Training in Translating Scientific Research Findings for Non-Scientific Audiences

为非科学受众翻译科学研究成果的培训

• 批准号: 10452546
• 负责人: Toshiko Kaneda
• 金额: $ 14.76万
• 依托单位: POPULATION REFERENCE BUREAU
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-08-15 至 2025-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10452546
• 关键词: Academy; Accreditation; Address; Advocacy; Advocate; Behavioral; Businesses; Career Choice; Child; Communication; Development; Discipline; Education and Outreach; Educational process of instructing; Educational workshop; Eligibility Determination; Engineering; Ensure; Environment; Exercise; Face; Future; Goals; Government; Graduate Education; Health; Institution; Instruction; Journals; Language; Medicine; Mission; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; Outcome; Output; Participant; Persons; Policies; Policy Maker; Population; Population Dynamics; Population Research; Privatization; Process; Productivity; Reporting; Reproductive Health; Reproductive Process; Research; Research Personnel; Research Support; Schools; Science; Scientist; Social Development; Social Policies; Socialization; Source; Students; Training; Training Programs; Translating; United States; United States National Academy of Sciences; Universities; Washington; Woman; Work; Writing; career; doctoral student; eligible participant; evidence base; experience; graduate student; higher education; interest; member; outreach; outreach program; policy implication; population health; pre-doctoral; programs; skills; social; social media; time use; tool; virtual; working group

Project Summary/Abstract Current U.S. predoctoral graduate education is not designed to train researchers how to communicate research results to nonacademic audiences. Population Reference Bureau (PRB) addresses this gap with its U.S. policy communication training program, preparing current Ph.D. students to present findings in ways that are understandable and accessible to policy audiences, including decisionmakers, advocates, and the media. The program's main goal is to expand the cadre of U.S. population research professionals committed to policy communication. The program's objectives are to: (1) Address barriers that researchers face in communicating population-related research results to policy audiences; (2) Engage a diverse group of predoctoral students (future population professionals) in policy communication over their careers; (3) Teach population scientists about: the process by which research informs the policy environment, how to identify and communicate the policy implications of their research, and various tools/skills for communicating findings to U.S. policy audiences. To achieve these objectives, PRB will select annually 12 U.S. predoctoral students who apply on a competitive basis to participate in a three-part training program consisting of: (1) virtual orientation and introduction to the U.S. policy process; (2) summer workshop; (3) virtual writing and social media instruction and writing assignments during the academic year. Only students with findings to use in the program's writing and presentation exercises will be selected to participate. The summer workshop includes exercises in writing and presenting, giving participants experience in using their own research findings as the basis for building communication skills. Participants also meet in small working groups led by PRB staff or accomplished training program graduates, where they discuss their research and develop a presentation for a policy audience. To increase diversity of the training cadre, PRB proposes revising participants' eligibility criteria to include U.S. predoctoral students studying in accredited departments that are not institutional members of the Association of Population Centers. This change will allow us to prepare a more diverse pool of trainees pursuing research relevant to the mission of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Population Dynamics Branch, to effectively translate research into understandable, policy- relevant messages. Based on program graduates' early outputs, we expect this R-25 application will contribute significantly to expanding access to and use of understandable and useful information on key demographic, reproductive health, and population health issues to inform U.S. and global social policy.

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