R24 Population Center Grant

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案要求为布朗大学人口研究与培训中心（PSTC）提供研究和基础设施支持。PSTC的主要任务是对美国和世界各地人口规模、组成、分布和福祉的原因和后果进行创新研究并进行传播。它通过为PSTC员工提供最先进的设施和研究支持来完成这一使命；维持一个论坛，以便就与人口有关的问题进行内部和跨学科交流；支持高质量的研究生培训项目；促进布朗大学人口相关教职员工的招聘和发展；在校园内以及与世界各地的机构合作伙伴开展跨部门合作。PSTC的特点是与三个社会科学部门（人类学、经济学和社会学）的深入合作，以及与其他校园部门的学者的主题驱动联系，以及长期以来在全校范围内致力于跨学科活动。它在低收入国家的初级数据收集方面发展了特殊的专门知识；综合各种不同的方法论观点；以及利用空间数据解决重要社会问题的创新方法。研究的重点是影响人口变化的社会结构和制度，并针对四个实质性主题。第一个主题考虑社会、经济、文化和政治体制如何影响全球南方人口变化的进程。第二部分审查健康和人力资本方面持续差异的社会、行为和生理根源。第三章探讨了移民在转移人口、资源、制度和思想方面的作用。第四个重点关注空间结构在决定人口健康和福祉方面发挥关键作用的两个实质性领域：城市化和人口-环境相互关系。广泛的方法专业知识和主题一致性的结合创造了一个肥沃的媒介，培育创新的学术，促进年轻学者的发展，并影响人口研究的轨迹。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal requests research and infrastructural support for the Population Studies & Training Center (PSTC) at Brown University. The primary mission of the PSTC is to produce and disseminate innovative research on the causes and consequences of population size, composition, distribution and well-being in the U.S. and around the world. It carries out this mission by providing state-of-the-art facilities and research support to PSTC associates; maintaining a forum for intra- and inter-disciplinary exchange on population related issues; supporting a high-quality graduate training program; facilitating the recruitment and development of population-related faculty at Brown; and developing cross-unit collaborations on campus and with institutional partners around the world. The PSTC is distinguished by its deep level of engagement with three social-science departments -- Anthropology, Economics, and Sociology -- as well as thematically driven links to scholars in other campus departments and a long-standing university-wide commitment to interdisciplinary activity. It has developed particular expertise in primary data collection in low-income countries; the integration of a broad spectrum of different methodological perspectives; and innovative methods of using spatial data to address important social issues. Research focuses on social structures and systems that influence population change and targets four substantive themes. The first theme considers how social, economic, cultural and political institutions influence the process of demographic change in the Global South. The second examines social, behavioral and physiological sources of persistent disparities in health and human capital. The third explores the role of migration in transferring not just people, but resources, institutions and ideas. The fourth focuses on two substantive areas in which spatial structures play a key role in determining population health and well-being: urbanization and population-environment interrelations. A combination of broad methodological expertise and thematic coherence creates a fertile medium that nurtures innovative scholarship, promotes the development of junior scholars, and influences the trajectory of population research.