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

本项目旨在通过加强女性网络来提高波士顿大学理工科女教员的工作满意度、留任率和晋升率，并分析网络建设如何有助于女性在理工科学术领域的满意度和成功。将实施改编自ADVANCE学校和波士顿大学开发的一些项目，为女性教师建立强大而有效的网络。项目将包括任职前指导、与领导人共进午餐、大学间和行业互动、重新启动资助，以重振STEM学科的女性教师网络，以及支持新的合作研究项目的催化剂资助。为了评估这些项目在培养女性强大网络方面的有效性，将在资助期开始和结束时对男性和女性教师进行调查，了解他们网络中为他们提供重要资源（如专业建议）的个人。受访者还将被问及他们是如何在自己的社交网络中认识其他人的。比较第一次和最后一次调查的回答，我们将了解学术网络随着时间的推移而增长和变化的方式。最后，我们将研究参与ADVANCE项目是否与女性网络随时间的变化有关，以及网络特征是否与工作满意度和生产力以及晋升等基准有关。智力价值：这项工作的创新之处在于它系统地建立和分析社会网络，以提高女教师的职业成功和满意度。通过ADVANCE项目开发的许多网络和指导计划明确旨在增强妇女的网络，从而使她们获得关键信息、影响、认可和合作机会。但是，很少有项目跟踪女性网络的变化，以评估这些项目在增强女性网络方面的作用，或者监测女性网络特征的变化与女教师的职业成功和满意度之间的关系。我们前瞻性、纵向研究的数据将确定我们的ADVANCE项目与女性网络、满意度和职业成功之间的联系。更广泛的影响：更好地了解如何克服网络限制和增强网络，应该有助于提高STEM学科中女性教师的保留率，并可能很好地推广到其他群体，如女性研究生。网络特征的研究结果也可以推广到非学术性的工作场所和其他学科。作为WIN项目的一部分开发的网络分析工具将提供给其他机构使用。这项工作还将资助20多个新的STEM领域的合作研究项目，启动由女性牵头的科学和工程领域的新研究。

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.