Demography and Ecology

项目概要/摘要 这个T32更新申请要求在五年内提供资金，以支持六（6）个博士前培训， 威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校人口与生态中心（CDE）的人口研究。 自1962年以来，CDE提供了世界一流的人口科学培训计划， 自1975年以来，NICHD T32资助。我们的毕业生是当今人口研究的领导者， 一系列学术，政府和应用研究环境。在NICHD使命指导下， 健康，生产力，独立性和所有人的福祉，“CDE研究围绕五个主要方面进行组织 领域：1）生育率、家庭和住户; 2）人口不平等; 3）健康和生命历程; 4） 生物人口学; 5）环境和空间人口学。我们的培训目标-以及相关的 研究活动-完全属于人口动态分支，该分支“支持研究，数据 人口学、生殖健康和人口健康方面的收集和研究培训。” CDE人口学培训计划的主要目标是：（1）培养跨学科的 人口研究初级学者社区;（2）建立人口理论，方法， 培养学生的专业技能，包括组织能力、执行能力、 介绍，出版和研究的评论。在CDE培训计划中， 这种专门知识包括四个基本组成部分：（1）通过学生家中的课程进行正式培训 部门和其他部门的跨学科课程;（2）接触前沿研究 主要通过每周的人口学研讨会， （“DemSem”）;（3）通过以下方式参与和合作CDE培训教师的实质性研究项目： 学徒模式;（4）专业社会化和融入人口研究领域， 特别是通过每周一次的人口学培训研讨会。 博士前T32学员通常在博士课程的第2年或第3年被任命， 学术承诺和追求人口研究事业的坚定承诺;大多数学生来 来自社会学，经济学和人口健康，虽然我们越来越多地从更广泛的招聘 学科范围。他们通常会获得两到三年的T32资助。我们正在申请6名博士预科生 培训名额（比我们目前的分配多1个），因为我们的计划在规模、范围和质量上都在不断增长。 和质量我们的培训工作已经扩大到专注于跨学科研究领域的前沿， 社会科学，特别是生物人口学和空间/环境人口学，我们一直在 成功地招募了更多的高竞争力的学生进入我们更广泛的培训计划。一 T32培训的临界质量确保我们能够继续支持我们最优秀的学生， 我们认为这是人口研究博士前培训的最佳环境之一。

Program Summary/Abstract This T32 renewal application requests funds over five years to support six (6) predoctoral traineeships in population research at the Center for Demography and Ecology (CDE) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Since 1962, CDE has offered a world-class training program in population science, with nearly continuous NICHD T32 funding since 1975. Our graduates are among the leaders in population research today, serving in a range of academic, government and applied research settings. Guided by the NICHD mission “to ensure the health, productivity, independence, and well-being of all people,” CDE research is organized around five major areas: 1) Fertility, families & households; 2) the Demography of inequality; 3) Health and the lifecourse; 4) Biodemography; and 5) Environmental and spatial demography. Our training objectives—and associated research activities—fall squarely under the Population Dynamics Branch which “supports research, data collection, and research training in demography, reproductive health, and population health.” The primary goals of the CDE training program in demography are: (1) to foster an interdisciplinary community of junior scholars in population research; (2) to build expertise in demographic theory, methods, and analysis; and (3) to cultivate students’ professional skills, including the organization, execution, presentation, publication, and critique of research. Within the CDE training program, the process of developing this expertise involves four essential components: (1) formal training via coursework in students’ home departments and interdisciplinary coursework in other departments; (2) exposure to cutting-edge research of scholars in the broader community of population studies, primarily through the weekly Demography Seminar (‘DemSem’); (3) participation and collaboration in substantive research projects of CDE training faculty through an apprenticeship model; and (4) professional socialization and integration into the field of population studies, especially via the weekly Demography Training Seminar. Predoctoral T32 trainees are typically appointed in year 2 or 3 of their PhD program, having shown clear academic promise and a strong commitment to pursuing a population research career; most students come from Sociology, Economics and Population Health, although we are increasingly recruiting from a broader range of disciplines. They typically receive T32 funding for two to three years. We are requesting 6 predoctoral training slots (1 more than our current allocation) because our program has continued to grow in size, scope and quality. Our training efforts have expanded to focus on interdisciplinary research areas at the forefront of social science, especially biodemography and spatial/environmental demography, and we have been successful at recruiting even larger numbers of highly-competitive students into our broader training program. A critical mass of T32 traineeships ensures that we can continue to support our most outstanding students in what we believe is one of the best available environments for predoctoral training in population research.