Center for Social and Demographic Analysis at the University at Albany, SUNY

描述（由申请人提供）：这是一份申请人口研究基础设施奖延续到纽约州立大学奥尔巴尼大学社会和人口分析中心（CSDA）的申请。CSDA成立于1981年，并于1997年获得P30奖，开始了其基础设施支持时期，并于2004年获得R24奖。一项为期五年的奖励将使该中心能够：在人口科学方面推进一个多管齐下的研究议程，其标志性主题是弱势群体和空间不平等；培养众多年轻研究人员的智力和专业发展；并继续支持和加强人口研究活动和其成员之间的知识分子社区。过去的奖项，加上大学的高水平支持，使CSDA能够为来自不同学科的40名人口研究人员提供一个智力家园，这些研究人员来自人类学，犯罪学，经济学，地理和规划，历史，公共行政，公共卫生，社会工作和社会学。CSDA同事的研究通过解决有关健康和健康差异、移民、生命历程转变、家庭、邻里和社区不平等以及地理流动的关键问题，促进了人口知识和公共卫生。我们的同事也通过他们的数据收集工作和方法创新来增加知识。在最近的供资期间，CSDA经历了振兴，在现有优势的基础上，同时利用新的机会扩大这些优势。这种复兴体现在大量初级助理的涌入和成熟，以及创新研究计划的发展。拟议的基础设施奖将使我们能够重组我们的研究支持核心，以更好地服务于我们的同事。特别是，我们计划将发展和公共基础设施倡议提升为成熟的核心，大大扩大领导和资源，并增加任务。我们的核心是精心构思和设计，以最具成本效益的方式为我们的员工提供最优质的服务；新的核心将受益于奥尔巴尼大学提供的额外支持。之前的R24奖对CSDA员工的研究效率产生了非常积极的影响。目前的外部赠款组合比三年前最后一次申请时的投资组合增加了50%。研究生产力的其他指标，如引用、出版物和提案提交，也呈上升趋势。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is an application for a continuation of the Population-Research Infrastructure Award to the Center for Social and Demographic Analysis (CSDA) at the University at Albany, SUNY. CSDA was founded in 1981 and began its period of infrastructural support with a P30 award in 1997 and renewed it with an R24 award in 2004. A five-year award will allow the Center to: advance a multi-pronged research agenda in population science that bears its signature themes of vulnerable populations and spatial inequalities; foster the intellectual and professional development of its many young researchers; and continue to support and strengthen population-research activities and intellectual community among its associates. Past awards, in combination with high levels of support from the University, have enabled CSDA to provide an intellectual home to a productive group of 40 population researchers, drawn from a diverse set of disciplines, including anthropology, criminology, economics, geography and planning, history, public administration, public health, social work, and sociology. The research of CSDA's associates advances population knowledge and public health by addressing critical questions about health and health disparities, immigration, life-course transitions, families, neighborhood and community inequalities, and geographical mobility. Our associates also add to knowledge through their data-collection efforts and methodological innovations. During the recent funding period, CSDA has undergone revitalization, building on existing strengths while taking advantage of new opportunities to extend them. This revitalization is evident in the influx and maturation of a substantial cadre of junior associates and in the development of innovative research initiatives. The proposed infrastructure award will allow us to reorganize our research-support cores to better serve our associates. In particular, we plan to elevate the developmental and public infrastructure initiatives to full-fledged cores, with significantly expanded leadership and resources as well as additional tasks. Our cores are well-conceived and designed to provide our associates with the highest-quality services in a cost- effective manner; and the new cores will benefit from additional support extended by the University at Albany. The prior R24 award has had a very positive impact on the research productivity of CSDA associates. The current external grant portfolio represents a 50 percent increase in funding per associate over the portfolio at the time of the last application, three years ago. Other indicators of research productivity, such as citations, publications and proposal submissions, also track upwards.