RAPID: Collaborative Research: What makes lay/expert scientific collaborations succeed?

RAPID：协作研究：是什么让外行/专家科学合作取得成功？

• 批准号: 1049782
• 负责人: Jeffrey Wickliffe
• 金额: $ 3.26万
• 依托单位: Tulane University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1049782&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Collaborative; Research; What; makes

IntroductionThis project lays the foundations for a causal analysis of lay/expert collaborative research or citizen science. While the potential of such collaborations to advance knowledge and societal well-being are well known, little is known about what makes them succeed or fail. The PIs propose to bridge this gap by adopting a new approach that goes beyond traditional observational studies. The PIs propose to use mixed methods and an innovative parallel-study design. They will demonstrate the effectiveness of their approach by examining the social conditions and processes that produce or forestall transformative, community-driven science in response to the current Gulf oil disaster. In addition, they plan to produce interdisciplinary and socially robust environmental knowledge about the impacts of the disaster by combining the expertise of environmental scientists, social scientists, and Vietnamese-Americans living and working in south Louisiana who bring their deep experiential knowledge of the region?s impacted ecosystems to the scientific work. Intellectual MeritsThe proposed study is interdisciplinary. It is designed to advance basic social studies of science while simultaneously contributing to the production of socially robust environmental science. It does so in the form of two parallel analyses. The first is a community-driven toxicological study of wetlands contamination; the second is a sociological analysis of the initiation, development, and execution of that collaborative process. Both studies address substantively important problems. The community-driven study will investigate the exposure and impacts of petroleum hydrocarbons on finfish species that are culturally and economically important to Vietnamese-Americans whose livelihoods rely on commercial and subsistence fishing. Working together, residents and scientists will identify and prioritize target species and biological endpoints. The findings of the study will provide sound data that form the basis for hypothesis-driven future research on the long-term ecological impacts of the disaster. The sociological study will investigate the lay/expert collaboration for insight into the causal processes that generate successful citizen science. Potential Broader Impacts The interdisciplinary knowledge produced by this study will aid in scientific efforts to investigate the social and environmental impacts of the oil disaster by capturing time-sensitive social and ecological data that can be used by other natural and social scientists. The community-driven nature of the project and contributions to knowledge production by an underrepresented social group helps ensure that the scientific knowledge will be socially meaningful to Gulf Coast residents and local governments as well state and federal agencies working to mitigate disaster impacts. The project also holds significant educational opportunities. These include opportunities for interdisciplinary exchanges between social and natural scientists, and research training opportunities for undergraduate students and adult non-scientists. The project will also enhance institutional relationships between Tulane and Washington State Universities that bridge regional and public/private divides in the academy. Finally, the proposed study has strong potential to seed an effective and sustainable community-academic network for addressing ecological and environmental health issues in south Louisiana and elsewhere.

IntroductionThis项目奠定了基础的因果分析外行/专家合作研究或公民科学。虽然这种合作在促进知识和社会福祉方面的潜力是众所周知的，但人们对是什么使它们成功或失败却知之甚少。PI建议通过采用超越传统观察研究的新方法来弥合这一差距。PI建议使用混合方法和创新的平行研究设计。他们将通过研究社会条件和过程来证明他们的方法的有效性，这些社会条件和过程产生或阻止了变革性的、社区驱动的科学，以应对当前的海湾石油灾难。此外，他们计划通过结合环境科学家，社会科学家和在路易斯安那州南部生活和工作的越南裔美国人的专业知识，产生关于灾难影响的跨学科和社会稳健的环境知识，他们带来了对该地区的深刻经验知识。影响生态系统的科学工作。智力优点拟议的研究是跨学科的。它旨在推进科学的基础社会研究，同时促进社会强大的环境科学的生产。它是以两种平行分析的形式进行的。第一个是一个社区驱动的湿地污染的毒理学研究，第二个是一个社会学分析的启动，开发和执行的协作过程。这两项研究都涉及实质性的重要问题。这项社区驱动的研究将调查石油碳氢化合物对鱼类物种的暴露和影响，这些鱼类对越南裔美国人的生计依赖于商业和生计捕鱼的文化和经济重要性。居民和科学家将共同努力，确定和优先考虑目标物种和生物终点。这项研究的结果将提供可靠的数据，为今后根据假设对灾害的长期生态影响进行研究奠定基础。社会学研究将调查外行/专家的合作，以深入了解产生成功的公民科学的因果过程。本研究所产生的跨学科知识将有助于科学工作，通过捕捉其他自然和社会科学家可以使用的时间敏感的社会和生态数据，调查石油灾难的社会和环境影响。该项目的社区驱动性质以及代表性不足的社会团体对知识生产的贡献有助于确保科学知识对墨西哥湾沿岸居民和地方政府以及致力于减轻灾害影响的州和联邦机构具有社会意义。该项目还提供重要的教育机会。其中包括社会和自然科学家之间的跨学科交流机会，以及本科生和成人非科学家的研究培训机会。该项目还将加强杜兰大学和华盛顿州立大学之间的机构关系，弥合该学院的区域和公共/私人分歧。最后，拟议的研究有很大的潜力，种子一个有效的和可持续的社区学术网络，以解决生态和环境健康问题在路易斯安那州南部和其他地方。