SCISIPBIO: Partnering Through It: Building a Research Base for Dual-Career Academics

这一研究项目将对大学的双重职业政策和做法进行全面分析，并将为增加妇女和少数群体在科学领域的代表性提供资源。由于超过三分之一的美国学术研究人员与其他学者有私人关系，招聘和留住顶尖人才取决于大学是否满足研究人员的双重职业需求。这一挑战对于科学工作者的多样化尤为重要，因为先前的研究已经明确指出，学术任命问题是导致生物医学和STEM领域妇女和少数族裔流失的管道泄漏的主要原因。该项目将为大学管理人员提供循证指导，并为兼职研究人员提供重要资源，以支持妇女和少数群体更多地参与科学事业。这些目标将通过一个严格的研究项目来实现，该项目旨在产生关于双重职业政策、其应用和对其看法的新的经验性知识。具体地说，该项目有三个目标：(1)评估研究人员对双重职业学术工作寻找的看法，以及大学合作伙伴聘用政策对研究生产率和职业发展的影响；(2)记录大学支持双重职业招聘的正式机制；以及(3)为更大的学术界建立创新资源，以可视化和共享关于大学双重职业政策和实践的信息。这些目标将通过混合方法实现，其中包括对美国双职学术研究人员在其职业生涯关键转折点的看法和就业决策进行量化在线调查，对美国所有131所R1大学(“非常高的研究活动”)的双职政策进行定性的内容分析，并发布一张在线“记分卡”，列出美国所有R1大学对职业友好的地位，并附上一份面向大学官员和学术协会的报告。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This research project will provide a comprehensive analysis of universities' dual-career policies and practices and will generate resources for increasing the representation of women and minorities in science. With more than one-third of US-based academic researchers being in personal relationships with other academics, recruitment and retention of top talent depends upon universities meeting the dual-career needs of researchers. This challenge is especially important for diversifying the scientific workforce, as prior studies have pinpointed problems with academic appointments as a major contributor to the leaky pipeline causing attrition of women and minorities in biomedical and STEM fields. The project will develop evidence-based guidance for university administrators and critical resources for dual-career researchers in order to support greater inclusion of women and minorities in scientific careers. These objectives will be met through a rigorous research project designed to produce new empirical knowledge about dual-career policies, their application, and perceptions of them. Specifically, the project has three aims: (1) assess researchers' perceptions of dual-career academic job searches and the effects of university partner-hire policies upon research productivity and career advancement, (2) document the formal mechanisms used by universities to support dual career hires, and (3) establish innovative resources for the larger academic community to visualize and share information about universities' dual career policies and practices. These aims will be accomplished through a mixed-methods approach that includes a quantitative online survey of US based dualcareer academic researchers' perceptions and employment decisions at critical transition points in their careers, qualitative content analysis of the dual-career policies of all 131 R1 ("very high research activity") universities in the US, and the publication of an online "scorecard" of the dualcareer-friendly status of all R1 US universities, along with an accompanying report for university officials and academic associations.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.