Collaborative Research: Enabling SBE Science via the Network for Transformative Research

合作研究：通过网络实现 SBE 科学的变革性研究

• 批准号: 2222393
• 负责人: Almesha Campbell
• 金额: $ 30.25万
• 依托单位: Jackson State 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: 2022-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2222393&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Enabling; SBE; Science

This project supports an ongoing collaborative effort between Jackson State University (JSU), The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), the American Indian Higher Education Consortium, and the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities to implement the Network for Transformative Research (NTR) as a model to generate multi-institutional, transdisciplinary research collaborations that address emergent societal challenges. The NTR builds on the research team’s prior success nucleating diverse teams and enabling them to secure federal funding to address SBE relevant research challenges. The NTR will provide participants with intellectual resources and training to negotiate the barriers known to inhibit diverse, inter-institutional scientific collaboration. The NTR has potential to germinate transformation by: (1) Providing opportunities for early career researchers at minority-serving institutions (MSIs) and smaller institutions to form diverse research teams, (2) Facilitating the capacity of institutions with limited infrastructure to develop and sustain research programs, (3) Harnessing the problem-solving potential of teams that are diverse across multiple dimensions, and (4) Implementing an agile mechanism for generating research driven by institutions serving communities often most affected by societal challenges. The NTR will engage in three primary activities, managed by JSU: (1) Recruiting scientists from network institutions to participate in cohorts through the germination process developed in prior work involving collaboration between JSU and UIUC, (2) Fostering institutional capacity development by engaging administrators across participating institutions, (3) Instituting ongoing evaluation of NTR activities to improve processes and to develop generalizable practices for the broader research community. The initial cohort for the NTR will include faculty selected from universities located throughout Mississippi, to ensure representation from MSIs, small, non-research-focused rural institutions, and research-intensive universities. The proposed project supports the recruitment and management of two cohorts of researchers who will develop interdisciplinary research projects centering on: (1) Food insecurity, and (2) Natural Disaster Resilience. Each of these topics has been identified by participating institutions as an area of dire attention to the communities constituting the state of Mississippi.The NTR will refine sustainable methods for accelerating the development of social, behavioral and economic research capacity at MSIs. The project extends a previously developed scalable model for broadening participation in science by bringing resource-challenged institutions into the broader research landscape and expanding collaborative networks and capacity within and among participating institutions. The model involves a comprehensive set of interventions (whose designs are grounded in research findings from the Science of Team Science, Communication Studies, and Organization Studies) that includes formation of diverse scientific teams, facilitated project management, and fostering of a collaborative culture at both research-intensive institutions and institutions having limited research infrastructure. The model being employed incorporates elements of collaborative problem-solving, distributed research coordination and adaptive systems theory to generate a comprehensive approach to research capacity-building that is both scalable and sustainable. Researchers at UIUC will use mixed-methods evaluations (including surveys, qualitative interviews, and field observations) to analyze participants’ experiences and to develop tested and scalable methods to overcome systemic barriers to the creation of diverse, successful research teams. The project also included support for external evaluators to assess the NTR’s programs.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.

该项目支持杰克逊州立大学（JSU），伊利诺伊大学Urbana-Champaign（UIUC），美洲印第安高等教育联盟和西班牙大学和大学协会之间的持续合作努力，以实施转化研究网络（NTR）作为一种模型，以涉及多项资产，跨学科研究的模型。 NTR建立在研究团队以前的成功成核团队的成功基础上，并使他们能够获得联邦资金，以应对SBE相关的研究挑战。 NTR将为参与者提供智力资源和培训，以协商已知抑制潜水员，机构间科学合作的障碍。 NTR具有通过以下方式发明转型的潜力：（1）为少数派服务机构（MSIS）的早期职业研究人员（MSI）和较小的机构组成组成潜水员研究团队的机构，（2）促进基础架构有限的机构能力，以开发和维持跨越跨越多个Dimementions的机构的基础设施来开发和维持跨越的研究，并促进多个二元组织的动态（4）（4）（4）（3）服务社区通常受到社会挑战的影响。 The NTR will engage in three primary activities, managed by JSU: (1) Recruiting scientists from network institutions to participate in cohorts through the germination process developed in prior work involved collaboration between JSU and UIUC, (2) Fostering institutional capacity development by engaging administrators across participating institutions, (3) Instituting ongoing evaluation of NTR activities to improve processes and to develop generalizable practices for the broader research community. NTR的最初队列将包括从位于密西西比州的整个大学中选出的教师，以确保MSIS的代表，小型，无研究的农村机构和研究密集型大学。拟议的项目支持了两个研究人员的招聘和管理，这些研究人员将开发跨学科研究项目，以：（1）粮食不安全，以及（2）自然灾害的韧性。这些主题中的每一个都通过参与机构来确定，这是对构成密西西比州的社区的严重关注领域。NTR将完善可持续方法，以加速MSIS的社会，行为和经济研究能力的发展。该项目通过将资源挑战的机构带入更广泛的研究格局，并扩大了参与机构内部和参与机构之间的协作网络和能力，扩展了一个先前开发的可扩展模型，用于扩大科学的参与。该模型涉及一组全面的干预措施（其设计基于团队科学，传播研究和组织研究的研究结果），其中包括组建潜水员科学团队，支持项目管理，并在研究强化机构和具有有限研究基础设施的研究强度机构和机构中促进协作文化。该模型纳入了协作解决问题，分布式研究协调和自适应系统理论的元素，以生成一种既可扩展又可持续的研究能力建设方法的全面方法。 UIUC的研究人员将使用混合方法评估（包括调查，定性访谈和现场观察）来分析参与者的经验，并开发经过测试且可扩展的方法，以克服对潜水员，成功研究团队创建的系统障碍。该项目还包括对外部评估者评估NTR计划的支持。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准来诚实地通过评估来诚实地支持。