Project Safer: A Holistic Approach to Identifying and Mitigating Traumatic Incidents During Field Research

该奖项支持一个由多学科研究人员组成的团队，他们将与各种学科的科学家合作，建立一个与科学实地工作相关的创伤事件数据库。该项目的首要目标是收集建立实地工作安全计划所需的数据，这些计划可以有效地支持多样化的科学界，包括来自社会耻辱背景的研究人员，他们经历创伤的风险很高。为了对与科学实地考察相关的众多风险（例如车祸、盗窃和安全问题、精神健康问题、人际冲突、性骚扰和攻击、身体伤害和疾病）进行明智的规划，研究小组将结合问卷调查和对进行实地考察和参与研究考察的科学家进行深入访谈。这些信息将帮助现场科学家识别风险模式，并为安全管理提供最佳实践。该项目将1)建立一个大规模的、跨学科的科学家在进行实地工作时所经历的事件数据库；2)确定发生的不同类型的事件、发生在谁身上的事件、原因和保护因素；3)阐明对科学家福祉和职业轨迹的持久影响。目前，除了骚扰之外，严重缺乏关于创伤性事件的数据；同时也缺乏跨学科的研究。本研究将跨地区、学科、学术子领域和机构进行调查，以产生与led户外活动行业风险报告标准相称的第一个关于该领域当前和历史事件的大规模数据集。该团队将使用混合的定量和定性方法来澄清谁在现场不同类型的事件中风险最大，确定这些风险的相关性和后果，并共同制定解决方案来减轻风险。使用系统思维来识别和处理现场工作中的事件，将启动现场科学中大规模的风险研究，改变在荒野地区数据收集过程中对安全问题的理解和处理方式。这些信息将提供一个框架，指导现场科学家识别风险模式，并为未来的安全管理提供最佳实践。该项目由生物科学理事会和地球科学理事会联合资助，并由社会、行为和经济科学理事会的ER2项目管理。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。

This award supports a multidisciplinary team of researchers who will engage with scientists in a wide variety of disciplines in order to build a database of traumatic incidents associated with scientific fieldwork. The overarching goal of the project is to collect data necessary for building fieldwork safety plans that can effectively support a diverse scientific community, including researchers from socially stigmatized backgrounds who are at elevated risk of experiencing traumas. In order to enable informed planning for the multitude of risks associated with scientific fieldwork– e.g., vehicular crashes, theft and security issues, mental health episodes, interpersonal conflicts, sexual harassment and assault, physical injuries, and illnesses– the team will use a combination of questionnaires and in-depth interviews with scientists who conduct fieldwork and participate in research expeditions. This information will help field scientists identify patterns of risk and inform best practices for safety management.The project will 1) build a large-scale, cross-disciplinary database of incidents experienced by scientists while conducting fieldwork, 2) identify the different types of incidents that occur and to whom, the causal and protective factors, and 3) clarify the lasting impacts on scientists’ well-being and career trajectories. At present, there is a critical absence of data on traumatic events beyond harassment; there is also a lack of cross-disciplinary studies. This study will inquire across localities, disciplines, academic subfields, and institutions in order to produce the first-ever large-scale dataset on present and historical incidents in the field commensurate with risk-reporting standards in the led outdoors activity industry. The team will use a mixed quantitative and qualitative approach to clarify who is most at risk for different types of events in the field, identify the correlates and consequences of those risks, and co-produce solutions to mitigate them. The use of systems thinking to identify and address incidents within field work will launch the wide-scale study of risk within field science, transforming the way that safety concerns are understood and approached during the data collection in wilderness locations. This information will provide a framework to guide field scientists in identifying patterns of risk and inform best practices for safety management moving forward.This project is funded jointly by the Directorate for Biological Sciences and the Directorate for Geosciences, and is managed by the ER2 Program of the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences.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.