Research Ethics in STEM: Network Building and Graduate Student Training

该项目的目标是将旧金山州立大学的科学、技术和社会中心扩展为一个研究社区，支持社会科学和STEM教师和研究生之间的跨校园合作。STS中心将支持教师研究，为研究生创造专业发展机会，培养学生负责任的研究行为，并丰富校园内的研究生课程。这项计划将建立一个教师和研究生参与跨学科研究、培训和合作的网络。它将确定研究生一级跨学科培训的最佳做法，并将引起教育工作者、管理人员和负责任的研究从业人员的兴趣。通过连续三个为期一年的专题研究项目，合作项目将在教师之间开展STS合作研究，并为研究生提供STS和社会责任研究方面的培训和指导。专题研究项目将突出社会和环境正义问题，拟议的主题年将涉及2019冠状病毒病大流行、替代能源、自动化和人工智能。每年组织的活动将包括启动活动、双月一次的研究员会议、专题讲习班和培训、正在进行的工作会议和年度会议。除了这些正在进行的校园特定项目外，合作项目将努力包括本地和跨国成员，以支持传播STS中心研究员创造的合作研究成果。合作项目负责人将公布关于这一创新模式的成果的调查结果，以孵化处于科学、技术和社会正义交叉点的合作项目。这些活动将有助于STS和相关领域的持续努力，以创新和制度化正在进行的研究合作模式，利用STS方法支持负责任的研究，并将通过在以教学为重点和为少数民族服务的公共机构实施这种努力，大大扩大这种努力的范围。该奖项由道德和责任研究项目和建立和扩大：加强少数民族服务机构的社会、行为和经济科学研究和能力项目共同资助。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。

The goal of this project is to expand a Science, Technology, and Society Hub at San Francisco State University into a research community that supports cross-campus collaboration between social science and STEM faculty and graduate students. The STS Hub will support faculty research, create professional development opportunities for graduate students, train students in responsible conduct of research and enrich graduate curricula across campus. This initiative will establish a network of faculty and graduate students to engage in interdisciplinary research, training, and collaboration. It will identify best practices for cross-disciplinary training at the graduate level and be of interest to educators, administers and responsible conduct of research practitioners. Via three successive academic-year-long thematic research programs, the co-PIs will seed collaborative STS research among faculty, as well as providing training and mentorship to graduate students in STS and in conducting socially responsible research. Thematic research programs will foreground questions of social and environmental justice, with proposed theme years addressing the COVID-19 pandemic, alternative energy, and automation and artificial intelligence. Annually organized activities will include a launch event, bimonthly Fellow meetings, thematic workshops and trainings, works-in-progress sessions, and an annual conference. Beyond these ongoing campus-specific undertakings, the co-PIs will work to include local and transnational constituents, to support the dissemination of collaborative research products created by STS Hub Fellows. The co-PIs will publish findings regarding the outcomes of this innovative model for incubating collaborative projects that lie at the intersection of science, technology, and social justice. These activities will contribute to ongoing efforts in STS and allied fields to innovate and institutionalize models for ongoing research collaboration that use STS methods to support responsible research and will significantly expand the scope of such efforts through its implementation at a teaching-focused and minority-serving public institution.Co-funding of this award is provided by Ethical and Responsible Research Program and Build and Broaden: Enhancing Social, Behavioral and Economic Science Research and Capacity at Minority-Serving Institutions Program.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.