NextGenPop: Recruiting the Next Generation of Scholars into Population Research

NextGenPop：招募下一代学者进行人口研究

• 批准号: 10470915
• 负责人: Marcia Jeanne Carlson
• 金额: $ 15.8万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-08-17 至 2026-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10470915
• 关键词: Address; Advisory Committees; Americas; Applied Research; Attention; Career Mobility; Child Health; Data; Data Analyses; Demographic Analyses; Demography; Development; Doctor of Philosophy; Educational Curriculum; Ensure; Environment; Faculty; Family; Fostering; Foundations; Future; Geographic Locations; Government; Growth; Health; Human; Human Development; Individual; Inequality; Infrastructure; Institutes; Institution; Knowledge; Learning; Methodology; Methods; Minnesota; Mission; Participant; Pattern; Personal Satisfaction; Persons; Population; Population Policies; Population Process; Population Research; Population Sciences; Process; Productivity; Professional Organizations; Program Development; Public Health; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Rotation; Schools; Science; Shapes; Site; Structure; Students; Techniques; Training; Underrepresented Students; Universities; Visualization; Wisconsin; career; cohort; critical period; data tools; education research; ethnic diversity; experience; follow-up; health knowledge; insight; lens; meetings; member; next generation; peer support; programs; racial diversity; recruit; student training; study population; success; summer program; tool; undergraduate research; undergraduate student; virtual

ABSTRACT Informed by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute on Child Health and Human Development mission “to ensure the health, productivity, independence, and well-being of all people,” demographic research provides key insights into the population processes that shape health and well-being. Students trained in population science are well-equipped to pursue careers across academic, government, and applied research settings and contribute to advancements in human health and development. There remains, however, a striking lack of racial and ethnic diversity among our PhD programs, researchers, and professional associations that limits the potential of the field. We propose to address this critical challenge with a research education program, NextGenPop, that draws undergraduates from underrepresented backgrounds into population science. This is important both for providing opportunities to students who have been historically marginalized and for generating a body of demographic knowledge that fully reflects the diversity of human populations today. Our proposed program will use the pressing growth of inequality as a lens for studying population composition and change, and our training approach will be structured to support the learning and career advancement of diverse students. It is a collaborative initiative across five universities and will be coordinated by the Population Association of America, guided by an external Advisory Committee and regional partners, and supported by a consortium of population centers within the Association of Population Centers. The broad aim of NextGenPop is to significantly increase the pipeline of scholars from underrepresented backgrounds entering the field of population science. It has three specific aims: Aim 1) to introduce advanced undergraduate students from underrepresented backgrounds to foundational demographic concepts and tools; Aim 2) to integrate students’ training in research and professional development; Aim 3) to foster ongoing engagement of program participants in population research and allied fields. These specific aims will be met through an intensive nine-day summer residential program and an infrastructure for ongoing engagement of program participants. The summer program will be hosted in turn by Wisconsin, Cornell, Duke, UC-Irvine, and Minnesota. It will be governed by a strong central coordinating core and share a common curriculum. Unique signature themes each summer will leverage key research strengths of individual population centers. NextGenPop has extensive institutional commitments from its host institutions, other key contributors in the population profession, and wide-ranging organizations that serve underrepresented students. It promises to have significant and sustained impact on the population field by broadening the pipeline and ultimately expanding the kinds of questions, tools, and conceptual frameworks engaged to advance the science, providing a richer perspective on human health, well-being and development.

摘要 Eunice Kennedy Shriver国家儿童健康和人类发展研究所 使命“确保所有人的健康、生产力、独立和福祉”，人口统计学 研究为了解影响健康和福祉的人口进程提供了重要见解。学生 受过人口科学培训的人有能力在学术、政府和 应用研究环境，并有助于促进人类健康和发展。那里 然而，我们的博士课程，研究人员和研究人员之间仍然缺乏种族和民族多样性， 限制该领域潜力的专业协会。我们建议应对这一严峻挑战 通过研究教育项目NextGenPop，吸引了代表性不足的本科生 人口科学的背景。这一点很重要，因为它为学生提供了机会， 在历史上一直被边缘化，并产生了一套人口知识， 今天人类的多样性。我们提出的计划将利用不平等的紧迫增长 作为研究人口组成和变化的一个透镜，我们的培训方法将结构化， 支持不同学生的学习和职业发展。这是一项跨越五个国家的合作倡议， 大学，并将由美国人口协会协调，由外部指导， 咨询委员会和区域伙伴，并得到人口中心联合会的支持， 人口中心协会。NextGenPop的总体目标是大幅增加 来自代表性不足背景的学者进入人口科学领域。它有三个具体的 目标：目标1）介绍来自代表性不足背景的高级本科生， 基本的人口统计概念和工具;目标2）将学生的培训纳入研究和 专业发展;目标3）促进方案参与者持续参与人口活动 研究和相关领域。这些具体目标将通过为期九天的密集夏季住宿来实现 计划和基础设施的持续参与的计划参与者。暑期项目将 依次由威斯康星州、康奈尔、杜克、加州大学欧文分校和明尼苏达州主办。它将由一个强大的 中央协调核心，共享共同的课程。每年夏天独特的标志性主题将 利用各个人口中心的关键研究优势。NextGenPop拥有广泛的机构 东道国机构、人口专业的其他主要贡献者以及广泛的 为代表性不足的学生提供服务的组织。它将对全球经济产生重大而持续的影响， 通过扩大渠道并最终扩大问题、工具和 致力于推进科学的概念框架，为人类健康提供更丰富的视角， 福祉和发展。