The Academy for Future Science Faculty_Diversity Through Theory Driven Coaching

未来科学学院教师_通过理论驱动的教练实现多样性

• 批准号: 8574287
• 负责人: Richard McGee
• 金额: $ 34.76万
• 依托单位: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-01 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8574287
• 关键词: Academy; Address; Award; Biomedical Research; Capital; Cognitive; Collaborations; Color; Communities; Community Practice; Data; Development; Discipline; Doctor of Philosophy; Elements; Ethnic Origin; Event; Faculty; Financial cost; Fostering; Funding; Future; Gender; Human Development; Individual; Institutes; Intervention; Interview; Learning; Logic; Mentors; Modeling; Persons; Phase; Population; Postdoctoral Fellow; Preparation; Prevalence; Process; Race; Randomized; Randomized Controlled Trials; Recruitment Activity; Research; Risk Factors; Role; Science; Scientific Societies; Scientist; Series; Social Sciences; Societies; Students; Surveys; System; Talents; Testing; Thinking; Time; Training; Underrepresented Minority; United States National Institutes of Health; Woman; Work; base; biomedical scientist; career; cohort; design; experience; improved; interest; meetings; men; novel; programs; public health relevance; research study; social; sound; success; theories; therapy design; tool; virtual

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal will sustain and expand a novel coaching-based intervention to promote research careers initiated with an NIH Director's ARRA Funded Pathfinder Award to Promote Diversity in the Scientific Workforce in 2010. Called the Academy for Future Science Faculty, it has been created starting from social science theories and models (identity, cultural capital, Communities of Practice and Social Cognitive Career Theory) that provide explanations for why historically underrepresented groups (URM) have been so slow to achieve expected prevalence in faculty ranks. The Academy has brought 160 biomedical PhD students together with 16 Coaches, from throughout the U.S., to test an intervention to promote interest in and persistence toward academic careers. Coaches are biomedical faculty with demonstrated expertise in mentoring specially trained to take on an explicit coaching role within the Academy. The study employs many unique elements, including a purposeful equal representation by men and women, and both URM and non- URM groups in the Academy. As a stratified, randomized controlled trial, it will have the power to determine the true impact of the Academy. Over the past 2 years, the Academy has been established and early results indicate it is having much of the intended impact already. The research and intervention in this proposal would sustain what the Pathfinder award started, and expand it in a unique partnership with 3 scientific Societies by: Aim 1 - Continuing to support and study the impact of the initial phase of the Academy, and, going forward, virtual meetings of the full Academy communities and the coaching groups. Aim 2 - Develop a system to foster in-person meetings among Academy students and Coaches at scientific and other meetings using social media-based tools. Aim 3 - Develop a Coaching Institute for biomedical faculty to acquire extra expertise to serve as expert Coaches for students or postdoctoral fellows, especially those from underrepresented groups. Aim 4 - Work with 3 scientific Societies to pilot Coaching Institutes for 5-10 faculty (in each of two years) who would then become Coaches for groups of 6-8 PhD students and postdocs attending society meetings (impacting 240-360 students and/or postdocs). Despite high levels of financial and personal effort over the past several decades, the biomedical workforce continues to lack the diversity of individuals needed. The proposed novel research and interventions have the potential to significantly address the core issues that are negatively impacting the success and expression of the full potentials of many young scientists. The expansion proposed is theoretically sound and operationally tested, as well as financially feasible. Furthermore, it situates the coaching of the Academies within scientific disciplines to enable important opportunities scientific networking.

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案将维持和扩展一项新的基于指导的干预措施，以促进2010年NIH主任ARRA资助的促进科学劳动力多样性的探路者奖发起的研究事业。它被称为未来科学学院，它是从社会科学理论和模型（身份、文化资本、实践社区和社会认知职业理论）开始创建的，这些理论和模型解释了为什么历史上代表性不足的群体（URM）在教师队伍中实现预期的普及速度如此之慢。该学院召集了来自美国各地的160名生物医学博士生和16名教练，来测试一种干预措施，以提高他们对学术事业的兴趣和坚持。教练是具有指导专业知识的生物医学教员，经过专门培训，在学院内担任明确的指导角色。这项研究采用了许多独特的因素，包括有目的的男女平等代表权，以及科学院的URM和非URM群体。作为一项分层、随机对照试验，它将有能力确定该学院的真正影响。在过去的两年里，学院已经建立起来，早期的结果表明它已经产生了预期的影响。该提案中的研究和干预将维持探路者奖的启动，并通过与三个科学协会的独特合作伙伴关系将其扩展：目标1 -继续支持和研究学院初始阶段的影响，并继续进行，整个学院社区和指导小组的虚拟会议。目标2 -开发一个系统，促进学院学生和教练在科学和其他会议上使用基于社交媒体的工具进行面对面的会议。目标3 -为生物医学教师建立一个教练学院，以获得额外的专业知识，作为学生或博士后的专家教练，特别是那些来自代表性不足群体的教练。目标4 -与3个科学协会合作，为5-10名教师（每两年一次）试点教练机构，然后这些教师将成为参加协会会议的6-8名博士生和博士后的教练（影响240-360名学生和/或博士后）。尽管在过去几十年里投入了大量资金和人力，但生物医学工作人员仍然缺乏所需人员的多样性。提出的新研究和干预措施有可能显著解决对许多青年科学家的成功和充分发挥潜力产生负面影响的核心问题。拟议的扩建在理论上是合理的，经过了操作测试，在财政上也是可行的。此外，它将学院的指导置于科学学科内，以提供重要的科学网络机会。