Conference: Collaborative Convenings: Increasing Capacity in the Social Science Research Enterprise with HBCUs, PUIs, and Other Less Research-Intensive Institutions

该项目的目标是提高社会科学研究企业的能力和竞争力。尽管社会科学研究不断发展，但人们对科学家在试图开发可资助的研究项目和资助提案以获得资助时所面临的障碍和挑战知之甚少。该项目是如何在各种社会科学研究专业人员之间建立网络和伙伴关系的典范，以促进研究支持基础设施的发展，从而促进合作社会科学研究的机会。该项目为研究型教师和研究型企业专业人员提供了一个机会，以确定挑战和障碍，并就如何扩大社会科学研究的参与提出解决方案。来自所有类型组织和机构背景的社会科学研究专业人员，包括历史上的黑人学院和大学（HBCUs）和主要的本科机构（PUIs），被邀请参加会议和项目活动。分享的经验和成果将广泛传播，以形成关于如何利用支助机会和服务基础设施造福跨学科和领域的社会科学研究的最佳做法。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 increase the capacity and competitiveness of the social science research enterprise. Despite the continued evolution of social science research, little is known about the barriers and challenges researchers face when attempting to develop fundable research projects and grant proposals to secure funding. This project serves as a model for how to create networks and partnerships between various social science research professionals to facilitate the development of research support infrastructure to catalyze collaborative social science research opportunities. This project provides an opportunity for research-oriented faculty and research enterprise professionals to identify the challenges and barriers, and to propose solutions about how to broaden participation in social science research. Social science research professionals from all types of organizations and institutional backgrounds, including historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and predominantly undergraduate institutions (PUIs), are invited to participate in the convenings and project activities. The shared learnings and products would be disseminated broadly to constitute best practices about how to capitalize on support opportunities and service infrastructure to benefit social science research across academic disciplines and fields.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.