Annual Conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science: Travel Grants for Graduate Student Participants

该奖项旨在支持一系列会议；它为研究生前往即将召开的科学社会研究学会会议提供支持。这笔资金将用于支持从2016年开始到2020年结束的未来五年的旅行。会议地点如下：2016年（西班牙巴塞罗那）、2017年（马萨诸塞州波士顿）、2018年（澳大利亚悉尼）、2019年（暂定在洛杉矶新奥尔良）和2020年（待定）。至少参加其中一些会议将使研究生能够建立专业网络，从他们所在领域的资深学者那里得到反馈，及时了解他们所在领域的发展，并传播他们自己的研究成果。旅行奖还将用于确保代表性不足的少数民族的参与；在发放旅游奖励时，将这些团体列入评选标准将是一个重要的标准。更广泛地说，这种支持将有助于发展一支强大的科学和技术劳动力队伍，通过代表性不足的群体的参与，使这支队伍更具创新性和竞争力。4S年会汇集了一群国际和跨学科的学者，他们的共同目标是了解科学、技术和医学的发展以及它们在社会背景下的互动方式。在年度会议上分享和讨论这些主题的相对较新的和有影响力的研究以及理论思想。支持研究生参与这样的氛围，不仅有利于学生自身的专业社会化，也有利于保持学科内的智力活力；研究生经常对新旧知识问题提出新的观点。研究生参加年会的影响也超出了研究领域，因为他们中的大多数人将继续在学术环境、研究机构或一些政策制定机构工作。促进他们参加年会将促进他们成为参与和知情的教师、研究人员和政策制定者，可能影响无数本科生，并为社会政策的方向提供信息。

General Audience Summary This award is to support a series of conferences; it provides support for graduate student travel to upcoming meetings of Society for Social Studies of Science. Funding will be used to support travel over the next five years beginning in 2016 and ending in 2020. Meeting locations are as follows: 2016 (Barcelona, Spain), 2017 (Boston, MA), 2018 (Sydney, Australia), 2019 (tentatively, New Orleans, LA), and 2020 (to be determined). Participation in at least some of these conferences will enable graduate students to professionally network, receive feedback from senior scholars in their field, remain abreast of developments in their area, and disseminate the results of their own research. The travel awards will also be used to ensure the participation of underrepresented minorities; the inclusion of such groups will serve an important selection criterion among others in distributing travel awards. More generally, this support will contribute to the growth of a strong science and technology workforce, a workforce that is made all the more innovative and competitive through the involvement of underrepresented groups.Technical Summary The 4S annual meeting brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars who share the common goal of understanding the development of science, technology, and medicine and the way they interact within a social context. Relatively new and impactful research as well as theoretical ideas on these topics are shared and discussed at the annual meeting. Supporting graduate student participation in such an atmosphere is beneficial not only for the professional socialization of the students themselves, but also for maintaining intellectual vitality within the discipline; graduate students frequently introduce fresh perspectives on new and old intellectual problems. The impact of graduate student participation in the annual meeting also extends beyond the field since most them will go on to work in an academic environment, a research institute or in some policy making body. Facilitating their attendance at the annual meeting will facilitate their becoming engaged and informed teachers, researchers, and policy makers, potentially impacting countless undergraduate students and informing the direction of social policy.