Partnering for Equitable STEM Pathways for Youth from Minoritized Communities. (360G-Wellcome-206258_Z_17_A)

£621,873

Minoritized Youth, addresses fundamental equity issues in informal STEM learning (SL+ priority D, Equity, diversity and access to informal learning settings). The major goal of our Partnership is for practitioners and researchers, working with minoritized youth, to develop new understandings of how and under what conditions minoritized youth participate in Informal STEM Learning (ISL) over time and across settings, and how they may connect these experiences towards pathways into STEM. We will: 1) Develop new understandings of ISL pathways that are equitable and transformative for minoritized youth; 2) Co-develop high leverage practices and tools that support these equitable and transformative ISL pathways (and the agency youth need to path-make); and 3) Strengthen and increase professional capacity to broaden participation among youth from minoritized communities in STEM through ISL. Our work is grounded in longitudinal youth participatory ethnographies, surveys, and design-based implementation research methodologies. Our major goal responds to three challenges at the intersections of ISL research and practice in the US/UK: 1) lack of shared understanding of how minoritized youth perceive and experience ISL opportunities across the US/UK, and the practices and tools needed to support empowered movement through ISL; 2) limited shared understanding and evidence of core high-leverage practices that support minoritized youth in progressing within and across ISL, and 3) limited understanding of how ISL might be equitable and transformative for minoritized youth seeking to develop their own pathways into STEM. We focus on minoritized youth, ages 11-14, for whom there are wide and persistent gaps in representation in STEM, and for whom STEM careers and pursuits remain elusive. The project will be carried out by RPPs in 4 cities: London & Bristol, UK and Lansing, MI & Portland, OR, US, involving university researchers (Kings College, University College London, Michigan State University, Oregon State University) practitioners in science museums (@Bristol Science Centre, Brent Lodge Park Animal Centre, Impressions 5, OMSI) and community-based centers (STEMettes, Knowle West Media Centre, Boys & Girls Clubs of Lansing, and Girls, Inc.).

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Grant Details

Amount Awarded 621873
Applicant Surname Archer
Award Date 2016-11-07T00:00:00+00:00
Financial Year 2016/17
Grant Programme: Title Science Learning Plus
Internal ID 206258/Z/17/A
Lead Applicant Prof Louise Archer
Partnership Name Science Learning Plus
Partnership Value 749245
Planned Dates: End Date 2022-09-30T00:00:00+00:00
Planned Dates: Start Date 2017-03-01T00:00:00+00:00
Recipient Org: Country United Kingdom
Region Greater London