Underrepresented Groups Fellowship Program in Sociology

描述（由申请人提供）：美国社会学协会的少数族裔奖学金计划（MFP）的主要目标是支持招募和培训来自精神疾病和药物滥用社会学领域的少数种族/族裔社会学家。MFP寻求与大学研究生项目协调，向博士生预科生提供学术和研究培训和指导，以增加美国各地从事精神疾病和药物滥用社会学研究的种族/少数民族社会学家的人才库。该申请要求在未来五年内资助30名博士前研究员，研究员通常会获得三年的支持。MFP的具体目标包括：向学生提供信息和咨询，帮助他们选择有活跃的精神疾病和药物滥用研究人员的博士培训机构；根据学生的兴趣与项目相匹配，协助安排学生入职；在研究生项目、职业发展机会和完成培训的最佳方法方面，为学员提供个性化的指导、建议和社会支持；为研究员提供充实计划（例如，赠款/论文提案讲习班、研究实习），以加强他们的培训；让学生接触跨学科研究团队和转化研究；确定并与在精神疾病和药物滥用方面有强大研究项目的调查人员和部门合作。实现上述目标的方法包括：积极主动地招聘潜在的候选人；为该计划精心挑选研究员；在精神疾病社会学和药物滥用社会学的研究生项目中安置研究员；不断监督和指导研究员；以及在精神疾病社会学和药物滥用社会学方面的特殊丰富经验。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The primary goal of the American Sociological Association's Minority Fellowship Program (MFP) is to support the recruitment and training of sociologists of from racial/ethnic minority groups in the field of mental illness and in the sociology of substance abuse. The MFP seeks to provide predoctoral students with academic and research training and mentoring, in coordination with university graduate programs, in order to increase the talented pool of sociologists from racial/ethnic minority groups engaged in research in the sociology of mental illness and substance abuse throughout the United States. The application calls for the funding of 30 predoctoral Fellows over the next five years of the grant, with Fellows typically receiving three years of support. The specific aims of the MFP include: to provide information and counseling to students in the selection of doctoral training institutions with active mental illness and substance abuse researchers; to help in the placement process by matching students' interests with programs; to provide individualized mentoring, advice, and social support to Fellows development about their graduate programs, career opportunities and the best methods for completing training; to provide enrichment initiatives for Fellows (e.g., grant/dissertation proposal workshops, research internships) that will enhance their training; to expose students to interdisciplinary research teams and translational research; to identify and work with investigators and departments with strong research programs in mental illness and substance abuse. Methods for achieving the above goals include: proactive and highly visible recruitment of potential candidates; careful selection of Fellows for the program; placement of Fellows in graduate programs strong in the sociology of mental illness and the sociology of substance abuse; constant monitoring and mentoring of Fellows; and special enrichment experiences in the sociology of mental illness and in the sociology of substance abuse.