EAGER GERMINATION Collaborative Research: Leveraging a Research Development Professional Network to Catalyze Statewide Innovative and Societally Relevant Research

渴望萌芽合作研究：利用研究开发专业网络促进全州创新和社会相关研究

• 批准号: 2203496
• 负责人: Jeanne Viviani
• 金额: $ 2.45万
• 依托单位: Florida Atlantic University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-05-01 至 2024-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2203496&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; GERMINATION; Collaborative; Research; Leveraging

This project is funded through the NSF Directorate for Engineering Germination program, which seeks to foster the development of pedagogical approaches to increase the ability of academic researchers to formulate research questions and ideas with potentially transformative outcomes. Major societal challenges can benefit from large, coordinated solutions that leverage interdisciplinary teams with collaborations from academia, government, industry, and other stakeholders. However, many college and university faculty have limited experience, tools, and support to successfully engage in diverse teams that extend beyond their department, much less their institution. The goal of this project is to create and sustain inter-institutional teams composed of junior and senior faculty members with diverse STEM perspectives and methodologies focusing on pressing regional issues such as coastal challenges. This statewide research intervention project will be developed and supported by research development professionals embedded in higher education institutions across Florida. Broader impacts will accrue from instantiation of interdisciplinary, inter-institutional research teams who develop research projects capable of successfully addressing societal challenges. Success in this project will provide a template for replication and scaling by states and other sizable networks focused on addressing intractable problems with team-based solutions that cross disciplinary boundaries.This project directly addresses gaps in researcher professional development, networking, and support by creating and guiding inter-institutional teams formed around important societal needs and informed by key community stakeholders. It involves a two-stage research intervention that commences with a collaborative learning and ideation event and continues with supported team and project development. The facilitators of these activities will be Research Development (RD) staff from Florida colleges and universities, under the guidance of a faculty expert in team science. These RD professionals are members of FloRDA, a statewide network of research staff from a diverse set of 21 member institutions, including primarily undergraduate and minority-serving institutions. During this program, RD professionals will serve as the “glue” to form and facilitate faculty teams, as connective boundary spanners with institutional knowledge as well as broader knowledge encompassing opportunities for strategic growth, existing community partnerships, and statewide policy and funding initiatives. These facilitators will nurture newly formed research teams into stable groups with aligned goals and defined member roles, leveraging activities designed to enhance knowledge integration and create a shared transdisciplinary framework. Success in this project may enhance understanding of how to implement team science approaches in geographically dispersed groups. It will also be important for charting a path through which RD professionals can foster and support team science spanning multiple and diverse partner organizations.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.

该项目由美国国家科学基金会工程萌芽计划理事会资助，该计划旨在促进教学方法的发展，以提高学术研究人员提出具有潜在变革性成果的研究问题和想法的能力。主要的社会挑战可以受益于大型、协调的解决方案，这些解决方案利用跨学科团队与学术界、政府、行业和其他利益相关者的合作。然而，许多学院和大学教师的经验、工具和支持都有限，无法成功参与超出其部门（更不用说所在机构）的多元化团队。该项目的目标是创建和维持由初级和高级教员组成的跨机构团队，他们具有不同的 STEM 观点和方法，重点关注沿海挑战等紧迫的区域问题。这个全州范围的研究干预项目将由佛罗里达州高等教育机构的研究开发专业人员开发和支持。跨学科、跨机构研究团队的实例化将产生更广泛的影响，这些团队开发出能够成功应对社会挑战的研究项目。该项目的成功将为各州和其他大型网络提供复制和扩展的模板，专注于通过跨学科界限的基于团队的解决方案解决棘手问题。该项目通过创建和指导围绕重要社会需求组成并由主要社区利益相关者提供信息的机构间团队，直接解决研究人员专业发展、网络和支持方面的差距。它涉及两个阶段的研究干预，从协作学习和构思活动开始，并继续支持团队和项目开发。这些活动的推动者将是来自佛罗里达州学院和大学的研究开发 (RD) 人员，并在团队科学专家的指导下进行。这些 RD 专业人员是 FloRDA 的成员，FloRDA 是一个全州范围的研究人员网络，由来自 21 个不同成员机构的研究人员组成，其中主要包括本科生和少数族裔服务机构。在该计划期间，研发专业人员将充当组建和促进教职员工团队的“粘合剂”，作为与机构知识以及更广泛的知识（包括战略增长机会、现有社区合作伙伴关系以及全州政策和资助计划）连接的边界跨越者。这些协调员将利用旨在加强知识整合和创建共享跨学科框架的活动，将新组建的研究团队培养成具有一致目标和明确成员角色的稳定团体。该项目的成功可能会增强对如何在地理分散的群体中实施团队科学方法的理解。这对于制定一条道路也很重要，通过该道路，研发专业人员可以培养和支持跨越多个和不同合作组织的团队科学。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。