American Sociological Association Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant Program (ASA DDRIG)

支持学生的博士级研究是推进STEM管道的关键因素。论文研究是一个阶段，在这个阶段，通过资助的拨款提案注入资金和信任投票可以推动博士生取得更大的成功，特别是在他们的职业生涯早期。美国社会学协会博士论文研究改进资助（ASA） （DDRIG）计划通过为有杰出研究项目的高天赋学生提供支持，将对美国未来科学劳动力的构成和实力产生积极影响。ASA DDRIG项目将通过识别有杰出项目的有才华的研究生，建立结构机制以加强强大的师生指导，并消除生产最高质量，严谨的科学研究的经济障碍，为国家利益服务。此外，对贫困，武装冲突，不平等和健康差距等问题的原因和后果的论文研究将有助于未来潜在的政策解决方案，从而有助于我们社会的健康，繁荣和一般福利。社会学学位论文往往需要资金进行数据收集、数据分析等费用，才能顺利完成。ASA DDRIG项目将在ASA支持社会学系和研究生的计划努力的背景下启动，包括培养包容性卓越，推进有意和反思的建议，以及加强院系内外的知识分子社区。该计划每年将提供最多25笔赠款，每笔赠款最高16000美元，用于支持旨在推进社会学学科基础知识的论文研究。主题可以包括组织和组织行为、健康和医学、犯罪和越轨行为、社会不平等、人口动态、劳动力参与、家庭、社会网络、性别、种族、民族和科学技术社会学等。使用新方法的项目，如计算社会学、大数据、大规模建模和新兴技术的创新使用，也将受到欢迎。提案要求将以当前NSF对DDRIG提案的要求为模型，包括研究赞助者（PI）和研究学者（co-PI）。项目将由博士社会学家小组审查，重点是智力价值和更广泛的影响。新的ASA DDRIG方案与协会支持博士教育的其他方案之间的努力和影响相互作用，将对培训质量和知识生产产生积极影响，远远超过任何一项倡议单独产生的影响。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Supporting student research at the Ph.D. level is a critical element of advancing the STEM pipeline. Dissertation research is a stage at which an injection of funds and a vote of confidence through a funded grant proposal can propel doctoral students to greater success, especially early in their careers. By providing support for highly talented students with exceptional research projects, the American Sociological Association’s Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement grant (ASA) (DDRIG) program will positively impact the composition and strength of the U.S. future scientific workforce. The ASA DDRIG program will serve the national interests by identifying talented graduate students with exceptional projects, establishing structural mechanisms to reinforce strong faculty-student mentoring, and removing economic barriers to the production of the highest-quality, rigorous scientific research. Moreover, dissertation research on issues such as the causes and consequences of poverty, armed conflict, inequality, and health disparities will contribute to potential policy solutions in the future, thus contributing to the health, prosperity and general welfare of our society. Sociology dissertations often require funds for data collection, data analysis and other costs in order to be brought to successful completion. The ASA DDRIG project will be launched in the context of ASA’s programmatic efforts to support departments of sociology and graduate students, including fostering inclusive excellence, advancing intentional and reflective advising, and strengthening intellectual communities within and beyond departments. The program will give up to 25 grants per year of a maximum of $16,000 each in support of dissertation research that aims to advance basic knowledge within the discipline of sociology. Topics can include organizations and organizational behavior, health and medicine, crime and deviance, social inequality, population dynamics, labor force participation, family, social networks, gender, race, ethnicity, and the sociology of science and technology, among others. Projects that use new methods such as computational sociology, big data, large scale modeling, and the innovative use of emerging technologies, will also be welcomed. Proposal requirements will be modeled on current NSF requirements for DDRIG proposals, including a research sponsor (PI) and research scholar (co-PI). Projects will be reviewed by panels of Ph.D. sociologists, with emphasis on intellectual merit and broader impacts. The reciprocity of effort and influence between the new ASA DDRIG program and the association’s other programming in support of doctoral education will positively influence the quality of training and the production of knowledge far more than either initiative could in isolation.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.