Collaborative Research: Advancing Collaborations for Equity in Marine and Climate Sciences

合作研究：推进海洋和气候科学公平合作

• 批准号: 2314916
• 负责人: Vijay Kanagala
• 金额: $ 32.73万
• 依托单位: Salem State 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: 2023-09-15 至 2026-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2314916&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Advancing; Collaborations; Equity

Marine and climate sciences (MCS) scientists play an important role in society because of their focus on both local and global issues affecting the environment and people. Yet MCS are some of the least diverse STEM disciplines, including limited change in the number of Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) in MCS over the past 40 years. Climate and culture in MCS have been identified as actively contributing to the low participation and retention of BIPOC individuals in the disciplines and their disparate academic and professional outcomes, through gatekeeping, professional barriers, and other obstacles. The purpose of this research project is to examine how Woods Hole Collaborative Network (WHCN) researchers and administrators advance collaborations for equity in MCS and what processes are employed for developing equity-driven and anti-racist educational collaborations, infrastructures, and pathways. Project outcomes will span individual, institutional, and disciplinary level transformations. This research project will investigate the WHCN, a multi-organizational collaboration between six predominantly white institutions located in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The project focuses on three questions: (1) What features among the WHCN promote or inhibit institutional and disciplinary transformation? (2) In what ways has the WHCN pursued equitable collaborations and how has their collaboration evolved over time? (3) What effective and ineffective features of the WHCN’s initiatives can inform MCS collaborations? Drawing from nearly 20 years of WHCN’s programmatic efforts, researchers will utilize an instrumental case study to center the context and processes of a bounded case, with organizations (e.g., institutions) and individuals (e.g., students, scientists, and affiliated staff) as units of analyses. An instrumental case aligns with the project’s goal to develop a model that maps the process and infrastructure for transformation. The research design includes: (1) BIPOC storytelling and standpoint centering through qualitative interviews and qualitative network mapping with Woods Hole-affiliated BIPOC students, scientists, and alumni; (2) organizational and historical analysis through observations of WHCN initiatives, historical analysis of WHCN’s development, and analysis of student data, documented policies, activities, goals and procedures related to WHCN; and (3) model development, which will reflect a replicable and scalable model for equity-centered support in STEM collaborations.This collaborative project is funded through the Racial Equity in STEM Education activities (EDU Racial Equity). The program supports research and practice projects that investigate how considerations of racial equity factor into the improvement of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and workforce. Awarded projects seek to center the voices, knowledge, and experiences of the individuals, communities, and institutions most impacted by systemic inequities within the STEM enterprise. This program aligns with NSF’s core value of supporting outstanding researchers and innovative thinkers from across the Nation's diversity of demographic groups, regions, and types of organizations. Funds for EDU Racial Equity are pooled from programs across EDU in recognition of the alignment of its projects with the collective research and development thrusts of the four divisions of the directorate.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.

海洋和气候科学（MCS）科学家在社会中发挥着重要作用，因为他们关注影响环境和人类的地方和全球问题。然而，MCS是一些最不多样化的STEM学科，包括过去40年来MCS中黑人，土著和有色人种（BIPOC）数量的有限变化。MCS的气候和文化已被确定为通过守门，专业障碍和其他障碍积极促进BIPOC个人在学科中的低参与和保留及其不同的学术和专业成果。本研究项目的目的是研究如何伍兹霍尔合作网络（WHCN）的研究人员和管理人员推进合作，在MCS的公平和什么样的过程被用于开发公平驱动和反种族主义的教育合作，基础设施和途径。项目成果将跨越个人、机构和学科层面的转变。 本研究项目将调查WHCN，位于马萨诸塞州伍兹霍尔的六个主要白色机构之间的多组织合作。本研究主要探讨三个问题：（1）WHCN的哪些特征促进或抑制了制度和学科的转型？(2)WHCN以何种方式追求公平合作，以及他们的合作如何随着时间的推移而演变？(3)WHCN的举措中哪些有效和无效的特征可以为MCS合作提供信息？从近20年的WHCN的方案努力，研究人员将利用一个工具性的案例研究，以中心的背景和过程的一个有界的情况下，与组织（例如，机构）和个人（例如，学生，科学家和附属工作人员）作为分析单位。工具性案例与项目的目标一致，即开发一个映射转换过程和基础设施的模型。研究设计包括：（1）通过与伍兹霍尔附属的BIPOC学生，科学家和校友的定性访谈和定性网络映射，BIPOC讲故事和立场为中心;（2）通过观察WHCN举措，WHCN发展的历史分析，以及学生数据，记录政策，活动，目标和与WHCN相关的程序的分析进行组织和历史分析;以及（3）模型开发，这将反映一个可复制和可扩展的模型，用于STEM合作中以公平为中心的支持。该合作项目由STEM教育活动中的种族公平（EDU种族公平）资助。该计划支持研究和实践项目，调查种族平等因素如何影响科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）教育和劳动力的改善。获奖项目旨在集中STEM企业内受系统性不平等影响最大的个人，社区和机构的声音，知识和经验。该计划符合NSF的核心价值观，即支持来自全国人口群体，地区和组织类型多样性的优秀研究人员和创新思想家。教育大学种族平等基金来自教育大学的各个项目，以表彰其项目与董事会四个部门的集体研究和开发目标的一致性。该奖项反映了NSF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。