DESIGN: Reforming organizational culture across Biology using a Community of Care framework

为了充分服务于生物科学的研究人员，专业人员和教育工作者的多元化社区，科学学会的组织结构及其计划决策应强调社区建设和包容性指导的文化，以及科学发现。该项目提出，社会必须从以科学为中心的“实践社区”扩大到以人为中心的“关怀社区”。研究人员已经开发并测试了一种科学社会领导力的三阶段方法，其中包括教育，反思和在此概念框架内指导行动规划。该项目将邀请5个美国科学学会参加一系列经过严格评估的倾听会议、研讨会和活动，这些会议和活动涉及内部结构（学会领导）和外部结构（期刊和会议组织）。使用这种方法，研究人员将协调每个科学协会中以“护理社区”为指导的目标的可操作机会的初步实施和评估。该项目通过努力改变学科层面的文化价值观，并通过直接支持来自不同背景和职业阶段的100多名科学家，产生了更广泛的影响。该项目已经获得了5个美国会议协会及其期刊的支持，这证明了生物学社区致力于新的，基于证据的包容性方法的概念。指导性行动规划将借鉴在非正式学习和社区建设机构中制定的现有循证战略的专门知识。这种并行方法的一个主要优点是，它将催化一场围绕已被证明的文化变革方法的更广泛的运动，而不是单一社会所能推动的。使用植根于社会学和心理学同行评审研究的模块化，灵活的方法将使研究人员能够获得社会领导层和成员的支持，他们致力于看到他们的社区变得更加多样化，包容性，但没有社会和情感工具或丰富的资源，以可持续的方式这样做。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得的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来提供支持。

In order to fully serve a diverse community of researchers, professionals, and educators in the Biological Sciences, the organizational structure of scientific societies and their programmatic decisions should emphasize a culture of community building and inclusive mentoring, alongside of scientific discovery. This project proposes that societies must expand from their “communities of practice”, which center on science, to incorporate “communities of care”, which center on people. The researchers have already developed and tested a three-stage approach for scientific society leadership that includes education, reflection, and guided action planning within this conceptual framework. This project will engage 5 US-based scientific societies in a series of critically evaluated listening sessions, workshops, and events that address both internal structures (society leadership) and external structures (journal and conference organization). Using this approach, the researchers will coordinate the initial implementation and evaluations for actionable opportunities with “community of care”-guided goals in each of these scientific societies. This project encompasses broader impacts by working to change discipline-level cultural values and through its direct support of over 100 scientists from diverse backgrounds and career-stages.This project has already generated buy-in from 5 US-based conference societies and their journals, which demonstrates proof of concept for the Biology community’s commitment to new, evidence-based approaches for inclusion. The guided action planning will draw from the expertise of existing evidence-based strategies developed in informal learning and corporate settings for community building. A major strength of this parallel approach is that it will catalyze a broader movement around proven cultural change methods than a single society can otherwise drive. Using a modular, flexible approach rooted in sociological and psychological peer-reviewed research will allow the researchers to generate support from societies’ leadership and membership who are invested in seeing their communities become more diverse, inclusive, and equitable but do not have the social and emotional tools or abundant resources to do so in a sustainable way.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.