Family of Origin, Geographic Constraints, and Career Intentions of Graduate Students in the Sciences

理科研究生的原生家庭、地理限制和职业意向

• 批准号: 2344563
• 负责人: Christopher Scheitle
• 金额: $ 25.23万
• 依托单位: West Virginia University Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-08-01 至 2027-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2344563&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Family; Origin; Geographic; Constraints; Career

Individuals seeking careers in academic science do not have much control over where they live and work due to the nature of such careers. This presents challenges to scientists with strong social, cultural, and psychological connections to their families and communities of origin. There are reasons to believe that such connections are particularly salient among groups underrepresented in science, such as scientists from racially and ethnically minoritized groups. This research examines how such family and community ties potentially influence and restrict the ability of individuals to enter and stay in academic science. Findings from this study highlight underappreciated obstacles to increasing the size and diversity of the scientific workforce and potential strategies for overcoming those obstacles. This research aims to understand the relationships between geographical location and science career decisions among graduate students. To assess these questions, the project implements a survey on a sample of 4,000 graduate students in five natural and social science disciplines in the United States. Respondents are randomly selected from stratified to tiers based on program rankings. The researchers will conduct 50 semi-structured interviews with select survey respondents to add rich context to the quantitative data.This project is jointly funded by Science of Science, the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), and Sociology.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.

由于学术科学的性质，寻求学术科学职业的人对他们的生活和工作没有太多的控制权。这对与其家庭和原籍社区有着密切社会、文化和心理联系的科学家提出了挑战。有理由相信，这种联系在科学界代表性不足的群体中尤其突出，例如来自种族和民族少数群体的科学家。本研究探讨了这种家庭和社区关系如何潜在地影响和限制个人进入和留在学术科学的能力。这项研究的结果强调了增加科学劳动力规模和多样性的障碍，以及克服这些障碍的潜在战略。 本研究旨在了解地理位置与研究生科学生涯决策之间的关系。为了评估这些问题，该项目对美国5个自然科学和社会科学学科的4 000名研究生进行了抽样调查。受访者是根据计划排名从分层中随机选择的。研究人员将与选定的调查受访者进行50次半结构化访谈，为定量数据添加丰富的背景。该项目由科学科学，刺激竞争研究的既定计划（EPSCoR）和社会学共同资助。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。