Standard Proposal: Building a Culture of Responsible Research and Practice in STEM

非技术性：该奖项由培养伦理文化STEM项目颁发，旨在将负责任的研究和实践教育置于研究环境中，并让整个部门参与进来。该奖项由数学和物理科学局资助，并由生物科学局共同创立。这种方法既针对组织背景，因为它旨在修改各部门，也针对同行环境，因为它使对伦理问题的讨论成为研究实践的常规部分。该项目将是建立一个更全面的自下而上的道德教育计划的重要组成部分，该计划将补充现有的教育工具，解决负责任的研究行为(RCR)。指导方针制定模块中建议的互动练习和讨论将有助于巩固和扩大现有RCR课程和在线培训模块中获得的知识，并帮助研究人员认识到伦理问题并促进在科学、技术、工程和数学方面的伦理实践。此外，该项目将提供关于现有伦理准则如何更好地考虑实验室环境中负责任的行为和实践的想法，并将提出修改现行伦理准则的方法，以便更好地服务于在实验室环境中工作的研究人员的需要。技术：该项目将确定与科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)的伦理责任相关的因素，并通过自下而上制定针对具体情况的伦理准则，在实验实验室培养伦理研究和实践文化的建设。准则将涉及为其制定准则的组织所特有的道德问题，并补充现有的更一般的道德守则和准则。在这个过程中，需要研究现有的特定学科的规范和指导方针，接触伦理理论，以及利益相关者之间的自由讨论和互动，实验室指导方针将由研究生小组制定，与学生、教职员工讨论，理想情况下最终在各自系内采用。制定这些指南的过程将培养参与的学生的高度主人翁精神，并有助于使这些指南成为实验室文化中不可或缺的一部分，用于指导新的实验室成员。这种方法有可能给实验实验室的伦理文化带来持久的变化，这种变化可以传递给未来进入实验室的学生。广泛的评估计划包括评估工具，用于监控参与实验室和部门内与拟议战略相关的采用率和遵守程度，以及随时间推移对实验室文化的影响。将人种学研究纳入该项目将揭示文化和伦理变革的演变过程。根据所取得的成果，将制定、完善和广泛传播一个广泛适用的模块，指导各机构自下而上地建立以道德守则为基础的准则。最终的指导方针制定模块将包括一份衡量伦理实验室文化的指南、结果评估以及继续进行此类自由讨论的战略。它将提供给包括社区学院在内的其他机构，作为实验室定向、研讨会或其他形式的一部分。

Non-technical: This award by the Cultivating Cultures for Ethical STEM program aims at situating responsible research and practice education within the research environment, and involving whole departments. This award is funded by the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences and cofounded by the Directorate for Biological Sciences. The approach will target both the organizational context in that it aims at modifications in the respective departments, and the peer environment in that it makes the discussion of ethical issues a regular part of research practice. The project will be an important component in building a more comprehensive bottom-up program of ethics education that will complement existing education tools addressing responsible conduct of research (RCR). The interactive exercises and discussions proposed in the guideline-development module will help to both reinforce and broaden the knowledge obtained in existing RCR courses and online training modules, as well as helping researchers to both recognize ethical issues and foster ethical practice in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Furthermore, the project will provide ideas of how existing ethics codes can better consider responsible conduct and practice in laboratory environments and will suggest ways to modify current codes of ethics in order to better serve the needs of researchers working in laboratory settings.Technical: The project will identify factors relevant to ethically responsible undertaking of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and cultivate the building of an ethical research and practice culture in experimental laboratories through the bottom-up development of context specific ethical guidelines. The guidelines will address ethical issues specific to the organization for which they are developed and complement existing, more general codes of ethics and guidelines. In a process that involves research into existing discipline-specific codes and guidelines, exposure to ethical theory, and free discussion and interaction between stakeholders, the laboratory guidelines will be developed by groups of graduate students, discussed with students, faculty and staff, and ideally finally adopted within the respective departments. The process of developing these guidelines will cultivate a high level of ownership in participating students, and help make the guidelines an integral part of lab culture used in the orientation of new lab members. The approach has the potential to bring about lasting change in the ethical culture of experimental laboratories that can be passed on to future students entering the labs. An extensive assessment plan includes evaluation tools that monitor the rate of adoption and adherence levels and the influence on lab culture over time related to the proposed strategy within participating labs and departments. The inclusion of an ethnographic study in the project will bring to light the evolving process of cultural and ethical change. Based on the results obtained, a broadly applicable module that guides institutions in the bottom-up building of codes-of-ethics-based guidelines will be developed, refined and disseminated widely. The final guideline-development module will include a guide for measuring ethical lab culture, assessment of results, and strategies for continuing free discussions of this kind. It will be made available for other institutions including community colleges to use as part of lab orientation, workshops, or other formats.