TY - JOUR
T1 - Negotiating boundaries
T2 - an intersectional collaboration to advance women academics in engineering
AU - Carrigan, Coleen
AU - Tanguay, Saejin Kwak
AU - Yen, Joyce
AU - Ivy, Julie Simmons
AU - Margherio, Cara
AU - Horner-Devine, M. Claire
AU - Riskin, Eve A.
AU - Grant, Christine S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - This paper draws on data from the National Science Foundation (NSF) ADVANCE-funded LATTICE program (Launching Academics on the Tenure-Track: an Intentional Community in Engineering) to examine how a diverse group of women worked across social and professional identities to support early-career women in academic engineering. We used ethnography to elucidate the social dynamics and power relations involved in forming a coherent group identity for the LATTICE leadership team, and the boundaries we negotiated in running the LATTICE program. We identify the processes and behaviors through which we made boundaries between members salient yet porous to build a coherent community across various dimensions of difference. We offer three actionable strategies that impact change agents’ engagement and the group’s coherence across multiple dimensions of difference: (1) intentionally creating a socio-emotional culture in our group, one that spans across group members’ personal and professional identities; (2) validating other group members’ perspectives, and (3) striving to build consensus using storytelling. These strategies of the LATTICE leadership team provide guidelines for others who work across intersecting dimensions of difference.
AB - This paper draws on data from the National Science Foundation (NSF) ADVANCE-funded LATTICE program (Launching Academics on the Tenure-Track: an Intentional Community in Engineering) to examine how a diverse group of women worked across social and professional identities to support early-career women in academic engineering. We used ethnography to elucidate the social dynamics and power relations involved in forming a coherent group identity for the LATTICE leadership team, and the boundaries we negotiated in running the LATTICE program. We identify the processes and behaviors through which we made boundaries between members salient yet porous to build a coherent community across various dimensions of difference. We offer three actionable strategies that impact change agents’ engagement and the group’s coherence across multiple dimensions of difference: (1) intentionally creating a socio-emotional culture in our group, one that spans across group members’ personal and professional identities; (2) validating other group members’ perspectives, and (3) striving to build consensus using storytelling. These strategies of the LATTICE leadership team provide guidelines for others who work across intersecting dimensions of difference.
KW - Collaboration
KW - broadening participation
KW - emotions
KW - engineering
KW - ethnography
KW - intersectionality
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U2 - 10.1080/19378629.2023.2169613
DO - 10.1080/19378629.2023.2169613
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85147664804
SN - 1937-8629
VL - 15
SP - 9
EP - 29
JO - Engineering Studies
JF - Engineering Studies
IS - 1
ER -