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。人口学培训项目的长期目标是培养博士和博士后社会科学家成为国际知名的人口科学家。更具体地说，我们的目标是促进学员在培训期间和之后的跨学科出版、申请资助和初级研究。申请资助6名博士生和2名博士后。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、忠诚的教师支持，专注于培养来自人类学、经济学、政治学和社会学的学生和博士后。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。我们在之前的资助期内展示了出色的招聘，保留和安置成果，并专注于保持这种卓越，同时在新的申请中提高专业化和未来独立学者的道路。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焦点反映了中心和培训计划教员的急剧增长。目前的专题领域包括：发展、体制和人口变化；移民对发送和接收地区的影响；城市环境中的人口结构；环境资源与人口福祉；健康和人力资本方面的持续差距。博士预科和博士后学员被纳入所有主题，并通过专门的课程、培训模块、强化指导和综合活动提供支持。我们展示了在物理空间方面的主要制度支持，对研究生教育的大量投资，以及对学员的专项资金支持。一个活跃的培训委员会监督项目的设计，与我们的附属部门协调，PSTC助理主任VanWey PD为项目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，以确保我们在本应用程序中概述的培训目标。

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.