Enabling the Next Generation of Hazards and Disasters Researchers

这项教育和培训计划是一个全面的、创造性的项目，为研究型大学新近任命的对自然灾害和灾害感兴趣的初级教员提供指导。我们寻求(1)确定并招募另一批训练有素的社会科学家和工程师，他们对危害的社会方面有一定的认识，他们将对极端事件的社会方面进行研究；(2)让这群研究人员参与讨论与极端事件研究相关的跨学科社会科学奖学金；(3)通过提供关于提案制定和研究传播的教程，特别是在学术渠道，使这批研究人员能够对这些主题进行持续的研究；(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。这些目标将通过一个由来自广泛学科的学者作为导师的指导计划来实现。该项目包括两个研讨会、一对一指导以及研究和写作活动。最终的评估报告将评估该项目的有效性。这个项目将吸引年轻的教师进入一个学生领域，在这个领域，一些资深研究人员预计将很快退休。该项目的一个主要目标是从代表性不足的群体中确定和招募学者从事这一研究领域。

This education and training initiative is a comprehensive, creative program of mentoring for recently appointed junior faculty at research universities with an interest in natural hazards and disasters. We seek to (1) identify and recruit another cohort of well-trained social scientists and engineers with an appreciation for the social aspects of hazards, who will undertake research about societal aspects of extreme events; (2) engage this cohort of researchers in discussions about interdisciplinary social science scholarship as it relates to research about extreme events; (3) enable this cohort of researchers to undertake sustained research on these topics by providing tutorials on proposal development and research dissemination, particularly in scholarly outlets; and (4) foster an expanded network of social scientists undertaking research on extreme events.These goals will be accomplished through a mentoring program involving scholars from a broad range of disciplines as mentors. The project includes two workshops, one-on-one mentoring, and research and writing activities. A final evaluation report will assess the program's effectiveness. This project will attract junior faculty to a field of student in which a number of senior researchers are expected to retire soon. A major goal of the project is to identify and recruit scholars from underrepresented groups to this field of research.