EAGER: Collaborative Research: Networking Faculty Seeds for Collective Change in the Geosciences

pi计划创建一个专业发展课程，高度适合个人的特定机构背景。他们希望从10所不同的大学招募10名“种子多样性研究员”（seed Diversity Fellows），这些人随后将引入另外两名合作伙伴加入团队。然后，每个三人小组将确定阻碍其特定机构在地球科学领域招募、保留和包括不同教职员工和学生的能力的把关机制。拟议的课程将实施和研究社会网络分析的创新应用，作为参与者识别潜在合作者的工具，这样他们就可以共同改变部门的信念和行为。pi还将开发和研究三种新的混合现实模拟，将人工智能与人类对话直觉相结合，教参与者如何管理冲突，同时倡导大学和部门程序的系统性变革。在GOLD:GeoDES试点项目的基础上，这些新的模拟将超越个人行为，更多地向协调和利用社会网络来影响制度变革的方向发展。PI提议的专业发展课程包括以下两个创新：1。帮助参与者识别和分析他们的社会网络，以选择两个额外的关键个人，与他们合作改变部门的集体行为。在GeoDES试点项目中，项目负责人认识到，改变一个部门的集体行为比改变个人的行为和信念要困难得多。2. 利用创新的混合现实模拟，将人工智能与人类对话直觉相结合，教参与者如何管理冲突，同时倡导大学和部门程序的系统性变革。该项目的创新基于这样一种理念，即改变部门内许多人的行为需要强有力的干预，这种干预建立在坚实的理论基础之上，这些理论基础已经显示出有希望的结果。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 PIs plan to create a professional development curriculum that is highly tailorable to an individual's particular institutional context. They seek to recruit 10 Seeding Diversity Fellows from 10 different universities who will then bring on board another two partners to join the team. Each team of three will then identify gatekeeping mechanisms that impede the ability of their particular institution to recruit, retain, and include diverse faculty and students in the geosciences. The proposed curriculum will implement and research an innovative use of social network analysis as a tool for participants to identify potential collaborators so that, together, they can collectively change departmental beliefs and behaviors. The PIs will also develop and research three, new, mixed-reality simulations that combine artificial intelligence with human conversational intuition to teach participants how to manage conflicts while advocating for systemic changes in university and departmental procedures. Building off of the work from the pilot GOLD:GeoDES project, these new simulations will extend beyond individual actions and move more toward coordinating and leveraging social networks to effect institutional change.The PI's proposed professional development curriculum includes the following two innovations: 1. Helping participants to identify and analyze their social networks to select two additional key individuals with whom to collaborate to change collective behaviors in a department. In the pilot GeoDES project, the PIs recognized that changing collective behaviors of a department is a heavier lift than changing individual behaviors and beliefs. 2. Making use of innovative mixed-reality simulations that combine artificial intelligence with human conversational intuition to teach participants how to manage conflicts while advocating for systemic changes in university and departmental procedures. The project's innovation rests on the idea that changing the behavior of many people within a department requires a robust intervention grounded in strong theoretical foundations that have shown promising results.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.