Schlecht Colleen, McGuier Elizabeth A, Huang Lee Ann, Daro Deborah
Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, 1313 E 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637.
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Psychiatry, 3811 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213.
Child Youth Serv Rev. 2023 Oct;153. doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2023.107113. Epub 2023 Jul 26.
Child maltreatment is a complex problem requiring interdisciplinary collaborative research to generate innovative solutions. The Doris Duke Fellowships for the Promotion of Child Well-Being were designed to identify and nurture emerging scholars committed to child maltreatment prevention and create a supportive interdisciplinary learning network.
This paper examines connectivity within the collaborative network created by the fellowships program using longitudinal social network data.
Participants were 120 individuals selected as Doris Duke Fellows during their doctoral training at universities in the United States.
Fellows completed annual, voluntary web-based surveys to assess their interactions with other fellows during the past year. Social network analysis methods were used to assess the strength and quality of the learning network over a four-year period.
Across four years of data, there were increases in the number of connections, proportion of cross-cohort connections, and proportion of interdisciplinary connections. Network analyses showed a highly connected network consisting of primarily medium- and high-quality connections between fellows from different disciplines. The number of scientific journal articles authored by two or more fellows grew substantially over time.
Findings indicate the collaborative network created by the fellowships program is growing and strengthening over time. The new Child Well-Being Research Network extends the fellowships network to a broader group of scholars and professionals to advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice in the field of child well-being research.
儿童虐待是一个复杂的问题，需要跨学科合作研究以产生创新解决方案。多丽丝·杜克促进儿童福祉奖学金旨在识别和培养致力于预防儿童虐待的新兴学者，并创建一个支持性的跨学科学习网络。
本文使用纵向社会网络数据，研究该奖学金计划创建的合作网络中的连通性。
参与者为120名在美国大学攻读博士学位期间被选为多丽丝·杜克学者的个人。
学者们每年自愿完成基于网络的调查，以评估他们在过去一年中与其他学者的互动情况。使用社会网络分析方法评估四年期间学习网络的强度和质量。
在四年的数据中，联系数量、跨群体联系比例和跨学科联系比例均有所增加。网络分析显示，该网络高度连通，主要由来自不同学科的学者之间中等质量和高质量的联系组成。由两名或更多学者共同撰写的科学期刊文章数量随时间大幅增加。
研究结果表明，该奖学金计划创建的合作网络随着时间的推移不断发展壮大。新的儿童福祉研究网络将奖学金网络扩展到更广泛的学者和专业人员群体，以推动儿童福祉研究领域的多样性、公平性、包容性和公正性。
