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。PSTC人口学培训计划的长期目标是将博士和博士后社会科学家培养成国际知名的人口科学家。更具体地说，我们的目标是在培训期间和之后在受训人员中促进跨学科出版、拨款申请和初步研究。我们请求为六名博士后实习生和两名博士后实习生提供支持。在这份申请中，我们提供了强有力的跨学科培训计划的证据，由富有成效的、尽职尽责的教师支持，重点培训人类学、经济学、政治学和社会学的学生和博士后研究员。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。我们在之前的资助期间展示了出色的招聘、保留和安置结果，并专注于保持这种卓越，同时提高专业水平和未来作为学者在新申请中独立的途径。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，最近重新配置的主题重点反映了中心和培训计划教职员工的显著增长。目前的专题领域包括：发展、机构和人口变化；移徙在发送和接收地区的后果；城市环境中的人口结构；环境资源和人口福祉；以及卫生和人力资本方面的持续差距。博士后和博士后实习生被纳入所有主题，并通过专门的课程作业、培训模块、密集的指导和综合活动得到支持。我们展示了主要的机构支持的证据，在物理空间的形式，对研究生教育的重大投资，以及有针对性的资金支持学员。一个积极的培训委员会监督计划的设计，与我们的附属部门进行协调，PD VanWey和PSTC助理主任Mecartea为计划的日常运作提供广泛的支持。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。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Population Studies and Training Center of Brown University requests continuing support for its T32 National Research Service Award. The long-term goal of the PSTC Demography Training Program is to train doctoral and postdoctoral social scientists to become internationally-renowned population scientists. More concretely, our objectives are to promote interdisciplinary publication, grant-seeking and primary research among trainees during the training period and after. We request support for six doctoral trainees and two postdoctoral trainees. In this application, we provide evidence of a strong interdisciplinary training program, supported by productive, committed faculty, focused on training students and postdoctoral fellows from Anthropology, Economics, Political Science, and Sociology. 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. We demonstrate excellent recruitment, retention and placement outcomes in the previous grant period, and focus on maintaining this excellence while improving professionalization and paths to future independence as scholars in the new application. The PSTC training program proposed here builds on a dynamic research infrastructure, with recently reconfigured thematic foci reflecting dramatic growth in Center and training program faculty. Current thematic areas include: Development, Institutions and Demographic Change; Consequences of Migration in Sending and Receiving Areas; Population Structures in the Urban Environment; Environmental Resources and Population Well-being; and Persistent Disparities in Health and Human Capital. Predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees are integrated into all themes, and supported through dedicated coursework, training modules, intensive mentoring and integrative activities. We show evidence of major institutional support in the form physical space, significant investments in graduate education generally, and targeted funds to support trainees. An active Training Committee supervises the design of the program, coordinating with our affiliated departments, and PD VanWey with PSTC Assistant Director Mecartea provides extensive support for the day-to-day operation of the program. We describe both continuing and innovative organizational and pedagogical efforts to secure the training goals we outline in this application.