Workshop: Support for Conferences and Mentoring of Underrepresented Groups in Political Methodology

该项目支持政治方法论学会支持资金不足的研究生，扩大对妇女和代表性不足群体成员的指导和网络工作，以及开发新的包容性项目，使该子领域更容易被历史上参与该子领域活动较少的群体获得。此外，该项目还支持为本科生提供在研究生院学习政治方法论所需的工具和咨询。在奖励期内，项目将：(1)确保合格但资金不足的研究生能够参加并参与我们非常成功的夏季方法论会议；(2)继续举办以主题为导向的小型会议，强调特定的技术技能，培养高水平的网络和指导；(3)继续为女性方法论学家举办一系列小型会议，这些会议有意将该子领域的高级领导人与年轻人混合在一起；新兴学者可以从这种密切的个人互动中受益匪浅，并且(4)为本科生和政治方法论学家提供一对一的互动，目标是为本科生做政治方法论的研究生工作做好准备。这包括维护和发展多个场所，用于展示、讨论和推进政治学中的定量方法，直接侧重于发现、指导和支持政治方法论中代表性不足的群体。由于本提案中的所有计划和倡议都是针对这些情况下的个人，因此其效果是显着拓宽了方法的知识广度。夏季会议在该学科中以师生互动，初级和高级教师之间的网络形成以及揭示定量政治学创造新知识的过程而闻名。方法论在庞大而多样的政治学领域中扮演着特殊的角色，因为它跨越了该学科的其他研究领域，具有提供知识和工具的历史，这些知识和工具可以帮助那些不认为自己是方法论学家的研究人员。因此，对研究生的计划投资，以及从这种支持中增加对代表性不足群体的包容，将对整个学科产生影响。此外，在政治方法论会议上开发和提出的技术已广泛应用于各种各样的用户，从其他社会科学的学者到私营部门的人，再到为各种政府机构工作的分析人员。

This project supports the Society for Political Methodology's efforts to support underfunded graduate students, expand mentoring and networking efforts for women and members of underrepresented groups, as well as to develop new inclusive programs for making the subfield more accessible to groups with historically lower participation in the activities of the subfield. In addition, the project also supports providing undergraduate students with the tools and counseling needed to pursue political methodology in graduate school. During the award period the project will: (1) ensure that qualified, but insufficiently-funded graduate students can attend and participate in our highly successful Summer methodology meetings, (2) continue holding small thematically oriented meetings that emphasize particular technical skills and foster a high level of networking and mentoring,(3) continue a series of small meetings for women methodologists that deliberately mix senior leaders in the subfield with young, emerging scholars who can benefit substantially from such close personal interaction, and, (4) providing one on one interaction between undergraduate students and political methodologists with the goal of preparing undergraduates to do graduate work in political methodology. This includes maintaining and developing multiple venues for presenting, discussing, and advancing quantitative methods in political science, with a direct focus on finding, mentoring, and enabling under-represented groups in political methodology. Since all of the programs and initiatives in this proposal are targeted at individuals in these circumstances, the effect is to dramatically widen the access to the intellectual breadth of methodology. The summer meeting is well known in the discipline for faculty-student interaction, network formation between junior and senior faculty, and revealing the process of creating new knowledge in quantitative political science. Methodology plays a special role in the large, diverse field of political science, since it reaches across other areas of research in the discipline, with a history of providing knowledge and tools that help researchers who are not themselves self identified as methodologists. Thus the planned investment in graduate students and increased inclusion of underrepresented groups from this support will have an impact that stretches across the discipline. In addition, the techniques developed and presented at political methodology conferences has been of use to a wide variety of users from scholars in other social sciences to people in the private sector to analysts working for various government agencies.