The University of California, Irvine’s Center for Population, Inequality and Policy invites submissions to present at the inaugural All-UC Demography Conference. This meeting will highlight current demographic research and provide a venue for making connections across UC campuses, with a keynote talk by Ronald Lee. The conference will be held May 4th and May 5th in person at University of California, Irvine. The plan is to hold faculty paper sessions with discussants, as well as an additional graduate student poster competition, with awards and a reception. The submission deadline for both papers and posters is Monday, February 6th, 2023, 11:59pm. Presenters will be notified by early March. Limited travel award support will be available for graduate students with accepted posters. For more information, please visit the conference website here.
Reproductive Justice: Historical Context and Contemporary Implications for Population Health
Join us for a Panel on Reproductive Justice this week featuring Bettina Judd, Monica McLemore, and Megan Eagen-Torkko. CSDE Trainee Taylor Riley will moderate the presentation and discussion with the expert panelists. Taylor is also an expert and this should be an important discussion about how to think about reproductive health and reproductive justice. We are grateful to CSDE Executive Committee member Dr. Anjum Hajat for organizing this panel.
Biographies
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Bettina Judd, PhD
Bettina Judd is an interdisciplinary writer, artist and performer whose research focus is on Black women’s creative production and our use of visual art, literature, and music to develop feminist thought. Her book Feelin: Creative Practice, Pleasure, and Black Feminist Thought (Northwestern University Press, December 2022) argues that Black women’s creative production is feminist knowledge production produced by registers of affect she calls “feelin.” She is currently Associate Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington.
Her poems and essays have appeared in Feminist Studies, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Torch, Mythium, Meridians and other journals and anthologies. Her collection of poems titled patient. which tackles the history of medical experimentation on and display of Black women won the Black Lawrence Press Hudson Book Prize and was released in November of 2014. As a performer she has been invited to perform for audiences within the United States and internationally.
Monica McLemore, PhD, MPH, RN
Dr. Monica R. McLemore is a tenured professor in the Child, Family, and Population Health Department and the Interim Director for the Center for Anti-Racism in Nursing at the University of Washington School of Nursing. Prior to her arrival at UW, she was a tenured associate professor at the University of California, San Francisco and was named the Thelma Shobe Endowed Chair in 2021. She retired from clinical practice as a public health and staff nurse after a 28-year clinical nursing career in 2019, however, continues to provide flu and COVID-19 vaccines.
Her program of research is focused on understanding reproductive health and justice. To date, she has 96 peer reviewed articles, OpEds and commentaries and her research has been cited in the Huffington Post, Lavender Health, five amicus briefs to the Supreme Court of the United States, and three National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine reports, and a data visualization project entitled How To Fix Maternal Mortality: The first step is to stop blaming women that was published in the 2019 Future of Medicine edition of Scientific American.
Her work has also appeared in publications such as Dame Magazine, Politico, ProPublica/NPR and she made a voice appearance in Terrance Nance’s HBO series Random Acts of Flyness. She is the recipient of numerous awards and was past-chair for Sexual and Reproductive Health section of the American Public Health Association. She was inducted as a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing in 2019 and resigned in 2022 due to inaction specific to the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe vs. Wade. She became the Editor in Chief of Health Equity Journal in 2022.
Meghan Eagen-Torkko, PhD, CNM, ARNP
Meghan Eagen-Torkko held a faculty appointment in the College of Nursing at Seattle University prior to joining the faculty at the UWB School of Nursing and Health Studies in 2015. She completed her Ph.D. in nursing with a specialization in women’s health at the University of Michigan in 2015, where she was a Rackham Merit Fellow. She has worked as a certified nurse midwife since 2009 and continues to practice with Public Health Seattle-King County, where her practice specializes in family planning and women’s health.
Moderator: Taylor Riley, MPH (she/her) is a doctoral candidate in epidemiology and a CSDE trainee. Her research focuses on social and structural determinants of sexual and reproductive health inequities, with a specific focus on abortion and perinatal care and outcomes. Prior to her doctoral training, Taylor was a Senior Research Associate at the Guttmacher Institute conducting research on unintended pregnancy, abortion, and contraception.
CSDE Workshop: Biomarkers in the Social Sciences and the CSDE Biodemography Lab
Population dynamics, such as fertility and mortality, operate at the intersection of social and biological processes. Methodological training, however, is often siloed by disciplinary boundaries. With growing interest in understanding how social and environmental factors might “get under the skin” to impact physiology, biomarker literacy is increasingly a valuable asset. In this workshop, we will explore how biomarkers can augment social science research, highlight some common biomarkers of interest to current CSDE affiliates, discuss some of the logistical and ethical considerations of specimen and data collection, and learn about the services and resources available through the CSDE Biodemography Lab.
Join us if you are interested in learning more about how biomarkers can augment your demographic or social science research.
CSDE Workshop: Basics of REDCap Survey and Project Design
REDCap is a secure, web-based application that offers a streamlined process for rapidly developing databases that support data capture for research projects. It provides an intuitive interface for data entry, including data validation and audit trails. REDCap’s survey functionality offers advanced data collection features such as branching logic, calculated fields, and repeating instruments. REDCap also provides automated export procedures for seamless data downloads to common statistical packages. Finally, REDCap provides a robust framework for managing the logistics of running a research project, including tools such as automated email alerts to study participants or study staff and completely customizable user privilege’s for any sized research team.
Come join us to learn how you can use REDCap to support your next data collection activity, from sending out a single survey to a few participants to administering a large longitudinal research study.
*Reminder* Join Us for Biomarkers in the Social Sciences and the CSDE Biodemography Lab and Basics of REDCap Survey and Project Design the Following Week (2/2/2023 @11am)
Please feel free to attend our first CSDE Workshop: Biomarkers in the Social Sciences and the CSDE Biodemography lab on February 2nd, 2023 at 11am. The instructor for this session is Tiffany Pan, and registration for the workshop can be found here! Also, don’t forget to sign up for the next CSDE Workshop “Basics of REDCap Survey and Project Design” with Matt Dunbar on February 9th, 2023 from 12:00PM-2:00PM in 121 Savery Hall. Sign ups for REDCap can be found here!
EXTENDED DEADLINE! Apply for the Winter CSDE Lightning Talks 2023! (Due 2/3/2023)
Students consider applying for the Winter Quarter CSDE Lightning Talks! Students present their research and receive feedback at this event, and we would love to receive your submissions! This is an excellent, low-stakes opportunity to practice your presentation skills and grow your network. Also, The Population Association of America 2023 Annual Meeting is just around the corner! This is an opportunity to practice a shorter version of your presentation or share a draft of your poster.
What is the purpose of the session?
This session is a unique opportunity to make new connections with faculty and students working in your area, and to improve your presentation and poster-making skills in advance of larger conferences. Many professional organizations and their associated conferences include space on their programs for posters or lightning talks (sometimes known as flash talks). This session is a great opportunity for:
- anyone who is preparing a poster presentation for an end-of-the-quarter requirement for a class;
- anyone who is preparing to present work at a conference (anyone preparing for an upcoming conference poster session? It can’t hurt to start working on that PAA submission now, just in case!);
- students who just want to present a research idea and receive feedback. This session can be valuable! Faculty attending the poster sessions find it to be one of the most rewarding experiences because it gives them an opportunity to meet students and talk about research.
If you are selected, CSDE will work with CSSCR to get your poster printed for you (no fees, no hassle – you just have to send your poster and slides to me by the date below).
What will the session look like?
As of this moment, the lightning talks are scheduled to take place in person (i.e. there will be no hybrid/Zoom option this quarter). The session will be split into two sections: the Lightning Talks and the Poster Session.
Each participant will prepare 2 PowerPoint slides and one poster PDF to submit should they be selected. The 2 PowerPoint slides will be high-level summaries for the lightning talk portion, and the poster PDF will be a separate file so we can have it printed for you. Two previous winning posters are attached to this email for your perusal!
Each presenter will have 2-3 minutes for their lighting talk presentation, followed by each presenter being available at their poster while attendees circulate and engage with the posters’ content. There will also be light refreshments available to fuel great conversations!
Will there be judges?
Yes, there will be a faculty panel that will give all participants feedback on their slides and presentation and determine a winner. CSDE will recognize the best poster with an award and prize. Posters will be assessed based on the following criteria:
- Relevance to demographic research or population health;
- Innovative aspects of the research project;
- Quality and appropriateness of research design and methodology;
- Effectiveness in communicating key aspects of the project;
- Overall design and quality of visuals, images and/or tables.
Is my research a fit for the CSDE Trainee lightning talks?
CSDE seeks to build bridges across disciplines and aims to highlight a broad array of research topics. If your research focuses on demographic measures and methods, population growth, population health, population and environment, mobility, migration, fertility, mortality, family composition, life course, neighborhood change, or other related topics, you should consider participating! Learn more about CSDE HERE.
How do I apply to participate?
To apply, you only need to submit a brief abstract and information about yourself and your collaborators on the project. Submit your application HERE. We will select up to 7 participants.
Dates and deadlines:
- COB Friday, February 3: deadline to submit an abstract
- by COB Friday, February 10: you will be notified if you have been selected
- COB Friday, March 3: deadline to email presentation slides to Aja Sutton (amsutton@uw.edu)
- Friday, March 10: CSDE Lightning Talks and Poster Session from 12:30-1:30pm, Allen Library Research Commons Green Room A.
Please feel free to email me at amsutton@uw.edu if you have any questions. I look forward to seeing your submissions!
TL;DR: Calling all graduate students to submit abstracts for the Autumn 2023 CSDE Lightning Talks and Poster Session! Submit a brief abstract and information about yourself and your collaborators here by COB Friday, February 3rd.
Reproductive Justice: Historical Context and Contemporary Implications for Population Health
Join us for a Panel on Reproductive Justice this week featuring Bettina Judd, Monica McLemore, and Megan Eagen-Torkko. CSDE Trainee Taylor Riley will moderate the presentation and discussion with the expert panelists. Taylor is also an expert and this should be an important discussion about how to think about reproductive health and reproductive justice. We are grateful to CSDE Executive Committee member Dr. Anjum Hajat for organizing this panel.
Biographies
_______________________________________________________________________________________________
Bettina Judd, PhD
Bettina Judd is an interdisciplinary writer, artist and performer whose research focus is on Black women’s creative production and our use of visual art, literature, and music to develop feminist thought. Her book Feelin: Creative Practice, Pleasure, and Black Feminist Thought (Northwestern University Press, December 2022) argues that Black women’s creative production is feminist knowledge production produced by registers of affect she calls “feelin.” She is currently Associate Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington.
Her poems and essays have appeared in Feminist Studies, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Torch, Mythium, Meridians and other journals and anthologies. Her collection of poems titled patient. which tackles the history of medical experimentation on and display of Black women won the Black Lawrence Press Hudson Book Prize and was released in November of 2014. As a performer she has been invited to perform for audiences within the United States and internationally.
Monica McLemore, PhD, MPH, RN
Dr. Monica R. McLemore is a tenured professor in the Child, Family, and Population Health Department and the Interim Director for the Center for Anti-Racism in Nursing at the University of Washington School of Nursing. Prior to her arrival at UW, she was a tenured associate professor at the University of California, San Francisco and was named the Thelma Shobe Endowed Chair in 2021. She retired from clinical practice as a public health and staff nurse after a 28-year clinical nursing career in 2019, however, continues to provide flu and COVID-19 vaccines.
Her program of research is focused on understanding reproductive health and justice. To date, she has 96 peer reviewed articles, OpEds and commentaries and her research has been cited in the Huffington Post, Lavender Health, five amicus briefs to the Supreme Court of the United States, and three National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine reports, and a data visualization project entitled How To Fix Maternal Mortality: The first step is to stop blaming women that was published in the 2019 Future of Medicine edition of Scientific American.
Her work has also appeared in publications such as Dame Magazine, Politico, ProPublica/NPR and she made a voice appearance in Terrance Nance’s HBO series Random Acts of Flyness. She is the recipient of numerous awards and was past-chair for Sexual and Reproductive Health section of the American Public Health Association. She was inducted as a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing in 2019 and resigned in 2022 due to inaction specific to the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe vs. Wade. She became the Editor in Chief of Health Equity Journal in 2022.
Meghan Eagen-Torkko, PhD, CNM, ARNP
Meghan Eagen-Torkko held a faculty appointment in the College of Nursing at Seattle University prior to joining the faculty at the UWB School of Nursing and Health Studies in 2015. She completed her Ph.D. in nursing with a specialization in women’s health at the University of Michigan in 2015, where she was a Rackham Merit Fellow. She has worked as a certified nurse midwife since 2009 and continues to practice with Public Health Seattle-King County, where her practice specializes in family planning and women’s health.
Moderator: Taylor Riley, MPH (she/her) is a doctoral candidate in epidemiology and a CSDE trainee. Her research focuses on social and structural determinants of sexual and reproductive health inequities, with a specific focus on abortion and perinatal care and outcomes. Prior to her doctoral training, Taylor was a Senior Research Associate at the Guttmacher Institute conducting research on unintended pregnancy, abortion, and contraception.
Postdoctoral Position (net worth poverty and child well-being) – Duke University
Drs. Christina Gibson-Davis, Lisa Keister, and Lisa Gennetian of the Sanford School of Public Policy and the department of Sociology of Duke University seek a full-time post-doctoral candidate to collaborate and provide support for a project on net worth poverty and child well-being. Net worth poverty refers to households whose net worth (or wealth) is less than one-fourth of the federal poverty line. The post-doctorate will work closely with Drs. Gibson-Davis, Keister, and Gennetian to investigate the correlates and consequences of net worth poverty in the lives of children and young adults; to investigate how policies, such as the Earned Income Tax Credit, could be used to redress net worth poverty’s negative effects; and to understand how the racialization of wealth in the US informs the negative repercussions of net worth poverty. The post-doctoral candidate’s primary responsibilities will be to conduct analysis on large scale data sets, such as the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF). Doctoral training in public policy, sociology, economics, or a related social science field is required.
Attend the Upcoming CSSS Seminar with Emre Kiciman, Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research AI
The Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences Seminar Series has their next seminar on Wednesday, February 1 at 12:30 pm. Emre Kiciman, Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research AI, will give a seminar titled, “Lessons being learned from an open-source causal AI suite.”
This seminar will be offered as a hybrid session. Below please find the abstract and information about joining in-person or on Zoom.
Abstract:
Critical data science and decision-making questions across a wide variety of domains are fundamentally causal questions. Answering these questions via causal analysis requires combining human domain expertise and sophisticated analytical frameworks in ways that often challenge practitioners. In this presentation, I will describe some of Microsoft’s contributions towards an open-source causal AI suite that aims to broaden access to causal methods, including the DoWhy library for scaffolding best practices of a trustworthy causal analysis; the EconML library for estimation methods based on the latest advances in causal machine learning; the Causica library for end-to-end causal discovery and effect inference; and the ShowWhy no-code interfaces for causal machine learning tasks. I will describe some of the applications of our tools and the lessons we are learning from their usage, including three topics that represent what we see as particularly critical open research challenges: how we elicit and capture domain knowledge; methods for validation, refutation, and sensitivity analyses; and support for unstructured and high-dimensional text and image data within a causal analysis.
This seminar will be located at 409 Savery Hall
To join by Zoom, please use the information below.
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Lecturer of Sociology – Purdue Liberal Arts
The Department of Sociology at Purdue University invites applications for a lecturer position beginning August 14, 2023. We are seeking qualified candidates with the ability to contribute to the strategic vision of the undergraduate curriculum in criminology and law and society, race and ethnicity, and others that align with the university’s missions. Lectureships are non-tenure track teaching positions with renewable three-year contracts, competitive salaries, and medical and retirement benefits.