Scholars Award: Science in Transformation: Shifting Disciplinary Boundaries and Community-Engaged Scientists

学者奖：变革中的科学：不断变化的学科界限和社区参与的科学家

• 批准号: 1331177
• 负责人: Amy Lesen
• 金额: $ 21.39万
• 依托单位: Dillard University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-15 至 2015-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1331177&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Scholars; Award; Science; Transformation; Shifting

OverviewThe Principal Investigator (PI) will address questions that have arisen as a result of a shift by the scientific community towards engaging with complex problems that span two or more distinct realm; in this case, the issue is climate change, which spans environmental and social realms. Key questions to be addressed concern the challenges faced by scientists engaged in work on this problem, and the character of the associated shift in the norms within the scientific community. The PI will address these questions by focusing on several carefully chosen case studies of scientists and organizations at the leading edge of these transformations. The PI will use multiple methods in doing so, including in-depth, semi-structured oral history interviews with scientists, and archival research into the development of their organizations and research projects. The results of this project will be an oral history website and a monograph of case studies to document this transformative period in science.Intellectual MeritThe proposed work will contribute to the growing body of research into science and civic engagement by documenting stories of scientists themselves. In investigating how current scientific issues (such as climate change) are engendering a shift in science practice, this project will also increase our understanding of how the scientific problems of an age influence the evolution of scientific social and institutional norms, and how (in turn) those norms affect the way scientific problems are studied. The information and products gained from this research will be instructive to other scientists, to sociologists of science and to STS scholars.Broader Impacts :This project will serve to inform policy at academic institutions and to guide efforts to train a new generation of scientists who plan to engage in work that addresses the scientific and social complexities of climate change. Additionally, the proposed work will enhance our understanding of how to facilitate communication between scientists, policy makers, community members and other stakeholders, which could in turn improve research and policy effectiveness. The site of this work is a historically black college liberal arts college in New Orleans, and undergraduates are included in the research plan as research assistants, meaning that this project will contribute to the training of underrepresented minority students in science and social science research and encourage underrepresented minority students to pursue graduate training in those fields. The oral history website, housed at the work site, will serve to provide a deeper understanding to the New Orleans community, particularly communities of color, about the science of climate change and about science in general.

主要研究者（PI）将解决由于科学界转向参与跨越两个或更多不同领域的复杂问题而产生的问题;在这种情况下，问题是气候变化，它跨越了环境和社会领域。需要解决的关键问题涉及从事这方面工作的科学家所面临的挑战，以及科学界规范的相关转变的性质。PI将通过专注于几个精心挑选的案例研究来解决这些问题，这些案例研究涉及处于这些转变前沿的科学家和组织。PI将使用多种方法，包括与科学家进行深入的半结构化口述历史访谈，以及对其组织和研究项目发展的档案研究。该项目的成果将是一个口述历史网站和一本个案研究专著，以记录这一科学变革时期。智力价值拟议的工作将有助于通过记录科学家自己的故事，对日益增长的科学研究和公民参与作出贡献。在调查当前的科学问题（如气候变化）如何在科学实践中产生转变时，该项目还将增加我们对一个时代的科学问题如何影响科学社会和制度规范的演变的理解，以及这些规范如何（反过来）影响科学问题的研究方式。更广泛的影响：该项目将为学术机构的政策提供信息，并指导培训计划从事解决气候变化的科学和社会复杂性的工作的新一代科学家的努力。此外，拟议的工作将提高我们对如何促进科学家、政策制定者、社区成员和其他利益攸关方之间的沟通的理解，这反过来又可以提高研究和政策的有效性。这项工作的网站是一个历史上的黑人大学文科学院在新奥尔良，本科生被列入研究计划作为研究助理，这意味着该项目将有助于在科学和社会科学研究的代表性不足的少数民族学生的培训，并鼓励代表性不足的少数民族学生追求这些领域的研究生培训。口述历史网站，设在工作现场，将有助于提供一个更深入的了解新奥尔良社区，特别是社区的颜色，关于气候变化的科学和科学的一般。