GSE/DIS Intergenerational Working Conference on Women and Science Research: Learning from the Past to Face the Future

马萨诸塞大学洛厄尔分校将召开一次工作会议，召集一个由不同种族和民族的学者组成的跨代和跨学科社区，就与女性在STEM领域取得成功相关的工作场所因素进行学术对话。这次会议将汇集两个主要研究妇女与科学的小组的成员，他们是在20世纪60年代开始研究的学者和在90年代开始研究的年轻学者。会议将通过参与性规划进程来发展，并将编写出版物以供广泛分发。会前活动将确定过去研究中的关键主题。在此之后，将举行一次工作会议，让更多的学者参与讨论和拟订这些主题。会后的讲习班将总结会议的成果，并帮助形成各种预期的出版物。其知识价值来自于对女性和STEM的研究文献的基础，以及跨学科、代际和整体的方法。一个顾问小组将协助经验丰富和有成就的研究人员团队提名重点学科的主要学者参加。建立严肃的研究综述的全面和创新的设计包括对研究的系统回顾，引用分析，德尔菲法的应用，以及为会议准备的计划会议。该项目的主要成果如下：1)对过去在广泛学科中关于STEM职业中女性的吸引力、保留和发展的研究成果进行有组织的分析；2)阐明下一代跨学科问题，这些问题将指导该领域的研究和实践；3)增加来自两个不同年龄段的学者之间的对话，这将激励两个群体建立跨代合作；4)学术出版物，让更广泛的研究和职业社区了解影响女性在STEM领域地位的工作场所相关因素。更广泛的影响是，跨学科的代际交流将开辟新的领域，并刺激未来的合作研究。在我们跨入21世纪之际，大多数毕生致力于研究科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）领域女性的学者即将退休。本次会议的大部分实质性工作将是高级和初级学者之间合作的结果，从而在一个相对较小且分散在各个学科的学术社区中传递经验和知识，建立研究能力并创建新的网络。此外，审查学术作品的方法本身也将呈现出一种创新模式。

The University of Massachusetts at Lowell will conduct a Working Conference that will gather an intergenerational and interdisciplinary community of racially and ethnically diverse scholars to have a dialogue about scholarship on workplace factors that are associated with women's success in STEM fields. The conference will bring together members of two primary cohorts who have done research on women and science - scholars whose research emerged in the 1960's and younger scholars who began their work in the 1990's. The conference will be developed through a participative planning process and will create publications for wide dissemination. Pre-conference activities will identify critical themes in past research. Following that, a Working Conference will engage a broader group of scholars in the discussion and formulation of these themes. A post-conference workshop will distill the results of the conference and help shape the various anticipated publications.The intellectual merit derives from a grounding in the research literature on women and STEM, and from an interdisciplinary, intergenerational and holistic approach. An Advisory Panel will assist a team of highly experienced and accomplished researchers in nominating leading scholars from key disciplines to participate. The comprehensive and innovative design for establishing a serious research review includes a methodical review of the research, a citation analysis, the application of the Delphi method, and a planning meeting in preparation for the conference.The major results of the project are: 1) a well organized analysis of what has been learned from past research in a wide range of disciplines about the attraction, retention, and advancement of women in STEM careers, 2) the articulation of the next generation of interdisciplinary questions that will guide research and practice in this area, 3) increased dialogue among scholars from two distinct age cohorts that will inspire both groups to establish cross-generational collaborations, and 4) scholarly publications that will inform the broader research and occupational community about the workplace-related factors that affect the status of women in STEM.The broader impact is that the interdisciplinary, intergenerational exchange will break new ground and stimulate future collaborative research. As we embark on the 21st century, a majority of the scholars who have devoted their lives to the study of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) are approaching retirement. Most of the substantive work of this conference will be the result of a collaboration between senior & junior scholars, thus transferring experience and knowledge, building research capacity and creating new networks in a scholarly community that is relatively small and scattered across disciplines. Also, the method of reviewing scholarly work will itself present an innovative model.