EAGER: Exploring Customized STEM Employment Approaches for People with Disabilities

EAGER：探索为残疾人定制的 STEM 就业方式

• 批准号: 2334313
• 负责人: Christina Carnahan
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: University of Cincinnati Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-10-01 至 2025-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2334313&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Exploring; Customized; STEM; Employment

This project is conducting early-stage, exploratory research to investigate customized employment approaches for restructuring STEM workplace settings and employment practices to increase access and inclusion for postsecondary students with disabilities. The work reflects that of an EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) award. The University of Cincinnati is partnering with Siemens Corporation to address two research questions: 1) Can customized employment approaches be used to create jobs that meet both the needs of STEM employers and individuals with intellectual disabilities (ID)? and 2) What tools best support employers and disability specialists in identifying STEM positions? Using a multiple case study approach, the researchers are gathering and analyzing data from employer and employee interviews, workplace observations, and employee writing samples. The project includes an advisory board with individuals with ID, family members of people with ID, and STEM employers. There is an external evaluator to provide feedback to the investigators and to assess the success of the research. This research was created in response to the Workplace Equity for Persons with Disabilities in STEM and STEM Education solicitation (NSF 23-593). The solicitation activities support fundamental, applied, and translational research that advances knowledge and practice about diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible STEM and STEM education workplaces and postsecondary training environments for persons with disabilities. The solicitation states that EAGER proposals explore work in its early stages on untested but potentially transformative research ideas or approaches. EAGER projects must focus on one or more of the solicitation's three research themes and this award focuses on the solicitation’s first research theme: “studying barriers and solutions to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in STEM workplaces and postsecondary training settings.” The research findings that are being generated from this project inform how STEM industry employers structure job descriptions to create more inclusive opportunities for technically skilled workers with disabilities. There is potential for the project activities and the results to be used by other investigators to conduct fundamental and/or applied research to further study customized employment for persons with disabilities in STEM. The project team is presenting the research at professional conferences and using social media podcasting. This Workplace Equity for Persons with Disabilities in STEM and STEM Education award was funded by the NSF’s Eddie Bernice Johnson INCLUDES Initiative, which seeks to motivate and accelerate collaborative efforts to advance and sustain systemic change that broadens participation in STEM at scale.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.

该项目正在进行早期探索性研究，以调查定制的就业方法，以重组STEM工作场所环境和就业实践，以增加残疾高等教育学生的准入和包容。这项工作反映了早期概念探索性研究补助金（EAGER）奖。辛辛那提大学（University of Cincinnati）正在与西门子公司（Siemens Corporation）合作解决两个研究问题：1)是否可以使用定制的就业方法来创造满足STEM雇主和智障人士（ID）需求的就业机会？2)哪些工具最能支持雇主和残疾专家确定STEM职位？采用多案例研究方法，研究人员从雇主和员工访谈、工作场所观察和员工写作样本中收集和分析数据。该项目包括一个咨询委员会，由身份证持有人、身份证持有人的家庭成员和STEM雇主组成。有一名外部评估人员向研究人员提供反馈并评估研究的成功。这项研究是为了响应STEM和STEM教育中残疾人的工作场所平等征集（NSF 23-593）而创建的。征集活动支持基础研究、应用研究和转化研究，以促进有关多样化、公平、包容和无障碍的STEM和STEM教育工作场所以及残疾人高等教育培训环境的知识和实践。征求声明，EAGER提案在其早期阶段探索未经测试但可能具有变革性的研究思想或方法。EAGER项目必须专注于征集的三个研究主题中的一个或多个，该奖项侧重于征集的第一个研究主题：“研究STEM工作场所和高等教育培训环境中多样性、公平性、包容性和可及性的障碍和解决方案。”该项目产生的研究结果告诉STEM行业雇主如何构建职位描述，为残疾技术熟练工人创造更具包容性的机会。项目活动和结果有可能被其他研究人员用于进行基础和/或应用研究，以进一步研究STEM中残疾人士的定制就业。项目团队正在专业会议上展示这项研究，并使用社交媒体播客。这个STEM和STEM教育领域的残疾人工作场所平等奖是由美国国家科学基金会的埃迪·伯尼斯·约翰逊包括计划资助的，该计划旨在激励和加速合作努力，以推进和维持系统性变革，扩大STEM的大规模参与。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。