The Interdisciplinary Network on Rural Population Health and Aging (INRPHA) along with the CU Population Center, hosted by University of Colorado Boulder, will hold “Climate, Aging, and Health in Rural America: An Interdisciplinary Mini-Conference & Workshop”, April 11-12, 2024. A brief application is due by January 31, 2024. Details can be found here.
Postdoctoral Scholar, Racial Disparities in Gynecologic Oncology (Open until filled)
*New* Seminar by UW Moris Women’s Center: Labor Trafficking: Impact, Solution, and Empowerment Panel (1/31/24)
The UW Moris Women’s Center invites you to attend its seminar on Wednesday, Jan. 31st from 3:30-5:30 PM in 360 Parrington Hall. This event will feature a panel, including Maggie Davis (NW Immigration Rights Project), Ignacio Marquez (Department of Agriculture), Hao Nguyen (API Chaya), Eunice How (UNITE HERE; Local 8), and Dana Raigrodski (Moderator, General Law LLC and UW School of Law), who will discuss labor trafficking. Learn more about the speakers and the event in the full story and in the event page.
Description: January is anti-human trafficking awareness month, and the Women’s Center is excited to present a panel on one of the most pressing topics in the human trafficking field—forced labor. With human trafficking consistently in the headlines and at the forefront of political discourse, discussions around labor trafficking are necessary. The U.S. The Department of State estimates that 73% of human trafficking victims in 2022 experienced forced labor. Forced labor occurs in a variety of spaces from farms to factories to private homes. Speakers will include people who work at every step, survivors, community, state, and legal. Join us to learn from the people working on the front lines of labor trafficking.
Call for abstracts: 2024 Data-Intensive Research Conference (Due 2/1/24)
Abstract submissions are now open for the 2024 Data-Intensive Research Conference. The conference will be held July 31-August 1 in Minneapolis, MN and is sponsored by the The Network for Data-Intensive Research on Aging (NDIRA). The 2024 conference theme is Harnessing the Power of Linked Data to Study Aging. They will showcase research that leverage large-scale linked population data to examine aging and life course processes in the U.S. and global contexts. Submit an abstract and review the call for proposals.
*New* Seminar by UW Moris Women’s Center: Intro to Investments (2/1/24)
The UW Moris Women’s Center will host the first seminar of its Financial Empowerment and Literacy Series, co-sponsored by CSDE. The seminar will take place on Thursday, Feb. 1st from 11:30-1:00 PM in the Allen Library Auditorium. Speakers in this series include Rachel McCracken (CFA®, MBA – Team Lead & Wealth Manager), Becky Wilcox (CFA®, MBA, FRM – Wealth Manager), and Larissa Vidal (Wealth Manager), who will use this first seminar to discuss important aspects of investing. Learn more about the speakers and the seminar in the full story and on the event page.
Description: The investment world is dominated by particular identities. We seek to empower people across genders to understand what interest rates do, how the stock markets actually works, and the power of compounding over time. Learn the psychological and technical aspects involved in financial literacy, financial empowerment, building your financial foundation, and gender and financial dynamics. We will provide a brief introduction to investments, including a look at the factors of money, time and focus. Participants will also walk away with basic mathematical calculations of exponential growth, the benefits of saving and investing, and the types of investments that people can make.
Russell Sage Grants for Dissertation Research (Deadline 2/1/24)
The Dissertation Research Grants program supports innovative and high-quality dissertation research that addresses questions relevant to any of RSF’s priority areas: Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context; Future of Work; Race, Ethnicity and Immigration; Immigration and Immigrant Integration; and Social, Political, and Economic Inequality. Proposed projects must be closely aligned with the funding priorities listed on the RSF website for any of these areas, contribute to RSF’s mission to improve social and living conditions in the U.S., and demonstrate appropriate use of relevant theory, innovative data, rigorous research methods, and measures. The proposal deadline is February 1, 2024, for funding starting in Summer 2024. Learn more about the Dissertation Research Grants program here.
NSF Support for Work on Conducting Ethical and Responsible Research
The NSF will support research on what constitutes and promotes responsible research conduct and how to instill that knowledge in researchers, practitioners and educators across all career stages. See the updated guidelines.
2025 NOAA NMFS-Sea Grant Joint Fellowship in Fisheries Science
CSDE Seminar – Panel: Demographic Methods for Estimating Mortality During Armed Conflict
This week’s CSDE seminar features a panel on using demographic methods to estimate mortality from armed conflict. This event is co-sponsored by the Population Health Initiative and will take place from 12:30-1:30 PM in 360 Parrington Hall and on Zoom (register here). This panel features experts housed in UW and elsewhere, including Dr. Amy Hagopian (UW, Public Health), Dr. Abraham D. Flaxman (UW, Global Health, Health Metrics Sciences), Dr. Patrick Heuveline (UCLA, Sociology), and Dr. Orsola Torrisi (NYU Abu Dhabi, Social Sciences Division). Dr. Nathalie Williams (UW, Department of Sociology, Jackson School of International Studies) will serve as moderator. Read more about each speaker in the full story!
Bennett Authors Research on the Growing Threat of Illicit Activities in the Arctic
CSDE Affiliate Dr. Mia Bennett (Geography) authored research in Current History, titled “The Dark Arctic” on how illicit activities are a growing threat to the region. The snow-white Arctic is darkening physically and economically. Climate change is turning frozen seas into open water and blackening snow and ice as soot spreads and algae propagates. At the same time, the region’s shadow economy is expanding. Illicit activities like human trafficking and fishing have long thrived in northern peripheries beyond state reach, while Russia’s transition to capitalism in the 1990s institutionalized the black market. The invasion of Ukraine further tightened ties between Russian Arctic resource development and criminal underworlds. With the Kremlin continuing northern extraction to fund the war and circumpolar diplomacy fracturing, the entire region is at risk of environmental and geopolitical degradation.