Workshop: Transdisciplinary Research on Incivility in STEM Contexts

研究表明，性骚扰和其他骚扰行为在STEM环境中很常见，而学术环境中潜在的不文明文化可能是对骚扰行为的宽容的基础。不礼貌和粗鲁通常不符合充满敌意的工作环境的法律标准，很少被报道或制裁。然而，这些行为会对工作场所的动态产生重大影响，包括更大的工作退缩、缺勤和离职的可能性。鉴于包容性的工作环境已被证明可以提高研究创新和创造力，不文明的文化也有可能损害科学成果。这个为期两天的研讨会的目标是让学者、从业者和其他利益相关者参与到骚扰和不文明行为的科学中，以及不文明行为对科学家和科学生产本身的影响。来自一系列STEM领域和批判性研究的学者将聚集在一起，参与并推进这些主题的知识。研讨会组织者将通过明确的包容政策和对服务不足的注册人的财政支持，包括初级学者和学员，以及在网上免费提供所有研讨会前后的资料，扩大研讨会的参与。本次研讨会将促进STEM背景下关于不文明行为的知识和学术研究，包括研究不文明问题在公共和学术辩论中的表现方式，以及组织结构、政策、历史背景和文化与容忍不文明行为、不利于协作与合作的学术环境的关系。本次研讨会将以参与者为导向，结合有组织和无组织的会议，并配有笔记员，以捕捉不同参与者群体的学术知识和思想。参与者将研究学术环境、机构反应和个人人际交往能力方面的差异。本次研讨会的最低成果将包括制作一份研讨会后报告，详细说明1)研讨会参与者对不文明行为的新工作定义，2)研讨会参与者对健康冲突的定义，以及3)机构和社区对学术空间中不文明行为的反应的具体建议。开放的Slack工作空间将以该报告为基础，鼓励感兴趣的学者、从业者和倡导者在本地和全国范围内开展研讨会后活动。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。

Research suggests that sexual harassment and other harassing behaviors are common in STEM contexts, and that an underlying culture of incivility in academic contexts may underlie permissiveness toward harassing behaviors. Incivilities and rudeness typically do not meet a legal standard for hostile workplace environment and are rarely reported or sanctioned. Yet these behaviors can have major consequences on workplace dynamics, including greater work withdrawal, absenteeism, and likelihood of leaving a position. Given that inclusive work environments have been shown to increase research innovation and inventiveness, a culture of incivility also has the potential to harm the production of science. The goal of this two-day workshop is to engage scholars, practitioners, and other stakeholders on the science of harassment and incivility, and the consequences of incivility for scientists and the production of science itself. Scholars from a range of STEM fields and critical studies will be brought together to engage and advance knowledge on these topics. Workshop organizers will broaden participation in this workshop through explicit inclusion policies and financial support for underserved registrants, the inclusion of junior scholars and trainees, and availability of all pre- and post-workshop materials for free online. This workshop will advance knowledge and scholarship on incivility in STEM contexts, including examination of the ways in which issues of incivility manifest in public and scholarly debate, and the ways in which organizational structures, policies, historical contexts and cultures relate to academic environments that tolerate incivility and are not conducive to collaboration and cooperation. This workshop will be participant-driven, with a mixture of organized and unorganized sessions, with note-takers, to capture the scholarship and thinking of a diverse group of participants. Participants will examine variation in academic environments, institutional responses, and individual interpersonal skill sets with respect to uncivil behavior. The minimum outcomes of this workshop will include the production of a post-workshop report that details 1) the workshop participants' new, working definition of incivility, 2) the workshop participants' definition of healthy conflict, and 3) specific recommendations for both institutional and community responses to acts of incivility in scholarly spaces. An open Slack workspace will build on the report to encourage post-workshop activities locally and nationally among interested scholars, practitioners, and advocates.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.