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

该奖项将支持来自美国的至少12名年轻学者（主要是博士生，但都在获得博士学位的7年内）的旅行和参加在赞比亚卢萨卡举行的国际行为发展研究学会（ISSBD）两年一次会议的会前活动中关于发展科学中心主题的三个前沿研究培训讲习班之一。他们将与来自世界各地约30个国家的许多其他年轻学者一起参加这些讲习班，其中包括许多发展中国家，特别是非洲的发展中国家。培训班的主题如下:(1)社会变革和人类发展,帕特里夏·格林菲尔德领导的德国奥斯纳布吕克大学加州大学洛杉矶分校和海蒂·凯勒。这些杰出的教授将从人类学、心理学和社会学等领域介绍有关文化、社会变革和人类发展的最新思想。参与者将有机会在分组会议中讨论他们的研究并应用理论和方法。(2)《纵向数据方法论与分析导论》，由荷兰乌得勒支大学Marcel vanAken和德国洪堡大学Jaap Dinessen牵头。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展已经产生了强大的新方法来分析群体（如家庭）中个人的数据。本次研讨会将介绍重要的方法，并为小组参与者提供机会，让他们在自己的数据上使用这些方法。(3)由加拿大蒙特利尔大学的Richard Tremblay和美国国家儿童健康与人类发展研究所的Steven Suomi领导，从比较和跨学科的角度看攻击的发展起源。这些杰出的科学家将展示关于人类和其他动物之间的攻击性的最新知识，包括神经科学，遗传和表观遗传因素，以及其他个体和群体差异因素。正如过去的ISSBD培训讲习班所表明的那样，参与者与其他年轻学者建立了牢固的联系，为与参加这些会议的初级和高级研究人员进行合作研究，特别是国际合作提供了基础。从过去的研讨会中选出的年轻学者被认为非常有前途，他们已经开始从事严谨的合作研究，这对全球社会很重要，因为他们接触了其他文化。获得这项资助的年轻研究人员有望成为发展科学领域的领导者，在全球发挥作用。该奖项由社会、行为和经济理事会的发展和学习科学项目以及国际科学与工程办公室的非洲、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.