Conference: Equity and Inclusion in Research Failure Disclosure

弗吉尼亚大学(UVA)先期会议项目将支持召开一次关于科学领域失败披露问题的会议，特别关注STEM女教员所经历的失败不平等问题。召开会议的潜在议题包括：机构一级公平对待失败和失败披露；意外结果：报告/发表失败的研究；以及STEM中女性失败披露的伦理层面。面对面会议计划于2024年举行，包括会前和会后部分，以支持会议成果的宣传和交流。与会者将来自美国各地，包括不同的STEM学科、教职员工级别和任命类型以及机构类型。UVA将与STEM有色人种妇女协会(SSWOC)和妇女研究小组(WinR)建立战略合作伙伴关系。关于STEM中研究失败报告的现有文献以及报告更多研究失败的潜在好处，没有充分审查基于披露人的未被充分代表的地位而披露失败的不同后果。这项工作很少考虑不加批判地披露失败会发生什么，特别是当它忽视权力、性别、种族和学术科学实践的竞争环境时。因此，会议将寻求通过咨询STEM教职员工的有色人种女性来确保提出有关故障报告的公平性的相关问题，例如：谁被允许失败，对谁来说失败是安全的，为什么？谁获得了公开面对失败的机构信誉？谁的失败故事激发了灵感，谁受到了指责和负面评价？这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The University of Virginia (UVA) ADVANCE conference project will support a convening on the issue of failure disclosure in the sciences, with particular attention given to inequalities of failure as experienced by women faculty in STEM. Potential topics for the convening include, equitable approaches to failure and failure disclosure at the institutional level; unexpected outcomes: reporting/publishing failed research; and ethical dimensions of failure disclosure for women in STEM. The in-person conference is planned for 2024 and includes pre and post conference components to support outreach and communication of findings from the conference. Conference participants will come from across the US and include different STEM disciplines, faculty ranks and appointment types, and institution types. UVA will strategically partner with the Society of STEM Women of Color (SSWOC) and the Women in Research group (WinR). The existing literature on research failure reporting in STEM and the potential benefits of increasing reporting research failure does not sufficiently examine the different consequences of failure disclosure based on the underrepresented status of the person doing the disclosing. This work rarely considers what can occur when failure disclosure is done uncritically, especially when it ignores questions of power, gender, race, and the competitive context in which academic science is practiced. The conference thus will seek to ensure relevant questions are raised about the equity of failure reporting by consulting with STEM faculty women of color such as: Who is permitted to fail, for whom is failure safe, and why? Who has gained the institutional credibility to publicly engage with failure? Whose failure stories inspire, and whose invite blame and negative evaluation?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.