Disability Inclusive Science Careers

残疾包容性科学职业

• 批准号: EP/S012117/1
• 负责人: Stephen McLaughlin
• 金额: $ 63万
• 依托单位: Heriot-Watt University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FS012117%2F1
• 关键词: Disability; Inclusive; Science; Careers

It is vital for the UK's economy and position as a global leader of scientific discovery that talented researchers are recruited and retained within our research communities. Despite legal frameworks and initiatives by universities and other employers, disabled researchers, and those with chronic health problems, are leaving scientific careers before entering permanent academic positions. Barriers to disability inclusive careers include, for example:- the built environment,- inaccessible laboratories and lectures halls,- social barriers including shared office spaces or networking and- managerial, (e.g. limited understanding of disability organisational policies and frameworks).It is vital that these barriers are overcome in order to ensure scientific careers are open to all talented scientists. For this reason, this research focuses on early career entry to scientific careers, specifically postdoctoral researchers. The aim of this project is to improve the recruitment, retention & progression of postdoctoral disabled scientists through the co-design of a suite of web based tools and gaming technologies (Disability Inclusive Science Careers - DISC).Disability Inclusive Science Careers (DISC) is a suite of web based and immersive virtual reality gaming tools designed to support industry employers, universities, research funders, trade unions and other key stakeholders to create disability inclusive scientific careers. The project is led by a team of researchers and career development specialists in two universities, disability advocacy organisations and a global engineering company. Disabled researchers, managers, employers and other key stakeholders will co-design DISC alongside academics with expertise in diversity and organisational change.The programme of work consists of five work packages:Work Package 1: will map existing policies and best practice in universities and employers and interviewing key stakeholders to co-design a web-based tool and the immersive virtual reality games.Work Package 2: will develop, implement and refine, the web based tool developed using interviews with disabled academics and key stakeholders, and refined based on feedback with end-users. DISC will include animations and videos of first person narratives of science careers and disability. Online training will expose participants to disability legislation, accessibility policies and practices, best practice from organisations, reasonable adjustments guidance and self-care support for disabled researchers.Work Package 3: partners with a software development company to develop immersive virtual reality games for line managers and research leaders to immerse participants in the lived experiences of disabled researchers. Work package 3 will also develop and deliver train-the-trainer sessions with managers and research leaders on disability inclusion. This training can then be rolled out into participants' organisations.Work Package 4: will co-design, deliver and implement training for disabled PhD students and postdoctoral researchers on their on their rights and responsibilities and how to ask for reasonable adjustments.Work Package 5: embeds DISC into the organisational practices and policies in participating organisations, and disseminated to all universities in Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom, via a disability inclusion summer school in 2020. To assess the efficacy of DISC participants will complete awareness questionnaires before and after work packages 3, 4 and 5 and will be followed up over a 3 year period following the end of the funding.

对于英国的经济和作为科学发现的全球领导者的地位至关重要，有才华的研究人员被招募并保留在我们的研究社区中。尽管大学和其他雇主制定了法律的框架和举措，但残疾研究人员和有慢性健康问题的研究人员在进入永久性学术职位之前就离开了科学事业。残疾包容性职业的障碍包括：-建筑环境，-无法进入的实验室和演讲霍尔斯，-社会障碍，包括共用办公空间或网络，以及-管理障碍（例如对残疾组织政策和框架的理解有限），克服这些障碍以确保科学事业向所有有才华的科学家开放至关重要。出于这个原因，这项研究的重点是早期进入科学生涯，特别是博士后研究人员。该项目的目的是通过一套基于网络的工具和游戏技术的共同设计，改善博士后残疾科学家的招聘，保留和发展残疾人包容性科学职业（DISC）是一套基于网络的沉浸式虚拟现实游戏工具，旨在支持行业雇主，大学，研究资助者，工会和其他主要利益攸关方创造包容残疾人的科学事业。该项目由两所大学的研究人员和职业发展专家、残疾人倡导组织和一家全球工程公司领导。残疾人研究人员、管理人员、雇主和其他主要利益相关者将与具有多样性和组织变革专业知识的学者共同设计DISC。工作计划包括五个工作包：工作包1：将绘制大学和雇主的现有政策和最佳实践，并采访主要利益相关者，共同设计基于网络的工具和沉浸式虚拟现实游戏。将开发、实施和完善基于网络的工具，该工具是通过与残疾学者和主要利益攸关方的访谈开发的，并根据最终用户的反馈意见进行完善。DISC将包括动画和视频的第一人称叙述的科学事业和残疾。在线培训将使参与者了解残疾人立法，无障碍政策和实践，组织的最佳实践，为残疾人研究人员提供合理的调整指导和自我护理支持。工作包3：与软件开发公司合作，为直线经理和研究领导开发沉浸式虚拟现实游戏，让参与者沉浸在残疾人研究人员的生活体验中。第三套工作方案还将与管理人员和研究负责人一起制定和举办关于残疾问题包容性的培训员培训班。工作包4：将为残疾博士生和博士后研究人员共同设计、提供和实施关于残疾人权利和责任以及如何要求合理调整的培训。工作包5：将DISC嵌入到参与组织的组织实践和政策中，并通过2020年的残疾包容暑期学校传播到苏格兰和联合王国其他地区的所有大学。为了评估DISC的有效性，参与者将在工作包3、4和5之前和之后完成意识问卷，并将在资助结束后的3年内进行随访。

项目成果

Disability policy and practice in Malawian employment and education

马拉维就业和教育中的残疾政策和实践

• DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.13577
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Sociology of Health & Illness
• 影响因子: 2.9
• 作者: Wånggren L

Working it out: Will the improved management of leaky bodies in the workplace create a dialogue between medical sociology and disability studies?

解决这个问题：改善工作场所漏气身体的管理是否会在医学社会学和残疾研究之间建立对话？

• DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.13519
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Sociology of health & illness
• 影响因子: 2.9
• 作者: Remnant J

Handbook on Management and Employment Practices

管理和雇佣实践手册

• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-29010-8_15
• 发表时间: 2022
• 作者: Sang K

Disability and Academic Careers: Using the Social Relational Model to Reveal the Role of Human Resource Management Practices in Creating Disability

残疾与学术生涯：利用社会关系模型揭示人力资源管理实践在造成残疾中的作用

• DOI: 10.1177/0950017021993737
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Work, Employment and Society
• 作者: Sang K

Exclusionary Logics: Constructing Disability and Disadvantaging Disabled Academics in the Neoliberal University

排除逻辑：在新自由主义大学中构建残疾和使残疾学者处于不利地位

• DOI: 10.1177/00380385231162570
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Sociology
• 影响因子: 2.9
• 作者: Remnant J