Workshop: Identifying Transformative Research in the Geographical Sciences

研讨会：确定地理科学中的变革性研究

• 批准号: 1263450
• 负责人: Elizabeth Eide
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: National Academy of Sciences
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-01 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1263450&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Identifying; Transformative; Research; Geographical

This project focuses on the conduct of a public workshop as a primary source of information in order to examine transformative research that has influenced the evolution of the geographical sciences and provide insights regarding how transformative research evolved in the past so that it can be encouraged in the future. Transformative scientific concepts have resulted in significant advances by reorienting existing fields, creating new fields, and providing new theoretical or technical frameworks. In the geographical sciences, the so-called "quantitative revolution" in the 1960s adopted a statistical approach to transform the discipline from its descriptive origins into the explanatory science it is today. Other transformative developments in the geographical sciences have resulted from development of new computational and telecommunications advances, such as global positioning systems and geographic information systems, or through the emergence of new approaches like political ecology that draw on insights and approaches from other fields to create new ways for approaching topics. The workshop will focus on exploring answers to three sets of focal questions: (1) How has transformative research emerged in the past, and how did it become transformative? (2) What might be the early markers of transformative research and how does it become possible to identify their transformative character? (3) What has helped nurture and bring transformative research to fruition, and how can it be fostered in the geographical sciences? A final report of the workshop conclusions will be published by the National Academies Press.This workshop will contribute to development of an intellectual framework designed to recognize and foster transformative research by examining the mechanism for significant scientific advances in the geographic sciences, with new insights likely to have value for other fields as well. It will generate new insights that could yield potential advances in the discovery, evaluation, and promotion of transformative research that could provide a valuable guide for researchers, reviewers, and funding agencies.

该项目的重点是举办一个公共研讨会，作为主要的信息来源，以审查影响地理科学演变的变革性研究，并就变革性研究在过去如何演变提供见解，以便在未来加以鼓励。 变革性的科学概念通过重新定位现有领域、创建新领域和提供新的理论或技术框架而取得了重大进展。 在地理科学中，20世纪60年代所谓的“定量革命”采用了统计方法，将该学科从描述性起源转变为今天的解释性科学。 地理科学的其他变革性发展来自新的计算和电信进步的发展，如全球定位系统和地理信息系统，或者通过新方法的出现，如政治生态学，借鉴其他领域的见解和方法，创造新的方法来处理主题。 研讨会将重点探讨三组焦点问题的答案：（1）变革性研究在过去是如何出现的，它是如何成为变革性的？ (2)变革性研究的早期标志是什么？如何识别它们的变革性特征？ (3)是什么帮助培育并实现了变革性研究，以及如何在地理科学中培育这种研究？ 研讨会的最后结论报告将由国家科学院出版社出版，研讨会将有助于制定一个知识框架，通过审查地理科学重大科学进步的机制，承认和促进变革性研究，并提出可能对其他领域也有价值的新见解。 它将产生新的见解，可以在发现，评估和促进变革性研究方面取得潜在进展，为研究人员，评审人员和资助机构提供有价值的指导。