Collaborative Research: Standard: Exploring how scientists on multidisciplinary laboratory teams negotiate expertise and claim legitimacy regarding ethical practice.

当今工程劳动力和实践的日益多样性和复杂性要求对塑造STEM工作伦理的社会因素进行新的研究。研究和教学中的一种常见方法是将团队合作，多样性和道德的社会方面纳入孤立的讲座，单独的课程，或将其视为结果变量。然而，该项目认为，道德与日常STEM工作交织在一起，而不是作为一个静态的结果变量，而是作为一种基于沟通的成就，在STEM工作组织的社会过程中发挥作用。它测试的假设是，除了技术，流程或行业专业知识，STEM团队成员可以培养道德专业知识，知识和技能的形式通知通过现场经验开发的适当的工作方式。这项研究通过系统地调查不同的沟通模式是否以及如何影响来自国家和大学实验室的垂直整合的多学科STEM团队中的道德气候和道德行为来推进科学知识。它确定了误解或误用专业知识可能成为STEM组织道德文化发展障碍的领域，并探讨了通过持续的社会关系和互动学习和分享道德的方式。识别影响复杂科学工作的道德成就的社会和沟通因素，可以深入了解大学，国家实验室和行业合作伙伴可以用来培养道德和协作研究气候的各种行动和政策，以帮助科学知识的发现和应用。该研究将访谈和人种学数据与社会网络分析相结合，以研究STEM团队成员之间的不同沟通和互动模式如何影响他们对实验室道德的看法，以及这些看法如何影响道德研究气候和社会结构，从而实现有效和道德的团队合作。第一阶段利用民族志方法和扎根的访谈和观察的主题分析，捕捉和调查参与者的日常实践。第二阶段建立在这些研究结果，并采用社会网络分析，以评估存在于道德气候的发展，其关系到团队成员之间的持续互动的不同形式的专业知识之间的相互依存关系。第三阶段将这些研究结果整合到现有文献中，比较各个机构的显著特征，并确定STEM团队道德氛围和道德行为培养的解释机制。该奖项反映了NSF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。

The increasing diversity and complexity characterizing today's engineering workforce and practice requires new research on the social factors that shape ethics in STEM work. A common approach in research and teaching is to incorporate the social aspects of teamwork, diversity, and ethics into isolated lectures, separate courses, or to treat them as outcome variables. However, this project takes the perspective that ethics is interwoven into everyday STEM work not as a static outcome variable, but rather as a communication-based achievement enacted in the social processes through which STEM work is organized. It tests the hypothesis that in addition to technical, process, or industry expertise, STEM team members can cultivate ethical expertise, a form of knowledge and skills informing appropriate ways of working that is developed through situated experience. This research advances scientific knowledge by systematically investigating if and how different patterns of communication affect ethical climates and ethical behavior within vertically integrated multidisciplinary STEM teams from national and university laboratories. It identifies areas in which misperceptions or misapplication of expertise may act as a barrier to the development of ethical cultures in STEM organizations and explores the ways ethics are learned and shared through ongoing social relationships and interactions. Identifying the social and communicative factors impacting the ethical accomplishment of complex scientific work provides insight into a variety of actions and policies that universities, national labs, and industry partners can use to cultivate ethical and collaborative research climates to aid in the discovery and application of scientific knowledge. The study combines interview and ethnographic data with social network analysis to examine how different patterns of communication and interaction among members of STEM teams affect their perceptions of ethics in laboratories and how these perceptions impact ethical research climates and the social structures that enable effective and ethical teamwork. Phase 1 utilizes ethnographic methods and grounded thematic analysis of interviews and observations to capture and investigate the everyday practice of participants. Phase 2 builds upon these findings and employs social network analysis to assess the interdependent relationships between the different forms of expertise present in the development of ethical climates, and their relationship to ongoing interactions among team members. Phase 3 integrates these findings and maps them onto extant literature to compare the salient features of each institution and determine the explanatory mechanisms for the cultivation of ethical climates and ethical behavior in STEM teams.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.