Conference: Building Institutional Capacity for Engaged Research: A Workshop

该项目旨在确定如何重组研究企业，以便更有规律地创造严谨、相关的知识，为有影响力和公平的社会成果做出贡献。这些方式包括对参与式研究日益增长的需求：政策制定者、研究人员、社区领袖和其他人共同努力确定证据需求、汇集不同类型的知识和专业知识并利用证据实现共同目标的过程。为了支持这项工作，大学和其他在研究生态系统中处于核心地位的机构必须发展其能力，以支持参与式研究和其他形式的政策或社会相关的学术研究。在这些问题上的势头来自社会各界。联邦政府通过“行动证据年”和“开放科学年”及相关指令，将开放和有影响力的研究列为优先事项。资助者最近发起或扩大了支持参与式研究和动员大学进行制度变革的倡议。为了探索机构如何推进参与式研究，并为相关倡议的领导人提供一个背景，以连接和更好地协调他们的努力，美国国家科学院、工程和医学研究院将举办一次为期一天半的公开研讨会，内容是建设参与式研究和其他形式的政策-或社会影响学术的机构能力。活动结束后，国家科学院将发布一份报告，总结会议上的讨论情况。研讨会和报告将固定一系列后续活动，以制定在讨论中出现的想法。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。

This project seeks to identify ways to restructure the research enterprise to more routinely create rigorous, relevant knowledge that contributes to impactful and equitable societal outcomes. These ways include growing demand for engaged research: processes by which policymakers, researchers, community leaders, and others work together to identify evidence needs, bring together different kinds of knowledge and expertise, and use evidence to accomplish shared goals. To support this work, universities and the other institutions that are central to the research ecosystem must develop their capacity to support engaged research and other forms of policy- or societally-relevant scholarship. Momentum on these issues comes from all sectors of society. The federal government has prioritized open and impactful research through the Year of Evidence for Action and the Year of Open Science and related directives. Funders have recently launched or scaled up initiatives for supporting engaged research and mobilizing universities toward institutional change. In order to explore how institutions can advance engaged research and to provide a context for leaders of related initiatives to connect and better align their efforts, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine will convene a 1 1/2 day public workshop on building institutional capacity for engaged research and other forms of policy- or societally-impactful scholarship. Following the event, the National Academies will publish a report that summarizes discussions at the meeting. The workshop and report will anchor a follow-on set of activities to enact ideas that emerge during discussion.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.