Interdisciplinary Training in Demography

这项提议要求将宾夕法尼亚州立大学人口学T-32跨学科培训补助金续期五年。我们请求为6个临终前职位和2个博士后职位提供支持。基于我们最近被美国国立卫生研究院认可为模范项目结构的双博士培养模式，拟议的续签将支持在人类学(生物学)和人口学、人类发展和家庭研究(发展心理学)和人口学以及社会学和人口学等系拥有全国排名的跨学科学前学位。这个有针对性的博士后项目侧重于整合社会、人口和人类发展、科学研究和为新一代人口科学家提供奖学金。在宾夕法尼亚州立大学人口研究所基础设施的支持下，该培训计划基于39名人口学计划教职员工的专业知识(其中29人在上述三个学位课程中任职)，他们总共拥有 36项现有的和19项待批的人口研究和培训赠款。这种资助环境为博士后和博士后研究学徒提供了丰富的机会。在过去的五年中，新增了12名人口教师学者，从而显著扩大了培训计划的智力深度和广度。五位教职员工导师和 目前NICHD受训人员中有33%是代表性不足群体的成员。近年来，该计划在将博士和博士后实习生安排在人口中心和其他主要大学的学术职位，以及在联邦、国际和研究机构的高知名度职位上有着强劲的记录。博士前培训方案由六个关键的教学部分组成，涉及正式的人口学课程工作和非正式研讨会/讲习班，主要集中在PRIS标志性人口科学研究主题--家庭人口学和生命历程发展进程、儿童福祉人口学、健康不平等和生物人口学以及社区背景和空间人口分析。跨学科博士后培训计划，将社会人口学与家庭过程的发展科学联系起来，强调：1)增强方法技能和跨学科实质性知识获取，2)资助研究项目的高级学徒经验，3)专业发展(论文、出版物、提案准备)成就。在师生比例较低的情况下，研究学徒计划是博士后和博士后计划的一个关键特征。博士前实习生将从每年约425名申请者和目前在三个参与的双学位项目中注册的学生中招募。

This proposal request a five-year renewal of the Penn State NICHD Interdisciplinary Training in Demography T-32 grant. We request support for six predoetoral and two postdoctoral positions. Based on our dual-Ph.D, training paradigm that was recently recognized by NIH as a model program structure, the proposed renewal will support interdisciplinary predoetoral degrees with nationally-ranked departments in Anthropology (biological) and Demography, Human Development & Family Studies (developmental psychology) and Demography, and Sociology and Demography. The targeted postdoctoral program focuses on the integration of social demographic and human development science research and scholarship for a new generation of population scientist. Supported by the Penn State Population Research Institute infrastructure, the training program is based on the expertise of 39 Demography Program faculty (29 with appointments in the above three degree programs) who together have a portfolio of 36 current and 19 pending population research and training grants. This grant environment provides rich opportunities for pre- and post-doctoral student research apprenticeships. Twelve new population faculty scholars have been added over the past five years, thereby significantly expanding the training programs intellectual depth and breadth. Five faculty mentors and 33 percent of current NICHD trainees are members of underrepresented groups. In recent years the program has a strong record of placing Ph.D. and postdoctoral trainees in academic positions at population center and other major universities, and in highly visible federal, international, and research agency positions. The predoctoral training program is composed of six key pedagogical components involving formal demography course work and informal seminars/workshops, primarily focused around PRIs signature population science research themes -- family demography and life course development processes, demography of child well-being, health inequality and biodemography, and community context and spatial population analysis. The interdisciplinary post-doctoral training program, bridging social demography with developmental science of family processes emphasizes: 1) enhanced methodological skills and interdisciplinary substantive knowledge acquisition, 2) advanced apprenticeship experiences on funded research projects, and 3) professional development (papers, publications, proposal preparation) achievements. Facilitated by a low faculty-student ratio, a research apprenticeship program is a key feature of both pre- and post-doctoral programs. Predoctoral trainees will be recruited from the approximately 425 annual applicants to and students currently enrolled in the three participating dual-degree programs.