RAPID: Leading Practices for Improving Accessibility and Inclusion in Field and Laboratory Science – A Conversation Series

美国国家科学、工程和医学院（NASEM）将召开一系列网络研讨会，探讨在进行实地和实验室研究的科学学科中改善残疾人无障碍环境的主要做法。COVID-19疫情为讨论该领域不断变化的机遇提供了宝贵的视角。网络研讨会将探讨提高物理、社会和生命科学领域实地和实验室研究可及性的战略，包括：充分参与的现有障碍，可能有助于无障碍和包容的便利，实地工作和实验室研究解决方案之间的异同，指导和其他支持网络的作用，个人成功如何转化为更普遍的做法，以及确保长期变革所需的体制政策和文化变革。这项活动将鼓励科学界成员之间加强协作与协调，以实现体制和文化变革，并利用自该流行病开始以来所积累的知识基础。美国国家科学、工程和医学院（NASEM）将组织和召开一系列虚拟对话式网络研讨会，探讨在进行实地和实验室研究的学科中改善残疾人无障碍环境的主要做法。2019冠状病毒病疫情提供了一个宝贵的视角，以讨论改善包容性和可及性的机会不断变化的格局。在这个系列中，NASEM将探讨与增加物理，社会和生命科学领域和实验室研究的可访问性有关的机会，包括目前全面参与的障碍;住宿的潜力，包括但不限于辅助技术，支持或修改职责，以增加可访问性和包容性;不同类型的实地工作和实验室科学解决方案的共性和差异;指导和其他支持网络在改善包容性方面的作用;如何将个人成功扩大到更普遍的做法;以及确保可持续性所需的体制政策和文化变革。这一项目建立在自大流行病开始以来所获得的知识基础上，当时实验室被关闭，实地工作被推迟或取消。其中许多行动都产生了副作用，使残疾人更多地参与活动。然而，如果不致力于持续变革，大流行期间探索的做法可能无法传播、扩大或继续。对话将由一个志愿者委员会计划，该委员会将参与物理，社会和生命科学方面的广泛观点和经验，并将包括几位残疾科学家。这些对话将在六个月内大约每月安排一次。形式（S）将由规划委员会决定，可能包括提供信息的谈话，深入研究主题不同方面的小组成员，与观众进行广泛讨论的时间，以及适当的休息时间。对话系列将在虚拟平台上进行，并将进行直播、录制和字幕，以扩大受众范围。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力审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) will convene a series of webinars that explore leading practices for improving accessibility for people with disabilities in scientific disciplines that conduct field and laboratory research. The COVID-19 pandemic has provided a valuable perspective to discuss the changing landscape of opportunity in this area. The webinars will explore strategies for increasing accessibility for field and laboratory research in the physical, social, and life sciences, including: current barriers to full participation, accommodations that might assist with accessibility and inclusion, similarities and differences between fieldwork and laboratory research solutions, the role of mentoring and other support networks, how individual successes could translate into more generalizable practices, and the institutional policies and cultural change needed to ensure long-term change. This activity will encourage greater collaboration and coordination among members of the scientific community, with the goal of institutional and cultural change, and build upon the knowledge base that has been acquired since the beginning of the pandemic. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) will organize and convene a series of virtual conversation-style webinars that explore leading practices for improving accessibility for people with disabilities in disciplines that conduct field and laboratory research. The COVID-19 pandemic provides a valuable perspective to discuss the changing landscape of opportunity for improved inclusion and accessibility. In this series, NASEM will explore the opportunities related to increasing accessibility for field and laboratory research in the physical, social, and life sciences, including current barriers to full participation; the potential for accommodations including, but not limited to, assistive technologies, support, or modification of duties to increase accessibility and inclusion; commonalities and differences in solutions for different types of fieldwork and lab science; the role of mentoring and other support networks in improving inclusion; how one might scale up individual successes into more generalizable practices; and the institutional policies and cultural change needed to ensure sustainability. This project builds upon the knowledge base that has been acquired since the beginning of the pandemic, when laboratories were closed and field work delayed or cancelled. Many of these actions have had a side effect of allowing increased inclusion of people with disabilities in activities. However, without a commitment to sustained change, practices explored during the pandemic might not be disseminated, scaled up, or continued. The conversations will be planned by a volunteer committee that will engage a broad range of perspectives and experience in the physical, social, and life sciences and will include several scientists with disabilities. The conversations will be scheduled approximately monthly over a six-month period. The format(s) will be determined by the planning committee, and may include talks that present information, panelists that delve deeply into different aspects of the topics, time for broad discussions with audience members, and appropriate break times. The conversation series will be held on a virtual platform, and will be livestreamed, recorded, and captioned to broaden the audience reach.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.