Demography and Ecology

计划摘要/摘要 此T32续订申请请求在五年内提供资金，以支持六(6)个人口中的博士前培训项目 威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校人口学和生态学中心(CDE)的研究。自1962年以来，CDE一直在 提供了世界级的人口科学培训计划(自1975年以来几乎一直得到NICHD T32的资助)。 我们的毕业生是当今人口研究的领军人物之一，在学术、政府和应用领域服务。 研究设置。在NICHD使命的指导下，“确保所有人的健康、生产力、独立性和福祉 CDE研究围绕五个主要领域展开：1)生育率、家庭和家庭；2)人口统计学 不平等；3)健康和死亡率；4)生物人口学；以及5)环境和空间人口学。我们的培训 目标--以及相关的研究活动--完全属于人口动力学处，该处“支持 人口学、生殖健康和人口健康方面的研究和研究培训。 CDE人口学培训计划的主要目标是：(1)培养一个跨学科的社区 人口研究的初级学者；(2)建立人口理论、方法和分析方面的专业知识；和(3) 培养学生的专业技能，包括组织、执行、演示、出版和批评 研究。在CDE培训计划中，发展这一专业知识的过程涉及四个基本组成部分： (1)通过在学生所在部门的课程工作和在其他部门的跨学科课程工作进行正式培训； (2)接触更广泛的人口研究领域的学者的前沿研究，主要是通过 每周人口学研讨会(“DemSem”)；(3)参与和协作CDE的实质性研究项目 通过学徒制模式培训教师；以及(4)专业社会化和融入 人口研究，特别是通过每周的人口学培训研讨会。 博士前T32实习生通常在博士项目的第二年或第三年被任命，已经表明 明确的学术承诺和对从事人口研究相关职业的坚定承诺；大多数学生来这里 社会学、经济学和人口健康(尽管我们越来越多地从更广泛的 学科)，他们通常获得为期两到三年的T32资助。我们正在申请6个博士前培训名额 (比我们目前的分配多1个)，因为我们的计划在规模、范围和质量上持续增长。我们的培训 努力将重点放在社会科学前沿的跨学科研究领域(特别是 生物人口学和空间/环境人口学)，我们非常成功地招募了更大的 许多竞争激烈的学生加入我们更广泛的培训计划。2016-17学年，8名优等生， 社会学专业的一年级学生和经济学和人口健康专业的几名在校生将加入我们现有的 26名人口学实习生组成的小组。拥有足够数量的T32培训人员确保我们能够继续支持我们的 大多数优秀的学生在我们认为是最好的博士前培训环境之一 人口研究。

Program Summary/Abstract This T32 renewal application requests funds over five years to support six (6) predoctoral traineeships in population research at the Center for Demography and Ecology (CDE) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Since 1962, CDE has offered a world-class training program in population science (with nearly continuous NICHD T32 funding since 1975). Our graduates are among the leaders in population research today, serving in a range of academic, government and applied research settings. Guided by the NICHD mission “to ensure the health, productivity, independence, and well-being of all people,” CDE research is organized around five major areas: 1) Fertility, families & households; 2) the Demography of Inequality; 3) Health & mortality; 4) Biodemography; and 5) Environmental and spatial demography. Our training objectives—and associated research activities—fall squarely under the Population Dynamics Branch which “supports research and research training in demography, reproductive health, and population health.” The primary goals of the CDE training program in demography are: (1) to foster an interdisciplinary community of junior scholars in population research; (2) to build expertise in demographic theory, methods, and analysis; and (3) to cultivate students' professional skills, including the organization, execution, presentation, publication, and critique of research. Within the CDE training program, the process of developing this expertise involves four essential components: (1) formal training via coursework in students' home departments and interdisciplinary coursework in other departments; (2) exposure to cutting-edge research of scholars in the broader community of population studies, primarily through the weekly Demography Seminar (`DemSem'); (3) participation and collaboration in substantive research projects of CDE training faculty through an apprenticeship model; and (4) professional socialization and integration into the field of population studies, especially via the weekly Demography Training Seminar. Predoctoral T32 trainees are typically appointed in the second or third year in their PhD program, having shown clear academic promise and a strong commitment to pursuing a population research-related career; most students come from Sociology, Economics and Population Health (although we are increasingly recruiting from a broader range of disciplines), and they typically receive T32 funding for two to three years. We are requesting 6 predoctoral training slots (1 more than our current allocation) because our program has continued to grow in size, scope and quality. Our training efforts have expanded to focus on interdisciplinary research areas at the forefront of social science (especially biodemography and spatial/environmental demography), and we have been very successful at recruiting even larger numbers of highly-competitive students into our broader training program. For the 2016-17 academic year, 8 top-notch, first-year students in Sociology and several enrolled students in Economics and Population Health will join our existing group of 26 demography trainees. Having a critical mass of T32 traineeships ensures that we can continue to support our most outstanding students in what we believe is one of the best available environments for predoctoral training in population research.