*New* Population Centers Launch ArXiv for Population Researchers

The Association of Population Centers in collaboration with SocArXiv has launched a new platform for publishing pre-prints, works in progress, etc.  APC ArXiv (APCA) Working Paper Series is now open for sharing your research quickly. This resource is available to faculty and students affiliated with an APC member organization, which includes CSDE. We encourage you submit your population research papers to this new platform and, if you do, please let us know, so that we can announce the publication in e-news! (read more)

If you’re interested in studying adolescent social and health development across the life course, along with rich social, biological, and health data, you might consider proposing research with the Add Health Study data. CSDE now hosts the restricted-use, Add Health study data modules on the UW Data Collaborative. (read more)

Please join us for a workshop on Dryad & NIH data management plans with CSDE Research Scientist Phil Hurvitz on May 24th, at 10:30am! The workshop will take place online and you can find the zoom link here! This workshop will help PIs be compliant with NIH’s new policy requiring each submitted proposal to include a Data Management and Sharing (DMS) plan.  (read more)

Please join CSSS for their next speaker in the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences Seminar Series. On Wednesday, May 24th at 12:30 pm, Oscar Olvera Astivia, Assistant Professor of Measurement and Statistics, will give a seminar titled, “How to think clearly about the central limit theorem.” Before the seminar begins, the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences will present letters of recognition to PhD students who have completed the respective tracks in their PhD Programs. (read more)

For this week’s Computational Demography Working Group (May 24 from 3-4pm), Aasli Nur, T32 CSDE Fellow and Sociology PhD student will join present her research project which uses an agent-based model, FPsim, to apply a more contextualized, women-centered approach to the study of family planning. Her research interests center on gender, fertility, and family planning, with a particular focus on women’s contraceptive autonomy. She will will introduce FPsim, an open-source tool written in Python and developed by the Institute for Disease Modeling at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.   (read more)

*New* Announcing the 7th Annual UW GIS Symposium (5/25/23)

The GIS Symposium highlights and celebrates the transformational role of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), remote sensing, and data visualization technologies at the UW and beyond. The event will feature a keynote lecture (more details coming soon) followed by short talks from the UW GIS community. To submit a proposal, click here.

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UW Workshop: Working with Vulnerable Populations for Greater Community Resilience (5/30/23)

This workshop will focus on scholarship and strategies to reduce homelessness, expand personal mobility, and lessen risks of natural disaster, especially for underserved and vulnerable communities. Our focus will be unified by an overall approach on improving resilience and health. We will bring together researchers from a variety of fields spanning engineering, social sciences, health, and humanities to discuss with civic and community stakeholders the challenges cities face and develop ideas addressing three themes:

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*New* 17th Annual Graduate Climate Conference (GCC) (Due 6/7/23)

MIT will be hosting the 17th Annual Graduate Climate Conference (GCC) on November 2-4, 2023 at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The GCC is an annual interdisciplinary climate conference run by graduate students, for graduate students featuring panel discussions, presentations, workshops, social events, and more. GCC highlights climate research from a variety of disciplines within the physical, natural, and social sciences and humanities, including: anthropology, atmospheric sciences, biology, communication, environmental sciences, economics, engineering, ethics, geography, geology, law, oceanography, public health, public policy, resource management, forestry, and more.

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Deadline Extension for the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) Data User Workshop! (6/12-6/16/23)

There is still time to apply to this year’s workshop on the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Please see the information below and contact Noura Insolera (nehamid@umich.edu) with any questions.

Join the ICPSR waitlist: https://cvent.me/ZLQP91
Upload application materials (CV and cover letter): https://forms.gle/sG4h9Aoix79theY9A

This five-day workshop will orient participants to the content and structure of the core PSID interview, its special topics modules,

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Introduction to Vocabularies in Population Research (6/12/23)

On June 12, 2023 @5am, the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) is hosting a webinar to discuss a recent report of the IUSSP-CODATA Working Group on FAIR Vocabularies in Population Research.  The working group is proposing to build a new system for finding, integrating, and harmonizing data in the field of population research.  The first step is to create a dictionary for creating metadata categories for datasets. 

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2023 ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods (Registration Due 06/19/23)

Apply for the 2023 ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods! They will be offering over 90 courses and lectures in research methods. Nearly all of which will be offered both in person and online live with recordings available. On campus housing is available for the 3-Week Sessions and Intersession! For more information, look here!

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Title NIH Announces Call for Research on Biopsychsocial Factors of Social Connectedness and Isolation on Health, Wellbeing, Illness and Recovery (Due 6/21/23, 6/21/24, 6/21/25)

NSF Announces Cultural Anthropology Program Senior Research Awards (Due 8/15/23)

Call for Abstracts: 23rd Annual IGSC Conference (Due 9/15/23)

The East-West Center International Graduate Student Conference (IGSC) is accepting abstracts from current graduate students, as well as from scholars, practitioners, artists, and scientists, who have completed a graduate degree within the past three years. IGSC welcomes abstracts globally and from any discipline related to the US and Asia-Pacific region.

This year’s theme is Elucidating the Periphery: Rethinking Neglected Narratives and Novel Approaches. This student organized conference provides an opportunity to venture beyond one’s own boundaries to interface with neglected narratives from peripheral perspectives as well as novel techniques in a transdisciplinary context.

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CSDE Population Research Planning Grants (PRPGs): Open for Applications

CSDE Matching Support: Open for Applications

CSDE Science Core – Upcoming Workshops

Demography Events

• CSDE’s CDWG Hosts Nur for 1st Python Workshop on Fertility Modeling (Deadline: 5/24/2023)
• CSDE Workshop on Dryad & NIH Data Management Plans (Deadline: 5/24/2023)
• CSDE Seminar: Constructing Segregation: Examining Social and Spatial Division in Road Networks     Where:  101 Hans Rosling Center
  (Deadline: 5/26/2023)
• *New* UW Workshop: Working with Vulnerable Populations for Greater Community Resilience (5/30/23) 5/30/2023      Where:  Walker Ames room (225), Kane Hall, UW Seattle campus

Conferences & Calls for Papers

• Social Networks & Health Workshop to be Live-streamed (5/15-5/19) (Deadline: 5/15/2023)
• Call for Abstracts: 23rd Annual IGSC Conference (Due 9/15/23) (Deadline: 9/15/2023)
• Society for Prevention Research Annual Meeting Washington, DC
• National Institute of Justice National Research Conference Arlington, VA
• American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting Chicago, IL
• Workshop Alert! ICPSR Panel Study of Income Dynamics (6/12 – 6/19/2023) Ann Arbor, Michigan*NEW* Social Networks and Health Workshop @Duke University Open for Registration     Where:  Duke University

Funding

• Title NIH Announces Call for Research on Biopsychsocial Factors of Social Connectedness and Isolation on Health, Wellbeing, Illness and Recovery (Due 6/21/23, 6/21/24, 6/21/25)
• William T. Grant Foundation: William T. Grant Scholars Program (Closes: 7/5/2023) (Deadline: 7/5/2023)
• Notice of Intent to Publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement for Accelerating Behavioral and Social Science through Ontology Development and Use (Due 9/30/23) (Deadline: 9/30/2023)
• Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Development and Preliminary Testing of Health-related Behavioral Interventions (Deadline: 9/27/2024)
• CBE Research Restart Funding University of Washington (Open until filled)
• NSF Funding to Support Research Relating to Preventing and Predicting Future Pandemics (Open until filled)
•  Partnerships to Advance Science for Society (ComPASS) (Open until filled)
• CBE Research Restart Funding University of Washington (Open until filled)
• Request for Proposals! Grand Challenges Global Call-to-Action Initiative (Open until filled)

Employment

• Graduate Research Assistant CSDE, University of Washington (Deadline: 5/26/2023)
• ASEs for Research on Climate Maladaptation University of Washington (Open until filled)
• Assistant Professors in Demography at CPop 6/1/2023 University of Southern Denmark
• Postdoctoral Research Position Arizona State University (Deadline: 6/6/2023)
• Research Fellow Guatemala City (Deadline: 6/15/2023)
• Postdoctoral Fellowship UIC School of Public Health (Deadline: 6/16/2023)
• Summer Research Assistant University of Washington, Center for Education Data & Research (Deadline: 6/16/2023)
• Professional Researcher/Research Scientist Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) (Deadline: 8/22/2024)
• Demographer – UJA Federation of New York (Open until filled)
• University of South Carolina Seeking Two Tenure Track Positions (Open until filled)
• Postdoc position at Harvard University Harvard University (Open until filled)
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Network Science (IUNI Fellow) Indiana University Bloomington (Open until filled)
• Position in Statistical Analysis Center for Criminal Justice Research State of Washington (Open until filled)
• Research positions for Education Research and Data Center State of Washington (Open until filled)
• Senior Research Analyst – State of Washington State of Washington (Open until filled)
• Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation seeking new Research position! University of Washington (Open until filled)
• The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) Seeks Researchers! University of Washington (Open until filled)
• Labor Economists at EEOC (Open until filled)
• Several Job Opportunities at The Labor Center and California Policy Lab University of California, Berkely (Open until filled)
• Researcher – Center for Health Information and Analysis Boston, MA (Open until filled)
• School of Public Health at Texas A&M seeks qualified candidates for Instructional Track Professor Positions Texas A&M University (Open until filled)
• Tenure Track Faculty Position, Health and Illness Rowan University- New Jersey, United States (Open until filled)
• Assistant Professor in Rural Sociology Puerto Rico (Open until filled)
• King County Housing Hiring Senior Program Evaluation Analyst King County, Washington (Open until filled)
• US Census Bureau International Program Center (IPIC) hiring multiple positions! (Open until filled)
• Postdoctoral Scholar- University of Texas, Austin University of Texas, Austin (Open until filled)
• Applied Statistician, Assistant Professor- Tenure track New York University (Open until filled)
• Assistant Professor – Visual Arts and Culture University of Washington, Tacoma (Open until filled)
• Assistant Professor – Gerontology University of Massachusetts Boston (Open until filled)
• Assistant or Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, University of Washington,Washington (Open until filled)
• Assistant Professor – Quantitative Social Science Dartmouth College, New Hampshire (Open until filled)
• Assistant/Associate Professor – Global Studies Arizone State University (Open until filled)
• Postdoctoral Scholar in Poverty and Social Policy Columbia University (Open until filled)
• Research Scientist Postions for University of Washington (UW) Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity (CERSE) (Open until filled)
• Postdoctoral Fellowship – Cardiovascular and Chronic Disease Prevention, Standford Stanford University (Open until filled)
• Assistant Professor of Anthropology: Archaeological Study of Climate Change University of Washington, Seattle Campus (Open until filled)
• Research Faculty Positions – Evicted in Oregon Portland State University (Open until filled)
• Postdoctoral Research Position- Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Princeton University (Open until filled)
• Research Scientist- Center for Behavioral and Preventative Medicine, Brown University Providence, Rhode Island (Open until filled)
• Assistant Professor of Public Health – Wayne State University Wayne State University (Open until filled)
• Health Policy and Organization Faculty Positions – University of Alabama at Birmingham University of Alabama at Birmingham (Open until filled)
• Epidemiology Professor – Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans (Open until filled)
• Faculty Positions in Health Science and Technology at GIFT – Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Open until filled)
• Director of PhD Program, Health Sciences – College of Health and Human Sciences – Northern Illinois University Northern Illinois University (Open until filled)
• Department Chair, Epidemiology and Biostatistics – University of Arizona University of Arizona (Open until filled)
• Edgar Berman Chair of the Department of International Health – John Hopkins University John Hopkins University (Open until filled)
• Department Chair/Head – Public Health Sciences – Clemson University Clemson University (Open until filled)
• Inaugural Divisional Dean, School of Public and Population Health – Boise State University Boise State University (Open until filled)
• Tenure Track Public Health and MPH Program Director – University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis St. Louis, MO (Open until filled)
• Program Manager, Psychology and Health Sciences – University of California Berkeley University of California Berkeley (Open until filled)
• Executive Director, Computational Precision Health – University of California Berkeley University of California, Berkely (Open until filled)
• Postdoctoral Scholar- Columbia University, Poverty and Social Policy (Open until filled)
• Postdoctoral Position – University of Maryland, School of Medicine (Open until filled)
• Postdoctoral Scholar- Columbia University, Poverty and Social Policy (Open until filled)
• Postdoctoral Position – University of Maryland, School of Medicine (Open until filled)
• Full Stack Engineer -University of Washington University of Washington (Open until filled)
• Health Informatics Analyst- State of Hawaii Health Analytics Office Hawaii (Open until filled)
• Postdoctoral Researcher (Centre for Demographic Studies) – Barcelona, Spain (Open until filled)
• Post-Doctoral Associate – University of Colorado Boulder (Open until filled)
• Postdoctoral Opportunity: COVID-19 County Policies and Health (Open until filled)
• Project Officer – Demographic Analysis and Projections European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) Ispra, Italy (Open until filled)
• Research Scientist – University of Texas at Austin, Population Research Center (Open until filled)
• Graduate Research Student Assistant Position- University of Washington Dept of Landscape Architecture (Open until filled)
• NICHD-funded postdoc in Social Environments and Population Health – Penn State (Open until filled)
• Research Analyst – Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University Columbia University (Open until filled)
• Instructor – University of Washington College of Built Environments (Open until filled)
• Research Assistant – DEI University of Washington (Open until filled)
• Senior Data Scientist – Applied Demographer (Open until filled)
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow – The University of Texas Cizik School of Nursing (CSON), The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas (Open until filled)
• Postdoctoral Position – Berkeley Eviction Research and Computational Social Science (Open until filled)
• PhD Studentship in Social Statistics- Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Open until filled)
• Postdoctoral Research Associate -Princeton University Princeton University (Open until filled)
• Professional Researcher/Research Scientist Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) (Open until filled)
• Director of Synthetic Populations – Epistemix (Open until filled)
• Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Wisconsin-Madison (Open until filled)
• Social Scientist The Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) (Open until filled)
• Postdoctoral Researcher University of Illinois, Cancer Center (Open until filled)