Registration for the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods is now open for their topical workshops and general session. Their general sessions run from June 10-July 5, and from July 8-August 2. Topical Workshops cover a single subject and run for either 20 or 40 hours in just three, five, or ten days, and run from May through August. Sessions and workshops are available online and in-person at the University of Michigan. Learn more and register for the program here. ICPSR also offers scholarships, with a deadline of Feb. 26th. See info on scholarships here and on the ICPSR website.
*New* CSSS Seminar – Gender, Deliberation, and Natural Resource Governance: Experimental Evidence from Malawi (3/27/24)
Please join us for our first speaker of Spring Quarter in the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences Seminar Series. Wednesday, March 27 at 12:30pm, Amanda Clayton, Assistant Professor in the Travers Department of Political Science at UC Berkeley, and CSSS alumni, will give a seminar titled: Gender, Deliberation, and Natural Resource Governance: Experimental Evidence from Malawi. This seminar will be offered as a hybrid session from 12:30-1:30 in Savery 409 and on Zoom. Please find the abstract and information about joining on the event page. If you’d like to meet with Amanda outside the CSSS seminar, please sign up for a slot HERE.
*New* CSDE Computational Demography Working Group (CDWG) Hosts First Meeting of the Quarter with Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR)
*New* CSDE Computational Demography Working Group (CDWG) Hosts First Meeting of the Quarter with Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) (3/27/24)
On March 27th from 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM PST/5:00 PM – 6:00 PM CET, the Computational Demography Working Group will host the first meeting of the Spring quarter. The Spring CDWG meetings will be co-hosted with the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR). Researchers from both institutions will meet via Zoom to learn data, methods, and applications of demographic and social science research together. In the first session, we will introduce the speakers and audience, and discuss expectations from the sessions. The meeting will be held hybrid on the UW campus with light breakfast (coffee and pastries) provided. CDWG Will be Hybrid in the Spring Quarter of 2024. You can register for Zoom here or attend in-person in Raitt 223 (The Demography lab).
Toward a Sociology of Indigenous Placemaking: New Chapter by Rocha Beardall
CSDE Affiliate Theresa Rocha Beardall authored a chapter, titled “Toward a sociology of Indigenous placemaking” in the edited volume New Approaches to Inequality Research with Youth. This chapter shares the concept of Indigenous placemaking to counter the erasure of Indigenous knowledge and experiences from sociological study. Drawing from the work of several Indigenous Studies scholars and thinkers, Rocha Beardall defines Indigenous placemaking in three parts. By foregrounding Indigenous perspectives in sociological research, Indigenous placemaking illustrates that sociality is place-based, lived experiences must be centered, and that land is and always will be a mode of relationality. Sociological research can learn to better analyze how place matters, not only for its geography but as part of a dynamic social space defined by Indigenous relationality and imbued with the possibility for interdependent futures.
*New* CSSS Seminar – Gender, Deliberation, and Natural Resource Governance: Experimental Evidence from Malawi
New Research by Foster, Pharris-Ciurej, and Colleagues Finds Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Excess Mortality During the COVID-19 Pandemic
CSDE and UW alumni Nikolas Pharris-Ciurej and Thomas B. Foster released an article with Census Bureau colleagues in Demography, titled “Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Excess All-Cause Mortality in the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic“. Their findings were also featured in the U.S. Census’ series America Counts: Stories Behind the Numbers. An additional 573,000 people died in the United States during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic but “excess mortality” at the national level masks substantial variations by state, age, sex, and race and ethnicity. “Excess mortality” refers to deaths from any cause above what is expected from recent mortality trends. This research shows the pandemic widened the mortality gap between the nation’s Black and White populations and completely erased the mortality advantage of the Hispanic population in relation to the non-Hispanic White population.
Save the Date: NIA Virtual Workshop on Impacts of Extreme Weather Conditions and Disasters on Older Adult Health (3/26-3/27/24)
Save the Date: NIA Virtual Workshop on Impacts of Extreme Weather Conditions and Disasters on Older Adult Health (3/26-3/27/24)
The National Institute for Aging will be hosting a virtual workshop from March 26-27th. Around the world, we are seeing an increase in the frequency and intensity of weather-related events and disasters. Individuals who are vulnerable to the effects of extreme weather, especially older adults, are experiencing worsening health outcomes, such as cardiovascular and respiratory disease, as well as excess mortality. This workshop is situated within the context of an increasingly urgent need to examine the exposures, vulnerabilities, and impacts faced by older adults, and the behavioral and social pathways through which health outcomes and disparities are impacted by climate events. Read more in the event flyer and register on Zoom here.
The first day will be focused on the behavioral and social mechanisms linked to climate exposures that impact older adults in the shortand long-term and that exacerbate existing health inequities. It will also include a discussion of available behavioral and social measures and data, and additional data needs to conduct aging and climate research. The second day will be focused on understanding adaptations and interventions at the individual, community, and health systems levels. Through presentations and discussion, participants will formulate a comprehensive research agenda by identifying research gaps and opportunities, future research directions, as well as data and measurement needs.
CSDE Seminar: States’ COVID-19 Mitigation Policies and Psychological Wellbeing, Drug Overdose, and Suicide Among U.S. Working-Age Adults
Join CSDE and co-sponsor, The Population Health Initiative, for a seminar with Shannon Monnat on Friday, March 29th from 12:30-1:30 PM on Zoom (register here). Shannon Monnat is the Lerner Chair in Public Health Promotion and Population Health, director of the Center for Policy Research, and professor of sociology in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. Monnat is a rural demographer and population health scholar whose research examines trends and geographic differences in health and mortality, with a special interest in rural health and health disparities. She is a leading national expert on structural and spatial determinants of drug overdose and other deaths of despair. Her most recent research has focused on geographic differences in COVID-19 experiences and impacts. This seminar is virtual only.