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

合作研究：标准：探索多学科实验室团队的科学家如何协商专业知识并声称道德实践的合法性。

• 批准号: 1926139
• 负责人: Megan Kenny Feister
• 金额: $ 21.12万
• 依托单位: California State University Channel Islands
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1926139&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Standard; Exploring; how

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.

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 工作道德的社会因素进行新的研究。研究和教学的常见方法是将团队合作、多样性和道德的社会方面纳入孤立的讲座、单独的课程中，或将它们视为结果变量。然而，该项目认为，道德不是作为静态结果变量交织在日常 STEM 工作中，而是作为组织 STEM 工作的社会过程中实现的基于沟通的成就。它检验了这样一个假设：除了技术、流程或行业专业知识之外，STEM 团队成员还可以培养道德专业知识，这是一种通过情境经验开发的知识和技能，为适当的工作方式提供信息。这项研究通过系统地调查不同的沟通模式是否以及如何影响来自国家和大学实验室的垂直整合的多学科 STEM 团队中的道德氛围和道德行为，来推进科学知识的发展。它确定了专业知识的误解或误用可能成为 STEM 组织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来学习和分享道德的方式。确定影响复杂科学工作道德成就的社会和交流因素，可以深入了解大学、国家实验室和行业合作伙伴可以用来培养道德和协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交网络分析结合起来，研究 STEM 团队成员之间不同的沟通和互动模式如何影响他们对实验室道德的看法，以及这些看法如何影响道德研究氛围和实现有效和道德团队合作的社会结构。第一阶段利用人种学方法以及对访谈和观察的扎根主题分析来捕捉和调查参与者的日常实践。第二阶段以这些发现为基础，并采用社交网络分析来评估道德氛围发展中存在的不同形式的专业知识之间的相互依赖关系，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着特征，并确定在 STEM 团队中培养道德氛围和道德行为的解释机制。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。