Proposal for Workshop on 'Developing Skills for Grant Writing and Peer Review'; to be conducted Spring 2020; Washington, DC

一支多样化的科学队伍对于发展一支强大的国家科学队伍至关重要。该项目将支持来自代表性不足群体的至少30名早期职业科学家参加一个关于“开发撰写资助和同行评审技能”的讲习班。讲习班的目的是增加代表性不足群体的科学家对赠款审查过程的参与，并增加他们自己成功获得研究赠款的可能性。该研讨会将于2020年春季或夏季在华盛顿特区举行为期两天的实践活动。作为讲习班的一项成果，参加者将获得审查赠款提案的知识和能力，并将更多地参与赠款审查进程。在研讨会的过程中，参与者将学习批评赠款提案草案，以及在资助机构的同行和导师的指导下制定自己的草案。将根据参加者对学习同行审评程序的兴趣以及讲习班对其职业生涯的潜在影响来挑选参加者。特别鼓励HBCU，TCU，HSI和其他少数民族服务机构的教师和早期职业科学家申请。本次研讨会采用了一种新颖的方法，将资助机构的代表聚集在一起，为对资助写作和资助审查过程感兴趣的早期职业科学家提供广泛的观点。该项目将培训早期职业科学家，向他们提供有效联网的战略。因此，预计与会者将相互支持，形成一个有凝聚力的群体，并实践他们在研讨会上学到的东西。成功获得赠款资金对早期职业科学家的专业发展至关重要，但来自历史上代表性不足和边缘化社区的专业人士获得赠款资金的比率低于他们的大多数同事。在研讨会上，与会者将学习如何有效地沟通他们的研究思路在一个书面格式（提案），成为如何审查提案意识到，学习在审查中使用的标准，并越来越有信心自己的能力写一个有竞争力的提案，并提供其他提案的有用的关键审查。该项目由生物基础设施部（生物科学部）和人力资源开发部（教育和人力资源部）支持。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。

A diverse scientific workforce is crucial for the development of a strong national scientific workforce. This project will support at least 30 early career scientists from underrepresented groups to attend a workshop on "developing skills for grant writing and peer review". The workshop is intended to increase the participation in the grant review process by scientists from underrepresented groups and increase the probability that they themselves will successfully obtain grants for their research. The workshop provides a two-day hands-on event to be held in the Washington D.C. area in spring or summer 2020. As an outcome of the workshop, participants will obtain the knowledge and competencies in reviewing grant proposals and will increase their participation in the grant review process. Over the course of the workshop, participants will learn to critique grant proposal drafts as well as develop their own drafts with the guidance of peers and mentors from funding agencies. Participants will be selected based on their interest in learning the peer review process and the potential impact of the workshop on their career. Faculty and early career scientists at HBCUs, TCUs, HSIs, and other minority-serving institutions are especially encouraged to apply.This workshop uses a novel approach of bringing together representatives of funding agencies to provide a broad set of perspectives for early career scientists interested in both grant writing and the grant review process. The project will train early career scientists who will be provided with strategies for effective networking. As a result, it is expected that participants will support each other, form a cohesive cohort group, and practice what they learned at the workshop. Successfully securing grant funding is critical to the professional development of early career scientists, and yet professionals from historically underrepresented and marginalized communities receive grant funding at rates lower than their majority colleagues. At the workshop, participants will learn how to effectively communicate their research ideas in a written format (proposal), become aware of how proposals are reviewed, learn the criteria used in a review, and become increasingly confident of their ability to write a competitive proposal and provide useful critical review of other proposals. This project is supported by the Divisions of Biological Infrastructure (Directorate for Biological Sciences) and Human Resource Development (Education and Human Resources Directorate).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.