BRAINS: Broadening the Representation of Academic Investigators in NeuroSciences - A national program to increase the advancement of neuroscience researchers from diverse backgrounds

BRAINS：扩大神经科学领域学术研究人员的代表性 - 一项旨在提高来自不同背景的神经科学研究人员进步的国家计划

• 批准号: 9384760
• 负责人: SHERI J. Y. MIZUMORI
• 金额: $ 26.63万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-12-01 至 2021-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9384760
• 关键词: Academia; Address; Adopted; Affect; Behavior; Belief; Brain; Career Mobility; Communities; Data; Development; Disabled Persons; Doctor of Philosophy; Evaluation; Faculty; Feeling; Fostering; Future; Goals; Grant; Individual; K-Series Research Career Programs; Leadership; Measures; Mentors; Modeling; Nature; Neurosciences; Outcome; Participant; Pathway Analysis; Positioning Attribute; Productivity; Professional Competence; Program Development; Public Health; Publications; Readiness; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Risk; Science; Scientist; Self Efficacy; Series; Shapes; Talents; Time; Underrepresented Groups; career; career development; cohort; ethnic minority population; follow-up; health disparity; health inequalities; high risk; innovation; invention; mid-career faculty; novel; novel strategies; peer coaching; professor; programs; racial minority; satisfaction; success; symposium; tenure track; webinar

BRAINS Project Description Retention of highly skilled scientists from diverse and underrepresented groups is critical for creating the diverse leadership necessary for innovation in neuroscience. Unfortunately, individuals from underrepresented groups often have higher turnover rates due to a greater sense of isolation and inequitable access to networks, mentors, and key resources that affect career success. Neuroscience postdoctoral researchers and assistant professors from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds (including racial and ethnic minorities and people with disabilities) are not immune to these issues. BRAINS: Broadening the Representation of Academic Investigators in NeuroScience adopts novel approaches to diversify neuroscience such that career advancement and retention of post-Ph.D., early-career neuroscientists from underrepresented groups (URGs: racial and ethnic minorities and persons with disabilities) are increased. BRAINS explicitly seeks to plug the neuroscience early career leaky pipeline by offering a novel professional development program that addresses factors known to impact persistence and career decisions of individuals from URGs in science. Such factors include one's sense of belonging and self-efficacy, the belief in one's ability to perform particular behaviors to produce a specific outcome. BRAINS intentionally targets talented neuroscientists considered at risk for leaving science and academia due to lack of professional support and career self-efficacy. BRAINS has already significantly impacted the career self-efficacy, career satisfaction, and sense of belonging of 56 participants. BRAINS will next enhance the breadth and depth of its impact by tripling the number of neuroscientists participating in the program, and by introducing formal cross- cohort activities that deepen the program's influence on participants' career advancement. Specifically, BRAINS' increased impact on the leaky pipeline will occur by 1. Expanding the longitudinal evaluation of all prior BRAINS participants and non-selected applicants, and growing the program by adding two new cohorts of BRAINS Fellows. 2. Foster additional synergistic networks, career skills, and the leadership potential of BRAINS Fellows through new cross-cohort activities. 3. Broadening BRAINS' reach amongst early-career neuroscientists from URGs by introducing a BRAINS Affiliates Program.

BRAINS项目描述 留住来自不同和代表性不足群体的高技能科学家，对于建立一个 神经科学创新所需的多元化领导。不幸的是，代表性不足的个人 由于更大的孤立感和不公平的网络准入， 导师和影响职业成功的关键资源。神经科学博士后研究员和助理 来自不同和代表性不足背景的教授（包括种族和少数民族和人民） 残疾人）也不能幸免于这些问题。大脑：扩大大脑的代表性 神经科学的学术研究者采用新颖的方法使神经科学多样化 这样，博士后的职业发展和保留，早期职业神经科学家， 代表性不足的群体（URG：种族和族裔少数群体以及残疾人） 增加了。BRAINS明确寻求通过提供一个 一个新颖的专业发展计划，解决已知的影响持久性和职业生涯的因素 来自URG的个人在科学上的决定。这些因素包括一个人的归属感和自我效能， 相信一个人有能力采取特定的行为来产生特定的结果。大脑故意 目标是有才华的神经科学家，他们被认为由于缺乏专业知识而有可能离开科学和学术界。 支持和职业自我效能感。大脑已经显著影响了职业自我效能感、职业生涯 满意度和归属感的56名参与者。下一步，大脑将增强其 通过将参与该计划的神经科学家人数增加两倍，并通过引入正式的交叉- 深化该计划对参与者职业发展的影响的群体活动。具体地说， BRAINS对泄漏管道的影响将通过以下方式增加： 1.扩大对所有先前的BRAINS参与者和非选定申请人的纵向评估， 通过增加两个新的BRAINS研究员群体来扩大该项目。 2.培养更多的协同网络、职业技能和BRAINS研究员的领导潜力 通过新的跨队列活动。 3.通过引入BRAINS，在URG的早期职业神经科学家中扩大BRAINS的影响力 联盟计划。