BRAINS: Broadening the Representation of Academic Investigators in NeuroSciences

项目说明 为了解决最具挑战性的公共卫生问题，科学界需要创造性和多样化 科学的解决方案。当一组不同的研究人员检查一个科学问题时，创新得到了加强， 留住来自代表性不足群体的高技能科学家至关重要。神经科学助理 教授和博士后学者来自不同和代表性不足的背景，包括种族和 少数民族、残疾人和弱势群体面临三大挑战 他们在职业发展中面临的挑战。首先，在这些职业发展阶段进行全面的专业发展 往往被忽视，使得早期职业神经科学家得不到足够的服务，缺乏对晋升至关重要的技能 敬终身教职。其次，来自代表性不足的背景的人离开理工科的风险往往更高。 不公平地接触同行网络、导师和关于如何在教师职业生涯中取得成功的建议。第三，他们 可能缺乏接触潜在职业道路的榜样。为了填补这些空白，我们建议创造大脑： 扩大学术研究人员在神经科学领域的代表性，这是一项旨在 加快和改善神经科学博士后研究人员的职业发展 来自代表人数不足的群体的助理教授。大脑计划创造了独特的生命- 改变50位神经学家的体验。大脑参与者将变得更加专注于他们的 科学的职业生涯，能够更好地指导自己的职业生涯，更有可能在学术上取得成功 神经科学。Brains计划的目标是增加对早期职业生涯的学术参与度和留存率 来自代表不足的群体的神经科学家，通过减少孤立；提供提示、工具和技能 发展，为终身教职轨道的成功做准备；以及提高职业自我效能。这一目标将通过 三个协同的大脑活动：A)全国研讨会；B)促进同行辅导圈；以及C)发明 你们的职业团队。所有这些组成部分之间的协同作用将： 1.通过向以下人员提供指导、培训和技能，增加神经科学教师的多样性 代表神经科学的博士后学者和助理教授，所以他们有 更多地获得资源，增强备灾意识，增强社区意识和连通感。 2.减少神经科学博士后学者和助理教授与 通过建立长期的同行网络和非正式的 指导关系。 3.提高职业自我效能感，让博士后学者和助理教授不被充分代表 神经科学领域的团队将拥有更多生产力和更令人满意的职业。

Project Description In order to solve the most challenging public health issues, the scientific community needs creative and diverse scientific solutions. As innovation is enhanced when a diverse set of investigators examine a scientific problem, retention of highly skilled scientists from underrepresented groups is critical. Neuroscience assistant professors and postdoctoral scholars from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds, including racial and ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, and people from disadvantaged backgrounds, face three major challenges in their career development. First, comprehensive professional development at these career stages is often overlooked, leaving early career neuroscientists underserved and lacking skills critical for advancement to tenure. Second, people from underrepresented backgrounds are often at higher risk of leaving science due to inequitable access to peer networks, mentors, and advice on how to succeed in faculty careers. Third, they may lack role models for exposure to potential career paths. To fill these gaps, we propose to create BRAINS: Broadening the Representation of Academic Investigators in NeuroSciences, a national program to accelerate and improve the career advancement of neuroscience postdoctoral researchers and assistant professors from underrepresented groups. The BRAINS program creates unique, life- transforming experiences for 50 neuroscientists. BRAINS participants will become more dedicated to their scientific career, better able to direct their careers, and more likely to achieve success in academic neuroscience. The BRAINS program goal is to increase engagement and retention of academic early-career neuroscientists from underrepresented groups by reducing isolation; providing tips, tools, and skills development to prepare for tenure track success; and increasing career self-efficacy. This goal will be met via three synergistic BRAINS activities: A) National Symposia; B) facilitated Peer Mentoring Circles; and C) Invent Your Career teams. The synergism among all these components will: 1. Increase the diversity of neuroscience faculty by providing mentoring, training and skills to under- represented postdoctoral scholars and assistant professors in the neurosciences so they have increased access to resources, feelings of preparedness, and sense of community and connectivity. 2. Reduce isolation of neuroscience postdoctoral scholars and assistant professors from underrepresented groups through the establishment of long-standing peer networks and informal mentoring relationships. 3. Increase career self-efficacy so postdoctoral scholars and assistant professors from underrepresented groups in the neurosciences will have more productive and satisfying careers.