Collaborative Research: Implementation Grant: Active Societal Participation In Research and Education

积极的社会参与研究和教育（ASPIRE）计划旨在通过支持和鼓励科学家和社区成员共同管理的地球科学研究，扩大参与应对具有挑战性的环境和气候变化问题的地方和人员。ASPIRE的愿景是，支持以地方为基础，以社区为基础的工作将同时吸引，招募和保留地球科学早期职业科学家的更广泛多样性，并加强公众对地球科学的信任，以解决威胁我们世界的地方到全球环境问题。ASPIRE认识到，这些问题的紧迫性意味着培养地球科学家领导人的工作必须伴随着与资源不足的社区进行有意义和公平的交流，这些社区往往被排除在环境研究和解决方案之外。 我们的目标是通过发展一个吸引早期职业科学家的学习生态系统，以支持这些努力的方式转变学术文化（开拓者）和社区成员在一个分阶段的课程，1）提供了一个虚拟的讨论系列，有广泛的影响，为大量的参与者，2）为早期职业科学家提供沉浸式研究所，让他们亲自参加社区培训，以获得道德和公平的最佳实践，3）为这些新领导人提供财政支持和指导，以在公平交流工作组中开展共同制作的研究，4）将变革者从创新孵化器的行政领导角色中联系起来，以追求广泛的政策变革，5）培养一个实践社区，让参与者成长并共同学习。科学界有一种记录在案的倾向，非主导社区的知识、观点和优先事项。ASPIRE计划概述了地球科学转型的机制，扭转了非主导优先事项的机构折扣，并支持和提升社区文化资本的资产框架。这个项目继续致力于了解地球科学界的专业人士，他们“脚踏两个世界”的主流地球科学和社区。该项目追求一种变革理论，即以地方为基础，以社区为基础的研究，与边界空间共同产生，成为地球科学和社区合作中文化转型的催化剂。研究问题检查的核心领导能力，有助于领导理论的应用边界跨越工作，并确定如何两个队列的开拓者和变革者模型可以积极参与主流科学的权力结构，影响有意义的制度变革。这项工作将提高边缘化社区中地球科学的可见度和相关应用，并最终帮助提高历史上在STEM中代表性不足的地方和人民的参与度。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得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来支持。

The Active Societal Participation In Research and Education (ASPIRE) program seeks to expand the places and people involved in meeting challenging environmental and climate change issues through supporting and encouraging geoscience research co-managed by scientists and community members. The vision of ASPIRE is that supporting place-based, community-based work will simultaneously attract, recruit, and retain a wider diversity of early career scientists in Geoscience, as well as strengthen public trust in Geoscience to address the local-to-global environmental issues threatening our world. ASPIRE recognizes that the urgency of these issues means work to develop geoscientist leaders must be accompanied by meaningful and equitable exchange with under-resourced communities that have often been left out of environmental research and solutions. The goal is to shift academic cultures in ways that can support these efforts by developing a learning ecosystem that engages early career scientists (Pathmakers) and community members in a phased curriculum that 1) offers a virtual discussion series to have broad impact for a large number of participants, 2) offers immersive institutes for early career scientists to participate in person and in community for training around ethical and equitable best practices, 3) provides support both financially and through mentoring for these new leaders to carry out co-produced research in equitable exchange working groups, 4) connects Changemakers from administrative leadership roles in an innovation incubator to pursue broad policy change and 5) cultivates a community of practice for participants to grow and communally learn from one another.There is a documented tendency in the sciences to discount the experiences, knowledges, perspectives and priorities of non-dominant communities. The ASPIRE program outlines a mechanism for transformation of the Geosciences that reverses institutional discounting of non-dominant priorities, and supports and elevates asset-based framing of community cultural capital. This project continues work to understand geoscience boundary spanners who “have a foot in both worlds” of mainstream geoscience and community. The project pursues a theory of change that place-based, community-based research, co-produced with boundary spanners, becomes a catalyst for cultural transformation in both the Geosciences and in community collaborations. Research questions examine the core leadership competencies that contribute to the application of leadership theory to boundary spanning work, and determine how a two-cohort Pathmaker and Changemaker model can actively engage power structures in mainstream science to effect meaningful institutional change. This work will raise the visibility and relevant application of the geosciences within marginalized communities and ultimately help increase participation from places and peoples that have been historically underrepresented in STEM.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.