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RFI by the NIH: Environmental Justice Research Gaps, Opportunities and Capacity Building (Due 12/15/23)

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Environmental Justice Working Group invites feedback on the approaches NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices can take to support research and capacity building efforts to advance environmental justice in the U.S. and globally. Additionally, Request for Information (RFI) responses will enable the NIH Environmental Justice Working Group to be responsive to Executive Order 14096 on Revitalizing Our Nation’s Commitment to Environmental Justice for All, and to synergize NIH efforts with other Federal Agencies in a whole-of-government approach to advance environmental justice.

CSDE Holiday Message

As we near that turn in the academic calendar (between 2023-2024), all of us at CSDE send all of you many best wishes in the New Year!  We hope you can find time for rest and recuperation with those most important to you. We also hope for a more peaceful and safer New Year, especially those less privileged!

In these times, it’s hard to know how to make a difference. This year, UNICEF is in particularly need and I am donating to them. Most of all, we are grateful for all that you do to make a difference in others’ lives and for your support of CSDE! If you are so inclined, CSDE always welcomes donations to support our graduate students or general operations fund.  You can click here and type into the search bar “Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology” to see the donation options.  Thank you again for being a wonderful community of population research scholars and practitioners.
See you in the New Year!

~ Sara Curran, CSDE Director

Workshop: Updating Your CV to Contextualize Your Contributions in Societally Engaged Work (12/12/23)

This workshop hosted by Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center will take place on Tues. Dec 12th from 10:00-11:30AM on Zoom (register here). Are you a researcher engaging with non-academic partners to develop science that meets real-world needs? If so, you may have noticed that the traditional format of scientific CVs, focused on comprehensive lists of publications and presentations, makes it challenging to convey the distinct skills, activities and products associated with your societally engaged research. So how do you develop a CV that accounts for these real-world contributions, yet still aligns with the traditional CV format expected in academia? Join our interactive workshop to find out! This work session is designed to support you in incorporating narrative elements into your CV that help contextualize your skills and experiences and better communicate your work.

We’ll draw from lessons learned in our previous webinar, Reworking Scientific CVs to Better Capture Societally Engaged Research and Move Towards Fairer Research Assessment. After setting the stage for why you might consider adding narrative elements into your CV, we’ll break into small groups and walk through prompts for how to incorporate narrative elements that highlight meaningful, contextual information about your contributions in societally engaged research. We’ll have a mix of quiet work time as well as time for discussion and questions.