Training in Demography

描述(申请人提供)：布朗大学人口研究和培训中心请求继续支持其T32国家研究服务奖。我们请求为7名博士后实习生和1名博士后实习生提供支持。在这份申请中，我们提供了强大的多学科培训计划的证据，由来自关键社会科学学科和相关卫生领域的富有成效、敬业的教师提供支持。这里提出的PSTC培训计划建立在一个动态的研究基础设施上，我们展示了以新的PSTC物理空间、对研究生教育的重大投资以及新教师招聘的形式提供的主要机构支持的证据。为满足国内和国际公共卫生需求，PSTC培训计划招募该领域未来的领导者进入社会学、经济学和人类学的研究生学习。受训者以本国学科为基础，通过课程作业、有指导的研究活动、座谈会、讲习班、学生主导的活动和负责任的研究教育，接受跨学科人口研究方面的重要培训。一个积极的培训委员会将监督这些培训途径，并与我们的附属部门进行协调。我们描述了持续和创新的组织和教学努力，以确保我们在本申请中概述的培训目标。围绕涵盖传统人口专题并扩展到新兴领域的关键专题领域组织了实质性培训。我们展示了学生在培训中的高度专业参与度，以及毕业后对专业的影响。我们建议的博士后计划建立在这种培训的悠久历史基础上(在这种机制下没有事先的支持)，并利用同样优越的学术环境和跨学科氛围。博士后项目围绕个人量身定做的指导培训和研究而建立。我们认为，PSTC T32培训计划充分证明了持续的智力和组织演变，从新学员到资深学者，跨学科和职业阶段的动态协同，以及对卓越的承诺，这将产生和加强下一代调查人员和教师。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Population Studies and Training Center of Brown University requests continuing support for its T32 National Research Service Award. We request support for seven doctoral trainees and one postdoctoral trainee. In this application, we provide evidence of a strong multidisciplinary training program, supported by productive, committed faculty drawn from key social science disciplines and allied health fields. The PSTC training program proposed here builds on a dynamic research infrastructure, and we show evidence of major institutional support in the form of new PSTC physical space, significant investments in graduate education generally, and new faculty recruitment. In service of national and international public health needs, the PSTC training program recruits future leaders in the field into graduate study in sociology, economics, and anthropology. Trainees are grounded in their home disciplines and receive significant training in interdisciplinary population studies through coursework, mentored research activity, colloquia, workshops, student-led activities, and education in the responsible conduct of research. An active Training Committee will supervise these training paths, coordinating with our affiliated departments. We describe both continuing and innovative organizational and pedagogical efforts to secure the training goals we outline in this application. Substantive training is organized around key thematic areas that cover conventional demographic topics and expand into newly emerging areas. We demonstrate a high level of professional engagement among students in training and consequent impact on the profession after graduation. Our proposed postdoctoral program builds on a long history of such training (without prior support under this mechanism) and takes advantage of the same superior scholarly environment and interdisciplinary atmosphere. The postdoctoral program is built around individually tailored mentored training and research. We argue that the PSTC T32 training program shows ample evidence of continued intellectual and organizational evolution, dynamic synergy across disciplines and career stage, from new trainee through senior scholar, and a commitment to excellence that will produce and strengthen the next generation of investigators and teachers.