EDI+ Research And Innovation Network+ For Equality, Diversity And Inclusion In The Energy Research Community

EDI 研究与创新网络致力于能源研究界的平等、多样性和包容性

• 批准号: EP/W033771/1
• 负责人: Simone Abram
• 金额: $ 128.3万
• 依托单位: Durham University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FW033771%2F1
• 关键词: EDI+; Research; Innovation; Network+; Equality

The vision for the EDI+ network is to acknowledge and address key challenges and equip a cohort of researchers and their organisations to make lasting changes towards a diverse, equitable, inclusive and accessible research community. This will have impact beyond the academy and set a precedent, offering the means to tailor EDI action among the diverse organisations participating in energy research. It garners the best of scientific and social science evidence and critical approaches from the humanities to put EDI challenges in appropriate perspectives and make them available for action. It is action-oriented and based on an effective Theory of Change Model that considers:-> the desired outcomes (aims) for the network (An energy research community that is equal, inclusive and diverse) -> the evidence-informed assumptions for achieving the outcomes (such as findings from the Inclusion Matters programme)-> the activities that, based on the assumptions, should be implemented to achieve the aims (prioritising time, training and support for action) Evidence suggests that key barriers to effective change in EDI can be condensed to be: - Lack of Time to develop deep, evidence-based understanding of local issues - Lack of Access to the power structures required to enact change - Lack of resource and evidence-based solutions to issues that are found - Isolation from peers with experience of EDI driven change In response, we propose a fellowship programme, which recruits EDI champions from diverse energy research institutions; trains them in EDI issues; research methods for analysing organisational contexts, how to make organisational changes, and how to implement and evaluate plans of action; and supports them to publish their results. All fellows will have the support of a named senior executive of their organisation, all of whom will engage in cross-institutional reciprocal mentoring to embed learning and change in the institutional context. We name these 'fellowships' (despite the possible connotations of the term 'fellow') so that they will have prestige on the participants' cv's, emphasise the research-basis of the actions, and lend weight to their change-making activities under the network. The 'fellows' will form a mutually supportive network that should endure beyond the life of the funding scheme. EPSRC funded fellows will be complemented by industry- and government- funded fellows to expand the network beyond the funded call, and with the establishment of an alumni network, will offer the potential for the network to endure beyond the funding period.Selected training events will be open to the wider energy research community, who will also have access to a toolkit on EDI actions in context and all other network publications. Additional impact activities will include workshops and presentations to coincide with existing conference and research events, to maximise the reach of the network. Findings will be shared and promoted through a 'network of networks' approach across the energy research community nationally, and internationally.

EDI+网络的愿景是承认和解决关键挑战，并使一批研究人员和他们的组织能够朝着一个多样化、公平、包容和可及的研究社区做出持久的改变。这将产生超越学术界的影响，并开创一个先例，为参与能源研究的不同组织提供量身定制EDI行动的手段。它收集了最好的科学和社会科学证据以及来自人文学科的关键方法，以适当的角度看待EDI挑战，并使其可用于行动。它以行动为导向，以有效的变革理论模型为基础，考虑：b>网络的预期结果（目标）（一个平等、包容和多样化的能源研究社区）——>实现结果的证据为依据的假设（如“包容事项”计划的发现）——>基于假设应该实施的活动，以实现目标(优先考虑时间；（培训和行动支持）证据表明，电子数据交换有效变革的主要障碍可以浓缩为：缺乏时间对当地问题进行深入的、以证据为基础的理解——无法接触实施变革所需的权力结构——缺乏资源和以证据为基础的问题解决方案——与具有EDI驱动变革经验的同行隔绝。对此，我们提出了一个研究金方案，从不同的能源研究机构招募EDI倡导者；培训他们处理电子数据交换问题；分析组织环境的研究方法，如何进行组织变革，以及如何实施和评估行动计划；并支持他们发表研究结果。所有学员都将得到所在机构一位指定高管的支持，所有人都将参与跨机构的互惠指导，将学习和变革融入到机构环境中。我们将这些项目命名为“研究员”（尽管“研究员”一词可能有其他含义），这样它们就会在参与者的简历上显得有威望，强调这些行动的研究基础，并为他们在网络下的变革活动增加分量。这些“研究员”将形成一个相互支持的网络，这种网络应该在资助计划的生命周期之后继续存在。EPSRC资助的研究人员将得到行业和政府资助的研究人员的补充，以扩大资助呼吁之外的网络，并且随着校友网络的建立，将为网络提供在资助期之后持续存在的潜力。选定的培训活动将向更广泛的能源研究界开放，他们也将有机会获得关于电子数据交换行动的工具包和所有其他网络出版物。其他影响活动将包括与现有会议和研究活动同时进行的讲习班和演讲，以最大限度地扩大网络的覆盖范围。研究结果将通过“网络的网络”方法在国家和国际能源研究界进行共享和推广。