Conference: Toward a Holistic Developmental Science: Catalyzing Transdisciplinary Multi-Sector Collaborations to Understand and Support Human Development

为了解人类发展的复杂性而进行的研究发生在各种各样的领域。虽然一个领域内的专业化对于解决深层次的研究问题至关重要，但这导致了知识的分散孤岛。然而，当研究有意整合多个学科并与政策制定者，从业者和社区（例如，跨学科、多部门研究）。 尽管跨学科、多部门的研究很重要，但很难实现。该项目提供资金，以支持早期职业和代表性不足的学者出席一次会议，专门侧重于催化创新，跨学科，多部门的研究和6个月的后续会议，在儿童发展研究协会（SRCD）双年度会议之前的会前会议。本次会议颠覆了传统的会议模式，提供了追求培训，指导和结构化空间的机会，以促进与会者学科培训的新合作，并在研究人员，社区机构和从业人员之间进行整合。本次会议强调建立和维持多学科和多部门合作的过程。为了实现这一目标，主旨发言人和全体会议将重点讨论如何发展跨学科，多部门的团队和项目。会议的主要动力来自工作圆桌会议，与会者根据提交的跨学科和多部门团队进行预先匹配，并提供专门的时间和指导，以开发新的创新的跨学科，多部门的研究思路。支持出席这次会议将鼓励和实现新一代的跨学科，多部门的研究，重点是理解和支持人类发展的全面和丰富的复杂性。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

Research to understand the complexities of human development occurs in a diverse array of fields. Whereas specialization within a field is essential to address research questions at a deep level, this has resulted in fragmented silos of knowledge. However, innovations are catalyzed when research intentionally integrates multiple disciplines and is conceptualized with policymakers, practitioners, and the community (e.g., transdisciplinary, multisector research). Despite its importance, transdisciplinary, multisector research is difficult to achieve. This project provides funding to support the attendance of early career and underrepresented scholars at a conference specifically focused on catalyzing innovative, transdisciplinary, multisector research and a 6-month follow up meeting at a preconference before the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Biennial Meeting. This conference upends the traditional conference model by providing opportunities to pursue training, mentorship, and structured space to foster new collaborations across attendees’ disciplinary training and is integrative among researchers, community agencies, and practitioners. This conference emphasizes the process of building and sustaining multidisciplinary and multisector collaborations. To achieve this, keynote speakers and plenary sessions will focus on how to develop transdisciplinary, multisector teams and projects. The main impetus of the conference emerges from the Working Roundtables, whereby attendees are pre-matched based on submissions into transdisciplinary and multisector teams and provided dedicated time and mentorship to develop new innovative transdisciplinary, multisector research ideas. Supporting attendance at this conference will encourage and enable a new generation of transdisciplinary, multisector research focused on understanding and supporting human development in its full and rich complexity.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.