Proposal for Workshop on 'Developing Skills for Grant Writing and Peer Review'; to be conducted Spring 2020; Washington, DC

多样化的科学队伍对于发展一支强大的国家科学队伍至关重要。该项目将支持来自代表性不足群体的至少30名早期职业科学家参加一个关于“发展撰写赠款和同行审查的技能”的讲习班。讲习班的目的是增加来自代表性不足群体的科学家对赠款审查进程的参与，并增加他们自己成功获得研究赠款的可能性。研讨会提供了为期两天的实践活动，将于2020年春季或夏季在华盛顿特区地区举行。作为研讨会的成果，参与者将获得审查赠款提案的知识和能力，并将增加他们对赠款审查过程的参与。在研讨会的过程中，学员将学会批评赠款提案草案，并在资助机构的同行和导师的指导下制定自己的草案。将根据学员对学习同行审查程序的兴趣以及讲习班对其职业的潜在影响来挑选学员。特别鼓励HBCU、TCU、HSIS和其他少数群体服务机构的教职员工和早期职业科学家申请。这次研讨会使用了一种新颖的方法，将资助机构的代表聚集在一起，为对拨款撰写和拨款审查过程感兴趣的早期职业科学家提供了广泛的视角。该项目将培训早期职业科学家，他们将被提供有效联网的战略。因此，预计与会者将相互支持，形成一个有凝聚力的队列小组，并实践他们在研讨会上学到的东西。成功地获得赠款资金对于早期职业科学家的专业发展至关重要，然而，来自历史上任职人数不足和边缘化社区的专业人员获得的赠款资助率低于他们的多数同事。在研讨会上，参与者将学习如何以书面形式有效地传达他们的研究想法(提案)，了解如何审查提案，学习审查中使用的标准，并对自己撰写竞争性提案和对其他提案进行有用的批判性审查的能力越来越有信心。该项目得到了生物基础设施(生物科学局)和人力资源开发部(教育和人力资源局)的支持。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

A diverse scientific workforce is crucial for the development of a strong national scientific workforce. This project will support at least 30 early career scientists from underrepresented groups to attend a workshop on "developing skills for grant writing and peer review". The workshop is intended to increase the participation in the grant review process by scientists from underrepresented groups and increase the probability that they themselves will successfully obtain grants for their research. The workshop provides a two-day hands-on event to be held in the Washington D.C. area in spring or summer 2020. As an outcome of the workshop, participants will obtain the knowledge and competencies in reviewing grant proposals and will increase their participation in the grant review process. Over the course of the workshop, participants will learn to critique grant proposal drafts as well as develop their own drafts with the guidance of peers and mentors from funding agencies. Participants will be selected based on their interest in learning the peer review process and the potential impact of the workshop on their career. Faculty and early career scientists at HBCUs, TCUs, HSIs, and other minority-serving institutions are especially encouraged to apply.This workshop uses a novel approach of bringing together representatives of funding agencies to provide a broad set of perspectives for early career scientists interested in both grant writing and the grant review process. The project will train early career scientists who will be provided with strategies for effective networking. As a result, it is expected that participants will support each other, form a cohesive cohort group, and practice what they learned at the workshop. Successfully securing grant funding is critical to the professional development of early career scientists, and yet professionals from historically underrepresented and marginalized communities receive grant funding at rates lower than their majority colleagues. At the workshop, participants will learn how to effectively communicate their research ideas in a written format (proposal), become aware of how proposals are reviewed, learn the criteria used in a review, and become increasingly confident of their ability to write a competitive proposal and provide useful critical review of other proposals. This project is supported by the Divisions of Biological Infrastructure (Directorate for Biological Sciences) and Human Resource Development (Education and Human Resources Directorate).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.