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Announcing CSDE Workshops for Winter Quarter!
CSDE will be offering 4 workshops this quarter covering computational topics in GIS, survey statistics, and using Census and ACS data in R with the author of the tidycensus package, Kyle Walker. See below for the full schedule and links for registration: CSDE Science and Training Cores Welcome Dr. Jessica Godwin!
CSDE is pleased to announce that Dr. Jessica Godwin has accepted our offer to join CSDE’s Science and Training Cores and joins us fulltime on January 18th! Welcome Jessica!
Dr. Godwin received her PhD in Statistics from the University of Washington in 2021 and also completed CSDE's Graduate Certificate in Demographic Methods. She was also the recipient of two CSDE fellowships, one from NICHD and one from the Shanahan Endowment. Her dissertation work examined how to best estimate child mortality from various sources and to improve upon national and subnational estimates in places with sparse data. As part of that effort, she led a study with CSDE Affiliate Jon Wakefield published in Statistics in Medicine that developed space-time modeling techniques for subnational child mortality estimates in low and middle-income countries. Subnational estimations of child mortality for 22 countries developed in collaboration with UN IGME can be found at https://childmortality.org/. Her broad research interests are demography, Bayesian spatiotemporal methods, survey statistics, and the places where all of those things overlap. She was born and raised in Alabama and received her M.S. in Statistics at Auburn University. Her thesis, titled “Group lasso for functional logistic regression”, was advised by Nedret Billor. She also received a B.S. in Actuarial Science - the scientific sibling of demography! Jessica joins CSDE as a Statistical Demographer and the science core is delighted to welcome her to the team. IN ADDITION, Dr. Godwin is picking up the leadership reins of CSDE’s Graduate Certificate in Demographic Methods. We can’t think of a better trained statistician and demographer to take up that mantle. The training core is very pleased to know that it will benefit from Jessica's good ideas, generosity towards students, and thoughtful advice for students' successes. To read more about Dr. Godwin, visit her website: https://jlgodwin.github.io/.
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Call for Applications: CSDE Winter 2022 Lightning Talks Due 1/28!!
CSDE welcomes and encourages graduate students to submit abstracts for the CSDE Lightning Talks and Poster Session! This is a wonderful, low-stakes opportunity to present your research, receive feedback, and practice your presentation skills.
Submit a brief abstract and information about yourself and your collaborators here by January 28th.
The session will take place on Friday, March 11th on Zoom.
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New Resource from Demography for Your Research or Courses
Recently, the journal Demography has compiled publications from its 2021 issues (all open source) which you might find useful in your research or teaching related to gender, immigration, families or population health. Check it out!
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Call for PAA Annual Award Nominations Due 1/31
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Recognize a fellow demographer (or yourself!) who has made outstanding contributions to the field. The deadline for nominations is January 31.
Read more about the four awards that will be presented at the PAA 2022 Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia on the PAA website. (read more)
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Biodemographers -- See RSF Summer Institute on Integrating Biology into the Social Sciences
The Russell Sage Foundation has extended its deadline for its Summer Institute on Integrating Biology into the Social Sciences to Friday, January 28th, 2022. Over the past decade, there has been an explosion of interest in biology among social scientists. Despite the promise this new research holds, there are significant obstacles to its implementation. Among the most pressing is the shortage of scholars who are adequately trained to undertake it. To address this gap, The Russell Sage Foundation is sponsoring the summer workshop, Integrating Biology into the Social Sciences.
Workshop attendees will (1) develop an understanding of the conceptual basis for integrating the social and biological sciences, (2) become acquainted with the basic units of biology – genes, cells, and organs, (3) learn the basic physiology of key organ systems, (4) gain familiarity with methods used to measure human biological processes and (5) wrestle with the social, ethical, and political implications of conducting work in this area. The target audience is post-doctoral fellows and junior faculty members in the social sciences, although we are open to applications from advanced graduate students. The workshop will be hosted by Northwestern University’s Cells to Society group and Institute for Policy Research (IPR). The co-directors are Greg Miller, Emma Adam and Thom McDade, and participating faculty include Edith Chen, Bridget Goosby, Claudia Haase, Michael Kobor, Chris Kuzawa, Robin Nusslock, and Michael Yudell. The workshop will be held in-person in Evanston, IL from June 6-10. Travel and housing will be covered by a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation. Click HERE to learn about the application requirements.
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Grant Opportunity Highlights!
Several outstanding grant opportunities have deadlines approaching that we wanted to share:
As always, if CSDE's teams can be of additional help with your research planning or an application, please let us know. You can submit your interest and plans to the proposal planning form or contact Steve Goodreau with a request for advice (goodreau@uw.edu).
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CSDE Early Career Grant Working Group – consider joining!
Are you an early-career (pre-promotion) faculty member who is thinking about writing a grant? Perhaps you're just beginning to ponder the idea but don't know where to start - or maybe you're already experienced and still need some information, ideas, or moral support. If so, then you should join CSDE's Early Career Grant Working Group! We meet monthly in a hybrid (in-person in Raitt Hall and on Zoom) on third Thursdays from 1:30-2:30. Please email Steve Goodreau (goodreau@uw.edu) to be added to the mailing list and event invitation.
Please note: membership is focused on CSDE affiliates (any UW campus or external) who are in any kind of faculty position prior to their first major promotion (to associate or equivalent). If you have a question about your eligibility, please email Steve Goodreau (goodreau@uw.edu).
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Call for CSDE Proposals: Population Research Planning Grants
CSDE has funds available to provide a variety of forms of support for affiliates submitting grants from now through this summer. This might include funding for hiring an RA (quarterly or hourly), hosting or hiring consultants from inside or outside UW, hiring CSDE scientific staff, acquiring data sets, organizing a mini-workshop or writing retreat, or many other possibilities! One key restriction, however, is that funds cannot be used for faculty salary support or course buyout.
Applications are rolling, and CSDE's core leadership will review proposals every two weeks until the funds are exhausted. Early applications are encouraged!
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