Initiative in Population Research

描述（由申请人提供）：俄亥俄州立大学人口研究倡议（IPR）与人力资源研究中心（CHRR）合作，寻求NICHD/NIH人口与行为科学分支的R21人口研究中心基础设施支持。我们的规划活动有一个单一的长期目标：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项目。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之上，旨在创造新的和广泛的协同效应，在俄亥俄州立大学培养新的和创新的人口研究和培训。核心系系包括社会学、经济学和地理学。自2000年成立以来，知识产权一直积极寻求将社会学的家庭和人口学系的研究活动与正在进行的研究传统和CHRR的活动相结合。知识产权有一个短暂但成功的历史。知识产权已经取得了重大进展，既有来自核心部门、社会与行为科学学院（即学术充实奖）、生物统计中心和大学的新的财政承诺，也有来自许多学术部门、中心和学院的广泛教员的兴趣和参与。为了在这些成就的基础上，本申请要求基础设施资金来发展三个研究核心（行政，地理分析，调查方法和统计）和一个发展核心（例如，研究的种子资金，教师发展和学生培训的机会，以及访问增值数据），旨在创建一个活跃的多学科人口和家庭研究社区。本应用程序中描述的每项活动都服务于一个长期目标：为成功的R24准备IPR/CHRR的教员。

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.