Session: Invited Symposium I: “Training Our Next Generation Scientific Work Force to Tackle Grand Challenges” (Society for Social Work and Research 20th Annual Conference - Grand Challenges for Social Work: Setting a Research Agenda for the Future)

97 Invited Symposium I: “Training Our Next Generation Scientific Work Force to Tackle Grand Challenges”

Schedule:
Friday, January 15, 2016: 1:45 PM-3:15 PM
Ballroom Level-Congressional Hall A (Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel)
Speakers/Presenters:
Paula S. Nurius, PhD, University of Washington, James Lubben, PhD, Boston College, Sarah Gehlert, PhD, Washington University in Saint Louis, Lawrence A. Palinkas, PhD, University of Southern California, Kara Hall, PhD, National Cancer Institute, Elizabeth Lightfoot, PhD, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Edwina Uehara, PhD, University of Washington, Jeremy Goldbach, PhD, University of Southern California, Renee M. Cunningham-Williams, PhD, Washington University in Saint Louis and Deirdre M. Lanesskog, MPA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Social work’s historic articulation of current Grand Challenges sharpens the imminent need to coordinate a national plan for preparing our doctoral students and early career scholars for high impact careers toward advancing solutions. In this session we convene a national panel to provide interlocking illustrations of research skill and career readiness needs of emerging scholars who will largely be responsible for taking Grand Challenges forward, within contemporary scientific contexts.  This session builds on prior task forces within and outside of social work to delineate the top tasks social work must attend to over the coming decade to prepare our next generation of researchers for leadership in the era of Grand Challenges. This session will include engagement with the audience and should be of interest to a very wide swath of SSWR participants—from doctoral students to early career and senior faculty to school leadership. This vision will include creative attention to linking resources across schools of social work as well as SSWR’s pivotal support roles.
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