The Network for Data Intensive Research on Aging (NDIRA) is a collaboration between IPUMS and the University of Minnesota Life Course Center. NDIRA supports an emerging interdisciplinary community of scientists using novel collections of cross-sectional, longitudinal, and contextual data—including IPUMS—for research on population aging. Here are two NDIRA opportunities that may be of interest:
Data-Intensive Research Conference
Abstract submissions are officially open for the NDIRA-sponsored 2023 Data-Intensive Research Conference , being held August 2-3 in Minneapolis, MN. This year’s theme is How Place Shapes Health and Welbeing through the Lifecourse. IPUMS will host a pre-conference data training workshop July 31-August 1.
Pilot Project Program NDIRA members are eligible for pilot grants that support innovative research on the demography and economics of aging. The pilot program encourages population-based questions related to later life course health and well-being through improved understanding of social and economic contexts, disparities, and social participation. Join NDIRA and find out more information about the pilot program and key dates.
The University of Washington’s Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology (CSDE) has a full time Computational Demographer position located at the Seattle Campus. The CSDE fosters cutting-edge population research and is partnering with the UW’s eScience Institute to support the increasing demand for computational demographers across our organizations and the UW. This position will provide methodological support to faculty and graduate students studying demographic processes and their connections to population health dynamics, as well as leadership on innovative new projects consistent with the scientific emphases of CSDE and eScience. This includes mentoring teams in the UW Data Science for Social Good program, a summer internship in its ninth year of operation. A successful candidate will provide support for researchers in the areas of responsible conduct of research, transparent science, data construction, statistical and/or machine learning training, demographic forecasting and probabilistic modeling. Learn more and apply here: https://uwhires.admin.washington.edu/eng/candidates/default.cfm?szCategory=jobprofile&szOrderID=207603&szCandidateID=0&szSearchWords=&szReturnToSearch=1
The U.S. Census Bureau will be hosting Dr. Nicolas L. Ziebarth on November 20th @1pm ET on the United States federal government policies surrounding wage controls through the National War Labor Board. During World War II, The US government instituted an explicit policy of wage controls with the aim of controlling inflation and discouraging labor mobility. These wage controls, which differed by industry, occupation, and geographic region, specified maximum allowable raises for those earning less than a certain level and froze wages greater than that level. The presenters study the persistent effects of these policies on the distribution of labor income drawing on the U.S. censuses of Population from 1960 to 2000. For more information find the poster here!
CSDE Affiliate Heather Hill and Co-authors recently published a paper in JAMA entitled “Cumulative Payments Through the Earned Income Tax Credit Program in Childhood and Criminal Conviction During Adolescence in the US“. The authors assess whether cumulative EITC payments received during childhood are associated with the risk of criminal conviction during adolescence. Utilizing the 1979 NLSY the authors find each additional $1000 of EITC received during childhood was associated with an 11% reduction in self-reported criminal conviction during adolescents, suggesting that income support from EITC may be associated with reduced youth involvement in the criminal justice system.
The Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation (KTGF) is soliciting applications for academic investigators conducting research to demonstrate the benefits of novel ways to access or deliver mental health care or prevention approaches that can be implemented at scale. This RFP is specifically for high quality research that builds upon promising pilot work and will lead to a larger demonstration project. Requests for service projects and applications that primarily focus on expanding services will not be reviewed.
In particular, KTGF is interested in improving access to high quality mental health care and prevention for children and adolescents through the use of novel models or promising approaches, including expanding the number of professional and paraprofessional treatment personnel who are trained to deliver mental health services, delivering care in non-psychiatric settings (e.g., primary care, schools, home, or other novel settings), digital technology (e.g., the internet, apps for cell phones), and approaches that help parents access care for their children.
The primary outcomes of the project include improved access and/or reduced time to service delivery, or implementation outcomes such as stakeholder involvement, acceptability, feasibility, and fidelity. Primary outcomes should demonstrate that the project is being designed for scalability. Secondary outcomes include clinical or functional outcomes that are likely to improve when access to care is enhanced, such as decreased symptoms, burdens and maladaptive behaviors associated with mental health problems; improved educational, relational and health outcomes; or enhanced youth and family functioning.
Eligibility:
Faculty & Pls
Academic researchers from universities, research institutions, health systems or other settings that are positioned to provide rigorous high-quality research focused on transforming mental and behavioral health care that improves outcomes for children and adolescents are eligible. Investigators can be at any stage in their career but must have collected enough pilot data to inform the development of the proposed research project and must be well enough established to lead an effort such as this. For investigators who are early in their career, we strongly recommend mentoring from a more senior academic researcher who has expertise in program development and dissemination.
Link to RFP
The Gulf Research Program’s Early-Career Research Fellowship supports emerging scientific leaders as they take risks on research ideas not yet tested, pursue unique collaborations, and build a network of colleagues who share their interest in improving offshore energy system safety and the well-being of coastal communities and ecosystems.
For the 2023-2025 Application Cycle, the Human Health and Community Resilience track goal focuses on contributing to the understanding and mitigation of factors that may amplify the compounding effects of disasters on the health and resilience of historically disadvantaged, overburdened, or marginalized communities in the Gulf of Mexico region or Alaska.
Applicants must, at the time of application:
- Hold a permanent, fully independent position as an investigator, faculty member, clinician scientist, or scientific team lead in industry, academia, or a research organization. A postdoc is not considered a fully independent position.
- Be an early-career scientist who has received their eligible degree within the past 10 years (on or after January 1, 2013).
- Hold a doctoral degree (e.g., PhD, ScD, EngD, MD, DrPH, or DVM) in the social and behavioral sciences, health sciences and medicine, engineering and physical sciences, earth and life sciences, or interdisciplinary scientific fields relevant to the charge of the Gulf Research Program.
Link to RFP
Description:
Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF)’s Innovation in Regulatory Science Awards provides up to $500,000 over five years to academic investigators developing new methodologies or innovative approaches in regulatory science that will ultimately inform the regulatory decisions the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and others make. This would necessarily draw upon the talents of individuals trained in mathematics, computer science, applied physics, medicine, engineering, toxicology, epidemiology, biostatistics, systems pharmacology, and food safety and nutrition to name a few.
Eligibility:
BWF strongly encourages applications from persons who have been historically underrepresented in the research enterprise, including but not limited to: women of any ethnic or racial group; any person identifying as Black or African American, Latino/a or Hispanic American, Native American, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, indigenous to the Pacific Islands; persons with disabilities; persons from disadvantaged backgrounds (see NOT-OD-20-031 for examples); and individuals who identify as LGBTQIA+.
- Candidates must hold an M.D., Ph.D., D.V.M., D.D.S., D.O., D.Phil., Pharm.D., or M.D.-Ph.D. degree.
- Candidates must hold a faculty position, tenure-track or non-tenure track, or adjunct faculty position at an accredited, degree-granting institution in the United States or Canada; grants are made to the institutions on behalf of the award recipients.
- Candidates must be an investigator at the adjunct, assistant, associate, or full professor level.
- Citizens and non-citizen permanent and temporary residents of the U.S. and Canada who are legally qualified to work in the U.S. or Canada are eligible. See RFP for additional details.
Link to RFP
Please join us as CSDE hosts Dr. Liying Luo for a discussion on the “Gendered Effects of Intergenerational Mobility” based on evidence from the General Social Survey.
Sociologists have long been interested in understanding the implications of intergenerational social mobility for individuals’ behaviors and well-being. However, for empirical and historical reasons, most prior research either focused on one subpopulation or assumed a uniform effect of social mobility across demographic groups. Such focus/assumption is too limiting because experiences of and responses to social mobility likely differ depending on individuals’ social and demographic characteristics. Using a new mobility effect model to analyze divorce data from the General Social Survey, Dr. Luo found that the mobility effects were more pronounced for women than for men respondents. This presentation will discuss possible reasons for the gendered effects of intergenerational mobility.
Dr. Luo’s research focuses on (1) how aging, social change, and population processes interact with social institutions such as schools and family to produce inequality and disparities and (2) identifying trajectories and explaining trends in health, cognitive, and mortality outcomes. She has developed a novel model for determining age, time periods, and cohort patterns in various outcomes such as cognitive development, health status and behaviors, mortality, and substance use. She also studies quantitative methods for describing and explaining temporal trends in health behaviors and vital rates. She recently expands her research areas to investigating the heterogeneous effects of education between men and women on their health and social well-being. Her work has appeared in top journals including the American Sociological Review, the American Journal of Sociology, Demography (lead article with four commentaries and a reply), and Sociological Methods & Research. She serves on the editorial board of Sociological Methods & Research and Sociological Methodology.
Sign ups for 1-0n-1 talks with Dr. Luo are here.
Register for the Zoom webinar here.
The Computational Demography Working Group (CDWG) will be having its meeting from 3pm-4pm on Wednesday Nov 30th. This meeting is available for anyone interested in or doing computational demographic research, for more information look here!
As the holiday season is upon us all, CSDE staff, faculty and staff want to take this opportunity to send all members of our community best wishes. There is much to be grateful for and we are especially grateful to the CSDE community for your support and your hard work towards advancing population research and to improve population health.