Navigating Educational Trajectories in Neuroscience

探索神经科学的教育轨迹

• 批准号: 10656153
• 负责人: Cristopher M Niell
• 金额: $ 25.76万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-07-01 至 2027-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10656153
• 关键词: Academia; Acceleration; Active Learning; Awareness; Career Choice; Career Mobility; Climate; Code; Communities; Data Science; Development; Education; Educational Curriculum; Educational Status; Educational workshop; Enrollment; Evidence based practice; Faculty; Fostering; Future; Goals; Graduate Education; Grant; Institution; Intervention; Investments; Knowledge; Leadership; Learning Module; Mentors; Mentorship; Minority Groups; Modeling; Nature; Neurosciences; Neurosciences Research; Oregon; Participant; Pathway interactions; Phase; Postdoctoral Fellow; Preparation; Productivity; Reproducibility; Research; Research Personnel; Research Training; Resources; Rotation; STEM field; Scientist; Series; Structure; Students; Talents; Time; Training; Training Programs; Universities; Writing; academic standard; career; career development; cohort; community building; design; disadvantaged background; education pathway; education research; equity, diversity, and inclusion; evidence base; experience; graduate student; improved; improved outcome; innovation; job market; leadership development; member; mentoring community; minority scientist; model design; next generation; peer; post-doctoral training; pre-doctoral; prevent; programs; recruit; research and development; resilience; retention rate; skill acquisition; skills; success; therapy design; training opportunity

Project Summary The proposed research education program, Navigating Educational Trajectories in Neuroscience (NET Neuro), is an innovative cohort-model designed to accelerate pre- and postdoctoral trainees’ success by fostering community among peers and faculty at critical transition periods in their education and as they define and navigate their professional and academic goals. Grounded in a framework of responsive, individualized mentorship and community-building, NET Neuro aims to build critical skills and leadership capacity through collaborative mentoring experiences, formal and informal mentorship training, and new Graduate Education Modules to build skills needed by the changing neuroscience workforce. By integrating well-established institutional research training programs with new evidence-informed practices and curriculum offerings, we offer new resources to support graduate students and postdocs from underrepresented and disadvantaged backgrounds at key transitions along their training pathway, and thereby facilitate their professional and leadership development and prevent the loss of talent at each level of educational advancement. Building on the University of Oregon’s strength in interdisciplinary neuroscience research and training, NET Neuro will annually enroll 7 graduate students and 3 postdocs to participate in a 2-year training program, with the opportunity for continued engagement as program alumni. Graduate students will be recruited at the end of their first year of study, given the clear need to support students as they transition from intense rotation experiences or completion of Master’s theses to the relatively unstructured task of refining their independent research. Postdoctoral scholars will be targeted for participation in their final two years of training, when there is a significant need for mentorship and professional skill building as they prepare to enter the job market. The program focuses on two specific aims: 1) to establish mentoring communities and train the next generation of neuroscience researchers in culturally-aware mentoring practices, and 2) to develop and integrate curriculum to enhance skill development and prepare trainees for successful educational transitions and long-term career trajectories. Evidence-based practices in mentoring, including the creation of mentor networks, opportunities for “mentored mentoring” experiences, and formal mentorship training will offer individualized support to trainees from underrepresented backgrounds and foster an inclusive training climate. Core knowledge development through a series of courses on grant writing, coding data science, rigor and reproducibility, and professional development will build critical skills and prepare trainees for successful transitions to the next stage of their educational and career pathways. By fostering a productive climate of mentorship and advancing core skills, NET Neuro will contribute to the diversification of the region and nation’s research workforce in neuroscience and facilitate the future success of the next generation of neuroscience scholars.

项目概要 拟议的研究教育计划，导航神经科学教育轨迹（NET Neuro）， 是一种创新的队列模型，旨在通过培养博士前和博士后培训生来加速他们的成功 在教育的关键过渡时期以及他们定义和定义的同龄人和教师之间的社区 立足于响应性、个性化的框架来实现他们的职业和学术目标。 NET Neuro 的指导和社区建设旨在通过以下方式培养关键技能和领导能力： 协作指导经验、正式和非正式的指导培训以及新的研究生教育 通过整合成熟的神经科学劳动力来培养不断变化的神经科学劳动力所需的技能的模块。 我们提供具有新的循证实践和课程设置的机构研究培训计划 支持来自代表性不足和弱势群体的研究生和博士后的新资源 培训路径中关键转变的背景，从而促进他们的专业和 领导力发展并防止教育进步各个层次的人才流失。 依托俄勒冈大学在跨学科神经科学研究和培训方面的优势，NET Neuro每年将招收7名研究生和3名博士后参加为期2年的培训项目，其中 继续参与项目校友的机会将在年底招募。 他们第一年的学习，考虑到在学生从紧张的轮换中过渡时明确需要支持他们 经验或硕士论文的完成，以提高其独立性的相对松散的任务 如果有的话，博士后学者将有针对性地参加最后两年的培训。 当他们准备进入就业市场时，非常需要指导和专业技能建设。 该计划侧重于两个具体目标：1）建立指导社区并培训下一代 神经科学研究人员进行具有文化意识的指导实践，2）开发和整合课程 加强技能发展并为学员成功的教育转型和长期职业生涯做好准备 循证的指导实践，包括创建导师网络、提供机会 “导师指导”体验和正式的导师培训将为学员提供个性化支持 来自代表性不足的背景，并营造包容性的培训氛围。 通过一系列关于资助写作、编码数据科学、严谨性和可重复性以及专业性的课程 发展将培养关键技能，并为学员成功过渡到下一阶段做好准备 通过营造富有成效的指导氛围并提高核心技能， NET Neuro 将为该地区和国家神经科学研究队伍的多元化做出贡献 并促进下一代神经科学学者未来的成功。