EAGER: A Research-Driven Messaging Campaign to Transform Perceptions of URMs in STEM Innovation

EAGER：一项研究驱动的消息传递活动，旨在改变对 STEM 创新中 URM 的看法

• 批准号: 2028719
• 负责人: Almesha Campbell
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: Jackson State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-07-15 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2028719&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Research; Driven; Messaging; Campaign

This EAGER project engages in research that has the potential to transform the field of innovation of entrepreneurship as it relates to broadening participation of women of color in educational and academic related innovation environments. The goal of this project is to use storytelling to explore which factors influence the access, pursuit, and success of underrepresented populations in innovative STEM spaces and create a research-driven messaging campaign for the National Science Foundation’s (NSF’s) I-Corps program. Innovation and entrepreneurship are major economic drivers in the United States and are essential to ensure the Nation’s standing as a global leader in science and technology. Because of the significant lack of inclusion of under-represented groups in STEM, there is also an absence of innovators with diverse experiences, ideas, perspectives, and stories. Including these groups in the National Innovation Network can add potentially transformative ways of thinking about innovation and entrepreneurship. Results from this study will be used to uncover what factors (stories, ideas, experiences, perceptions) influence/play a role in NSF’s under-represented populations access to, pursuit of, and success in innovative STEM spaces (both academic and professional). It will also inform the planning and implementation of a pilot messaging campaign aimed at broadening participation of under-represented groups in NSF’s I-Corps program. Previous efforts to address innovation for under-represented women in STEM have not been effective in producing substantive impact that led to measurable increases in this area. By focusing on stories told by under-represented communities in STEM, this project seeks to uncover specific reasons these groups do not have access to STEM sectors or think they do not fit in these spaces. The outcomes are expected to advance the understanding of the barriers members of under-represented communities face in STEM fields, and have the potential to significantly impact the inclusion of underrepresented groups in STEM and innovation within workplaces, schools, universities, and community spaces.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.

这个渴望的项目从事研究，有可能改变企业家创新领域，因为它与扩大有色妇女在教育和学术相关的创新环境中的参与有关。该项目的目的是利用讲故事来探索哪些因素影响创新的茎空间中代表性不足的人群的访问，追求和成功，并为国家科学基金会（NSF）的I-Corps计划创建研究驱动的消息传递运动。创新和企业家精神是美国的主要经济驱动力，对于确保美国成为科学和技术的全球领导者至关重要。由于严重缺乏代表性不足的群体的STEM，也缺乏具有潜水经验，思想，观点和故事的创新者。在国家创新网络中包括这些群体可以增加有关创新和企业家精神思维的潜在变革方式。这项研究的结果将用于揭示哪些因素（故事，思想，经验，看法）在NSF代表不足的人群中扮演/追求，追求和成功的因素（学术和专业）。它还将为旨在扩大不足的小组参与NSF的I-CORPS计划的计划和实施。以前为解决STEM中代表性不足的妇女创新的努力尚未有效产生实质性影响，从而导致该领域的可测量增加。通过专注于STEM中代表性不足的社区讲述的故事，该项目试图揭示这些群体无法进入STEM部门或认为它们不适合这些空间的特定原因。预计结果将提高对STEM领域中代表性不足社区面临的障碍成员的理解，并有可能显着影响纳入工作场所，学校，大学和社区空间内的代表性不足的群体和创新群体的包含不足的群体。该奖项将通过评估官员的范围来反映出NSF的任务，这是对构成群体的综合委员会的良好影响。

项目成果

ENGAGING MORE WOMEN IN ACADEMIC INNOVATION: FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

让更多女性参与学术创新：调查结果和建议

• DOI: 10.21300/22.3.2022.2
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Technology & Innovation
• 影响因子: 0.5
• 作者: Muir, Jane;Aanstoos, Megan;Barrett, Tamsen;Campbell, Almesha;Ghahramani, Forough;Gottwald, Jennifer;Leute, Kirsten;Mercier, Nichole;Shockro, Jennifer
• 通讯作者: Shockro, Jennifer