Improving Diversity and Career Transitions through Society Support

通过社会支持改善多样性和职业转型

基本信息

批准号：
10413053
负责人：
ASHANTI EDWARDS
金额：
--
依托单位：
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR CELL BIOLOGY
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2016
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2016-06-08 至 2024-02-29
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10413053
关键词：
Academia American Award Awareness Bioinformatics Biomedical Research Career Choice Career Mobility Cells Cellular biology Communities Competence Country Development Diverse Workforce Educational process of instructing Educational workshop Elements Entrepreneurship Environment Ethnic group Faculty Fostering Frequencies Funding General Population Geography Goals Institution Intention Interest Group Lead Leadership Length Measures Mentors Modeling National Institute of General Medical Sciences Participant Pathway interactions Population Postdoctoral Fellow Professional Organizations Province Proxy Race Research Resources Risk Scholarship Science Scientific Societies Scientist Signal Transduction Societies Structure Students Talents Testing Time Training Travel Underrepresented Populations Work base career cohort college disparity reduction diversity and inclusion evidence base improved interest meetings member mentoring community online community outreach program peer peer coaching posters programs recruit scaffold skills skills training success support network undergraduate student

项目摘要

Project Summary Significance: Despite decades of effort, several racial and ethnic groups are underrepresented in science compared with their proportion of the general population. In part, this disparity is due to a higher rate of attrition from biomedical training pathways for scientists from underrepresented (UR) groups. As a scientific society, the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) recognizes the particular stability that societies can provide scientists as they transition across career stage and institutions. Among the many efforts to increase retention for UR scientists, the academic institutions that have seen a lasting increase in retention employed both a transformation of institutional culture to make it more inclusive and support programs that deliver mentoring and training to the UR scientists. Proposed Action: ASCB will adapt this successful approach as a model for how a scientific society can increase retention of UR scientists in biomedical training, increasing diversity in science and reducing the disparity in representation. Specific Aims: The activities in Aim 1 initiate a change in institutional culture toward inclusion through an inclusiveness workshop for ASCB leadership, diversity and inclusion training for general members at the Annual Meeting, and a new poster session and keynote speaker on the Scholarship of Diversity to signal to the membership that diversity is relevant for all members. In Aim 2, grad students, postdocs, and junior faculty at risk for lower-than-usual mentoring will be selected for a multi- year program that offers extensive multi-level mentoring and community, professional development and bioinformatics training, and a practicum in which to practice the new skills in a supported environment. Aim 3 takes advantage of the large Annual Meeting to offer activities that increase the rate of interaction among UR and majority scientists, as well as deliver mentoring and training to emerging scientists. These activities include a travel awards program to bring UR undergraduates, grad students, postdocs, and junior faculty to the Annual Meeting, professional development and multiple structured mentoring opportunities for these emerging scientists, a separate poster competition for networking and practice ahead of the general session, a major session to highlight spectacular research from a UR scientist, and a major session to recognize the importance of mentoring and see an example of its impact. Although the funding length is too short to directly measure the impact of the activities on retention in biomedical training, this proposal identifies measures that are acceptable proxies for the likelihood of remaining in biomedical training. To judge impact, pre- and post-program metrics will be gathered, and the changes in the participant group will be compared with an otherwise-similar group of non-participants. Overall impact: All told, these activities are expected to impact 1000+ participants annually through a combination of activities that adapt best practices in academia to the needs and strengths of a scientific society, testing a multi-prong model for how a society can have a lasting impact on diversity.

项目摘要意义：尽管努力数十年，但科学领域的几个种族和族裔人数不足与他们在一般人群中的比例相比。在某种程度上，这种差异是由于较高的损耗率来自代表性不足（UR）组的科学家的生物医学培训途径。作为一个科学社会，美国细胞生物学学会（ASCB）认识到社会可以提供的特殊稳定性科学家在跨职业阶段和机构过渡时。在增加保留率的许多努力中对于您的科学家来说，保留持续增长的学术机构都采用了制度文化的转变以使其更具包容性并支持提供指导的计划并培训您的科学家。拟议的行动：ASCB将适应这种成功的方法作为模型科学社会如何增加科学家在生物医学培训中的保留，增加多样性科学并降低表示的差异。具体目的：AIM 1中的活动启动了变更通过包容性的ASCB领导，多样性和多样性和年度会议上为普通成员提供培训，以及新的海报会议和主题演讲者关于多样性的奖学金，向成员发出信号，表明多样性与所有成员有关。在AIM 2中，将选择多个比例的指导风险的研究生，博士后和初级教师提供广泛的多层次指导和社区，专业发展和生物信息学培训以及在支持环境中练习新技能的实践。目标3 利用大型年度会议提供提高UR之间互动率的活动多数科学家，并向新兴的科学家提供指导和培训。这些活动包括一项旅行奖计划，将UR本科生，研究生，博士后和初级教师带入年度会议，专业发展和这些新兴的多个结构化指导机会科学家，一项单独的海报竞赛，以进行网络和练习之前，一般会议之前会议以突出我们科学家的壮观研究，以及一个重大的会议，以认识到重要性指导并看到其影响的例子。尽管资金长度太短了，无法直接测量该活动对生物医学培训保留的影响，该提案确定了可以接受的措施代理人有可能继续进行生物医学培训。判断影响力，预编程指标将收集，并将参与者组的变化与原本相似的组进行比较非参与者。总体影响：一切都告诉我，这些活动有望每年影响1000多个参与者通过各种活动的结合，使学术界最佳实践适应了一个的需求和优势科学社会，测试了一个多孔模型，以了解一个社会如何对多样性产生持久影响。