Cal-ADAR: Advancing Diversity in Aging Research at UC Berkeley

Cal-ADAR：推进加州大学伯克利分校衰老研究的多样性

• 批准号: 9131610
• 负责人: JOSHUA R. GOLDSTEIN
• 金额: $ 25.2万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-01 至 2020-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9131610
• 关键词: Address; Aging; Applied Skills; Area; Awareness; California; Computer software; Data Analyses; Data Set; Demographic Analyses; Demography; Discipline; Economics; Educational workshop; Elderly; Elements; Employment; Ethics; Exposure to; Faculty; Family; Fostering; Foundations; Fright; Funding; Goals; Graduate Education; Grant; Health; Hispanics; Immigrant; Intergenerational transfer; Internships; Life; Life Cycle Stages; Logistic Regressions; Measurable; Mentors; Mentorship; Methods; Minor; Occupations; Outcome; Paper; Parents; Policies; Policy Making; Population; Population Analysis; Population Dynamics; Population Research; Population Sciences; Process; Public Health Education; Publications; Qualifying; Recruitment Activity; Research; Research Design; Research Ethics; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Resources; STEM field; Scholarship; Schools; Seasons; Services; Source; Statistical Data Interpretation; Statistical Models; Students; Time; Training; Training Programs; Underrepresented Groups; Underrepresented Minority; Underrepresented Students; United States National Institutes of Health; Voice; Workplace; Writing; academic minor; academic program; aging population; apprenticeship; base; career; collaborative environment; college; community college; course introduction; demographics; design; disabled students; experience; graduate student; grandparent; human subject; innovation; interest; lecturer; member; minority student; outreach; programs; racial difference; responsible research conduct; role model; skill acquisition; social; statistics; student mentoring; student training; success; symposium; theories; transfer student; undergraduate research; undergraduate student

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of the project is to identify, recruit and train students from underrepresented groups to enter into the field of demography of aging. Demography can be daunting because it utilizes sophisticated statistical models. Given the demographic make-up of the student population in California, this program will provide paths to black and Hispanic students, as well as disabled students, a field that relies heavily on quantitative analysis using specialized software. The program also draws focus from the field of aging, as topics such as the racial differences in the propensity to reside with grandparents and later life outcomes, or intergenerational transfers for immigrants, are of great interest to these student groups. Without diverse perspectives utilizing the methods of demographic research, US policy-making in areas of public health and education will be insufficiently informed. The program will recruit students from the UC Berkeley campus as well as California community colleges as a large proportion of underrepresented students transfer to UCB after completing their first two at junior colleges. The program will provide a graduate student mentor to assist with the quantitative skill acquisition, a minor in demographic theory and methods with a focus on aging, computer software training, workshops in professionalization, applying to graduate school and responsible conduct of research. Beyond that, the cornerstone of the program is mentored research experience, which will take two forms: a mentored research practicum with a faculty member or a specially trained advanced graduate student, and a paid summer internship. Entrance and retention in the program will be merit-based, but will include the very necessary partial scholarship so that students will not feel that additional outside employment is necessary. The elements of the program address the factors deemed necessary for success in STEM fields: providing support for overcoming fear of statistics, getting hands-on meaningful research experience, and getting direction and guidance for a path to graduate school and a career.

 描述(申请人提供)：该项目的目的是从代表性不足的群体中识别、招收和培训进入老龄化人口统计学领域的学生。人口统计学可能令人望而生畏，因为它利用了复杂的统计模型。考虑到加州学生的人口构成，该项目将为黑人和西班牙裔学生以及残疾学生提供途径，这一领域严重依赖于使用专门软件进行定量分析。该项目还吸引了老龄化领域的关注，因为这些学生群体非常感兴趣的话题包括与祖父母同住的倾向和以后的生活结果的种族差异，或者移民的代际转移。如果没有利用人口研究方法的不同视角，美国在公共卫生和教育领域的政策制定将缺乏足够的信息。该计划将招收加州大学伯克利分校和加州社区学院的学生，因为很大一部分代表性不足的学生在大专完成前两个阶段后转学到UCB。该计划将提供一名研究生导师，以帮助获得定量技能，辅修人口统计学理论和方法，重点是老龄化、计算机软件培训、职业化研讨会、申请研究生院和负责任的研究工作。除此之外，该项目的基石是有指导的研究经历，它将采取两种形式：由教员或受过专门培训的高级研究生进行的有指导的研究实践，以及带薪的暑期实习。该项目的入学和保留将以成绩为基础，但将包括非常必要的部分奖学金，这样学生就不会觉得有必要额外的外部就业。该计划的内容涉及被认为是STEM领域成功所必需的因素：为克服对统计数据的恐惧提供支持，获得实践中有意义的研究经验，以及获得通往研究生院和职业生涯的方向和指导。