Population Research Center

总体：项目摘要 得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校人口研究中心（PRC）请求其 人口研究基础设施计划。中华人民共和国的首要使命是 在人口动态方面开展创新的、雄心勃勃的和高影响力的研究， 在该领域的先进知识。持续的基础设施支持对于帮助中国利用 校外和大学资源，以提供出色的服务，并维持一个充满活力的跨学科 文化面向促进其教职员工之间的人口相关的研究的最高水平。 中华人民共和国的具体目标是：（1）营造一个促进知识交流的环境， 思想和跨学科研究，重点是指导和支持早期人口 科学家;（2）加强和促进创新的研究战略，这对制定和实施政策至关重要， 在研究项目生命周期的各个阶段进行人口动态的相关研究;以及（3）提供高水平的 提供高质量和高效率的服务，以促进和支持杰出的人口研究。 在未来五年内，中国研究人员将在四个相互关联的研究领域引领科学进步 人口动态学：家庭人口统计学和代际关系;教育，工作， 不平等;生殖健康;人口健康。需要为3个基础设施核心提供P2C支持。 行政核心确定方案和服务优先事项;建立一个跨学科的社区， 人口科学家在大学;提供卓越的服务，促进发展的大型- 规模人口研究;并确保各核心之间的协调。发展核心促进科学发展 发展早期调查人员以及开发新调查路线的知名科学家; 促进新生思想演变为校外资助的建议;并促进机构文化 跨学科的合作是有价值的和普遍的。科学与技术核心提供了 方法和统计支持，技术服务和计算基础设施至关重要， 在人口动态领域开展雄心勃勃的高影响力研究。

Overall: Project Summary The Population Research Center (PRC) of The University of Texas at Austin requests NICHD support from its population research infrastructure program. The overarching mission of the PRC is to promote the development of innovative, ambitious, and high-impact research in population dynamics that will ultimately advance knowledge in the field. Continued infrastructure support is essential in helping the PRC leverage extramural and university resources to provide outstanding services and sustain a dynamic interdisciplinary culture geared toward facilitating the highest level of population-related research among its faculty members. The PRC's specific aims are: (1) to foster an environment that promotes intellectual exchange, development of ideas, and interdisciplinary research with an emphasis on mentoring and supporting early-stage population scientists; (2) to enhance and promote innovative research strategies vital to developing and conducting policy- relevant research in population dynamics at all stages of the research project life cycle; and (3) to provide high- quality and efficient services to promote and support outstanding population research. Over the next five years, PRC researchers will lead scientific advances in four interconnected research areas in population dynamics: Family Demography and Intergenerational Relationships; Education, Work, and Inequality; Reproductive Health; and Population Health. P2C support is requested for 3 infrastructure cores. The Administrative Core sets programmatic and service priorities; builds an interdisciplinary community of population scientists at the University; provides outstanding services that facilitate the development of large- scale population research; and ensures coordination across cores. The Development Core promotes scientific development of early stage investigators as well as established scientists developing new lines of inquiry; fosters evolution of nascent ideas into proposals for extramural funding; and promotes an institutional culture wherein interdisciplinary collaboration is valued and common. The Scientific & Technical Core provides the methodological and statistical support, technical services, and computing infrastructure essential to the development of ambitious and high-impact research in the field of population dynamics.