CSDE Trainee Callie Freitag and a distinguished team of co-authors, including CSDE Affiliates Clara Berridge and Scott W. Allard published “Meeting Older Adults’ Food Needs During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons And Challenges from Washington State” in the Journal of Aging and Social Policy. This mixed methods study provides key organizational practices that should inform future emergency food assistance planning for older adults.
CSDE Affiliate Paula Nurius and co-authors have recently published an article entitled “I Just Wanted to Triple Check… They Were All Vaccinated: Supporting Risk Negotiation in the Context of COVID-19” in ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. This paper uses qualitative methods to explore how young adults plan in-person meetups over computer-mediated communication in the context of the pandemic. The authors identify strategies for risk negotiation, social complexities that impede risk negotiation, and emotional consequences of risk negotiation.
The Department of Sociology and Anthropology in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Rowan University invites applications for an an open rank faculty position (Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor) in Sociology beginning in September 1, 2023. The position is open to candidates specializing broadly in Health and Demography focusing on Population Health including social epidemiology, the study of socioeconomic, demographic, and behavioral factors in the etiology of disease and mortality. Applicants must demonstrate a strong commitment to excellence in both research and teaching. The successful candidate will be expected to seek external funding for research and participate in departmental initiatives including collaborative research, teaching and learning projects. Applicants must produce high quality scholarly research, teach undergraduate and graduate courses of multiple modalities (online, hybrid and in person), and be committed to department, college and university service. You can find the application here.
The UW Behavioral Research Center for HIV will be hosting a webinar on December 1st, 2022 from 7am-8am PST.
Dr. Pamela Collins, Co-Director of BIRCH Integrated Care Core will serve as moderator as we host psychologists Jhanille Brooks and Belinda White alongside Gloira Gonese of Zim-TTECH, James Sale of United for Global Mental Health, and fellow BIRCH ICC Co-Director Dr. Lydia Chwastiak.
Zoom registration is required at the attached link!
Please read this important news regarding the American Community Survey (ACS) and the Census Bureau’s plans regarding the 2017-2021 ACS Five Year Estimates.
Pre-release webinar for ACS 5-year estimates: On Thursday, December 1, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. ET, the Census Bureau will host a pre-release webinar on the 2017-2021 American Community Survey (ACS) Five Year Estimates in anticipation of the ACS data becoming publicly available on December 8. The webinar will explain how to access data and online resources from the 2017-2021 ACS as well as provide tips for comparing ACS geographies and statistics over time.
Jing Xu and Ben Marwick are set to be co-teaching a graduate seminar on computational analysis of text, centered on the book “Text as Data: A New Framework for Machine Learning and the Social Sciences. A guide for using computational text analysis to learn about the social world”. If you have research that is using or expects to use social media posts, free-form survey responses, government documents or other text this may be a great opportunity for you!
More details about class time, location, available places are here: https://sdb.admin.uw.edu/timeschd/uwnetid/sln.asp?QTRYR=WIN+2023&SLN=22283
A Post-Doctoral Associate in the Division of Social Science at NYU Abu Dhabi is available for those who have or will soon receive a PhD in one of the social sciences or a related discipline. The Post-Doctoral Associate will spend half their time on independent research, and half of their time on collaborative research with Professors Anju Mary Paul and Bedoor AlShebli. The collaborative research will be at the intersection of international migration studies, and science and technology studies, with a focus on scientist migrations, the emergence of new science hubs, and shifting scientific cultures. They seek seek a candidate whose field of specialization is migration, science and technology studies, or the science of science. Training in qualitative research methods is essential, while skills in quantitative research methods, programming or knowledge in statistical packages would be welcome though not required.
The Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing at Princeton University is currently looking to fill a highly competitive postdoctoral research position with an individual with documented interest in the study of adolescence and the transition to young adulthood and experience working with the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS) or other, similar longitudinal survey data. This position will provide the successful applicant with the opportunity to be among the first to use data from the FFCWS age 22 survey.
You can find the application here!
The Population Studies Center T32 Training Program, located at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, is seeking to fill two postdoctoral fellowship positions beginning on or about September 1, 2023. Both fellowships will be sponsored by the National Institute on Aging (NIA). You can view the application here!
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.