INTERDISCIPLINARY TRAINING IN DEMOGRAPHY

人口学跨学科培训

• 批准号: 2802008
• 负责人: GORDON F DEJONG
• 金额: $ 9.06万
• 依托单位: PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-05-01 至 2004-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2802008
• 关键词: INTERDISCIPLINARY; TRAINING; DEMOGRAPHY

Project Description The proposed training program will provide interdisciplinary demographic training in unique specialty research areas for pre-doctoral and postdoctoral students at Penn State's Population Research Institute and Graduate Program in Demography. Disciplines integrated in the proposed training program are Sociology, Anthropology (cultural and biological) and Human Development and Family Studies. The training faculty has 19 senior demography faculty members plus 16 additional demography teaching faculty for the 33 currently enrolled demography students in the participating departments. Distinctive specialty areas of established inter-disciplinary research and training include family formation processes, children's well-being, biodemography and health, and community context, spatial analysis, and GIS applications in demography. This proposal seeks annual support for five pre-doctoral trainees and one postdoctoral trainee. Pre-doctoral trainees will be recruited from new applicants responding to the presence of a NICHD training program in demography, and the 248 average annual applicants to and 159 Ph.D. students enrolled in the participating disciplines. Selection will be based solely on intellectual promise and commitment to population studies. Postdoctoral trainees are recruited directly by a national search and the recommendation of colleagues at other pre-doctoral training programs. Pre-doctoral training involves mastery of demographic techniques and substantive literature on causes and consequences of population size, composition, distribution and change. Program training goals are achieved through a combination of formal coursework, a research apprenticeship program, a profession development colloquium, and program seminars. The low faculty-student ratio facilitates a strong mentoring program. While embedded in their disciplinary paradigms and scholarship, three elective dual degrees (i.e. PhD in Anthropology and Demography, etc.) are available to pre-doctoral trainees through the Graduate Program in Demography. Demography Faculty from the participating disciplines have a portfolio of 33 currently-funded research and core support grants which provides a rich intellectual environment for demographic research training and mentorship opportunities. The Institute, which occupies 8,300 square feet of space on Central Campus, provides offices for faculty researchers and trainees, conferences and consulting rooms, a data archive, computer lab, a GIA lab, and specialized population library. Staff support includes statistical consultants, computer programmers, information specialists, secretaries, and grant administrators.

拟建的培训项目将在独特的专业研究领域为宾夕法尼亚州立大学人口研究所和人口统计学研究生项目的博士生和博士后提供跨学科的人口统计学培训。拟议培训计划中的学科包括社会学、人类学（文化和生物学）以及人类发展和家庭研究。培训师资队伍包括19名高级人口学教师和16名额外的人口学教师，为参与部门的33名在册人口学学生提供培训。已建立的跨学科研究和培训的独特专业领域包括家庭形成过程、儿童福利、生物人口统计学和健康、社区背景、空间分析和地理信息系统在人口统计学中的应用。本项目每年资助5名博士预科生和1名博士后。博士预科学员将从新申请者中招募，以响应NICHD人口统计学培训计划的存在，以及平均每年248名申请者和159名参与学科的博士生。选择将完全基于智力上的承诺和对人口研究的承诺。博士后研修生通过全国范围内的搜索和其他博士前培训项目的同事推荐直接招聘。博士前培训包括掌握人口统计技术和关于人口规模、组成、分布和变化的原因和后果的实质性文献。项目培训目标通过正式课程、研究学徒计划、职业发展讨论会和项目研讨会的结合来实现。较低的师生比例促进了强大的指导计划。虽然嵌入在他们的学科范式和奖学金，三个选修双学位（即人类学和人口学博士学位等）是提供给博士预科学生通过研究生课程在人口统计学。来自参与学科的人口学学院有33项目前资助的研究和核心支持补助金，为人口研究培训和指导机会提供了丰富的智力环境。该研究所位于中央校区，占地8,300平方英尺，为教师研究人员和学员提供办公室，会议室和咨询室，数据档案馆，计算机实验室，GIA实验室和专门的人口图书馆。工作人员支持包括统计顾问、计算机程序员、信息专家、秘书和拨款管理人员。