Graduate Training in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: A Workshop

在科学教育委员会和高等教育与劳动力委员会的主持下，美国国家科学院、工程院和医学院将举行一次公开研讨会，探讨社会和行为科学研究生培训的未来方向。商业、政府和学术界对行为和社会科学的需求很大，而且还在不断增长。然而，研究生培训制度没有跟上科学问题和工具的变化，也没有跟上潜在雇主的机会和要求。本次研讨会将汇集来自学术和非学术场所以及学术生涯不同阶段的专家，就必须解决的重大问题展开急需的讨论，以培养未来的行为和社会科学家。将在一份发表的报告中总结的讲习班讨论将为行为和社会科学研究生培训的转变奠定基础，这将促进科学的持续进步，并有助于在多个机构环境和日常生活中改进知识、政策和实践。商业、政府和学术界对行为和社会科学的需求很大，而且还在不断增长。最好的行为科学和社会科学正变得越来越跨学科，对其他科学做出了重要的贡献，并向其他科学学习。因此，行为和社会科学培训制度的富有成效的转变将有助于在多个机构环境和日常生活中改进知识、政策和实践。讲习班将汇集广泛的利益相关者，他们可以将讲习班作为重新构想社会和行为科学研究生培训的起点。研讨会的主题如下：1)当前博士的生产和就业？在社会和行为科学方面，包括不同的培训途径，以及持有博士学位的人在哪里？目前聘用社会和行为科学专业的S；2)科学、学术界、政府和商业的变化如何为未来的社会和行为科学工作者创造新的需求和挑战；3)雇主如何看待他们未来的需求；4)为了应对不断变化的数据资源、研究实践和就业机会，社会和行为科学研究生的培训和职业道路需要如何转变；5)上述问题在社会科学、行为科学和经济科学中有何不同；6)数据需求和潜在的研究领域，为重塑研究生培训和确定最佳实践提供信息。研讨会的讨论将在一份已发表的报告中进行总结，它将有助于促进讨论、规划和变革的进程，这将导致美国乃至全球研究生和博士教育的转型。

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, under the auspices of the Board on Science Education and the Board on Higher Education and the Workforce, will hold a public workshop to explore future directions for graduate training in the social and behavioral sciences. The demand for behavioral and social science is large and growing in business, government, and academia. However, graduate training regimes have not kept pace with changes in the problems and tools of science and the opportunities and demands of potential employers. This workshop will bring together experts from academic and non-academic venues and from different stages of the academic career to initiate a much-needed discussion of the major issues that must be addressed to prepare future behavioral and social scientists. The workshop discussions, to be summarized in a published report, will lay the groundwork for a transformation of graduate training in the behavioral and social sciences that will promote continued progress in science and contribute to improved knowledge, policy, and practice in multiple institutional settings and in everyday life.The demand for behavioral and social science is large and growing in business, government, and academia. The best behavioral and social science is becoming more and more interdisciplinary making important contributions to and learning from the other sciences. Thus, a productive transformation of the training regime in the behavioral and social sciences will contribute to improved knowledge, policy, and practice in multiple institutional settings and in everyday life. The workshop will bring together a broad set of stakeholders who can use the workshop as a starting point for re-imagining graduate training in the social and behavioral sciences. The workshop cover the following themes: 1) Current production and employment of PhD?s in the social and behavioral sciences, including different pathways for training and where individuals holding PhD?s in social and behavioral sciences are currently employed; 2) How changes in science, academia, government, and business are creating new demands and challenges for the future social and behavioral sciences workforce; 3) How employers perceive their future needs; 4) How training and career pathways for graduate students in the social and behavioral sciences will need to be transformed in order to respond to changing data resources, research practices, and career opportunities; 5) How the issues above might vary across the social, behavioral, and economic sciences; and 6) Data needs and potential research areas to inform reshaping graduate training and to identify best practices. The workshop discussions, to be summarized in a published report, will help to catalyze a process of discussion, planning, and change that should lead to a transformation of graduate doctoral education in the U.S. and, perhaps, across the globe.