Conference: National Postdoctoral Association Pre-Conference Session to Promote IMPACT Fellowship Success

会议：全国博士后协会会前会议，以促进 IMPACT 奖学金的成功

• 批准号: 2211818
• 负责人: Thomas Kimbis
• 金额: $ 4.96万
• 依托单位: National Postdoctoral Association
• 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: 2022-03-15 至 2023-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2211818&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; National; Postdoctoral; Association; Pre

National conditions among postdocs across various institutions vary greatly, with many individuals from underrepresented backgrounds lacking access to career enhancing resources available to others. At some under-resourced institutions, there is not only a lack of support and programming for postdocs, there is no office assigned to handle postdoc affairs or the structured career and professional support for postdocs is limited. Even at higher-resourced institutions, training environments and research labs can be isolating for individuals from marginalized backgrounds. To address these issues head-on, the National Postdoctoral Association (NPA) launched the IMPACT Fellowship Program in 2021 as a cohort-based professional development opportunity with community and relationship building at its core. It provides postdoctoral participants from underrepresented communities with access to personal and career resources via cohorts of peers and mentors helping Fellows strategically build upon existing skills, recognize opportunities, and advance in their careers. The NPA IMPACT Program curriculum emphasizes relational learning and self-efficacy, is designed nimbly to maximize Fellows’ sense of belonging and connection to a broader community and provide education and career pathways to postdoctoral scholars to help broaden participation in STEM and related research. The program benefits society broadly by helping create a successful, empowered first class of IMPACT Fellows from disadvantaged backgrounds, increasing their chance of achieving leadership positions.The project will empower IMPACT Program Fellows, as well as selected NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB) Fellows, through an enriching final session of the program that will be held as a pre-conference event at the NPA’s annual conference. Fellows will meet one another as well as their mentors in person for the first time and engage in activities that promote and extend the duration of the learning objectives of the full Fellowship. Empowered by extensive advanced preparation, the day-long session will focus on exploring the critical area of personal values and their relation to Fellows scientific research and career choices centered on a pair of workshops run by experts in inclusion and value identification for scientific advancement. The NPA will facilitate the session by using a four-component strategy to achieve this result: 1) peer discussion and learning; 2) speaker-led workshops; 3) live course evaluation; and 4) networking opportunities. Fellows will also be able to explore the educational opportunities at the NPA Annual Conference, occurring during the two days directly following this session. This IMPACT session will provide tools to Fellows to use the knowledge and resources they gain to implement activities or initiatives at their institutions and to contribute back to their communities, further scaling the overall impact. The session will be evaluated using established effectiveness tools and criteria to inform program improvements for the next IMPACT course.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.

各机构博士后的国情差异很大，许多来自代表性不足背景的个人无法获得其他人可用的职业发展资源。在一些资源不足的机构，不仅缺乏对博士后的支持和规划，没有指定处理博士后事务的办公室，或者对博士后的结构化职业和专业支持有限。即使在资源较高的机构，培训环境和研究实验室也可能使来自边缘化背景的个人感到孤立。为了正面解决这些问题，国家博士后协会（NPA）于2021年推出了IMPACT奖学金计划，作为一个以社区和关系建设为核心的基于队列的专业发展机会。它为来自代表性不足的社区的博士后参与者提供了通过同龄人和导师群体获得个人和职业资源的机会，帮助研究员战略性地建立现有技能，认识机会，并在职业生涯中取得进步。NPA IMPACT计划课程强调关系学习和自我效能，旨在最大限度地提高研究员的归属感和与更广泛社区的联系，并为博士后学者提供教育和职业途径，以帮助扩大STEM和相关研究的参与。该计划通过帮助建立一个成功的，授权的第一级IMPACT研究员来自弱势背景，增加他们实现领导职位的机会，广泛造福社会。该项目将授权IMPACT计划研究员，以及选定的NSF生物学博士后研究奖学金（PRFB）研究员，通过丰富的最后一次会议，将作为NPA年会的会前活动举行。研究员将首次与彼此及其导师见面，并参与促进和延长整个研究金学习目标持续时间的活动。通过广泛的先进准备，为期一天的会议将重点探讨个人价值观的关键领域及其与研究员科学研究和职业选择的关系，集中在一对由专家主持的研讨会上，包括科学进步的价值识别。国家行动计划将通过使用四个组成部分的战略来促进会议，以实现这一结果：1）同行讨论和学习; 2）演讲者主导的研讨会; 3）现场课程评估;以及4）联网机会。研究员还将能够探索在NPA年会的教育机会，在本次会议后的两天内直接发生。这次IMPACT会议将为研究员提供工具，使他们能够利用获得的知识和资源在其机构实施活动或举措，并为社区做出贡献，进一步扩大整体影响。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。