ADVANCE Partnerships for Adaptation, Implementation, and Dissemination (PAID) Award: WIN: Women in Networks, Building Community and Gaining Voice

ADVANCE 适应、实施和传播合作伙伴关系 (付费) 奖：WIN：网络中的女性、建设社区和获得发言权

• 批准号: 0820175
• 负责人: Deborah Belle
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Trustees of Boston University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-01 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0820175&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ADVANCE; Partnerships; Adaptation; Implementation; Dissemination

This project is designed to increase the work satisfaction, retention, and advancement of women faculty in science and engineering at Boston University through enhancing women's networks, and to analyze the ways in which network-building can contribute to women's satisfaction and success in academic science and engineering. Programs adapted from ADVANCE schools and some developed at BU will be implemented to build strong and functional networks for women faculty. Programs will include pre-tenure mentoring, lunches with leaders, inter-university and industry interactions, re-start-up grants to reinvigorate the networks of female faculty in STEM disciplines, and catalyst grants to support new collaborative research ventures. To evaluate the effectiveness of these programs in fostering strong networks for women, male and female faculty will be surveyed at the beginning of the grant period and at its end about the individuals in their networks who provide them with important resources such as professional advice. Respondents also will be asked how they met individuals in their networks. Comparing responses from the first and the final survey we will learn about the ways in which academic networks grow and change over time. Finally, we will examine whether participation in ADVANCE programs is associated with changes in women's networks over time and whether characteristics of networks are associated with work satisfaction and productivity and with benchmarks such as promotion. Intellectual merit: The innovative aspect of this work is its systematic approach to building and analyzing social networks to improve the career success and satisfaction of women faculty. Many of the networking and mentoring programs developed through ADVANCE projects are explicitly designed to enhance women's networks, and thus their access to critical information, influence, recognition, and collaborative opportunities, but few programs track changes in women's networks over time to assess the role of such programs in enhancing women's networks or monitor the association between changes in characteristics of women's networks and the career success and satisfaction of women faculty. The data from our prospective, longitudinal study will identify links between our ADVANCE programs and changes over time in women's networks, satisfaction, and career success.Broader impacts: Greater understanding about ways to overcome network limitations and enhance networks should help to increase the retention of women faculty in STEM disciplines and may well generalize to other groups such as women graduate students. Research findings about the implications of network characteristics may also generalize to non-academic work places and to other academic disciplines. The network analysis tools developed as part of the WIN project will be made available for use by other institutions. This work will also fund 20+ new collaborative research projects in a broad range of STEM fields, launching new research in science and engineering spearheaded by women.

该项目旨在通过加强女性关系网，提高波士顿大学理工科女教员的工作满意度、留校率和升迁，并分析网络建设如何有助于提高女性在理工科学术领域的满意度和成功。将实施从高等学校改编的项目和在波士顿大学开发的一些项目，以建立强大和实用的女性教职员工网络。计划将包括终身教职前指导、与领导人共进午餐、大学间和行业互动、重新启动赠款以重振STEM学科的女性教员网络，以及催化剂赠款以支持新的合作研究项目。为了评估这些方案在培养强大的女性网络方面的有效性，将在赠款期间开始和结束时对男性和女性教职员工进行调查，了解他们的网络中向他们提供专业建议等重要资源的个人。受访者还将被问及他们是如何在自己的网络中结识个人的。通过比较第一次和最后一次调查的回答，我们将了解到学术网络随着时间的推移而发展和变化的方式。最后，我们将研究参加先期计划是否与妇女网络随时间的变化有关，以及网络的特征是否与工作满意度和生产力以及晋升等基准有关。知识价值：这项工作的创新之处在于它系统地建立和分析社会网络，以提高女教员的职业成功和满意度。许多通过高级项目开发的网络和指导计划明确旨在加强妇女的网络，从而增强她们获得关键信息、影响力、认可和合作机会的机会，但很少有计划跟踪妇女网络随时间的变化，以评估此类计划在加强妇女网络方面的作用，或监测妇女网络特征的变化与女性教员的职业成功和满意度之间的关联。来自我们前瞻性的纵向研究的数据将确定我们的高级项目与女性网络、满意度和职业成功随着时间的推移而发生的变化之间的联系。更广泛的影响：更多地了解如何克服网络限制和加强网络应该有助于增加STEM学科中女性教师的留住，并很可能推广到其他群体，如女研究生。关于网络特征的含义的研究结果也可能推广到非学术工作场所和其他学术学科。作为WIN项目的一部分开发的网络分析工具将供其他机构使用。这项工作还将资助广泛的STEM领域的20多个新的合作研究项目，启动由妇女带头的科学和工程领域的新研究。