METOOPOLISCI

The American Political Science Association is teaming up with Drs. Nadia Brown, Rebecca Gill, Stella Rouse, and Elizabeth Sharrow to address the problems of sexual harassment and gender-based discrimination that create hostile working and learning climates in political science. The team is engaged in a three-year, $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation ADVANCE program. The primary goal of the grant is to support the wider adaptation of empirically-tested interventions such as department climate studies, upstanding bystander training, department-level facilitated dialogues, and policy changes that support an improved climate and contribute to preventing and responding to harassment and bullying in the field of political science. We aim to capitalize on the power that professional associations have to model, facilitate, and incentivize change in the climate and culture of the disciplines they serve through a substantial partnership with the APSA.