BRAINS: Broadening the Representation of Academic Investigators in NeuroSciences

BRAINS：扩大神经科学领域学术研究人员的代表性

基本信息

批准号：
8723311
负责人：
SHERI J. Y. MIZUMORI
金额：
$ 26.73万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2011
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2011-09-15 至 2016-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

Project Description In order to solve the most challenging public health issues, the scientific community needs creative and diverse scientific solutions. As innovation is enhanced when a diverse set of investigators examine a scientific problem, retention of highly skilled scientists from underrepresented groups is critical. Neuroscience assistant professors and postdoctoral scholars from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds, including racial and ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, and people from disadvantaged backgrounds, face three major challenges in their career development. First, comprehensive professional development at these career stages is often overlooked, leaving early career neuroscientists underserved and lacking skills critical for advancement to tenure. Second, people from underrepresented backgrounds are often at higher risk of leaving science due to inequitable access to peer networks, mentors, and advice on how to succeed in faculty careers. Third, they may lack role models for exposure to potential career paths. To fill these gaps, we propose to create BRAINS: Broadening the Representation of Academic Investigators in NeuroSciences, a national program to accelerate and improve the career advancement of neuroscience postdoctoral researchers and assistant professors from underrepresented groups. The BRAINS program creates unique, life- transforming experiences for 50 neuroscientists. BRAINS participants will become more dedicated to their scientific career, better able to direct their careers, and more likely to achieve success in academic neuroscience. The BRAINS program goal is to increase engagement and retention of academic early-career neuroscientists from underrepresented groups by reducing isolation; providing tips, tools, and skills development to prepare for tenure track success; and increasing career self-efficacy. This goal will be met via three synergistic BRAINS activities: A) National Symposia; B) facilitated Peer Mentoring Circles; and C) Invent Your Career teams. The synergism among all these components will: 1. Increase the diversity of neuroscience faculty by providing mentoring, training and skills to under- represented postdoctoral scholars and assistant professors in the neurosciences so they have increased access to resources, feelings of preparedness, and sense of community and connectivity. 2. Reduce isolation of neuroscience postdoctoral scholars and assistant professors from underrepresented groups through the establishment of long-standing peer networks and informal mentoring relationships. 3. Increase career self-efficacy so postdoctoral scholars and assistant professors from underrepresented groups in the neurosciences will have more productive and satisfying careers.

项目描述为了解决最具挑战性的公共卫生问题，科学界需要创造性和多样化的科学的解决方案。当不同的研究人员研究一个科学问题时，创新就会得到加强，保留来自代表性不足群体的高技能科学家至关重要。神经科学助理来自不同背景且代表性不足的教授和博士后学者，包括种族和少数民族、残疾人、弱势群体面临三大挑战他们职业发展中的挑战。一、这些职业阶段的全面职业发展经常被忽视，导致早期职业神经科学家得不到充分的服务，并且缺乏对晋升至关重要的技能终身任职。其次，来自代表性不足背景的人往往面临更高的离开科学领域的风险无法公平地获得同行网络、导师以及如何在教师职业生涯中取得成功的建议。第三，他们可能缺乏接触潜在职业道路的榜样。为了填补这些空白，我们建议创建 BRAINS：扩大神经科学领域学术研究人员的代表性，这是一项国家计划加速和改善神经科学博士后研究人员的职业发展和来自代表性不足群体的助理教授。 BRAINS 计划创造了独特的、具有生命力的改变 50 名神经科学家的经验。 BRAINS 参与者将更加致力于他们的科学事业，能够更好地指导自己的职业生涯，更有可能在学术上取得成功神经科学。 BRAINS 计划的目标是提高学术早期职业生涯的参与度和保留率通过减少孤立，来自代表性不足群体的神经科学家；提供技巧、工具和技能为终身教职的成功做好准备的发展；并提高职业自我效能感。这一目标将通过三项协同的 BRAINS 活动：A) 全国研讨会； B) 促进同伴指导圈； C) 发明您的职业团队。所有这些组成部分之间的协同作用将： 1. 通过向底层提供指导、培训和技能来增加神经科学教师的多样性代表神经科学领域的博士后学者和助理教授，因此他们有增加获得资源的机会、准备感以及社区感和连通性。 2. 减少神经科学博士后学者和助理教授与外界的隔离通过建立长期的同行网络和非正式的机制来解决代表性不足的群体的问题辅导关系。 3. 提高职业自我效能感，使博士后学者和助理教授摆脱代表性不足神经科学领域的团队将拥有更加富有成效和令人满意的职业生涯。