Training in Demography

项目摘要 布朗大学人口研究和培训中心（PSTC）要求继续支持其 T32国家研究服务奖。PSTC人口学培训方案的长期目标是 培养博士前和博士后社会科学家成为国际知名人口 研究者和学者。更具体地说，我们的目标是促进研究，出版和资助 在培训期间和培训之后向受训人员提供资金。我们请求支持五名博士预科生和一名 博士后实习生。在本申请中，我们提供了一个强大的跨学科培训计划的证据， 由富有成效，致力于教师的支持，专注于培养博士生和博士后研究员 来自人类学、经济学、社会学和公共卫生。我们证明，PSTC培训计划 显示了充分的证据表明，知识和组织的持续发展以及跨部门的动态协同作用， 学科和职业阶段，从新学员到高级学者，以及对卓越的承诺， 将培养出最优秀的人口科学学者我们展示了出色的招聘，保留和 在上一个赠款期的安置成果，我们专注于保持这种卓越，同时提高 专业化和加强年轻学者的道路，以未来的独立与这一新的应用程序。 这里提出的PSTC培训计划建立在一个动态的研究基础设施。在NICHD的指导下， 使命是支持人口、生殖健康和生殖健康领域的研究、数据收集和研究培训， 人口健康，PSTC在五个主要领域做出了独特的智力贡献： 城市化;人口、发展与环境;儿童、家庭与健康;生殖健康 和艾滋病毒/艾滋病;以及健康差距的社会基础。PSTC研究方法广泛， 创新，对人类学人口统计学，空间和背景方法有独特的贡献 方法，研究设计和因果推理。博士前和博士后培训生是一体化的 进入所有这些领域。他们的培训是通过课程，指导研究，工作组， 座谈会、方法模块和专业化讲习班。有证据表明， 以物理空间的形式提供支持，对研究生教育进行大量投资，并有针对性地 资助学员。博士前培训生通常被选为T32资助一到两年 在研究生院的第二或第三年。一个积极的培训委员会监督设计的 计划并与我们的参与部门协调。培训主任支持日常工作， 程序的操作。我们描述了持续和创新的组织和教学努力 以确保我们在此应用程序中概述的培训目标。

PROJECT SUMMARY The Population Studies and Training Center of Brown University (PSTC) requests continuing support for its T32 National Research Service Award. The long-term goal of the PSTC Demography Training Program is to prepare predoctoral and postdoctoral social scientists to become internationally renowned population investigators and scholars. More concretely, our objectives are to promote research, publication, and grant funding among trainees during and after training. We request support for five predoctoral trainees and one postdoctoral trainee. In this application, we provide evidence of a strong interdisciplinary training program, supported by productive, committed faculty, focused on training doctoral candidates and postdoctoral fellows from Anthropology, Economics, Sociology, and Public Health. We demonstrate that the PSTC training program shows ample evidence of continued intellectual and organizational evolution and dynamic synergy across disciplines and career stages, from new trainee through senior scholar, and a commitment to excellence that will produce the highest quality population science scholars. We show excellent recruitment, retention and placement outcomes in the previous grant period, and we focus on maintaining this excellence while improving professionalization and enhancing young scholars’ paths to future independence with this new application. The PSTC training program proposed here builds on a dynamic research infrastructure. Guided by the NICHD mission to support research, data collection, and research training in demography, reproductive health, and population health, the PSTC makes distinctive intellectual contributions in five primary areas: Migration and Urbanization; Population, Development, and Environment; Children, Families, and Health; Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS; and Social Foundations of Health Disparities. PSTC research is methodologically broad and innovative, with unique contributions to methods in anthropological demography, spatial and contextual approaches, and research design and causal inference. Predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees are integrated into all these areas. Their training is advanced through coursework, mentored research, working groups, colloquia, methods modules, and professionalization workshops. We show evidence of major institutional support in the form of physical space, significant investments in graduate education generally, and targeted funds to support trainees. Predoctoral trainees are typically selected for T32 funding for one or two years during second or third year of graduate school. An active Training Committee supervises the design of the program and coordinates with our participating departments. The Training Director supports 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.