Initiative in Population Research

描述(由申请人提供)：俄亥俄州立大学人口研究计划(IPR)与人力资源研究中心(CHRR)合作，寻求NICHD/NIH人口与行为科学分部对R21人口研究中心基础设施的支持。我们的规划活动有一个唯一的长期目标：培养一个以儿童、青年和家庭为中心的积极和创新的研究和培训计划。我们对儿童福祉的关注建立在IPR/CHRR目前的研究和培训优势的基础上，旨在创造新的和广泛的协同效应，培养俄亥俄州立大学新的和创新的人口研究和培训。核心系包括社会学、经济学和地理学。自2000年成立以来，研究所积极寻求将社会学以家庭和人口为导向的教员的研究活动与CHRR正在进行的研究传统和活动相结合。知识产权只有一段短暂但成功的历史。IPR已经取得了重大进展，核心部门、社会和行为科学学院(即学术丰富奖)、生物统计中心和大学都做出了新的财政承诺，许多学术部门、中心和学院都有广泛的教职员工兴趣和参与。为了在这些成就的基础上再接再厉，本申请申请基础设施资金，以开发三个研究核心(行政、地理分析、调查方法和统计)和一个发展核心(例如，用于研究的种子资金、教师发展和学生培训的机会，以及获取增值数据)，旨在创建一个活跃的多学科人口和家庭研究社区。本申请中描述的每一项活动都有一个更长期的目标：让IPR/CHRR的教职员工为成功的R24做好准备。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Ohio State University's Initiative in Population Research (IPR), in collaboration with the Center for Human Resource Research (CHRR), seeks R21 population research center infrastructure support from Demographic and Behavioral Science Branch at NICHD/NIH. Our planning activities have a singular long-term aim: To cultivate an active and innovative research and training program centered on children, youth, and families. Our focus on children's well-being builds on IPR/CHRR's current research and training strengths, and is designed to create new and broad-based synergies that cultivate new and innovative demographic research and training at The Ohio State University. Core departments include Sociology, Economics, and Geography. Since its inception in 2000, the IPR has actively sought to merge the research activities of Sociology's family- and demographic-oriented faculty with the ongoing research traditions and activities of CHRR. The IPR has had a short but successful history. The IPR has moved forward in significant ways, both with new financial commitments from core departments, the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences (i.e., an Academic Enrichment Award), the Center for Biostatistics, and the University, and with broad faculty interest and involvement across many academic departments, centers, and colleges. To build on these accomplishments, this application requests infrastructure funding to develop three research cores (Administrative, Geographic Analysis, and Survey Methodology and Statistics) and a developmental core (e.g., seed monies for research, opportunities for faculty development and student training, and access to value-added data) designed to create an active multidisciplinary demographic and family research community. Each of the activities described in this application serve a longer-term goal: to prepare IPR/CHRR's faculty for a successful R24.