Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology

Raftery and Co-Authors Publish New Book on Model-Based Clustering!

CSDE Affiliate Adrian Raftery and co-authors have published their new book “Model-Based Clustering, Classification, and Density Estimation Using mclust in R” by Chapman & Hall. The book provides a systematic statistical approach to clustering, classification, and density estimation via mixture modeling. The model-based framework allows the problems of choosing or developing an appropriate clustering or classification method to be understood within the context of statistical modeling. The mclust package for the statistical environment R is a widely adopted platform implementing these model-based strategies. The package includes both summary and visual functionality, complementing procedures for estimating and choosing models.

CSDE Seminar: A Panel on Global & Interdisciplinary Insights on Gender and Empowerment

Join CSDE this week for a panel on Global & Interdisciplinary Insights on Gender and Empowerment with Isabelle Cohen (Evans School of Public Policy and Governance), Arjee Restar (Epidemiology and Health Systems and Population Health), Emma Riley (Economics).

For this panel, three CSDE Affiliates and UW faculty offer their perspectives on how they frame their research agendas to understand better gender and empowerment in different contexts around the globe. Arjee Restar will discuss conceptual frameworks for understanding health disparities among transgender and nonbinary people in the US and Asia. Emma Riley will discuss research in Kenya experimentally addressing economic and psychological constraints to women’s empowerment. Isabelle Cohen will discuss an experimental evaluation of a bundled, community-focused intervention on child marriage in Nigeria.

CSDE Seminar: A Panel on Global & Interdisciplinary Insights on Gender and Empowerment

Hill Receives Funding to Support New Study on Paid Family and Medical Leave

CSDE Affiliate Heather Hill received a budget proviso from the WA State Employment Security Department (ESD) to support a study at the Evans School to examine job protection for users of the Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) program. Professor Hill will be the primary investigator of the study, which will involve administrative data analysis and interviews with workers across the state. This is another extension of work

Demographic Research PhD Studentship in Social Statistics

We are pleased to invite applications to a 3.5-year University of Manchester doctoral studentship in Social Statistics. The studentship is jointly funded by the Social Statistics Department, University of Manchester, UK, and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), Germany, one of the world-leading research centres in population sciences. The studentship will be part of the International Max Planck Research School for Population, Health and Data Science (IMPRS-PHDS) imprs-phds.mpg.de

Social Scientist

The Social Scientist is a newly formed position at AGCI that is charged with: helping cultivate AGCI as a place for interdisciplinary and actionable science; assisting in the design and execution of a scientific research agenda; developing resources and funding for continued research activities; and helping build and sustain research and practice partnerships.

In pursuing this work, the Social Scientist will assist in ongoing, mixed-methods social science research. They will help AGCI evaluate and strategize about the effectiveness of the Institute’s programming and build their own research portfolio that aligns with advancing global change science and solutions.

Assistant Professors in Demography at CPop

Within the ERC Consolidator Grant “Towards a transdisciplinary demographic theory of birth and death trajectories”, we are opening one or more positions as assistant professor in demography at the Danish Centre for Population Research of The Interdisciplinary Centre on Population Dynamics (CPop) at the University of Southern Denmark, Campus Odense. The position is expected to start on October 1 or soon thereafter. It is a fixed term position of three years, with a possibility of extension by one year.

Survey Statistician (Health)

As a Survey Statistician (Health), you will:

Initiate, design and conduct statistical and epidemiologic studies of substance abuse and mental health issues.
Develop statistical analyses to produce population estimates and estimates of variances from complex sample designs.
Develop and implement sample and instrument design(s) for surveys collecting data related to substance abuse and mental health issues.
Provide expert advice and contribute to the design of complex national substance abuse and mental health surveys.
Review proposals and manuscripts with respect to the appropriateness of the statistical techniques used.

Statistician

As a Statistician (Health), you will use your knowledge of and experience with statistical studies on mental health and substance use to optimize business results and customer experience by:

Conducting research and statistical studies or projects related to health-related issues.
Collaborating with other scientists on aspects of study design, analysis, and interpretation.
Preparing comprehensive reports of study results to include discussion of substantive research objectives.

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

The National Science Foundation recently providing guidelines for submitting Cultural Anthropology Senior Research Award proposals. The Cultural Anthropology Program supports research aimed at understanding patterns, causes and consequences of human social and cultural variation, including research that has implications for confronting anthropogenic problems.

See the guidelines in PDF format