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6 Strengthening Funding Opportunities and Training Models for the Future of Integrated Family Research Studies
6 Strengthening Funding Opportunities and Training Models for the Future of Integrated Family Research Studies
Pages 73-84
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Combining disciplinary approaches requires innovative methodologies, institutional and funding support, and a sustained commitment to collaboration. An issue emphasized by Hirokazu Yoshikawa, professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, was how disciplines learn and evolve.
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" MULTIDISCIPLINARY FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES The mission of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) , said Cheryl Anne Boyce, is to lead the nation in bringing the power of science to bear on drug abuse and addiction.
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For example, the National Human Genome Research Institute has emphasized the importance of obtaining family health histories as part of the biomedical information collected in medical interviews. Much of the family research supported by NIH requires the involvement of multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary teams, said Nilsen.
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But the research being requested by its nature requires a variety of methods, including mixed qualitative and quantitative research; in fact, almost every session at the IOM workshop included research funded by OPRE. Mixed methods are particularly important in understanding diverse populations and the use of services by low-income families, Jekielek said.
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The study combined a variety of disciplinary perspectives, and the first paper to emerge from the study, on the behavioral changes accompanying welfare reform, had an influence on Congress. "It helped answer a big public policy need of the day." In the future, Evans said, a major concern will be decision-making processes in families.
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In the domain of cognition, for example, the subdomains included executive function, episodic memory, processing speed, language, working memory, and attention. In the domain of social and emotional functioning, the subdomains were negative affect, positive affect, stress and self-efficacy, and social relationships.
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According to Fox, the toolbox is a measure of individual competence across a wide range of domains and can be a useful adjunct in family research. TRAINING Andrew Fuligni, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and of psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles, identified seven features of successful multidisciplinary training programs.
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Finally, faculty members and institutions need a conviction that science will progress faster with mixed methods. Administrators, chairs, center directors, vice chancellors of research, and others all need to be convinced that collaborative research will pay off in the long run.
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At the Center for Research on Families at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, the Family Research Scholars Program brings six faculty members together for a year in an interdisciplinary seminar. Each of them applies to be part of the program, and each of them writes a research grant focused on some type of family research.
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It just requires someone to do the hard work, to create that battery of measures." Nor are there any direct measures of parenting, Fox continued, although there are measures of social support and relationships embedded in parent questionnaires. Bakeman observed that the way of doing science embodied in the NIH Toolbox is desirable, but it goes against the scientific culture in some ways.
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With major data archives, multiple methods could be brought to bear on the same data. "We need to create a culture where more work goes into collecting archives, more dissertations are earned, and more promotions are gained from working with large archival data sets.
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Researchers could look at how people interact on teams, how they train others, and the effects team participation has on a person's career trajectory. Such studies could help inform people make career decisions and could play a role in tenure reviews.
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