EAGER: Equity in Scientific Co-production Processes: Creation of a Framework

联邦机构越来越多地资助鼓励甚至要求科学家和利益相关者“共同生产”研究的项目。然而，对于研究人员和机构如何开展这项工作和评估其成果，特别是当涉及资源获取水平低、社会资本和/或有歧视和排斥历史的社区时，几乎没有指导。自20世纪90年代以来，美国联邦政府建立了气候研究和决策支持计划，以产生为地方，地区和国家政策提供信息的科学。该项目将利用与这些计划合作的科学家和利益相关者的经验和观点，为促进与社区的公平伙伴关系的共同生产过程的发展提供见解。通过关注关键的联邦计划，并与支持社会正义的机构工作人员和国家组织的咨询委员会合作，该项目增加了其变革潜力和对科学政策和政府投资产生更广泛影响的可能性。采用Q方法技术，该研究将确定美国区域气候科学中心科学家，利益相关者和治理合作伙伴（如部落国家）之间的共同话语。这些通过访谈和调查收集的数据将作为框架的初稿，在与合作生产学者、历史上服务不足的社区代表、联邦机构项目经理以及受访的合作生产科学家和利益相关者团体举行的研讨会上进行审查。讲习班之后将出版一期关于平等和共同制作的特刊。该项目将有助于共同制作和相关文献的发展，方法是以经验的方式确定其过程和结果可能被感知的方式的差异，将跨公共行政、可持续性科学、科学和技术研究（STS）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。

Federal agencies increasingly fund programs that encourage, or even require, research to be “co-produced” by both scientists and stakeholders. However, there is little guidance for researchers and agencies for how to do this work and evaluate its outcomes, especially when communities with low levels of resource access, social capital, and/or a history of discrimination and exclusion are involved. Since the 1990s, the U.S. federal government has established climate research and decision-support programs to produce science that informs local, regional, and national policies. This project will leverage the experiences and perspectives of scientists and stakeholders who have worked with these programs to lend insights for the development of co-production processes that facilitate equitable partnerships with communities. By focusing on key federal programs and working in collaboration with an advisory board of agency staff and national organizations that support social justice, the project increases its transformative potential and likelihood of broader impacts to science policy and government investments.This early-concept research will develop a framework for addressing equity concerns in the coproduction of knowledge. Employing Q methodology techniques, the study will identify common discourses among U.S. regional climate science center scientists, stakeholders, and partners in governance,such as tribal nations. These data—collected through interviews and a survey—will serve as an initial draft of the framework to be vetted at a workshop held with coproduction scholars, representatives of historically underserved communities, federal agency program managers, and the interviewed co-production scientist and stakeholder groups. Publication of a special journal issue on equity and co-production will follow the workshop. The project will contribute to the development of co-production and related literatures by empirically establishing differences in the ways that its processes and outcomes may be perceived, connecting normative and descriptive strands of a multidisciplinary field that crosses public administration, sustainability science, and science and technology studies (STS).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.