Incentives and Barriers to U.S. Academics? Participation in International Collaborations

该项目是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。这项研究提出了产生知识，使我们能够更好地了解学术界关注性别和少数群体问题的程度，特别是他们是否制定了任何战略，以增加妇女和少数群体在国际合作中的参与。这项研究将总结学术界妇女和少数群体参与国际研究的动机和障碍，并将探讨学术机构的组织结构对妇女和少数群体参与国际合作的影响。主要研究人员还将调查国际合作对学术就业特征的影响，例如其吸引、留住和/或提高女性和少数族裔从事学术工作的能力。此外，他们还将调查各国的学术文化和国际合作气氛如何相互比较，还将确定国际合作是否是提高妇女和少数群体在学术界地位的关键组成部分，并提出确定增加妇女和少数群体参与国际合作的做法。最后，他们将探讨种族/民族如何塑造参与国际学术合作。

This project is being funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The research proposes to generate knowledge that will allow us to better understand the extent to which academia is attentive to gender and minority issues, specifically on whether they have developed any strategies to increase women and minorities in their international collaborations. The research will summarize incentives and barriers for academic women and minorities to engage in international research and will explore the impact of organizational structures of academic institutions on the participation women and minorities in international collaborations. The principal investigators will also investigate the impact of international collaborations on characteristics of academic employment, such as its ability to attract, retain, and/or advance women and minorities in academic jobs. Furthermore, they will investgate how academic culture and climate on international collaborations in various countries compare with each other.They will also ascertain if collaborating internationally is a key component for the advancement of women and minorities in academia and propose to identify practices that increase women and minority participation in international collaborations. Finally, they will explore how race/ethnicity shape participation in international academic collaborations.