Postdoctoral Training in the Study of Aging

描述（由申请人提供）：兰德博士后研究项目， 老龄化的目的是缓解关键的过渡，年轻学者必须从学生到独立的研究人员。这些学者可能面临制定研究议程，发表他们的工作和发展感兴趣的同事网络的挑战。该兰德计划旨在帮助年轻学者提高他们在研究生院发展的分析技能，在跨学科的环境中研究与衰老相关的问题，有效地向各种受众展示研究成果，并在离开兰德后制定研究议程。国家老龄研究所已经为兰德计划提供了十多年的资金支持;这里描述的项目是从2005年开始再延长五（5）年的支持。该项目位于加州圣莫尼卡的兰德总部，每年招收一名新的博士后研究员，通常为期两年。研究员广泛招募的人刚刚完成他们的博士学位，或有几年的博士后经验，在人口学，经济学和社会学等领域。一个由27名研究人员组成的多元化和杰出的小组，代表了各种学科，作为培训教师参加。一个由五（5）人组成的指导委员会负责监督该计划。博士后项目为研究员提供个性化培训，包括通过兰德公司正在进行的一项大型、备受推崇的老龄化相关研究项目进行的老龄化研究在职培训，以及旨在提高研究员分析和沟通技能的其他正式和非正式培训。研究员可以参加帕迪兰德研究生院的研讨会;参加兰德的统计、计算、调查和通信专家提供的课程;参加兰德和邻近大学提供的关于经济、人口和人口问题的许多研讨会。工作人员顾问和培训教师和研究支持的其他成员帮助研究员制定和追求自己的研究议程，并为专业会议准备研究报告和提交给专业期刊的论文。还鼓励研究员制定一项研究提案，提交给资助机构，作为培训计划结束后继续取得进展的一步。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The RAND Postdoctoral Research Program in the Study of Aging is designed to ease the critical transition that young scholars must make from student to independent researcher. Such scholars can face challenges to elaborating a research agenda, publishing their work, and developing a network of interested colleagues. The RAND program aims to help young scholars enhance the analytical skills they developed in graduate school, study aging-related issues in an interdisciplinary environment, present research results effectively to various audiences, and develop an agenda for research after leaving RAND. The National Institute on Aging has funded the RAND program for more than a decade; the project described here is to extend that support another five (5) years, beginning in 2005. The program, situated at RAND headquarters in Santa Monica, California, enrolls one (1) new postdoctoral fellow each year, typically for a two (2)-year term. Fellows are broadly recruited from persons just completing their Ph.D, or with a few years of postdoctoral experience, in fields such as demography, economics, and sociology. A diverse and distinguished group of 27 researchers, representing a variety of disciplines, participates as the training faculty. A five (5) member Steering Committee oversees the program. The postdoctoral program offers individualized training to the fellows, including on-the-job training in research on aging through a large, highly regarded program of ongoing aging-related studies at RAND, as well as other formal and informal training designed to enhance the fellows' analytical and communication skills. Fellows can enroll in seminars in the Pardee RAND Graduate school; participate in courses offered by RAND's statistical, computing, survey, and communications experts; attend numerous seminars on economic, demographic, and population issues offered at RAND and neighboring universites. The staff advisor and other members of the training faculty and research support help fellows develop and pursue their own research agendas and prepare research presentations for professional meetings and papers for submission to professional journals. Fellows are also encouraged to develop a research proposal for submission to a funding agency, as a step towards continuing their progress after the training program ends.