Enabling the Next Generation of Hazard Researchers: An Education and Training Proposal

时间：2002年9月1日- 2004年8月31日研究领域的启动和最终制度化在很大程度上依赖于一代又一代的学者，他们不仅产生了新知识，而且还产生了将继续发展该领域的新一代学者。该项目回应了极端事件的社会方面研究领域的一个严重问题：缺乏足够的青年教师队伍来维持下一代的奖学金。这项教育和培训计划通过为研究型大学新任命的初级教师制定一个全面的、创造性的指导计划来解决这一问题。该计划的目标是：(1)确定并招募另一批训练有素的社会科学家，对极端事件的社会方面进行相关研究；(2)让这群研究人员参与讨论与极端事件研究相关的社会科学奖学金；(3)使这批教员能够就这些课题进行持续的研究；(4)建立一个由从事极端事件研究的社会科学家组成的扩大网络。为了实现这些目标，该项目将为新任命的优秀教师带来一年的时间，与决策科学、经济学、地理学、政治学、心理学、公共卫生、社会学和城市规划等领域的资深研究人员进行持续的接触。他们将与16名初级教员进行一段紧张的指导，这些教员将通过竞争选拔成为研究员。指导活动包括两个研讨会，由教师小组进行的一对一指导，以及由教师研究员进行的研究和写作活动。关于极端事件的社会方面的研究领域正处于关键时刻。这个项目对其未来的发展至关重要，并且实现了国家科学基金会的一项核心使命，即使个人能够通过新的学术研究为解决国家的问题做出贡献。

Time period: September 1, 2002-August 31, 2004The initiation and eventual institutionalization of fields of inquiry is heavily dependent upon generational cohorts of scholars who not only produce new knowledge but also produce new generations of scholars who will continue to develop the field. The project responds to a serious issue in the field of research on societal aspects of extreme events: the lack of an adequate cohort of junior faculty to sustain scholarship into future generations. This education and training initiative addresses this issue by developing a comprehensive, creative program of mentoring for recently appointed junior faculty at research universities. The objectives of the program are to: (1) identify and recruit another cohort of well-trained social scientists for undertaking relevant research about societal aspects of extreme events; (2) engage this cohort of researchers in discussions about social science scholarship as it relates to research about extreme events; (3) enable this cohort of faculty members to undertake sustained research on these topics; and (4) foster an expanded network of social scientists undertaking research on extreme events. To accomplish these objectives the project will bring bright, newly appointed faculty in sustained contact over a one-year period with seasoned researchers from the fields of decision sciences, economics, geography, political science, psychology, public health, sociology, and urban planning. They will engage in an intense period of mentoring with 16 junior faculty members who will be competitively selected to participate as fellows. Mentoring activities include two workshops, one-on-one mentoring by the faculty panel, and research and writing activities by the faculty fellows. The field of research on societal aspects of extreme events is at a critical juncture. This project is arguably important to its future development and fulfills a central mission of the National Science Foundation in enabling individuals to contribute to solving the nation's problems through new scholarship.