Support for Young Scholars to Participate in ISSBD PreConference Workshops on Important Topics in Developmental Science, Lusaka, Zambia

这一奖项将资助至少12名来自美国的年轻学者(主要是博士生，但都是在获得博士学位的7年内)参加在赞比亚卢萨卡举行的国际行为发展研究学会(ISSBD)双年度会议的会前活动中关于发展科学中心议题的三个前沿研究培训讲习班之一。来自世界各地约30个国家的许多其他青年学者将参加这些讲习班，其中包括许多发展中国家，特别是非洲国家。培训讲习班的主题如下：(1)社会变革和人类发展，由加州大学洛杉矶分校的Patricia Greenfield和德国奥斯纳布吕克大学的Heidi Keller领导。这些杰出的教授将展示人类学、心理学和社会学领域对文化、社会变革和人类发展的最新思考。参与者将有机会在分组会议上讨论他们的研究并应用理论和方法。(2)方法论导论和纵向数据分析，由荷兰乌得勒支大学的Marcel Vanaken和德国洪堡大学的Jaap Dinessen领导。这些杰出的研究人员以他们对方法的研究以及他们对发展数据的专业应用而闻名。发展涉及变化，计算机技术和统计学的最新进步产生了强大的新方法来分析群体中的个人数据，例如随着时间的推移反复抽样的家庭。这次研讨会将介绍重要的方法，并将为小组的参与者提供机会，使他们能够根据自己的数据使用这些方法。(3)由加拿大蒙特利尔大学的Richard Tremblay和国家儿童健康与人类发展研究所Steven Suomi领导的《从比较和跨学科的角度看攻击性的发展起源》。这些杰出的科学家将介绍人类和其他动物之间关于攻击性的最新知识，包括神经科学、遗传和表观遗传因素，以及其他个人和群体差异因素。正如ISSBD过去的培训研讨会所表明的那样，参与者与其他年轻学者建立了牢固的联系，这为开展合作研究，特别是国际合作奠定了基础，初级和高级研究人员参加了这些会议。来自过去研讨会的年轻学者被选为非常有前途的人，他们开始从事对全球社会重要的严谨合作研究，因为他们接触了其他文化。由这笔资金资助的年轻研究人员有望成为发展科学领域的领导者，从而在全球范围内产生影响。该奖项由社会、行为和经济局的发展和学习科学项目以及国际科学和工程办公室的非洲、近东和南亚项目共同资助。

This award will support the travel and participation of at least 12 young scholars (primarily doctoral students but all within 7 years of obtaining a PhD) from the United States in one of three cutting-edge research training workshops on central topics in developmental science held as pre-conference events for the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD) Biennial Meeting in Lusaka, Zambia. They will be joined in these workshops by many other young scholars from about thirty countries around the world, including many developing countries, especially in Africa. The topics for the training workshops are as follows: (1) Social Change and Human Development, led by Patricia Greenfield, UCLA and Heidi Keller, University of Osnabruck, Germany. These distinguished professors will present the latest thinking about culture, social change, and human development from the fields of anthropology, psychology, and sociology. Participants will have the opportunity in break-out sessions to discuss their research and apply the theories and methods. (2) Introduction to Methodology and Analyses of Longitudinal Data, led by Marcel vanAken, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands and Jaap Dinessen, Humboldt University, Germany. These outstanding researchers are known for their research on methods as well as their expert application of them to developmental data. Development involves change and recent advances in computer technology as well as statistics have yielded powerful new methods to analyze data on individuals in groups such as families sampled repeatedly over time. This workshop will present important methods and will provide opportunities for participants in small groups to use these methods on their own data. (3) Developmental Origins of Aggression from Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, led by Richard Tremblay, University of Montreal, Canada and Steven Suomi, National Institute for Child Health and Human Development. These eminent scientists will present the latest knowledge about aggression, broadly construed, among humans and other animals including neuroscience, genetic and epigenetic factors, and other individual and group difference factors.As past ISSBD training workshops have demonstrated, the participants form strong bonds with other young scholars that provide a base for pursuing collaborative research, particularly international collaborations, with junior as well as more senior investigators participating in these meetings. The young scholars from past workshops, selected as highly promising, have proceeded to become engaged in rigorous collaborative research that is important to global society because of their exposure to other cultures. The young researchers funded on this grant are expected to become leaders in developmental science that makes a difference globally. This award is being co-funded by the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Directorate's Developmental and Learning Sciences program and the Office of International Science and Engineering's Africa, Near East, and South Asia program.