Conference: Equity and Inclusion in Research Failure Disclosure

弗吉尼亚大学（UVA） ADVANCE会议项目将支持召开关于科学失败披露问题的会议，特别关注女性教师在STEM中经历的失败不平等。会议的潜在议题包括：在体制层面公平对待失败和披露失败；意外结果：报告/发表失败的研究；以及女性在STEM领域失败披露的道德层面。面对面会议计划于2024年举行，包括会前和会后组成部分，以支持会议结果的外联和交流。会议参与者将来自美国各地，包括不同的STEM学科、教师级别和任命类型以及机构类型。弗吉尼亚大学将与STEM有色人种女性协会（SSWOC）和女性研究小组（WinR）进行战略合作。现有的关于STEM研究失败报告和增加研究失败报告的潜在好处的文献并没有充分研究基于披露者未被充分代表的地位的失败披露的不同后果。这项工作很少考虑当不加批判地披露失败时会发生什么，特别是当它忽略了权力、性别、种族和学术科学实践的竞争环境的问题时。因此，会议将寻求通过咨询STEM有色人种女性教师，确保提出有关失败报告公平性的相关问题，例如：谁可以失败，对谁来说失败是安全的，为什么？谁获得了机构公信力，可以公开面对失败？谁的失败故事激励了我们，谁的失败故事招致了责备和负面评价？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 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.