Doctoral Dissertation Research: Integrating Academic Innovation: Professional Networks and Scientific Regionalism

博士论文研究：整合学术创新：专业网络与科学区域主义

• 批准号: 0741861
• 负责人: Michael Blim
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: CUNY Graduate School University Center
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-01 至 2009-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0741861&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Integrating; Academic

Graduate student Nathan Woods, supervised by Dr. Michael Blim, will undertakequalitative and quantitative anthropological research on efforts by environmental scientists to build regional networks amongst three graduate interdisciplinary environmental sciences programs (funded by NSF through the Intergrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship or IGERT program) on the Pacific Coast of the U.S. Environmental research bears the burden of providing multidisciplinary solutions to problems spanning a diverse array of experts and ecosystems. For regions like the Pacific Slope, with strong ties to the administration of nature, and a changing reliance on natural amenities, innovation in environmental sciences holds a special significance.To understand how professional environmental networks are regionally integrated, and how this affects research and environmental practice, this project focuses on how scientific knowledge is communicated from scientists to expert practitioners and examines how and to what extent innovation in science is built as new cultural relationships between degrees of expertise. Employing a mixed method approach, the researcher will examine the cultivation of professional relationships by scientists as a response to innovation. Utilizing a social network survey and participant observation, he will examine how the introduction of innovation translates into relationships between academic scientists and experts. He will use archival research and interviews to examine changing expectations regarding regionally important and innovative scientific projects in environmental research. and to explore the trajectory of networking scientists use to carve out a course of professionalization under conditions of regional change.This research is important because it provides a comparative analysis of howenvironmental experts utilize the existing research infrastructure to mobilize scientific projects. Further research and education will be enhanced by highlighting the institutional scale at which innovations are incorporated into environmental research through the maintenance and use of professional relationships. The research also will contribute significantly to the education of a social scientist.

研究生内森·伍兹将在Michael Blim博士的指导下进行定性和定量的人类学研究，研究环境科学家在美国太平洋沿岸三个跨学科的研究生环境科学项目(由NSF通过一体化研究生教育和研究培训计划(IGERT计划)资助)之间建立区域网络的努力。环境研究承担着为跨越不同专家和生态系统的问题提供多学科解决方案的重任。对于像太平洋坡这样与自然管理关系密切、对自然设施的依赖不断变化的地区，环境科学的创新具有特殊的意义。为了了解专业环境网络是如何在区域内整合的，以及这如何影响研究和环境实践，这个项目关注科学知识如何从科学家传播到专家从业者，并研究科学创新如何以及在多大程度上建立起专业程度之间的新的文化关系。采用混合方法，研究人员将考察科学家作为对创新的回应而培养的职业关系。利用社交网络调查和参与者观察，他将研究创新的引入如何转化为学术科学家和专家之间的关系。他将利用档案研究和采访来检查对环境研究中具有区域重要性和创新性的科学项目不断变化的预期。这项研究很重要，因为它提供了环境专家如何利用现有研究基础设施来动员科学项目的比较分析。将加强进一步的研究和教育，强调通过维持和利用专业关系将创新纳入环境研究的体制规模。这项研究还将对社会科学家的教育做出重大贡献。