SBP: Conference: Broadening Participation and Building Bridges

该奖项将支持2018年种族，种族和地方（REP）会议的进行。 REP是一个两年一度的会议，汇集了不同的学者群体，以促进对地理种族和民族的研究，并为代表性不足的学者提供了支持和合作的重要聚集地。 REP将促进新的活动，重点是社会科学研究的地理，种族和民族方面。 比任何其他会议或社区范围内的地理活动更重要的是，REP明确汇集了代表性不足的群体成员的学者，以及研究涉及社会经济，文化和其他动态的学者，这些动态在STEM领域代表性不足的人所居住的社区内。 REP还将涉及社会学，人类学和其他相关领域的学者。 REP将专注于在参与学者之间建立合作关系，以促进更广泛的活动，让更多的学生和其他早期职业专业人士参与STEM研究。 因此，REP将提供一个测试平台，以推进种族，民族和地方的奖学金，要求参与者参与讨论不同的认识论方法和问题，可以阻碍或促进这一主题的奖学金。 将作出明确的努力，让更多来自代表性不足群体的学者参与进来，帮助他们形成更强大的研究网络，以帮助提高和改善他们未来的能力。 通过明确注意在研究方法之间建立桥梁，并通过提供积极的、持续的代际指导，区域环境方案将鼓励对地理和相关领域社会科学研究的种族和族裔层面进行更有效的研究，使从事各种工作和活动的个人的参与多样化仍然是高等教育的一个主要挑战。 为了直接应对地理和相关领域的这一挑战，2018年REP会议将于10月中旬在德克萨斯州奥斯汀的墨西哥裔美国人文化中心（MAC）举行。 会议将通过积极招聘和参与来整合新的参与者;通过设计战略小组和主题演讲来吸引更广泛的受众，并为来自代表性不足群体的早期职业教师和高级研究生提供会后指导和专业发展研讨会。 将特别强调通过跨学科的合作，整合了一系列的理论，本体论，认识论和方法论的方法，在多个分析尺度来研究种族和民族的复杂问题。 该奖项将支持来自代表性不足群体的早期职业研究人员参加2018年REP会议，从而将新一代学者融入会议。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award will support the conduct of the 2018 Race, Ethnicity, and Place (REP) conference. REP is a biennial meeting that has brought together diverse groups of scholars to facilitate research on race and ethnicity in geography and has provided a critical gathering place of support and collaboration for underrepresented scholars. REP will catalyze new activities focusing on geographic, racial, and ethnic dimensions of social science research. More so than any other conference or community-wide activity in geography, REP explicitly brings together scholars who are members of underrepresented groups as well as scholars whose research involves the study of socioeconomic, cultural, and other dynamics within communities populated by people who are underrepresented in STEM fields. REP also will involve scholars from sociology, anthropology, and other related fields. REP will focus on building collaborative relationships among participating scholars to foster a broader range of activities that engage more students and other early-career professionals in STEM research. As such, REP will provide a test-bed for advancing scholarship on race, ethnicity, and place that requires participants to engage in discussions about different epistemological approaches and issues that can hinder or advance scholarship on this topic. Explicit efforts will be made to engage more scholars from underrepresented groups and to help them form stronger research networks to help enhance and improve their future capabilities. Through explicit attention to building bridges across research approaches and by providing active, ongoing intergenerational mentoring, REP will encourage more effective research on racial and ethnic dimensions of social science research in geography and related fields.Diversifying the involvement of individuals engaged in all types of work and activity remains a major challenge in higher education. To directly address this challenge in geography and related fields, the 2018 REP conference will be held in mid-October at the Mexican American Cultural Center (MAC) in Austin, Texas. The conference will integrate new participants through active recruitment and engagement; by designing strategic panels and keynotes to attract a broader audience, and by offering a post-conference mentoring and professional-development workshop for early-career faculty and advanced graduate students from underrepresented groups. Special emphasis will be given to examining complex issues of race and ethnicity through cross-disciplinary collaborations that integrate a range of theoretical, ontological, epistemological, and methodological approaches across multiple scales of analysis. This award will support early career researchers from underrepresented groups to participate in the 2018 REP Conference and thus integrate new generations of scholars into the meetings.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.