Implementation Grant: The Center for Diverse Leadership in Science - Transforming the Geoscience Culture to become more Diverse, Equitable, and Just

实施资助：科学多元化领导中心 - 转变地球科学文化，使其变得更加多元化、公平和公正

• 批准号: 2228198
• 负责人: Aradhna Tripati
• 金额: $ 749.07万
• 依托单位: University of California-Los Angeles
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-11-01 至 2027-10-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2228198&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Implementation; Grant; Center; Diverse; Leadership

This project will build on an existing model for cultural transformation in the geosciences that has been developed by the Center for Diverse Leadership in Science. The social context of doing science is emphasized through leadership development, the practice of team-based science, and through intentional relationships and partnerships that disrupt traditional hierarchies. One component of this effort will study how to impact people to grow their awareness of and respect for different knowledge systems in geoscience, and pro-social skills, to thereby have the capacity for healthy, effective, transdisciplinary geoscience research and practice. The project leaders will examine the impact of the program on participants’ identities as scientists and cultural change agents. The program activities will focus on moving cohorts of early career fellows through the educational and career trajectory being intentional about their environment, and providing mentorship with peers, previous trailblazers, and trained faculty for leadership, modeling, and network development. Project leaders will maintain continuity and health in relationships with people and partners, including regional community-based organizations, tribal authorities, and minority-serving institutions, so they can continue to steer efforts for community-driven science, engaged research, and respectful collaborative experiences. At the same time, project leaders will support community- and network-building initiatives led by early career fellows, including the Environmental Justice Working Group, Veterans in Green STEM, and the Navajo Scholars Network. Project leaders will continue to organize and work to engage departments, universities, and professional societies in the shared learning and practices in support of equity, cultivating institutional contexts by impacting professionalization processes and implementing change strategies.The project will engage geoscience early career fellows, community experts who are honorary fellows, faculty fellows, and core staff, adding to more than 100 individuals per year. This project will provide opportunities for empowering, supporting, and retaining people from structurally excluded groups in earth system science and green STEM fields, including people of color, LGBTQIA+, veteran, and disabled geoscientists and community members, to become the innovators, scientific, and social leaders needed by society. This work will build capacity in the geosciences and in academic and non-academic institutions for community-centered work relating to environmental science and justice that includes diverse ways of knowing and knowledge creation. Project leaders will train the next generation of geoscientists, who will learn from each other, from academics, and from community experts, thereby contributing to workforce development and innovative science. The fellows will grow and apply their knowledge of geoscience and enhance their skills as leaders and champions of diversity, equity, inclusion, justice, access, and belonging. Project leaders propose that cultivating leadership skills through communities of learning and practice will not only have immediate impact but will enable the network of environment- and community-focused scholars to share their experiences and lessons learned with their peers and mentees for years to come. This project will support sustainable and equitable partnerships between the Center, universities, community-based organizations, and tribal authorities, and the activities will have impact beyond participating institutions.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.

该项目将建立在科学多样化领导中心开发的地球科学文化转型现有模式的基础上。通过领导力发展、基于团队的科学实践，以及通过打破传统等级制度的有意关系和伙伴关系，强调从事科学工作的社会背景。这项工作的一个组成部分将研究如何影响人们提高他们对地球科学不同知识体系的认识和尊重，以及亲社会技能，从而具有健康、有效、跨学科的地球科学研究和实践的能力。项目负责人将研究该项目对参与者作为科学家和文化变革推动者的身份的影响。该计划的活动将侧重于将一批早期职业伙伴转移到教育和职业轨迹中，有意了解他们所处的环境，并提供与同行、以前的开拓者和受过培训的领导力、建模和网络发展方面的教师的指导。项目领导人将与人们和合作伙伴保持连续性和健康的关系，包括以地区社区为基础的组织、部落当局和为少数群体服务的机构，以便他们能够继续指导社区驱动的科学、参与的研究和尊重的合作体验的努力。与此同时，项目负责人将支持由早期职业伙伴领导的社区和网络建设倡议，包括环境正义工作组、绿色STEM退伍军人和纳瓦霍学者网络。项目负责人将继续组织和努力让各部门、大学和专业协会参与共享学习和实践，以支持公平，通过影响专业化进程和实施变革战略来培养制度背景。项目将吸引地球科学早期职业研究员、社区名誉研究员、教员研究员和核心工作人员，每年增加100多人。该项目将为来自地球系统科学和绿色STEM领域结构排斥群体的人们提供赋权、支持和留住的机会，包括有色人种、LGBTQIA+、资深和残疾地球科学家和社区成员，成为社会所需的创新者、科学和社会领袖。这项工作将在地球科学以及学术和非学术机构建设能力，开展与环境科学和司法有关的以社区为中心的工作，其中包括各种了解和知识创造的方式。项目负责人将培训下一代地球科学家，他们将相互学习，向学者和社区专家学习，从而为劳动力发展和创新科学做出贡献。这些研究员将增长和应用他们的地球科学知识，并提高他们作为多样性、公平、包容、正义、获取和归属感的领导者和捍卫者的技能。项目负责人提出，通过学习和实践社区培养领导技能不仅将产生直接影响，而且将使注重环境和社区的学者网络能够在未来几年与他们的同行和被辅导者分享他们的经验和教训。该项目将支持中心、大学、社区组织和部落当局之间的可持续和公平的伙伴关系，这些活动的影响将超出参与机构的范围。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。