DESIGN: Creating cultural change in small to medium-sized professional societies: a training network approach

美国板鳃亚纲学会（AES）的规模和范围的社会往往是学生经历的第一个专业社会。它们是使成员在科学事业中感到受欢迎、被包括和被重视的重要结构。该项目的目标是为建立一个中小型社会网络奠定基础，这些社会可以共同努力，在各自领域内外创造文化变革。项目领导人将首先以AES为重点进行试点，在那里他们将完成对AES指导政策的彻底审查，为成员创建和实施培训，并创建一个培训培训师模型，以提供AES以外的培训。然后，研究人员将在其他类似的社会中试用这种方法。长期目标是将其扩展为一个相互支持的网络，将在该项目中建立的培训和最佳做法扩展到AES之外。这将培养科学领域的人才，并通过将多样化的学生群体持续纳入上述劳动力队伍，使科学劳动力队伍多样化。该项目的研究人员将与美国板鳃亚纲学会（AES）一起领导文化变革的创建，然后将其扩展到其他社会。具体来说，研究人员将1）通过修改AES的指导文件和政策，为AES和其他社会提供更受欢迎和安全的会议; 2）通过强化培训和培训师培训模式，看到AES内部的文化变革，促进成员的多样性; 3）提供资源，通过网络方法，帮助经济可承受性在类似社会中创造变革。研究人员将评估与实施政策变化和可持续培训模式有关的几个假设，并为其他社会试点一个支持网络。据推测，培训的增加，以及培训的简单可用性，将导致文化转变，如：1）批准（通过成员投票）作出修改，以使AES的指导文件具有明显的包容性; 2）改进会前与会后的气候调查;增加以下内容：3）自愿完成培训的成员人数; 4）新成员;（五）成员的多样性;（六）担任领导职务的成员的多样性。该项目的目标是看到寻求网络援助并采用通过该项目开发的最佳实践的社团数量逐步稳步增加。该奖项反映了NSF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。

Societies of the size and scope of the American Elasmobranch Society (AES) are often the first professional societies that students experience. They are important structures in making members feel welcomed, included, and valued in the scientific enterprise. The goal of this project is to lay the groundwork for creating a network of small to medium-sized societies that can work together to create cultural change in their own fields and beyond. Project leaders will pilot this by first focusing on the AES, where they will complete a thorough review of AES’s guiding policies, create and implement training for members, and create a train-the-trainer model to deliver those trainings beyond AES. The researchers will then pilot this approach with other similar societies. The long-term goal is to expand this into a mutually supportive Network that will extend the training and best practices established in this project beyond AES. This will build talent in scientific fields and diversify the scientific workforce through the persistence of a diverse student population into said workforce. The researchers for this project will lead the creation of culture change with the American Elasmobranch Society (AES), which can then be extended to other societies. Specifically, the researchers will 1) provide a more welcoming and safe meeting for AES and other societies, accomplished through changes to the guiding documents and policies of AES; 2) see culture change within AES that facilitates diversity in membership, accomplished through intensive training and a train-the-trainer model; and 3) provide the resources to help affordably create change in similar societies, accomplished through a Network approach. The researchers will evaluate several hypotheses relating to the implementation of policy changes and a sustainable training model and pilot a support Network for other societies. It is hypothesized that increased training, and the mere availability of training, will lead to a culture shift as indicated by: 1) approval (by vote of members) of changes to make the guiding documents of AES overtly inclusive; 2) improvement in pre- versus post-meeting climate surveys; and increases in the following: 3) numbers of members voluntarily completing training; 4) new members; 5) diversity of members; and 6) diversity of members holding leadership positions. The goal of this project is to see a gradual and steady increase in the number of societies seeking assistance from the Network and adopting the best practices developed through this project.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.