Collaborative Research: IMPLEMENTATION: EVOLVED - Embedding a Vision to Operationalize, Lift up, and Value Equity and Diversity in the Consortium of Aquatic Science Societies

合作研究：实施：演进 - 在水生科学协会联盟中嵌入实施、提升和重视公平和多样性的愿景

• 批准号: 2233789
• 负责人: Mažeika Sulliván
• 金额: $ 58.47万
• 依托单位: Clemson University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-07-15 至 2027-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2233789&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; IMPLEMENTATION; EVOLVED; Embedding

EVOLVED (Embed a Vision to Operationalize, Lift up, and Value Equity and Diversity) is a comprehensive and integrated set of activities that embeds the principles of diversity, equity, inclusion, access, and justice into the backbone of the Consortium of Aquatic Sciences Societies (CASS). CASS membership includes 20,000+ aquatic scientists from all career stages working across academic, government, and industry sectors. CASS initiated transformative diversity, equity, and inclusion work through a 2021 BIO-LEAPS planning grant, which laid the groundwork for EVOLVED. In that process, CASS leadership demonstrated a collective commitment to equity and inclusion and a desire to elevate this work to one of CASS’s primary priorities. The EVOLVED program will focus its work in 3 areas: (1) developing programming to serve members of underrepresented groups (broadly used to refer to individuals from communities that are historically underrepresented in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics), (2) re-envisioning CASS’s values, exploring biases and assumptions, and reexamining culture, to transform the CASS climate into a welcoming and open forum for diverse peoples and perspectives, and (3) building organizational infrastructure to support and sustain CASS's cultural evolution. The project includes a comprehensive mixed-method evaluation of all major initiatives. Together, the EVOLVED activities will catalyze cultural change at multiple levels: across CASS as a collective, in single societies, and by individual members within societies. The EVOLVED program will embed diversity, equity, inclusion, access, and justice into the cultural fabric of environmental, ecological, and organismal biology-focused aquatic sciences. This program will develop, implement, and assess activities that scale-up equity driven advancement across three levels of action: individual members, societies, and the CASS collective. EVOLVED will mechanistically link structural and cultural change aimed at breaking down major barriers to building diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) within a consortium of professional, scientific societies and serve as a model for transformative culture change at the collective consortium level. To operationalize this, EVOLVED will: (1) build programming to serve members of underrepresented groups (broadly used in this proposal to refer to individuals from communities that are historically underrepresented in STEM), (2) re-envision values and mental models within CASS to transform its culture into a welcoming and open forum for diverse peoples and perspectives, and (3) build organizational infrastructure to support and sustain CASS's cultural evolution. Broader impacts of this work include increased engagement with minority-serving institutions within CASS, integration of DEI-focused values within individual CASS societies, and adoption of DEI-centric policy, management, and conservation work across the CASS collective. The proposed activities broaden participation of underrepresented groups in environmental biology disciplines; ensure more diverse voices are involved in biology-focused policy, conservation, and planning; and ultimately foster disciplinary excellence and environmental justice.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.

Evolated(Embedded a Vision to OPERATIONAL，LIFUP，and Value Equity and多样性)是一套综合的活动，将多样性、公平、包容、获取和公正的原则嵌入到水产科学学会联盟(CASS)的主干中。中国社会科学院的成员包括20,000多名来自各个职业阶段的水生科学家，他们在学术、政府和行业部门工作。中国社科院通过2021年生物飞跃规划赠款启动了变革性的多样性、公平和包容性工作，这为EVERATED奠定了基础。在这一过程中，中国社科院领导层展示了对公平和包容的集体承诺，并希望将这项工作提升为中国社科院的主要优先事项之一。演进型计划的工作将集中在3个领域：(1)制定计划，为代表不足群体的成员提供服务(广泛用于指来自STEM(科学、技术、工程和数学)历史上代表不足的社区的个人)，(2)重新设想中国社会科学院的价值观，探索偏见和假设，并重新审视文化，将中国社会科学院的氛围转变为一个欢迎和开放的不同民族和视角的论坛，以及(3)建立组织基础设施，以支持和维持中国社会科学院的文化演变。该项目包括对所有主要举措进行全面的混合方法评估。这些演变的活动将共同在多个层面上促进文化变革：在中国社科院作为一个集体，在单个社会中，以及在社会中的个别成员。进化计划将把多样性、公平、包容、获取和正义嵌入以环境、生态和生物生物学为重点的水生科学的文化结构中。该计划将制定、实施和评估在三个行动级别上扩大公平驱动的进步的活动：个人成员、社会和中国社会科学院集体。Evolated将机械地将结构变革和文化变革联系起来，旨在打破在专业科学协会联合体内建立多样性、公平和包容性(DEI)的主要障碍，并作为集体联合体层面的变革性文化变革的典范。为了实现这一点，进化的意愿是：(1)制定方案，服务于代表性不足群体的成员(本提案中广泛使用的是来自STEM历史上代表性不足的社区的个人)，(2)重新设想中国社科院内部的价值观和心理模式，以将其文化转变为一个欢迎不同民族和不同观点的开放论坛，以及(3)建立组织基础设施，以支持和维持中国社科院的文化演变。这项工作的更广泛影响包括与中国社科院内为少数群体服务的机构的更多接触，在中国社科院各个社会中整合以上帝为中心的价值观，以及在整个中国社会科学院集体中采用以上帝为中心的政策、管理和保护工作。拟议的活动扩大了代表不足的群体在环境生物学学科中的参与；确保更多不同的声音参与以生物学为重点的政策、保护和规划；并最终促进学科卓越和环境正义。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。