Collaborative Research: FieldSafe - Changing the Culture of Fieldwork in the Geosciences

协作研究：FieldSafe - 改变地球科学领域的实地工作文化

• 批准号: 2307412
• 负责人: Meredith Hastings
• 金额: $ 6.01万
• 依托单位: Brown 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 2026-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2307412&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; FieldSafe; Changing; Culture

Field-based research is integral to many geoscience research programs and can present unique challenges for scientists and other participants. Fieldwork is often conducted in teams that include established researchers and their students, which introduces complex power dynamics. These conditions create challenges and stressors that increase vulnerability to hostile behaviors such as bullying, harassment, and other identity-based exclusionary behaviors. The need to address safety, identity-based harassment and other exclusionary behaviors in field campaigns is growing more urgent to ensure safe and productive research environments. This work supports the field-based geoscience community by increasing field team preparedness and changing fieldwork team culture to be inclusive, supportive, welcoming, discrimination-free and productive. The project is a synergistic effort between FieldSafe and the ADVANCEGeo Partnership to support researchers in meeting the new NSF proposal requirement for the inclusion of a field safety plan in all field-based proposals, and to support institutional change initiatives in other research funding agencies and at academic institutions. This is especially novel because, to date, no research has been conducted on the effectiveness of training focused on field safety and/or anti-harassment and tools for the design of inclusive field campaigns.The goals of this project are to (1) create and widely disseminate a field safety, anti-harassment, and bystander intervention training certificate program through an online course platform, (2) develop a toolkit to support field teams in planning safe and inclusive field campaigns and (3) research the impact of these trainings and support tools for field culture change. This project produces new knowledge of the effectiveness of a program that utilizes a combined self-paced online course combined with synchronous guided debrief and reflection sessions to support the development of inclusive culture in all field environments. The results of this project will contribute a robust and transferable research design and instruments to study the culture and safety of fieldwork. The research will contribute important findings around critical components for the instructional sequence and implementation of training and how the application of this training may vary based on different field contexts.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.

基于实地的研究是许多地球科学研究项目不可或缺的一部分，并可能为科学家和其他参与者提出独特的挑战。实地考察通常是在团队中进行的，其中包括已建立的研究人员和他们的学生，这引入了复杂的动力学。这些情况产生了挑战和压力，增加了对敌对行为的脆弱性，如欺凌，骚扰和其他基于身份的排斥行为。在实地活动中解决安全、基于身份的骚扰和其他排斥行为的需求越来越迫切，以确保安全和富有成效的研究环境。这项工作通过提高现场团队的准备程度和改变现场团队文化来支持基于现场的地球科学界，使其具有包容性，支持性，欢迎性，无歧视性和生产性。该项目是FieldSafe和ADVANCEGeo合作伙伴关系之间的协同努力，以支持研究人员满足新的NSF提案要求，将现场安全计划纳入所有基于现场的提案，并支持其他研究资助机构和学术机构的机构变革计划。这是一个特别新颖的项目，因为迄今为止，还没有对以现场安全和/或反骚扰为重点的培训以及设计包容性现场活动的工具的有效性进行研究。本项目的目标是（1）通过在线课程平台创建并广泛传播现场安全，反骚扰和旁观者干预培训证书计划，（2）开发一个工具包，以支持外地工作队规划安全和包容性的外地活动，（3）研究这些培训和支持工具对外地文化变革的影响。这个项目产生了新的知识的有效性的一个方案，利用结合自定进度的在线课程，结合同步指导汇报和反思会议，以支持包容性文化的发展在所有领域的环境。该项目的结果将有助于一个强大的和可转移的研究设计和工具，研究文化和安全的实地考察。该研究将围绕培训的教学顺序和实施的关键组成部分以及这种培训的应用如何根据不同的现场环境而变化提供重要的发现。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得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来支持。