Development Core

发展核心摘要--发展核心(DC)是跨学科发展的引擎 融合，扩大人口科学的边界，并建立一种增加影响和 杜克大学人口研究中心(DPRC)附属学者的生产力。在过去五年中， 区议会对早期职业学者进行了大量投资，以支持他们的 职业发展。DC在传统的人口科学家和学者之间架起了桥梁 来自人口统计学和人口科学为其提供新框架的联合领域 测量、分类和数据收集。它投资于新的人口科学工作，帮助 学者们为数据分析开发了新的计算方法。已实施的活动包括 竞争分配的种子基金，用于测试创新想法，这些想法将在人口中产生更大的研究努力 动态研究；旨在扩大DPRC核心智力优势的有针对性的活动；以及一周 为促进合作、接触新思想和传播研究成果而举办的系列研讨会。完毕 未来五年，DPRC的目标是继续和扩大对早期职业学者的投资，以支持 并通过增加由以下机构推动的新举措来扩大一系列成功的活动 建议的初级研究区(PRA)主席。这项投资将为PRA(终身学习的基础 健康和相互关联的社会系统和人口健康)与能源，促进新的合作， 提高严密性和冲击力，并提供校园内外的结缔组织，以实现令人兴奋的创新 研究。

Development Core Abstract -- The Development Core (DC) is the engine for growth, interdisciplinary integration, expansion of the boundaries of population sciences and a mechanism to increase impact and productivity of the scholars affiliated with the Duke Population Research Center (DPRC). In the past five years, the DC has made significant investments in early career scholars in a way that has supported their professional development. The DC has built bridges between traditional population scientists and scholars from allied fields for whom demography and the population sciences provide new frameworks for measurement, classification and data collection. It has invested in novel population science work helping scholars develop new computational approaches to data analytics. Activities implemented have included competitively allocated seed funds to test innovative ideas that will lead to larger research efforts in population dynamics research; targeted activities aimed at expanding DPRC’s core intellectual strengths; and a weekly seminar series to promote collaboration, exposure to new ideas, and dissemination of research findings. Over the next five years, DPRC aims to continue and expand its investment in early career scholars to support DPRC over the long run and to expand a successful array of activities by adding new initiatives promoted by proposed Primary Research Area (PRA) Chairs. This investment will infuse PRAs (Foundations of Lifelong Health and Interconnected Social Systems and Population Health) with energy, foster new collaborations, improve rigor and impact, and provide the connective tissue across campus and beyond for exciting, innovative research.