Communicating Research to Public Audiences (CRPA) Program: Collecting, Sharing and Building from Successful Practices

这个虚拟会议提案将把NSF的研究人员和他们的媒体合作伙伴聚集在一起，他们在以前的NSF项目中合作过，这些项目涉及向公众传播研究（现在存档的CRPA计划）。会议的目标是审查成功的做法和吸取的经验教训，并以一种能够有效地为当前和未来这类努力提供信息和支持的方式汇总调查结果。这项工作的主要目标将是确定扩大影响范围、提高研究人员/外联组织伙伴关系效力的方法，并就扩大这些项目的战略影响提出建议。在会议之前，PI将进行文件审查、在线访谈和问卷调查的多阶段过程。将举办两次虚拟讲习班，与以前的一部分受助者及其媒体合作伙伴进行有效的合作和取得成果。第一次研讨会将让参与者分享关于项目优势和根据过去经验需要改进的领域的发现。他们将确定可能的通用工具和可以跨项目共享的框架。第二次讲习班将集中讨论已确定的可以更广泛地实施的成功战略。这个多部分会议的广泛影响将帮助未来的受奖人更好地理解、扩展和更有战略地与他们的外展伙伴合作。

This virtual conference proposal would bring together NSF researchers and their media partners who worked collaboratively on previous NSF projects involved with communicating research to public audiences (the now archived CRPA program). The goal of the conference to is examine successful practices and lessons learned and aggregate the findings in a manner that can productively inform and support current and future efforts of this kind. The key objectives of the work will be to identify approaches that broaden reach, increase the effectiveness of researcher/outreach organizational partnerships, and make recommendations for amplifying the strategic impact of these projects.Prior to the conference the PI will conduct a multiphase process of document review, online interviews, and questionnaires. Two virtual workshops will be conducted with a subset of previous grantees and their media partners noted for effective collaboration and outcomes. The first workshop will have participants sharing findings on project strengths and areas needing improvement based on past experience. They will identify possible generic tools and a framework that could be shared across projects. The second workshop will focus on the identified successful strategies might be implemented more widely. The broader impacts of this multi-component conference will help future grantees better understand, expand, and work more strategically with their outreach partners.