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

实地研究是许多地球科学研究项目不可或缺的一部分，也会给科学家和其他参与者带来独特的挑战。实地考察通常是在团队中进行的，其中包括成熟的研究人员和他们的学生，这就引入了复杂的权力动力学。这些情况带来了挑战和压力，增加了对欺凌、骚扰和其他基于身份的排他性行为等敌对行为的脆弱性。为了确保安全和富有成效的研究环境，越来越迫切需要解决现场活动中的安全、基于身份的骚扰和其他排他性行为。这项工作通过提高实地团队的准备程度和改变实地团队文化，使其变得包容、支持、欢迎、无歧视和富有成效，为实地地球科学社区提供了支持。该项目是FieldSafe和ADVANCEGeo伙伴关系之间的协同努力，旨在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中，并支持其他研究资助机构和学术机构的制度变革倡议。这是特别新颖的，因为到目前为止，还没有对现场安全和/或反骚扰培训的有效性以及设计包容性现场活动的工具进行过研究。该项目的目标是：(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项目；(2)开发工具包，支持现场团队规划安全和包容性的现场活动；(3)研究这些培训和支持工具对现场文化变革的影响。该项目对一个项目的有效性产生了新的认识，该项目利用自定进度的在线课程，结合同步指导汇报和反思会议，以支持在所有领域环境中发展包容性文化。该项目的结果将为研究野外工作的文化和安全性提供一个强大的、可转移的研究设计和工具。这项研究将对教学顺序和培训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领域背景而有所不同作出重要发现。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。

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.