INTERDISCIPLINARY TRAINING IN DEMOGRAPHY

该培训计划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学研究生项目的博士后和博士后学生提供跨学科的人口统计学培训。拟议的培训计划整合的学科包括社会学、人类学(文化和生物学)以及人类发展和家庭研究。培训学院有19名高级人口学教员，外加16名额外的人口学教员，供目前在参与系注册的33名人口学学生使用。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、儿童福祉、生物人口学和健康、社区背景、空间分析和地理信息系统在人口学中的应用。这项提案寻求对5名博士后实习生和1名博士后实习生的年度支持。针对NICHD人口学培训计划的存在，将从新申请者中招募博士前实习生，参与学科的248名平均每年申请者和159名博士生将被招募。选拔将完全基于智力上的承诺和对人口研究的承诺。博士后培训生是通过全国搜索和其他博士后培训项目的同事推荐直接招募的。博士前培训包括掌握人口统计学技术和关于人口规模、构成、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规课程、研究学徒项目、职业发展座谈会和项目研讨会相结合的方式实现。较低的师生比例有利于形成强有力的辅导计划。三个选修双学位(如人类学和人口学博士等)在其学科范例和学术研究中扎根通过人口学研究生课程提供给博士前实习生。各参与学科的人口学系拥有33项目前得到资助的研究和核心支助赠款，这为人口研究、培训和指导机会提供了丰富的智力环境。该研究所在中央校区占地8300平方英尺，为教职研究人员和实习生提供办公室、会议和咨询室、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、秘书和赠款管理员。

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.