Center for Family and Demographic Research

描述（由申请人提供）：鲍灵格林州立大学（BGSU）的家庭和人口研究中心（CFDR）寻求R24机制，NICHD人口和行为人口科学研究基础设施（RIPS - RFA HD-10-020）的5年资金，用于专业研究基础设施中心。基础设施奖将为我们提供资源，继续支持我们的附属机构在家庭人口和国家一级的科学领导领域的高质量研究。该中心的研究和活动强调当代美国家庭中儿童、青少年和成年人的健康和福祉，这反映了自成立以来指导我们中心使命的长期焦点。CFDR的标志性主题是家庭人口统计，重点关注美国的家庭。家庭和家庭是人口研究的组成部分，因为人口统计事件通常在家庭背景下展开。CFDR附属机构在整个生命历程中对家庭的标志性工作与家庭人口统计学的核心原则相一致。具体而言，CFDR的家庭人口统计研究涵盖三个子主题：1)家庭和家庭形成、稳定和过程（即养育子女和伴侣关系）的模式和相关性；2)家庭对儿童、青少年和成人健康的影响；3)测量家庭和住户。几个重点贯穿这些子主题，如生命历程阶段，队列变化，亚组变异和社会背景。CFDR正在为三个研究支持核心（行政核心、计算核心、数据和信息核心）和一个研究发展核心申请资金。核心活动通过提供具有成本效益的核心服务，提高家庭人口研究的数量、质量和科学影响。这种基础设施提供了一个环境，在这个环境中，通过在学科训练、实质性重点、方法方法和资历方面各不相同的科学家之间的互动和合作，培养教师的研究；发展新的研究能力，推进我们的科学愿景；以及对初级教师的专门支持。CFDR是一个杰出的学者社区，他们积极寻求彼此分享思想，提供专业知识，并共同努力发展和评估新兴的科学思想。CFDR在促进跨学科合作从而产生赠款资助项目方面所展示的能力表明，NICHD对CFDR的基础设施支持正在推动人口研究。总而言之，CFDR为附属机构启动和开展创新研究项目提供了坚实的基础。RIPS资金的更新对于维持和加强我们对家庭人口统计的科学贡献至关重要。它将确保继续发展创新的理论和方法方法，为研究和数据收集工作提供信息。RIPS的资金还将启动新的合作研究团队，积极寻求外部资金，并将通过教师培训和指导加强我们附属机构的学术贡献。我们的愿景是维持一个创新和合作的环境，在家庭人口统计的核心问题上产生高影响力的研究。为了进一步实现这一愿景，CFDR长期计划包括扩大我们在制定国家家庭研究议程方面的作用，并带头开展新的家庭人口统计数据收集工作。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Center for Family and Demographic Research (CFDR) at Bowling Green State University (BGSU) seeks 5 years of funding from the R24 mechanism, NICHD Research Infrastructure for Demographic and Behavioral Population Science (RIPS - RFA HD-10-020) for a Specialized Research Infrastructure Center. The infrastructure award will provide resources for us to continue supporting our affiliates' high quality research in the area of family demography and scientific leadership at the national level. The Center's research and activities emphasize the health and well-being of children, adolescents, and adults in contemporary American families, which reflects the longstanding focus that has guided the mission of our center since its inception. The CFDR signature theme is family demography, with an emphasis on families in the United States. Families and households are integral to the study of populations, as demographic events typically unfold within a family context. CFDR affiliates' signature work on families across the life course aligns with the core tenets of family demography. Specifically, CFDR's family demographic research spans three sub-themes: 1) patterns and correlates of family and household formation, stability, and processes (i.e., parenting and partnering); 2) family and household influences on child, adolescent, and adult wellbeing; and 3) measurement of families and households. Several emphases cut across these sub-themes, such as life course stage, cohort change, subgroup variation, and social context. The CFDR is requesting funds for three Research Support Cores (Administrative Core, Computing Core, and Data and Information Core) and a Research Development Core. The core activities enhance the quantity, quality, and scientific impact of research in family demography by providing cost-effective core services. This infrastructure provides: an environment in which faculty research is cultivated through interaction and collaboration among scientists who are diverse in terms of their disciplinary training, substantive emphases, methodological approaches, and seniority; the development of new research capabilities that advance our scientific vision; and specialized support for junior faculty. The CFDR is distinguished as a community of scholars that actively seek each other out to share ideas, offer expertise, and work together to develop and evaluate emerging scientific ideas. The demonstrated ability of the CFDR to foster interdisciplinary collaborations that result in grant-funded projects shows that the NICHD infrastructure support to the CFDR is advancing population research. Taken together, the CFDR provides a strong foundation for affiliates to launch and conduct innovative research projects. A renewal of the RIPS funding is essential to sustain and enhance our scientific contributions to family demography. It will ensure continued development of innovative theoretical and methodological approaches that will inform both research and data collection efforts. The RIPS funding will also launch new collaborative research teams that aggressively pursue external funds, and it will enhance the scholarly contributions of our affiliates through faculty training and mentoring. Our vision is to maintain an environment of innovation and collaboration that yields high impact research on core issues in family demography. To further this vision, the CFDR long-term plan includes expanding our role in shaping the national research agenda on families and spearheading new family demographic data collection efforts.