Beyond Compliance: Workplace Barriers, Access, and Inclusive Policies Impacting People with Disabilities in the STEM Workforce

超越合规性：影响 STEM 劳动力中残疾人的工作场所障碍、准入和包容性政策

• 批准号: 2207773
• 负责人: Maria Dahlberg
• 金额: $ 76.42万
• 依托单位: National Academy of Sciences
• 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: 2022-08-15 至 2025-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2207773&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Beyond; Compliance; Workplace; Barriers; Access

The National Academies are conducting a conference to address, examine and explore broad issues related to the accessibility and inclusivity of STEM workplaces for persons with disabilities, and highlighting their success in the STEM workforce. The National Academies’ Board on Higher Education and Workforce, in collaboration with the Board on Science Education, are convening an ad hoc committee to direct a set of commissioned papers and a virtual conference with presentations, panels, discussion breakouts, interactive sessions, reflections, or other modes of engagement, as determined to convey the information best and be as accessible as possible. Topics include, but are not limited to, using an asset approach to define the disabilities of persons in STEM; examining institutional barriers in work environments, policies and practices; and better understanding the experiences of persons with disabilities across STEM workplaces, including all types of STEM research settings. By using an intersectional lens to examine the challenges and opportunities experienced by STEM workforce employers, and by persons with disabilities, the products generated are contributing to advancing knowledge about systemic institutional barriers that limit the career advancement of persons with disabilities in STEM, as well as the access and inclusion practices and policies that contribute to advancing persons with disabilities working in STEM research settings. The virtual conference workshop is designed to engage with stakeholders who are persons with disabilities, and those who are not. All planned activities are accessible to any committee member or stakeholder with a disability to ensure that the lived experiences of persons with disabilities are included. Accessible conference proceedings and commissioned papers, and other products, will be made available to the public. Results from the workshop are expected to inform a national agenda for research about the accessibility and inclusivity of STEM workplaces, and to inform NSF about initiatives to advance persons with disabilities in the STEM workforce. An external evaluator will join the project team to employ metrics for assessment of the work activities, the conference and the dissemination materials.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.

国家科学院正在举行一次会议，以解决，审查和探讨与STEM工作场所对残疾人的无障碍性和包容性有关的广泛问题，并强调他们在STEM劳动力中的成功。美国国家科学院高等教育和劳动力委员会与科学教育委员会合作，正在召集一个特设委员会，指导一系列委托论文和一个虚拟会议，包括演讲、小组讨论、分组讨论、互动会议、反思或其他参与方式，以最好地传达信息，并尽可能方便地访问。主题包括但不限于，使用资产方法来定义STEM中的残疾人;检查工作环境，政策和实践中的体制障碍;更好地了解STEM工作场所中残疾人的经历，包括所有类型的STEM研究环境。通过使用交叉透镜来审视STEM劳动力雇主和残疾人所经历的挑战和机遇，所产生的产品有助于提高对限制残疾人在STEM中职业发展的系统性体制障碍的认识，以及有助于促进残疾人在STEM研究环境中工作的无障碍和包容性做法和政策。虚拟会议讲习班旨在让残疾人和非残疾人利益攸关方参与。所有计划的活动都向任何委员会成员或利益攸关方的残疾人开放，以确保残疾人的生活经历被包括在内。将向公众提供可查阅的会议记录和委托编写的文件以及其他产品。预计研讨会的结果将为有关STEM工作场所的无障碍性和包容性的国家研究议程提供信息，并为NSF提供有关提高STEM劳动力中残疾人地位的举措的信息。一名外部评估员将加入项目团队，采用衡量标准对工作活动、会议和传播材料进行评估。该奖项反映了NSF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。