Study of New Strategies to Combat Harassment in Engineering

工程中反骚扰新策略研究

• 批准号: 2000448
• 负责人: Mala Htun
• 金额: $ 119.95万
• 依托单位: University of New Mexico
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2000448&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Study; New; Strategies; Combat; Harassment

Researchers from New Mexico State University (NMSU) will implement an EHR Core Research (ECR) program research project. This ECR program supports work that advances fundamental research on STEM learning and learning environments, broadening participation in STEM, and STEM workforce development. The study will assess whether and how bystander intervention training - a successful approach in other contexts such as universities and the U.S. military - can be refined, adapted, and delivered to reduce sexual harassment and change institutional climates in engineering. The study will include two multi-method field studies. In the field studies, the researchers will engage engineering faculty as bystander trainers of their own students on two university campuses (NMSU and University of New Hampshire) to assess whether their involvement fosters greater commitment to combat harassment, as predicted by the Dobbin et al. managerial engagement approach to organizational change (2015). The proposed research will contribute to scientific knowledge about the components and conditions of effective norm-based strategies to reduce harassment and encourage bystander intervention in the engineering workplace.The researchers will use focus groups and surveys to explore the impact on faculty and students of their participation in providing bystander training as engineering faculty and receiving the training from engineering faculty as engineering students. The research is expected to inform strategies to combat harassment against vulnerable individuals which are typically underrepresented in engineering, such as engineers that are women, engineers of color, and LGBTQ engineers. The two campuses have significant enrollment of first generation and underrepresented minority students in engineering. The field studies will illustrate how to foster leaders' commitment to change engineering climates and how to modify the engineering professional curriculum to increase the retention of diverse individuals and their professional confidence. While this project is primarily funded by the ECR program, additional support has been provided by the Directorate for Engineering's Broadening Participation in Engineering (BPE) program.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.

新墨西哥州立大学（NMSU）的研究人员将实施EHR核心研究（ECR）计划研究项目。该ECR计划支持有关STEM学习和学习环境，扩大参与STEM和STEM劳动力发展的基础研究的工作。该研究将评估旁观者的干预培训以及如何在其他情况下（例如大学和美国军方的成功方法）进行完善，适应和交付，以减少性骚扰和改变工程学的机构气候。该研究将包括两项多方法现场研究。在实地研究中，研究人员将在两个大学校园（NMSU和新罕布什尔大学）与工程学院合作，成为自己学生的旁观者培训师，以评估他们的参与是否促进了Dobbbin等人的预测，他们的参与是否会更大的承诺打击骚扰。组织变革的管理参与方法（2015年）。拟议的研究将有助于有关有效基于规范的策略的组成部分和条件的科学知识，以减少骚扰并鼓励旁观者干预工程工作场所。研究人员将使用焦点小组和调查来探索他们参与其参与旁观者培训的教职员工的影响，以提供旁观者的培训，并从工程师培训中，并从工程培训培训培训培训。 预计该研究将为策略提供针对对弱势个人的骚扰，这些弱势个人通常在工程学中的代表性不足，例如女性，彩色工程师和LGBTQ工程师的工程师。这两个校园的第一代和代表性不足的少数族裔学生在工程学中的入学人数很高。现场研究将说明如何培养领导者对改变工程气候的承诺以及如何修改工程专业课程，以增加不同个人及其专业信心的保留。虽然该项目主要由ECR计划资助，但工程局扩大了工程计划（BPE）计划的额外支持。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的审查标准通过评估来进行评估。