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

大脑(扩大神经科学领域学术研究人员的代表性)计划， 成立于2011年，明确解决了早期职业生涯(博士后)的纳入、保留和晋升问题。 到终身教职前)来自历史上代表性不足和边缘化群体(URMG：个人)的神经科学家 不受边缘化的种族和族裔特性以及残疾人的歧视)。Brains开创了一种独特的 以队列为基础的职业发展方法，对参与者的职业轨迹产生积极影响， 特别是在学术神经科学领域，通过建立神经科学同行社区1，2，使指导成为可能 网络3，4，激活参与者的文化资本1，提高参与者的职业自我效能5。这个 大脑的成功是显而易见的，我们的发现表明，144名参与者中有90%继续留在 神经科学的职业。此外，50%的人目前在终身教职轨道上，而在#年时这一比例为24% 加入大脑。通过这次续订申请，Aim 1寻求通过以下方式在Brains成功的基础上再接再厉 通过增加大脑社区参与者的数量来扩大我们的计划，以及 深化所有参与者与核心大脑、技能和概念的互动。与其他人相比 在国家职业发展计划中，Brains计划在以下方面脱颖而出 Brains参与者在参加该计划的第一年后很长一段时间内仍在与社区深入接触。在……里面 它的第一个十年，评估数据表明，大脑编程是一个始终如一的变革性和 为其参与者提供基础资源。因此，Brains计划处于独特的位置，可以探索和 找出增加URMGs中神经学家留住的基本因素 非学术科学职业。因此，在目标2中，我们将引入一个新的10年期评估工具，以 帮助我们更好地了解为什么该计划具有影响力，以及在参与者的进步过程中需要注意的是什么 通过他们的职业生涯。总而言之，这些目标将允许大脑在参与者数量方面扩大 在继续支持200多名来自URMGs的神经科学家在他们的 事业。此外，这项工作将为提高长期保留率的重要因素提供新的线索 URMGs的神经科学家在科学职业生涯中的地位，这反过来又可以为未来的发展提供信息 旨在增加URM科学家在生物医学职业生涯中留住的计划和机构政策。

The BRAINS (Broadening the Representation of Academic Investigators in NeuroScience) Program, established in 2011, explicitly addresses the inclusion, retention, and advancement of early career (post Ph.D. to pre-tenure) neuroscientists from historically underrepresented and marginalized groups (URMGs: individuals from marginalized racial and ethnic identities and persons with disabilities). BRAINS has pioneered a unique cohort-based professional development approach that positively impacts participants’ career trajectories, especially in academic neuroscience, by building a community of neuroscience peers1,2, enabling mentoring networks3,4, activating participants’ cultural capital1, and increasing participants’ career self-efficacy5. The success of BRAINS is evident by our findings that 90% of the 144 participants continue to remain in neuroscience careers. Moreover, 50% are currently in tenure track positions, compared to 24% at time of joining BRAINS. With this renewal application, Aim 1 seeks to build on the successes of BRAINS by expanding our program through an increase in the number of the BRAINS community participants, as well as deepening the engagement of all participants with core BRAINS skills and concepts. When compared to other national professional development programs, the BRAINS program stands out in terms of the extent to which BRAINS participants continue to engage deeply with the community long after their first year in the program. In its first decade, evaluation data show that BRAINS programming is a consistent transformational and foundational resource for its participants. Thus, the BRAINS program is uniquely positioned to explore and identify the essential factors that increase retention of neuroscientists from URMGs in academic and nonacademic science careers. Therefore, in Aim 2, we will introduce a new 10-year evaluation instrument to help us to better understand why the program is impactful and what sticks with participants as they progress through their careers. In summary, these Aims will allow BRAINS to expand in terms of participant numbers and in terms of continuing to empower over 200 neuroscientists from URMGs to thrive and advance in their careers. Further, this work will shed new light on the important factors that can improve the long term retention of neuroscientists from URMGs in science careers, which in turn can inform the development of future programs and institutional policies aimed at increasing the retention of URM scientists in biomedical careers.