Workshop on Grand Challenges in the Social and Behavioral Sciences; Baltimore, October 2000

社会和行为科学重大挑战研讨会；

• 批准号: 0096646
• 负责人: Ronald Abler
• 金额: $ 3万
• 依托单位: Association of American Geographers
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-09-15 至 2002-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0096646&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Grand; Challenges; Social; Behavioral

Because of an exciting and powerful array of new discoveries across a broad range of disciplines, the social and behavioral sciences stand at a pivotal point. In addition to advances by individual researchers and small groups of investigators, social and behavioral scientists have seen the value of interdisciplinary activities that have increased collaborations with natural, mathematical, and computer scientists and engineers. Increased attention within the social and behavioral sciences has begun to focus on identification of "grand challenges" -- broad, fundamental questions that transcend the form and substance of individual sciences. This award will permit the Association of American Geographers and other organizations in the Consortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA) to organize and conduct a workshop that focuses on grand challenges in the social and behavioral sciences. Of special concern at the workshops will be identification of one or more major research questions fundamentally central to the overall concerns of the social and behavioral sciences. These questions should (1) hold the promise of creating new knowledge and theory; (2) attract the interest and participation of scientists across a broad spectrum of interests, including the earth, biological, mathematical, and information sciences, as well as in education and engineering; (3) be the result of broad and intensive consultation in the social and behavioral science community and therefore a challenge that will attract broad support and generate widespread enthusiasm; (4) be transparent to intelligent lay persons and capable of enlisting their interest and support; (5) engender interest and attracts support from a broad spectrum of federal and state agencies and private foundations; and (6) be international and multinational in scope, making it a means of promoting multinational collaborative science. About 30 leading researchers and practitioners from the broad range of social and behavioral science disciplines will meet for a two-day workshop, tentatively scheduled for October 13-15, 2000, in Baltimore. Preliminary candidates for grand challenges will be formulated by and circulated among participants before the workshop, with a set of plenary and more focused break-out sessions providing structure for the exploration of ideas and development of consensus. The proceedings and results of the workshop will be disseminated electronically and through publication in the newsletters of COSSA-related societies. The conduct of the workshop and its recommendations will provide valuable new insights and stimulus for researchers, both individually and collectively, and they will contribute to discussions within major funding agencies and organizations regarding major new research and budgetary initiatives now and in the future. A follow-up workshop for Fall 2001 is tentative planned. Any NSF support for this follow-up workshop would be made through a supplement to this initial award.

由于一系列令人兴奋和强大的新发现跨越了广泛的学科，社会和行为科学站在一个关键点。 除了个别研究人员和小规模研究小组的进步外，社会和行为科学家还看到了跨学科活动的价值，这些活动增加了与自然，数学和计算机科学家和工程师的合作。 社会科学和行为科学越来越多地关注“重大挑战”的识别--超越单个科学的形式和实质的广泛的基本问题。 该奖项将允许美国地理学家协会和社会科学协会联盟（COSSA）的其他组织和举办一个研讨会，重点关注社会和行为科学的重大挑战。 研讨会特别关注的是确定一个或多个对社会和行为科学的整体关注至关重要的主要研究问题。 这些问题应该（1）有创造新知识和理论的希望;（2）吸引广泛兴趣的科学家的兴趣和参与，包括地球科学、生物科学、数学科学和信息科学，以及教育和工程科学;（三）是社会和行为科学界广泛和深入磋商的结果，因此是一个将吸引广泛支持的挑战，产生广泛的热情;（4）对聪明的外行人透明，并能够获得他们的兴趣和支持;（5）引起广泛的联邦和州机构以及私人基金会的兴趣并吸引其支持;（6）在范围上是国际性的和多国的，使其成为促进多国合作科学的一种手段。 大约30名来自广泛的社会和行为科学学科的主要研究人员和从业人员将在巴尔的摩举行为期两天的研讨会，暂定2000年10月13日至15日。 在讲习班之前，与会者将提出重大挑战的初步候选方案，并在其中分发，同时举行一系列全体会议和重点更突出的分组会议，为探讨各种想法和达成共识提供框架。 讲习班的会议记录和成果将以电子方式传播，并在与COSSA有关的学会的通讯中发表。 讲习班的举办及其建议将为研究人员个人和集体提供宝贵的新见解和激励，并将有助于主要供资机构和组织就目前和今后的重大新研究和预算倡议进行讨论。 暂计划于2001年秋季举办一次后续讲习班。 NSF对该后续研讨会的任何支持都将通过对该初始奖励的补充来进行。