Collaborative Research: Who are Interdisciplinary STEM Doctoral Graduates? Exploring and Assessing Antecedents and Economic Consequences

合作研究：谁是跨学科 STEM 博士毕业生？

• 批准号: 1761086
• 负责人: Kevin Kniffin
• 金额: $ 23.98万
• 依托单位: Cornell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-05-01 至 2022-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1761086&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Who; Interdisciplinary; STEM

Researchers at Cornell and Ohio State Universities will apply an economic framework to examine the risks, rewards, and benefits of the choice to pursue interdisciplinary dissertation research among early, mid- and later career Ph.D. students and degree holders. Using data from the Survey of Earned Doctorates, Survey of Doctorate Recipients, and the Institute for Research on Innovation & Science, they will compare competing definitions of interdisciplinary research and analyze and map trends regarding career outcomes. The research will generate new insights for Ph.D. students and their advisors on career-level effects faced by those who complete interdisciplinary dissertations in STEM fields. The project supports the NSF prioritization of the Convergence Research Big Idea and the need to develop a workforce that can conduct cross-disciplinary solution-oriented work on complex problems. The objectives of the proposed project are to utilize rich data sources to improve understanding of what constitutes interdisciplinary research in STEM and how it is measured, to track changes longitudinally in the characteristics of individuals who conduct interdisciplinary dissertations in STEM, to quantify economic outcomes, and to study the career paths of those who conduct interdisciplinary dissertations in STEM. The specific research questions are (1) to what degree do differing definitions of interdisciplinarity yield variation in the measurement of interdisciplinary research frequency, and how do these measures vary over time? (2) Which demographic and socio-economic factors help explain the decision to complete interdisciplinary dissertation research in STEM, and how do these change over time? (3) Do individuals who complete interdisciplinary dissertations in STEM seek and earn tenure with greater or lesser probability? and (4) Over time, will the salary of people who complete an interdisciplinary dissertation in STEM grow at the same rate, slower, or faster than their non-disciplinary peers? The researchers will address the questions using primarily quantitative analytical techniques and equation modeling. The project will help improve future career preparation for individual students and the institutions where they study.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.

康奈尔大学和俄亥俄州州立大学的研究人员将应用一个经济框架来研究选择在早期，中期和后期职业博士中进行跨学科论文研究的风险，回报和好处。学生和学位持有者。利用来自博士生调查，博士生调查和创新科学研究所的数据，他们将比较跨学科研究的竞争定义，并分析和绘制有关职业成果的趋势。这项研究将为博士生提供新的见解。学生和他们的顾问对职业水平的影响所面临的那些谁完成跨学科论文在STEM领域。该项目支持美国国家科学基金会（NSF）对融合研究大创意的优先考虑，以及培养一支能够在复杂问题上进行跨学科解决方案导向工作的员工队伍的需求。拟议项目的目标是利用丰富的数据源，以提高什么构成STEM跨学科研究的理解，以及如何衡量，纵向跟踪在STEM进行跨学科论文的个人特征的变化，量化经济成果，并研究在STEM进行跨学科论文的人的职业道路。具体的研究问题是：（1）在跨学科研究频率的测量中，跨学科性的不同定义在多大程度上产生变化，这些测量如何随时间变化？(2)哪些人口和社会经济因素有助于解释在STEM完成跨学科论文研究的决定，以及这些因素如何随着时间的推移而变化？(3)完成STEM跨学科论文的人是否以更大或更小的概率寻求并获得终身职位？以及（4）随着时间的推移，完成STEM跨学科论文的人的工资增长速度与非学科同行相同，慢还是快？研究人员将主要使用定量分析技术和方程建模来解决这些问题。该项目将有助于改善学生个人和他们学习的机构未来的职业准备。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。