Conference: Research Developers as Hubs of Support to Launch and Level Up Faculty's Research Careers and Nurturing Institutional Ecosystems

拟议的会议将增进对研究相关的支持性活动如何帮助早期职业教师并增强其多样化的机构环境的理解。新兴的研究机构和在那里工作的教师在启动和维持研究项目方面有独特的障碍。该项目旨在为这些机构的新教师、员工和管理人员量身定制指导和资源，他们可以在没有或很少的启动成本或时间投入的情况下获得指导和资源，以促进他们在研究方面的成功。在与州和国家专业协会的合作下，这些会议将为新兴研究机构、其多样化的教授和研究发展（RD）专业知识库服务的几个问题提供思路：1)具有不同职位描述的员工和管理人员如何参与研究发展活动，以指导、联系和支持他们所支持的教师，特别是那些处于研究生涯早期的教师？2)在规划研究活动方面，教师个人和机构在研究企业的战略投资方面，有哪些可操作的指标？3)如何利用地方、州和国家网络所拥有的资源和专业知识，为各种类型机构环境中人口多样化的早期职业教师带来好处？这些会议的与会者将包括研发和研究行政专业人员；大学、学院、部门领导；还有早期的教职员工。会议结束后，将生成一份执行摘要报告和建议清单（并分享给专业网络），围绕种植研发支持种子、获取可操作指标和利用多个知识库来支持新教师和新兴研究/少数族裔服务机构的指导性问题主题。通过与国家专业协会的合作，以及对早期职业教师和新兴研究机构的广泛关注，该项目有可能产生建议、资源和一个专注于不断发展的研究基础设施和能力的利益相关者社区（“联盟”）。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。

The proposed meetings will increase understanding of how research-related supportive activities assist early-career faculty and enhance their diverse institutional environments. Emerging research institutions, and the faculty who work there, have unique obstacles for launching and sustaining research projects. The project aims to develop guidance and resources tailored to new faculty, staff, and administrators at these institutions who can access them with no/minimal startup costs or time investment to advance their success in research. In partnership with state and national professional societies, the convenings will capture ideas for answering several questions in service of emerging research institutions, their diverse professoriate, and the Research Development (RD) professional knowledge base: 1) How can staff and administrators with various position descriptions engage in research development activities to coach, connect, and champion the faculty they support, especially those early in their research career?; 2) What are actionable metrics for individual faculty in terms of planning their research activities and for institutions in terms of strategic investment in their research enterprise?; and 3) How do you leverage the resources and expertise held by local, state, and national networks to the benefit of demographically diverse, early-career faculty in all types of institutional settings? Participants across these convenings will include RD and Research Administration professionals; university, college, and departmental leaders; and early-career faculty members. After the conclusion of the convenings, an executive summary report and list of recommendations will be generated (and shared out to professional networks) organized around the guiding question themes of planting RD support seeds, accessing actionable metrics, and leveraging multiple knowledge bases toward supporting new faculty and emerging-research/minority-serving institutions. Through collaborations with national professional societies and a broadly relevant focus on early-career faculty and emerging research institutions, this project has the potential to produce recommendations, resources, and an engaged stakeholder community ("alliance”) focused on growing research infrastructure and capacity that could be nationally transformative.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.