Smith-Doerr, Laurel

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Professor, Department of Sociology

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Smith-Doerr

First Name

Laurel

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Sociology

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Science/Technology Studies
Social Networks
Sociology of Gender

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Universities Should Look in the Mirror
(2021) Smith-Doerr, Laurel
Colleges have excellent faculty who are contributing new knowledge on equity and inclusion, but sadly that knowledge is rarely applied to the institutions themselves.
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How Diversity Matters in the U.S. Science and Engineering Workforce: Integration and Inclusion in Teams and Departments
(2022) Smith-Doerr, Laurel
This document summarizes the proceedings of the Scientific Workforce Diversity Seminar Series (SWDSS) virtual seminar “How Does Diversity Impact Science?” The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Chief Officer for Science Workforce Diversity (COSWD) office hosted the seminar on May 17, 2022. Approximately 675 people from NIH and other organizations attended. Marie A. Bernard, M.D., COSWD, moderated a panel discussion on the evidence regarding the impact of diverse, inclusive teams on creativity, innovation, and productivity in science. Six invited speakers with workforce diversity expertise shared perspectives and presented their research, including how to measure the impact of diversity and potential areas for future study. Presentations by the panelists were followed by a question-and-answer session moderated by Dr. Bernard. This document details the main points from the invited speakers’ presentations and the ensuing discussion on what diversity brings to the scientific endeavor. The seminar recording and panelists’ presentation materials are on the COSWD website.
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UMass ADVANCE STEM Decision-Making Findings 2022
(2023-01-01) Liu, Shuyin; Misra, Joya; Smith-Doerr, Laurel
Shared decision-making refers to faculty having opportunities to engage in discussions, voice their opinions, and have those opinions recognized as departments make decisions. While the university has a long history of faculty-led governance, there has always been substantial variability between departments. In addition, the pandemic has depressed opportunities for faculty to work together to make formal and informal decisions.
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UMass ADVANCE STEM Caregiving and Gender Findings 2022
(2023-01-01) Liu, Shuyin; Misra, Joya; Smith-Doerr, Laurel
In this research brief, we describe some of the key findings from this survey, focusing on patterns among STEM faculty by gender and caregiving status. We explore whether and how the intersection of gender and caregiving status affect STEM faculty inclusion, shared decision-making, and research collaboration.
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Crediting Collaboration Equitably
(2023-01-01) Smith-Doerr, Laurel; Mickey, Ethel L.; Misra, Joya; Normanly, Jennifer
This tool–Crediting collaboration equitably–is part 3 of a three-tool series for embedding equity into all phases of research collaboration. See also Creating equitable research collaborations (part 1) and Continuing equitable collaboration relationships (part 2).
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UMass ADVANCE STEM Rank and Gender Findings 2022
(2023-01-01) Liu, Shuyin; Misra, Joya; Smith-Doerr, Laurel
In this research brief, we describe some of the key findings from this survey, focusing on patterns among STEM faculty by gender and rank. We explore whether and how the intersection of gender and rank affect STEM faculty inclusion, shared decision-making, and research collaboration.
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UMass ADVANCE STEM Race and Gender Findings 2022
(2023-01-01) Liu, Shuyin; Misra, Joya; Smith-Doerr, Laurel
The UMass ADVANCE program is working to ensure greater equity among faculty through the power of collaboration. In the 2022 ADVANCE survey, 273 UMass faculty from 32 STEM departments in CICS, CNS, College of Engineering, and SBS responded. In this research brief, we describe some of the key findings from this survey, focusing on patterns among STEM faculty by gender and race. We explore whether and how the intersection of gender and race affect STEM faculty inclusion, shared decision-making, and research collaboration.
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Creating Inclusive Department Climates in STEM Fields: Multiple Faculty Perspectives on the Same Departments
(2022) Misra, Joya; Mickey, Ethel L.; Kanelee, Ember Skye W.; Smith-Doerr, Laurel
Climate studies that measure equity and inclusion among faculty reveal widespread gender and race disparities in higher education. The chilly departmental climate that women and faculty of color experience is typically measured through university-wide surveys. Although inclusion plays out at the department level, research rarely focuses on departments. Drawing from 57 interviews with faculty in 14 science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) departments, we compare experiences with inclusion among faculty in the same departments and rank who differ by race and gender. Women of color perceive their departments as least inclusive, followed by White women, White men, and men of color (largely foreign born). Yet the organizational context of departments strongly shapes faculty perspectives on climate. Analyzing multiple perspectives on the same departments reveals inclusive, improving, and marginalizing departments, as explained by perceptions of representation, collegiality, and democratic leadership. Faculty across race and gender largely agree when they are in inclusive or marginalizing departments. In improving departments, there is greater disagreement. By focusing on faculty who share the same department and rank, but differ by race and gender, we identify key approaches leaders can take to create more inclusive departments. Our focus on the department level helps develop new insights about how inclusion operates in university settings.
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Gender and innovation through an intersectional lens: Reimagining academic entrepreneurship in the United States
(2022) Mickey, Ethel L.; Smith-Doerr, Laurel
How to study inequality in innovation? Often, the focus has been gender gaps in patenting. Yet much is missing from our understanding of gendered inequality in innovation with this focus. This review discusses how gender and innovation are intertwined in durable academic inequalities and have implications for who is served by innovation. It summarizes research on gender and race gaps in academic entrepreneurship (including patenting), reasons for those longstanding inequities, and concludes with discussing why innovation gaps matter, including the need to think critically about academic commercialization. And while literature exists on gender gaps in academic entrepreneurship and race gaps in patenting, intersectional analyses of innovation are missing. Black feminist theorists have taught us that gender and race are overlapping and inseparable systems of oppression. We cannot accurately understand inequality in innovation without intersectionality, so this is a serious gap in current research. Intersectional research on gender and innovation is needed across epistemic approaches and methods. From understanding discrimination in academic entrepreneurship to bringing together critical analyses of racial capitalism and academic capitalism, there is much work to do.
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Chairs Checklist for Shared Decision Making
(2022-01-01) Kanelee, Ember Skye W.; Mickey, Ethel L.; Smith-Doerr, Laurel
UMass ADVANCE survey results indicate that women faculty are less clear on personnel processes than men, and women faculty members from underrepresented racial minority groups are the least clear on tenure and promotion processes. This checklist is for department chairs/heads to assess departmental shared decision-making and create equitable practices that will support the inclusion and retention of women faculty and faculty of color.