Professor awarded $78K NSF grant to address challenges related to racism and prejudice
Conference increased efforts to address gaps in theory, research, and policy, and intervention on prejudice, bias, and discrimination.
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Professor Gustavo Carlo a two-year, $78K grant for "Construction of the 'Other': Theory, Research, and Applied Implications of Racism, Prejudice, and Discrimination," a two-part, multiday conference series which aligns with the efforts of Carlo's Cultural Resilience and Learning Center's research activities.
Carlo and the organizers of the Society for Research on Child Development (SRCD) 2022 Special Topics Conference supported the travel and mentoring of 30 emerging scholars from underrepresented minority (URM) groups (based on race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation) to attend its meeting in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico on May 4-6, 2022 and to reconnect at the SRCD Biennial Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah on March 23-25, 2023. "This effort will support the next generation of scholars to acquire rigorous scientific training and expertise on this topic, and to become a resource to provide evidence-based practice recommendations to community entities facing the social challenges of racism, prejudice and discrimination," Carlo said. |
Professor Gustavo Carlo
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Scholars attending the conference discussed theories and research on: how children develop prejudice, racist attitudes and conceptions of in- and out-group; the health and developmental consequences of experiencing bias and discrimination; and the policy and intervention programs aimed at reducing such prejudice.
Carlo cited three research goals for the project. "First, support from SRCD and NSF for the conference sends a strong message to the public regarding the serious efforts by two major research organizations focusing on child health to address the challenges related to racism and prejudice," Carlo said. "Second, the conference will serve as a springboard for translation to policy. And third, the mentoring program will provide much needed training for URM junior scholars to spur broader diversity to address the major gaps in theory, research, and policy, and intervention on prejudice, bias, and discrimination."
More information on the 2022 conference can be found here.
Carlo cited three research goals for the project. "First, support from SRCD and NSF for the conference sends a strong message to the public regarding the serious efforts by two major research organizations focusing on child health to address the challenges related to racism and prejudice," Carlo said. "Second, the conference will serve as a springboard for translation to policy. And third, the mentoring program will provide much needed training for URM junior scholars to spur broader diversity to address the major gaps in theory, research, and policy, and intervention on prejudice, bias, and discrimination."
More information on the 2022 conference can be found here.
