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，旨在促进教学方法的发展，以提高学术研究人员制定具有潜在变革性结果的研究问题和想法的能力。主要的社会挑战可以从大型的、协调的解决方案中受益，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，无法成功地参与到超出他们部门的多样化团队中，更不用说他们的机构了。该项目的目标是创建和维持由初级和高级教师组成的机构间团队，他们具有不同的STEM观点和方法，专注于紧迫的区域问题，如沿海挑战。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。更广泛的影响将来自跨学科、跨机构的研究团队，他们开发的研究项目能够成功地解决社会挑战。该项目的成功将为各州和其他大型网络提供复制和扩展模板，这些网络专注于用跨学科边界的基于团队的解决方案来解决棘手的问题。该项目通过创建和指导围绕重要社会需求组成的机构间团队，并由关键社区利益相关者告知，直接解决了研究人员专业发展、网络和支持方面的差距。它包括两个阶段的研究干预，从协作学习和构思事件开始，并继续支持团队和项目开发。这些活动的促进者将是来自佛罗里达学院和大学的研究开发（RD）工作人员，在团队科学专家的指导下。这些研发专业人员是佛罗里达研究人员协会的成员，佛罗里达研究人员协会是一个全州范围的研究人员网络，由21个不同的成员机构组成，主要包括本科生和少数族裔服务机构。在这个项目中，研发专业人员将作为“胶水”，形成和促进教师团队，作为连接的边界跨越者，与机构知识以及更广泛的知识，包括战略增长的机会，现有的社区伙伴关系，以及全州范围内的政策和资助计划。这些促进者将把新成立的研究团队培育成具有一致目标和明确成员角色的稳定小组，利用旨在加强知识整合和创建共享的跨学科框架的活动。这个项目的成功可以增强对如何在地理上分散的小组中实施团队科学方法的理解。这对于绘制一条路径也很重要，通过这条路径，研发专业人员可以培养和支持跨越多个和不同合作伙伴组织的团队科学。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。