INTERDISCIPLINARY TRAINING IN DEMOGRAPHY

人口学跨学科培训

• 批准号: 6520697
• 负责人: GORDON F DEJONG
• 金额: $ 11.02万
• 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/6520697
• 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.

项目描述拟议的培训计划将提供跨学科的人口培训，在独特的专业研究领域的博士前和博士后学生在宾夕法尼亚州立大学的人口研究所和研究生课程的人口。纳入拟议培训方案的学科是社会学、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，另外还有16名人口学教员，供参与部门目前就读的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，儿童的福祉，生物人口学和健康，以及社区背景，空间分析和GIS在人口学中的应用。该提案寻求每年为5名博士前实习生和1名博士后实习生提供支助。博士前学员将从新申请人中招募，以应对NICHD人口学培训计划的存在，平均每年有248名申请人和159名博士。参加学科的学生。选择将完全基于智力承诺和对人口研究的承诺。博士后培训生直接通过国家搜索和其他博士前培训项目的同事推荐招募。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大量文献。计划培训目标是通过正式课程，研究学徒计划，职业发展座谈会和计划研讨会的组合来实现的。低师生比例促进了强有力的指导计划。虽然嵌入在他们的学科范式和奖学金，三个选修双学位（即博士在人类学和人口学等）通过人口学研究生课程向博士前学员提供。来自参与学科的人口学系拥有33个目前资助的研究和核心支持赠款，为人口学研究培训和导师机会提供了丰富的知识环境。该研究所，占地8,300平方英尺的空间在中央校区，为教师研究人员和学员，会议和咨询室，数据档案，计算机实验室，GIA实验室和专门的人口图书馆提供办公室。工作人员支助包括统计顾问、计算机程序员、信息专家、秘书和赠款管理员。