Postdoctoral Training in the Study of Aging

描述(由申请人提供)：兰德博士后研究项目 老龄化旨在缓解年轻学者必须从学生到独立研究人员的关键过渡。这些学者可能会面临制定研究议程、出版他们的工作以及发展感兴趣的同事网络的挑战。兰德项目旨在帮助年轻学者提高他们在研究生院培养的分析技能，在跨学科环境中研究与老龄化相关的问题，向各种受众有效地展示研究成果，并在离开兰德后制定研究议程。国家老龄研究所资助兰德计划已有十多年；这里描述的项目是从2005年开始将支持延长五(5)年。该项目位于加利福尼亚州圣莫尼卡的兰德总部，每年招收一(1)名新的博士后研究员，通常为期两(2)年。研究员被广泛地从刚刚完成博士学位或有几年博士后工作经验的人中招募，这些人涉及人口学、经济学和社会学等领域。一个由27名研究人员组成的多样化和杰出的小组，代表不同的学科，作为培训教师参与其中。一个五(5)人的指导委员会监督该计划。博士后计划为研究员提供个性化的培训，包括通过兰德大学一个备受推崇的大型老龄化相关研究项目进行的关于老龄化研究的在职培训，以及旨在提高研究员的分析和沟通技能的其他正式和非正式培训。研究员可以报名参加帕迪·兰德研究生院的研讨会；参加兰德统计、计算、调查和通信专家提供的课程；参加兰德和邻近大学网站提供的大量关于经济、人口和人口问题的研讨会。工作人员顾问和其他培训教员和研究支持人员帮助研究员制定和实施他们自己的研究议程，并为专业会议和提交给专业期刊的论文准备研究报告。还鼓励研究员制定一份研究提案，提交给资助机构，作为在培训计划结束后继续取得进展的一步。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The RAND Postdoctoral Research Program in the Study of Aging is designed to ease the critical transition that young scholars must make from student to independent researcher. Such scholars can face challenges to elaborating a research agenda, publishing their work, and developing a network of interested colleagues. The RAND program aims to help young scholars enhance the analytical skills they developed in graduate school, study aging-related issues in an interdisciplinary environment, present research results effectively to various audiences, and develop an agenda for research after leaving RAND. The National Institute on Aging has funded the RAND program for more than a decade; the project described here is to extend that support another five (5) years, beginning in 2005. The program, situated at RAND headquarters in Santa Monica, California, enrolls one (1) new postdoctoral fellow each year, typically for a two (2)-year term. Fellows are broadly recruited from persons just completing their Ph.D, or with a few years of postdoctoral experience, in fields such as demography, economics, and sociology. A diverse and distinguished group of 27 researchers, representing a variety of disciplines, participates as the training faculty. A five (5) member Steering Committee oversees the program. The postdoctoral program offers individualized training to the fellows, including on-the-job training in research on aging through a large, highly regarded program of ongoing aging-related studies at RAND, as well as other formal and informal training designed to enhance the fellows' analytical and communication skills. Fellows can enroll in seminars in the Pardee RAND Graduate school; participate in courses offered by RAND's statistical, computing, survey, and communications experts; attend numerous seminars on economic, demographic, and population issues offered at RAND and neighboring universites. The staff advisor and other members of the training faculty and research support help fellows develop and pursue their own research agendas and prepare research presentations for professional meetings and papers for submission to professional journals. Fellows are also encouraged to develop a research proposal for submission to a funding agency, as a step towards continuing their progress after the training program ends.