Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline (FAD)

美国社会学协会（ASA）的学科发展基金（FAD）通过向社会学家提供小额赠款（高达8,000美元）来支持创新性的社会学研究，从而促进科学进步。基金项目帮助建立必要的经验证据，为国家一级的有效决策提供信息。最近基金资助项目的几个例子及其更广泛的影响包括：研究可预测调度立法对零售工人及其子女生活的影响，为关于公平调度政策的全国辩论提供信息；对宾夕法尼亚州东北部煤炭地区劳动力、资本、毒品成瘾、种族迁移和冲突的变化动态的民族志研究；以及对2014-2015年埃博拉疫情期间表达的恐惧的数字表达的研究，该研究对高风险环境中医疗保健志愿者的招募和护理实践具有影响。FAD项目还起到资助催化剂的作用，帮助年轻研究人员发展他们的项目，使他们能够获得额外的外部支持。最近获得发发基金奖励的人报告说，他们每从发发基金收到一美元，就收到近5美元的额外资金。美国社会学协会（ASA）的学科发展基金（FAD）通过支持小型的、开创性的研究计划和会议来促进新的研究议程和网络，从而推动社会学和培育科学知识的发展。FAD还培养可能难以从其他来源获得资助的研究人员的科学潜力。FAD在这方面取得了极大的成功，所有奖金的一半都发给了职业生涯早期的研究人员和在研究广泛机构以外工作的研究人员。该计划促进出版物，教育资源，智力辩论和公众对话的发展，刺激科学探究的新路线。该奖项是基于一项绩效评估制度，该制度强调研究的创新性和前景，项目设计的可行性和充分性，以及数据分析和结果公开传播的计划。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline (FAD) at the American Sociological Association (ASA) promotes the progress of science by supporting innovative sociological research through making small grants (up to $8,000) to sociologists. FAD projects help build the needed body of empirical evidence to inform effective policy making at the national level. A few recent examples of recent FAD funded projects and their broader impacts include: a study of the impact of predictable scheduling legislation on the lives of retail workers and their children, informing national debates about fair scheduling policies; an ethnographic study of the shifting dynamics of labor, capital, drug addiction, and racial migration and conflict in the coal region of Northeastern Pennsylvania; and a study of digital expressions of fear expressed during the 2014-2015 Ebola epidemic, with implications for the recruitment and care practices of healthcare volunteers in high-risk environments. The FAD program also acts as a funding catalyst, helping young researchers develop their projects to the point where they can secure additional outside support. Recent FAD awardees reported receiving nearly $5.00 in additional funding for every dollar they received from FAD. The Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline (FAD) at the American Sociological Association (ASA) advances sociology and nurtures the development of scientific knowledge by supporting small, groundbreaking research initiatives and conferences that foster new research agendas and networks. FAD also nurtures the scientific potential of researchers who might have difficulty securing funding from other sources. FAD has been extremely successful in this regard, with up to half of all awards going to early career researchers and those employed outside of research extensive institutions. The program fosters the development of publications, educational resources, intellectual debates and public conversations that stimulate new lines of scientific inquiry. Awards are based on a merit review system that emphasizes innovativeness and the promise of the research, feasibility and adequacy of project design, and plans for data analysis and public dissemination of results.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.