CSDE Affiliate Peter P. Vitaliano (Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences) published an article with co-authors in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, entitled “Impact of informal caregiving on depressive symptoms among a national cohort of men“. There is evidence that unpaid caregiving can have negative effects on the mental health of female caregivers; however, evidence of impacts on male caregivers is limited. This study addressed this gap by using a prospective population study to examine associations between becoming a caregiver and depressive symptoms in 12,000 Australian men.
Evans Seminar with Bethany Gordon (11:30-12:30PM)
*New* Participate in UW’s Resilience Hackathon (4/26/24)
UW’s Department of Urban Design & Planning invites you to participate in the Resilience Hackathon on April 26th from 9:00am to 5:00pm. The hackathon focuses on designing adaptable cities capable of responding flexibly to a range of disruptions – from pandemics to earthquakes to heat waves – affecting our natural and urban environments, mobility and accessibility, infrastructure, technology, and public health. Register here!
Join us as we bring together stakeholders from the City of Seattle, the University of Washington, and community partners, each contributing their unique expertise to developing new and groundbreaking approaches to pressing urban problems. Together, we aim to strengthen the efficiency and resilience of our city to better prepare for future disruptions.
CSSS Travel Grants Now Open
Swanson Provides a Geometric Expression of Taylor’s Law in New Research Brief
CSDE Affiliate David Swanson (Sociology, UC Riverside) published a brief research note in Communications in Applied Geometry, entitled “A Geometric Expression of Taylor’s Law“. In this brief research note, Swanson provides a geometric expression of Taylor’s Law, which is a widely observed empirical pattern that relates variance to the mean in sets of non-negative measurements via an approximate power function.
*New* Apply for CSDE’s T32 Fellowship Program
CSSS Seminar: A latent Markov model with two parallel processes for modeling inter-generational exchanges
*New* Opportunities for Visiting Researchers at the Russell Sage Foundation (Due 5/7 and 6/25/24)
The Russell Sage Foundation is offering two opportunities to be a visiting scholar/researcher in residence at RSF in New York City. The first opportunity is RSF’s Visiting Scholars Program for the 2025-2026 academic year (apps due June 25, 2024). The Visiting Scholars program is a unique opportunity for junior and senior scholars to spend a year (or a semester) in residence at RSF pursuing research examining essential questions on social, economic, and political life in the United States. The second opportunity is for visiting researchers in residence at RSF during the 2024–2025 academic year (apps due May 7, 2024). The Visiting Researchers Program considers applications for short-term residential fellowships by scholars who are conducting research relevant to RSF’s priority areas. Please note that this second opportunity does not provide any financial support.
Colburn Co-authors an Editorial in The Hill: Affordable Housing is the Solution to Homelessness, not Criminalization
CSDE Affiliate Gregg Colburn (Real Estate, UW) co-authored an editorial with Margot Kushel in The Hill, entitled “Affordable housing is the solution to homelessness, not criminalization“. Authors published the editorial in light of upcoming arguments in Grants Pass vs. Johnson, a U.S. Supreme Court Case which will determine whether local governments can make it a crime to live outside when adequate shelter is not available. In the editorial, Colburn and Kushel discuss how criminalization is often an ineffective solution to homelessness in place of the obvious solution – affordable housing.