估我们是否期望短期和 与对照组相比，该计划取得了长期成果。通过这个计划和强大的 机构支持，我们希望神经科学毕业生有更多的机会 并表现出对科学和领导力的更加坚持。最终，我们将传播程序设计， 流程以及对他人的见解，以便能够在自己的机构中创建类似的优化计划。