Project Incubation: Training Undergraduates in Collaborative Research Ethics

项目孵化：培养本科生合作研究伦理

• 批准号: 2316154
• 负责人: Gunnar Kwakye
• 金额: $ 8.99万
• 依托单位: Oberlin College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-02-01 至 2025-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2316154&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Project; Incubation; Training; Undergraduates; Collaborative

This incubation award supports a team of researchers from diverse disciplines at a liberal arts college and Historically Black Colleges and Universities who will work with community partners in Alabama to develop curricular materials and a pilot workshop on the ethics of research. The project’s aim is to develop a network of researchers to respond to community directions rooted in best practices to facilitate justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in environmental research. Inclusion of community partners as knowledge keepers and mentors – and as co-creators of the project’s goals – offers a unique opportunity to develop ethical and responsible methods of collaborative research design and practice and to model such partnerships, with the goal of empowering communities. The project team will recruit and train a diverse group of students in best practices for collaboration to create actionable guidelines for environmental justice communities, ethics boards, and educational institutions. The project will enable faculty, undergraduates, and community partners to learn from one another, with the shared intention of benefiting communities in Alabama and training students on research ethics and environmental justice. The team will use a three-phase process to develop and validate a new framework for training students in the ethics of community-engaged research. The remote planning phase will create the framework by utilizing community-engaged approaches to center the voices of local community members and organizers to develop ethical and responsible methods of collaborative research design. In the synergy phase, researchers, students, and community leaders will work together to refine and disseminate the initial framework through collaborative coursework. At the workshop phase, students will learn best practices for collaboration with environmental justice communities as well as methods of geospatial data, environmental pollutant sampling, and oral narrative data collection using software tools. The project will pilot a curriculum and methodology for training a diverse cohort of undergraduates in ethical research with environmental justice communities, its synergy with environmental change and climate mitigation and adaptation, and best practices for facilitating institutional commitment to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. Outcomes of the project will be assessed and refined through an iterative online process with community members, organizers, and partners.This project is funded by the Directorate for Biological Sciences and 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.

这一孵化奖支持来自一所文理学院和历史上的黑人学院和大学的不同学科的研究人员团队，他们将与阿拉巴马州的社区合作伙伴一起开发课程材料和一个关于研究伦理的试点研讨会。该项目的目的是建立一个研究人员网络，以响应植根于最佳做法的社区方向，以促进环境研究中的公正、公平、多样性和包容性。将社区伙伴纳入为知识保管者和导师--以及作为项目目标的共同创建者--提供了一个独特的机会，可以制定道德和负责任的合作研究设计和实践方法，并为这种伙伴关系树立榜样，目的是增强社区的能力。该项目团队将招募和培训不同的学生群体，在最佳实践中进行合作，为环境正义社区、伦理委员会和教育机构制定可行的指导方针。该项目将使教师、本科生和社区合作伙伴能够相互学习，共同致力于造福阿拉巴马州的社区，并培训学生关于研究伦理和环境正义的知识。该团队将使用一个分三个阶段的过程来开发和验证一个新的框架，用于培训学生社区参与研究的伦理。远程规划阶段将通过利用社区参与的方法来创建框架，以集中当地社区成员和组织者的声音，以制定合作研究设计的道德和负责任的方法。在协同阶段，研究人员、学生和社区领导人将共同努力，通过协作课程工作来完善和传播初始框架。在讲习班阶段，学生将学习与环境正义团体合作的最佳做法，以及使用软件工具进行地理空间数据、环境污染物采样和口头叙述数据收集的方法。该项目将试行一种课程和方法，培训一批不同的本科生与环境司法界进行伦理研究，研究其与环境变化、气候缓解和适应的协同作用，以及促进机构对正义、公平、多样性和包容性的承诺的最佳做法。该项目的结果将通过与社区成员、组织者和合作伙伴的在线迭代过程进行评估和改进。该项目由生物科学局资助，由社会、行为和经济科学局的ER2计划管理。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。