Growing Up and Growing Older Across Societies: Harnessing the Power of Comparative Life Course Research Workshop

项目摘要 学者们早就明白，尽管有一些共同的特点， 人的成长和衰老对一个人的政治、社会、文化和经济都是特殊的 上下文现在，在大规模队列研究中所做的重大投资已经取得了成果。 与其他社会的队列研究或同一社会以前的队列研究相协调。 为使这些数据公开和可获得而作出的协调努力产生了大量的成果， 文档、新的分析方法和在线工具。然而，尽管有明显的潜力， 比较研究推动科学前进，实际执行比较 研究设计仍处于早期阶段。比较研究的独特挑战可能会阻碍 生产力我们建议举办一个关于比较生命历程研究的研讨会， 比较研究中的独特挑战，由这些队列的高级研究人员提出 研究（HRS+同胞研究，NLSY，PSID+同胞研究）和已发表的样本 来自初级学者的研究。本提案的创新之处包括： 就在第一次美国纵向和生命历程协会会议之前， 研究，为研讨会与会者带来额外的好处，包括： SLLS会议，为期一年的在线方法研讨会和专题研讨会 在国际会议上展示他们的研究成果R13赠款的具体目标 （1）召集国内大规模队列研究和比较生命历程专家 研究，以提供一个关于该领域最新趋势的讲习班。[承诺书 （2）增加比较生命历程研究的多样性， 通过旅行奖励，促进和协助来自城市资源管理团体的学者参加会议。(3)构建 通过支持初级学者，在生命历程和纵向奖学金中进行研究管道 进行比较生命历程研究。凯斯西储在以下领域享有盛誉： 老龄化和生命历程的领域，通过奖学金，赠款资金和培训，使其成为一个 研讨会的理想地点，SLLS会议随后立即在同一地点举行 会场共同研究团队由不同人员组成（资历、种族/民族、性别） 一组年龄和生命历程的学者。独立的早期职业和学生倡议委员会 （由两个共同主席）是由来自代表性不足的背景， 科学调查人员和委员会将积极招募代表性不足的少数族裔 研究人员到车间。会议计划概述了这些努力，以及用于 家庭护理和家庭友好方案。

Project Summary Scholars have long understood that despite some common features, many key aspects of how humans grow up and grow older are particulate to one's political, social, cultural, and economic context. Major investments made in large-scale cohort studies have come to fruition, now harmonized with cohort studies in other societies or previous cohorts of the same society. Concerted efforts to make these data publicly available and accessible have produced substantial documentation, new analytic approaches, and online tools. Yet despite the obvious potentials of comparative research to move science forward, the actual implementation of comparative research designs is still at an early stage. Unique challenges to comparative research may hinder productivity. We propose a workshop on Comparative Life Course Research to address the unique challenges in comparative research, presented by senior investigators of those cohort studies (HRS+sibling studies, NLSY, PSID+sibling studies) and featuring exemplar published studies from junior scholars. Innovations of this proposal include scheduling the workshop immediately prior the first US-based meeting of the Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, leveraging additional benefits for workshop attendees including: waived registration for the SLLS meeting, one-year access to online methodological workshops, and dedicated symposia to present their own research at the international conference. The specific aims of the R13 grant are: (1) Assemble national experts in large-scale cohort studies and comparative life course research to provide a workshop on the cutting-edge trends in the field. [Commitment letters included in the proposal] (2) Increase the diversity in comparative life course research by facilitating and assisting scholars from URM groups to attend through travel awards. (3) Build the research pipeline in life course and longitudinal scholarship by supporting junior scholars conducting comparative life course research. Case Western Reserve has a strong reputation in the areas of aging and life course through scholarship, grant funding, and training, making it an ideal location for the workshop, with the SLLS meeting following immediately at the same venue. The Co-Investigative team is composed of a diverse (seniority, race/ethnicity, gender) set of age and life course scholars. A separate Early Career and Student Initiatives Committee (co-chaired by two Co-Is) is composed of junior scholars from underrepresented backgrounds in science. Investigators and the committee will be active in recruiting underrepresented minority researchers to the workshop. The Conference Plan outlines these efforts, as well as resources for family care and family-friendly programming.