On January 10 (5pm, HUB 332), the Simpson Center is hosting Dr. Dorothy Roberts who will be speaking on the “The Urgency of Reproductive Justice after Dobbs.” To learn more and join, visit the Jan 10th event page here. On January 11 from 3-6pm (HUB Lyceum), Dr. Roberts will also join a panel with moderation by CSDE Affiliate Oliver Rollins and with contributions from CSDE Affiliates LaShawnDa Pittman & LaTonya Trotter, along with Dr. Monica McLemore. For more information about that event visit the Jan 11th event page (here).
Call for Papers: Time Use Conference 2024 (Due 1/12/24)
The conference committee is currently accepting abstracts for the 2024 University of Maryland Time Use Conference on June 13-14 in College Park, Maryland. Submissions are due by January 12, 2024, at 11:59 PM ET. For more information, please view the Call for Papers. Time is a critical but under-researched aspect of racial and ethnic disparities in daily life, including social and public interactions, health and well-being. The focus of the 2024 University of Maryland (UMD) Time Use Conference will be using time use and well-being data to investigate temporal dimensions of racial and ethnic inequities and structural racism.
Tier 2 grants available from the Population Health Initiative (Due 1/12/24)
The purpose of this tier of grants is to support faculty and PI-eligible staff to develop preliminary data or proof-of-concept needed to pursue follow-on funding to scale one’s efforts. Awards of up to $50,000 per project – or $65,000 per project for teams proposing meaningful partnerships with community-based organizations – will be available with a project period of up to 12 months. One award during the winter 2024 cycle will be reserved specifically for an internationally-focused project through our partnership with the UW Office of Global Affairs. Applications will be accepted once per year in January in a two-stage process: submission of a brief letter of intent, with the most compelling ideas then invited to submit a full application. Letters of intent are due on January 12, 2024. Learn more here.
Freitag and Hill Co-Author Study on Retirement and Poverty During the Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic altered many Americans’ retirement plans, pushing some into early retirement while prompting others to delay. These shifts may affect income sources and the risk of falling into poverty, but existing research has largely overlooked these issues. CSDE Affiliates Callie Freitag (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Heather Hill (Evans School) recently authored a study entitled “Labor Force Transitions, Income Changes, and Poverty Entries Among Older Workers: 2018-2023” in Innovation and Aging that explores these questions. The study uses 2018–2023 Current Population Survey data to analyze labor force transitions and income changes among adults aged 50 and older during the pandemic. Read the full study here.
CSDE Seminar – Settler Love is Breaking our Hearts: Colonialism and Emergent Ecologies of Health on the Western Grassland Prairies
Join CSDE for a seminar by Dr. Rick W. A. Smith on Friday, January 5th in PAR 360 and on Zoom (register here). There will be several opportunities to meet with Dr. Smith throughout the day. Interested individuals can sign up for 1-1 meetings here. CSDE Trainee Delaney Glass will also facilitate a graduate student discussion from 1:30-2:30 in Raitt 221. RSVP to Delaney (dglass1@uw.edu) to join the student discussion.
Dr. Smith is a geneticist and critical science scholar. He is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at George Mason University (GMU). He is also an affiliate of the Women and Gender Studies Program at GMU, The Indigenous Science and Technology Studies Program at The University of Alberta, and SING Canada. Prior to his current appointment as an Assistant Professor, he received his PhD from The University of Texas – Austin and worked as a post-doctoral scholar at the Neukom Institute for Computational Science and the Department of Anthropology at Dartmouth College. His work examines intersections of genomics, feminist, queer and Indigenous science to understand how power becomes molecular. His recent work involves understanding population histories and urban/ruralism, and colonial sex, kinship, and family in the American South.
CSDE will be hosting its regular seminar series on Fridays from 12:30-1:30. Check out our full winter schedule here!
Winter Quarter CSDE Seminar Series and More!
This quarter we will look forward to seeing you during our several workshops, working groups, or the seminar series. Feel free to share these opportunities with colleagues and invite them to join. All events are open. We are here to accelerate and support your research. We have a grants team, a scientific consulting team (spatial analysis, statistics, and more), several lab facilities (biodemography, UWDC, NWFSRDC), a top-notch computing infrastructure, a network of outstanding CSDE affiliates for collaboration, and very accomplished graduate students – all can help you accomplish your research. If you don’t know where to start, just email: csde@uw.edu.
In winter quarter, the lecture series will welcome Rick Smith (George Mason University) a biocultural anthropologist with expertise in epigenomics; Julianne Meisner (UW Global Health) a CSDE affiliate researching environmental health and the methodological challenges of One Health studies; Rachel Wilbur (WA State Univ.) who researches the health and wellbeing of indigenous peoples and communities; Janna Johnson (U of Minn.) an economic demographer researching demographic dynamics within the United States, both historic and current; Kemi Doll (UW School of Medicine) a CSDE affiliate and an OBGYN who takes a race conscious research approach to understanding women’s health; Yun Zhou (U Mich.) a sociologist who studies gender and family dynamics in China; and, James Raymer (Australia Nat. U.) a demographer researching migration. We will also host two panel discussions including a panel on demographic methods for estimating mortality during armed conflict and a panel on climate impacts on population health. At the end of winter quarter, please join us when trainees will present their research during our Lightning Talks and Posters session. To learn more about our seminar series click here.
Glass Examines the Meaning of Health for Arab Emerging Adults in the United States
CSDE Trainee Delaney Glass (Anthropology) published research with co-authors in SSM – Mental Health, titled “Advancing an individual-community health nexus: Survey, visual, and narrative meanings of mental and physical health for Arab emerging adults“. With the Iraqi Arab Health Board of Washington, Glass, al-Tameemi, and Farquhar examined the perspectives of Arab and Arab American emerging adults on self-rated physical and mental health using surveys and PhotoVoice. Self-rated health is known as a strong predictor of well-being and mortality in adolescents. Self-rated health for Arab and Arab American emerging adults may be harmed by racialization and securitization of their identities and physical bodies as well as complex experiences in the diaspora. This study demonstrates that beyond self-rated health, Arab youth face numerous mental and physical challenges and that health is a social-relational process. More social science research prioritizing Arab youth is needed to advance health equity.
Research by Ellis Finds Hidden Pockets of Poverty and is Featured in The Guardian
CSDE Affiliate Dr. Mark Ellis (Geography) recently co-authored an article in The Geographical Journal, titled “An ethnic group specific deprivation index for measuring neighbourhood inequalities in England and Wales“. Dr. Ellis conducted this study alongside a research team at Queens University Belfast with a grant from the Economic and Social Research Council. The study focuses on the geography of social deprivation in England and Wales, highlighting pockets of deprivation by ethnic group across the two countries, using the 2021 Census. Unlike the US, the UK has no small area income data and so has no direct measure of poverty. The authors’ introduce the Ethnic Group Deprivation Index (EGDI) to identify areas of deprivation, using a collection of social indicators including health, education, and employment. Their research finds complex micro geographies of deprivation. While local towns may be perceived as prosperous, with little or no social deprivation overall, there may be small areas (zones of 1500 people) where one or more ethnic groups have very high levels of deprivation. These findings have been featured in two articles by The Guardian – the first article providing an overview of the index and the second article delving deeper into the experience of Oxford, England. The first article by The Guardian states a key implication of the research – “More than a million people in England are living in pockets of hidden hardship, meaning that they could be missing out on vital help because their poverty is masked by neighbours who are better off”. Dr. Ellis conveyed authors’ message in an email – Policy makers aiming to address social deprivation must look beyond place averages and consider how ethnic groups have heterogenous experiences of deprivation within small areas.
Theories of Change in Women’s Group Interventions are the Focus of Anderson’s New Research
CSDE Affiliate Dr. Leigh Anderson (Evans School of Public Policy and Governance) released research with co-authors in the Journal of Global Health, titled “Strengthening theories of change in women’s group interventions to improve learning“. Supporting women’s groups is increasingly seen as an important intervention strategy for advancing women’s empowerment, economic outcomes, and family health in low- and middle-income countries. Authors argue that learning from investments in women’s group platforms is often limited by the lack of a well-articulated, evaluable theory of change (ToC) developed by those designing the programmes. They review a portfolio of 46 women’s groups investments made by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation between 2005 and 2017 to understand the prevalence and clarity of evaluable theories of change, and propose a framework for these theories which they hope will support more learning.