Building Capacity for Collaborative Interdisciplinary Research on Water and Society

水和社会是内在地相互关联的，使得该主题非常适合跨学科研究，将社会和自然科学研究方法结合在一起。该研究采用跨学科的方法来调查水与社会的相互作用，重点关注治理，环境正义，社会环境变化和基础设施系统的问题。该研究通过提供学生培训和职业发展来支持代表性不足的本科生和研究生的参与。该项目通过举办水与社会的跨学科会议等方式，培养研究伙伴关系和社区网络，通过地理学、环境学、应用语言学、人类学等领域的学者进行跨学科研究合作，提高研究效率。学者们围绕四个研究主题进行合作：水价值，水历史，水期货和水风险。该项目采用跨学科的方法，将水视为一个复杂的系统，具有相互关联的社会，生态和技术方面。该研究通过招募一批研究实习生组成一个跨学科实验室小组，为来自代表性不足社区的研究生和本科生提供支持。 本科生将通过团队授课的跨学科课程和研究生导师的支持。研究生和本科生将获得实践研究经验，提出研究成果，建立网络和专业发展技能，并获得跨学科研究的理解。学生将学习各种定性和定量研究方法，如访谈，Q排序，文件分析，调查和其他社会科学技术。此外，该项目还与该地区的其他研究机构和更广泛的社区建立了研究伙伴关系。该项目包括一个关于水与社会主题的跨学科会议，学生，早期职业研究人员和社区组织将被邀请介绍他们的工作，并在参与者之间发展研究协同作用。将成立一个社区咨询委员会，为学生提供建议，并在更广泛的社区内为项目提供基础。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

Water and society are inherently interconnected, making the topic well-suited for interdisciplinary research that brings together social and natural science research approaches. This research uses an interdisciplinary approach to investigate water-society interactions, focusing on questions of governance, environmental justice, socio-environmental change, and infrastructure systems. The research supports participation of underrepresented undergraduate and graduate students by providing student training and career development. The project cultivates research partnerships and community-based networks, including hosting an interdisciplinary conference on water and society.This project enhances research productivity through a cross-disciplinary research collaboration between scholars in the fields of geography, environmental studies, applied linguistics, and anthropology. Scholars collaborate around four research themes: water values, water histories, water futures, and water risks. The project uses an interdisciplinary approach that views water as a complex system that has interrelated social, ecological, and technological aspects. The research supports graduate and undergraduate students from underrepresented communities by recruiting a cohort of research interns to form an interdisciplinary lab group. Undergraduate students will be supported through team-taught interdisciplinary coursework and graduate student mentorship. Graduate and undergraduate students will gain hands-on research experience, present research findings, build networks and professional development skills, and gain understanding of interdisciplinary studies. Students will learn a variety of qualitative and quantitative research methods such as interviews, Q-sorts, document analysis, surveys, and other social science techniques. Additionally, the project cultivates research partnerships with other research institutions in the region and with the broader community. The project includes an interdisciplinary conference on the topic of water and society in which students, early-career researchers, and community-based organizations will be invited to present their work and develop research synergies among participants. A Community Advisory Board will be formed to advise students and ground the project within the broader community.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.