On January 17th from 3-4pm, Anissa Tanweer, a Senior Social Scientist at the eScience Institute and CSDE Affiliate, will present at the CDWG. Dr. Tanweer conducts ethnographic research on the practice and culture of computationally-mediated science and directs the UW Data Science for Social Good summer internship. At the CDWG, she will discuss her work on integrating ethics into practice of data-intensive research and provide an overview of the Data Science for Social Good program. CDWG Will be Hybrid in Winter Quarter 2024. Attend in-person in 223 Raitt Hall (The Demography lab) or on Zoom (register here).
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Sociology
Apply for Criminal Justice Innovation Fellowship
Apply for the Steinbrueck-Thonn Award for Pike Place Market Research
Apply for Criminal Justice Innovation Fellowship (Due 1/15/24)
The Social Science Research Council is pleased to announce a new fellowship program with support from Arnold Ventures, the Arnold Ventures Criminal Justice Innovation Fellowships. This program will provide generous and unrestricted support to post-doctoral fellows working to innovate and evaluate more effective and equitable criminal justice policy solutions. The program will support five post-doctoral fellows pursuing policy-relevant causal research for up to 3 years, beginning in September 2024. Fellows may reside in a location of their choosing. Fellows will receive salaries/stipends of $120,000 with full benefits and annual salary increases. Learn more here.
Call for Applications: The Steinbrueck-Thonn Award for Pike Place Market Research (Due 1/15/24)
The Friends of the Market (FOM) has initiated the Fall 2023-2024 round of the Steinbrueck-Thonn Award for Pike Place Market Research, an academic research award available to current college students and recent graduates. The Steinbrueck-Thonn Award is intended to encourage a broad range of cross-disciplinary and community-engaged scholarship related to the Pike Place Market; research that will serve as a catalyst for greater understanding of and appreciation for this treasured public resource.
The Friends of the Market Board of Directors has committed to funding this program to a maximum of $4,000 this round. Please visit the Friends of the Market webpage to learn more about the program and view/print information regarding the Call for Applications.
The Fall 2023 program uses a straightforward and simple application format and submittal process. The deadline for all submissions is January 15, 2024 (11:59pm Pacific). The Friends look forward to sharing the products of the 2023-2024 award via various public formats and/or programs in late 2024 and 2025.
A member of the FOM Board would be happy to meet with you about the program. Please contact Kate Krafft, FOM Education Committee Chair, Krafft2@comcast.net with any questions or to schedule a meeting.
CSDE Seminar – Relational One Health: A More-than-biomedical Approach to More-than-human Health
Join CSDE on Friday, Jan. 12th from 12:30-1:30 for a seminar by CSDE Affiliate Dr. Julianne Meisner. This seminar is co-hosted by the Population Health Initiative and will take place in 101 HRC and on Zoom (register here). Dr. Meisner is an Assistant Professor in the UW Department of Global Health and the UW Department of Epidemiology, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences (DEOHS). A veterinarian with a PhD in Epidemiology, Dr. Meisner’s work focuses on the intersection of human, animal and environmental health.
Dr. Meisner’s current research focuses on the human and environmental health implications of livestock-keeping, and the application of methods drawn from causal inference and spatial epidemiology to tackle methodological challenges unique to One Health studies. She is also interested in political and social forces that influence multispecies collectives, particularly the influence of land rights and institutional distrust on human-animal contact networks.
Conway and Gavin Study the Role of Sleep in Child Emotional Abuse and Depression
CSDE Affiliates Dr. Anne Conway (University of Tennessee) and Dr. Amelia Gavin (Social Work) co-authored research in the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, titled “Child emotional abuse and adult depressive symptoms in a nationally representative sample of Black females: The moderating role of adolescent sleep duration“. Emotional abuse up to age 18 is associated with depressive symptoms in adulthood, yet few studies have examined these links in Black females. Despite research documenting the moderating role of sleep duration on early adversity and mental health, no studies have examined whether sleep duration during adolescence moderates the relations between emotional abuse up to age 18 and depressive symptoms in adulthood. Authors examined these relations in 690 Black females from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health)—Public Use.
Individuals reported the frequency of emotional abuse up to age 18, hours of sleep during adolescence, and depressive symptoms using the 10-item version of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale. Only 55% of adolescents reported sleeping the recommended 8–10 hr per night. Frequent emotional abuse before age 18 years was associated with more adult depressive symptoms for those with shorter, but not longer, sleep duration. Greater attention should be placed on facilitating and promoting sleep health for Black females.
Data Science Institute Postdoctoral Scholars Program AY2024-25
New Article by Bennett Discusses Critical Remote Sensing
CSDE Affiliate Dr. Mia Bennett (Geography) recently released research with colleagues in Global Environmental Change Advances, titled “Bringing satellites down to Earth: Six steps to more ethical remote sensing“. To shed light on the politics of remote sensing, a technique often regarded as objective and neutral, the subfield of critical remote sensing has emerged in the social sciences. This perspective translates its key ideas into an actionable framework that offers suggestions for how to transform remote sensing to better engage and empower people and places typically studied at a distance.
First, authors encourage remote sensing scientists and practitioners to weigh the consequences of exposing inaccessible or off-limits places, incorporate local knowledge and values into research design, methods, and applications, and share skills and data with stakeholders who wish to learn and use remote sensing for their own objectives. Second, authors offer suggestions for teaching critical remote sensing and making research accessible and replicable. Third, they stress the importance of acknowledging that despite being conducted from afar, remote sensing can still affect the people and places it observes.