Diffusion of Ideas on Gender Equity Interventions Through Networks of U.S. Universities

这是一项探索性研究，将使用社会网络方法和数据回收策略来研究系统变化和性别平等的创新思想在NSF ADVANCE受助者和其他人之间的传播。对ADVANCE项目的研究通常考察的是大学或提高公平的策略，而不是大学之间如何合作、相互学习和相互影响。这个EAGER项目将提供关于这一思想和人员运动的知识，以便更好地理解和记录NSF ADVANCE项目的影响。该项目将使用跨学科的社会网络方法来分析NSF ADVANCE资助网络内部思想的传播和影响。提案人将创建一个从多个来源构建的原始数据集，以研究合作、引用和工作流动网络。原始数据集将结合多个公开来源：1)文件，如NSF ADVANCE项目摘要、奖励数据库、提案、报告和网站；2) ADVANCE pi和学者的人口统计、职业和文献计量数据，反映他们的出版物、引文和合作情况；3)来自综合高等教育数据系统（IPEDS）调查、卡内基分类、博士声望和U.S. News其他排名的大学特色；4)与ADVANCE受助人的定性访谈。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This EAGER is an exploratory study that will use a social network approach and data scrapping strategies to study the diffusion of innovative ideas on systemic change and gender equity among NSF ADVANCE grantees and beyond. Research on ADVANCE programs usually examine universities or equity enhancing strategies, but not how universities have cooperated, learned from, and influenced each other. This EAGER will provide knowledge about this movement of ideas and people in order to better understand and document the impact of the NSF ADVANCE program.This project will use interdisciplinary social network approaches to analyze the diffusion of ideas within and the impacts of the NSF ADVANCE grantee network. The proposers will create an original dataset constructed from multiple sources to study collaborations, citations, and job mobility networks. The original dataset will combine multiple publicly available sources: 1) documents, such as NSF ADVANCE project summaries, award database, proposals, reports, and web sites; 2) demographic, career and bibliometric data of ADVANCE PIs and scholars reflecting their publications, citations and collaborations with each other; 3) university characteristics from the survey of Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Carnegie classification, doctoral prestige, and other rankings of U.S. News; and 4) qualitative interviews with ADVANCE grantees.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.