Collaborative Research: Standard: Exploring how scientists on multidisciplinary laboratory teams negotiate expertise and claim legitimacy regarding ethical practice.

当今工程劳动力和实践的多样性和复杂性日益增加，需要对影响STEM工作伦理的社会因素进行新的研究。在研究和教学中，一种常见的方法是将团队合作、多样性和道德的社会方面纳入孤立的讲座、单独的课程中，或者将它们视为结果变量。然而，这个项目的观点是，伦理与日常的STEM工作交织在一起，不是作为一个静态的结果变量，而是作为一种基于交流的成就，在组织STEM工作的社会过程中制定。它验证了一个假设，即除了技术、流程或行业专业知识外，STEM团队成员还可以培养道德专业知识，这是一种知识和技能，通过情境经验发展出适当的工作方式。本研究通过系统地调查来自国家和大学实验室的垂直整合多学科STEM团队中不同的沟通模式是否以及如何影响伦理气候和伦理行为来推进科学知识。它确定了对专业知识的误解或误用可能成为STEM组织中道德文化发展障碍的领域，并探讨了通过持续的社会关系和互动学习和分享道德的方式。识别影响复杂科学工作伦理成就的社会和交流因素，有助于深入了解大学、国家实验室和行业合作伙伴可以用来培养伦理和合作研究氛围的各种行动和政策，以帮助科学知识的发现和应用。该研究将访谈和人种学数据与社会网络分析相结合，以研究STEM团队成员之间的不同沟通和互动模式如何影响他们对实验室伦理的看法，以及这些看法如何影响伦理研究气候和社会结构，从而实现有效和道德的团队合作。第一阶段利用民族志方法和基于访谈和观察的专题分析来捕捉和调查参与者的日常实践。第二阶段建立在这些发现的基础上，并使用社会网络分析来评估道德氛围发展中不同形式的专业知识之间的相互依存关系，以及它们与团队成员之间持续互动的关系。第三阶段整合这些发现，并将其映射到现有文献中，以比较每个机构的显著特征，并确定STEM团队中道德氛围和道德行为培养的解释机制。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

The increasing diversity and complexity characterizing today's engineering workforce and practice requires new research on the social factors that shape ethics in STEM work. A common approach in research and teaching is to incorporate the social aspects of teamwork, diversity, and ethics into isolated lectures, separate courses, or to treat them as outcome variables. However, this project takes the perspective that ethics is interwoven into everyday STEM work not as a static outcome variable, but rather as a communication-based achievement enacted in the social processes through which STEM work is organized. It tests the hypothesis that in addition to technical, process, or industry expertise, STEM team members can cultivate ethical expertise, a form of knowledge and skills informing appropriate ways of working that is developed through situated experience. This research advances scientific knowledge by systematically investigating if and how different patterns of communication affect ethical climates and ethical behavior within vertically integrated multidisciplinary STEM teams from national and university laboratories. It identifies areas in which misperceptions or misapplication of expertise may act as a barrier to the development of ethical cultures in STEM organizations and explores the ways ethics are learned and shared through ongoing social relationships and interactions. Identifying the social and communicative factors impacting the ethical accomplishment of complex scientific work provides insight into a variety of actions and policies that universities, national labs, and industry partners can use to cultivate ethical and collaborative research climates to aid in the discovery and application of scientific knowledge. The study combines interview and ethnographic data with social network analysis to examine how different patterns of communication and interaction among members of STEM teams affect their perceptions of ethics in laboratories and how these perceptions impact ethical research climates and the social structures that enable effective and ethical teamwork. Phase 1 utilizes ethnographic methods and grounded thematic analysis of interviews and observations to capture and investigate the everyday practice of participants. Phase 2 builds upon these findings and employs social network analysis to assess the interdependent relationships between the different forms of expertise present in the development of ethical climates, and their relationship to ongoing interactions among team members. Phase 3 integrates these findings and maps them onto extant literature to compare the salient features of each institution and determine the explanatory mechanisms for the cultivation of ethical climates and ethical behavior in STEM teams.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.