Training in Demography

描述（由申请人提供）：布朗大学人口研究与培训中心请求继续支持其T32国家研究服务奖。我们申请支持7名博士生和1名博士后。在这份申请中，我们提供了强有力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健康领域的富有成效、忠诚的教师提供支持。本文提出的PSTC培训计划建立在一个动态的研究基础设施之上，我们展示了主要机构支持的证据，包括新的PSTC物理空间、对研究生教育的重大投资以及新的教师招聘。在服务于国家和国际公共卫生的需要，PSTC培训计划招收未来的领导者在该领域的研究生学习社会学，经济学和人类学。受训者以自己的学科为基础，通过课程、指导研究活动、座谈会、讲习班、学生主导的活动和负责任的研究行为教育，接受跨学科人口研究方面的重要培训。一个活跃的培训委员会将与我们的附属部门协调，监督这些培训路径。我们描述了持续和创新的组织和教学努力，以确保我们在本应用程序中概述的培训目标。围绕包括传统人口主题并扩展到新出现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水平的专业参与，以及毕业后对专业的影响。我们提议的博士后项目建立在这种培训的悠久历史上（没有事先在这个机制下的支持），并利用同样优越的学术环境和跨学科的氛围。博士后项目是围绕量身定制的指导培训和研究建立的。我们认为，PSTC T32培训计划充分证明了持续的智力和组织进化，跨学科和职业阶段的动态协同，从新学员到高级学者，以及对卓越的承诺，这将培养和加强下一代研究者和教师。

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.