Building Capacity for Collaborative Interdisciplinary Research on Water and Society

水和社会有着内在的联系，这使得这一主题非常适合于将社会科学和自然科学的研究方法结合在一起的跨学科研究。这项研究使用跨学科的方法来研究水-社会的相互作用，重点关注治理、环境正义、社会环境变化和基础设施系统等问题。这项研究通过提供学生培训和职业发展来支持代表性不足的本科生和研究生的参与。该项目培养研究伙伴关系和基于社区的网络，包括主办一次关于水和社会的跨学科会议。该项目通过地理学、环境研究、应用语言学和人类学领域的学者之间的跨学科研究合作来提高研究效率。学者们围绕四个研究主题展开合作：水资源价值、水资源历史、水资源期货和水资源风险。该项目采用跨学科的方法，将水视为一个复杂的系统，具有相互关联的社会、生态和技术方面。这项研究通过招募一批研究实习生组成一个跨学科的实验室小组，为来自代表性不足社区的研究生和本科生提供支持。本科生将通过团队授课的跨学科课程和研究生导师的方式得到支持。研究生和本科生将获得实践研究经验，展示研究成果，建立网络和专业发展技能，并了解跨学科研究。学生将学习各种定性和定量的研究方法，如访谈、Q分类、文件分析、调查和其他社会科学技术。此外，该项目还与该地区的其他研究机构和更广泛的社区建立研究伙伴关系。该项目包括一个以水与社会为主题的跨学科会议，将邀请学生、职业早期研究人员和社区组织介绍他们的工作，并在参与者之间发展研究协同效应。将成立一个社区咨询委员会，为学生提供建议，并在更广泛的社区范围内开展该项目。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。

Water and society are inherently interconnected, making the topic well-suited for interdisciplinary research that brings together social and natural science research approaches. This research uses an interdisciplinary approach to investigate water-society interactions, focusing on questions of governance, environmental justice, socio-environmental change, and infrastructure systems. The research supports participation of underrepresented undergraduate and graduate students by providing student training and career development. The project cultivates research partnerships and community-based networks, including hosting an interdisciplinary conference on water and society.This project enhances research productivity through a cross-disciplinary research collaboration between scholars in the fields of geography, environmental studies, applied linguistics, and anthropology. Scholars collaborate around four research themes: water values, water histories, water futures, and water risks. The project uses an interdisciplinary approach that views water as a complex system that has interrelated social, ecological, and technological aspects. The research supports graduate and undergraduate students from underrepresented communities by recruiting a cohort of research interns to form an interdisciplinary lab group. Undergraduate students will be supported through team-taught interdisciplinary coursework and graduate student mentorship. Graduate and undergraduate students will gain hands-on research experience, present research findings, build networks and professional development skills, and gain understanding of interdisciplinary studies. Students will learn a variety of qualitative and quantitative research methods such as interviews, Q-sorts, document analysis, surveys, and other social science techniques. Additionally, the project cultivates research partnerships with other research institutions in the region and with the broader community. The project includes an interdisciplinary conference on the topic of water and society in which students, early-career researchers, and community-based organizations will be invited to present their work and develop research synergies among participants. A Community Advisory Board will be formed to advise students and ground the project within the broader community.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.