CSDE External Affiliate Deleena Patton and team recently released “The Well-Being of Washington State’s Children During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Behavioral Health Trends” a report for the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services. This report uses Medicaid claims data to examine trends in children’s behavioral health diagnoses and services before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Washington State. The authors examine trends in outpatient mental health services, claims with specific mental health diagnoses, claims with a suicide or self-harm diagnosis, and mental health and substance use-related emergency department claims. Trends across gender and race/ethnicity are also examined.
Summer Institute in Migration Research Methods at UC Berkeley (Due 3/1/2023)
The 2023 Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Institute is hosting its fifth summer institute. Next summer it will focus on interviewing for migration research. Several UW faculty and students have participated over the years and it has proven to be an important and productive program. Here is a link to the program details.
*NEW* NAM Funding Healthy Longevity Catalyst Awards (Due: 2/27/23)
A funding opportunity unlike any other! The National Academy of Medicine’s Healthy Longevity Catalyst Awards is accepting bold, new ideas to promote health throughout the lifespan. Two-page narrative applications accepted through February 27, 2023, at 11:59 pm EST. Individuals and teams from all disciplines and sectors, including Public Health with novel ideas to extend human health and well-being, at any stage of life, are invited to apply. The competition is simple—a 2-page narrative submission is all it takes to be considered for an award worth $50K, plus exclusive access to additional funding opportunities.
Urban@UW Announces Request for Application for the Research to Action Collaboratory (RAC) (Due2/24/2023)
The RFA invites teams of community members, researchers and students across the University of Washington who are excited to co-produce actionable, community-centered research and knowledge for persistent urban-focused problems. The deadline for submitting an application is Friday, March 24 at 5:00 pm PST.
The Research to Action Collaboratory, launched last month, is an accelerator program that builds the transformational capacity of collaborative research teams to address sustainability and resilience across urban areas and the Pacific Northwest. Seeded by a grant from the Bullitt Foundation, the RAC will bring together teams of UW scholars and community partners and supply them with funds, intensive workshops to build team cohesion and collaboration skills, and peer support through the project cycles. In 2023, team projects will co-produce new knowledge addressing vital questions and concerns about regional ecosystem health.
Urban@UW will host 3 online information sessions on the RAC program and RFA, open to all UW and community partners. You may register for these info sessions at the links below. Please contact urbanuw@uw.edu with any questions.
- Monday, February 13, 1-2pm
- Thursday, February 23, 11am-12pm
- Wednesday, March 8, 3-4pm
To learn more about the RFA, click here.
*New* PRB Research-to-Media Pitch Challenge: Improving Public Information About Maternal and Child Health Through Media Engagement (Due 2/24/2023)
Through a series of virtual meetings and flexible, short assignments designed to respect the competing demands of academic life, the Research-to-Media Pitch Challenge (March-April 2023) will guide researchers through the foundational steps of positioning and pitching their work for media. We are inviting applications from researchers at Population Dynamics Research Centers funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Researchers planning to attend the PAA Conference in person are especially encouraged to apply.
The Global Aspirational Class and Its Demographic Fortunes
1-on-1 Signups with Dr. Desai can be found here
CSDE is pleased to present a discussion with Sonalde Desai, Department of Sociology, University of Maryland, at this weeks seminar for a talk entitled “The Global Aspirational Class and Its Demographic Fortunes”.
Global educational expansion and growth in middle-income households in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) have brought worldwide attention to the social transformation underway in many countries. Simultaneously, income inequalities within LMICs has also grown sharply, and employment opportunities have lagged behind the aspirational transformations. This seminar will examine the changes in education and employment opportunities in LMICs over the past three decades and explore changes in marriage, fertility and investments in children that have accompanied these economic changes.
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Sonalde Desai (Distinguished University Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Maryland and Professor and Centre Director, NCAER-National Data Innovation Center, New Delhi) is a demographer whose work deals primarily with social transformation and its impact on the lives of individuals with a focus on education, employment, gender, and maternal and child health.
The Global Aspirational Class and Its Demographic Fortunes
1-on-1 Signups with Dr. Desai can be found here
This week’s CSDE seminar is offered by Dr.Sonalde Desai, Department of Sociology, University of Maryland. Dr. Desai is the immediate past president of the Population Association of America and this is a preview of her 2023 PAA Presidential Address – “The Global Aspirational Class and Its Demographic Fortunes”. Her talk examines how the global educational expansion and growth in middle-income households in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) have brought worldwide attention to the social transformation underway in many countries. Simultaneously, income inequalities within LMICs has also grown sharply, and employment opportunities have lagged behind the aspirational transformations. This seminar will examine the changes in education and employment opportunities in LMICs over the past three decades and explore changes in marriage, fertility and investments in children that have accompanied these economic changes.
Bio
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Sonalde Desai (Distinguished University Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Maryland and Professor and Centre Director, NCAER-National Data Innovation Center, New Delhi) is a demographer whose work deals primarily with social transformation and its impact on the lives of individuals with a focus on education, employment, gender, and maternal and child health.
CSDE Workshop: Introduction to the UNIX/Linux Shell (2/23/23)
On February 23, join CSDE for a workshop on Unix/Linux with Instructor Phil Hurvitz!
In this workshop, students will learn the basics of interacting with the Unix operating system through the Unix shell, which is an interactive terminal that accepts interactive command-line or scripted input and produces printed or stored outputs. By the end of the workshop, students will learn about the overall organization of the Unix system, including a set of Unix commands and utilities, the structure of and use of the Unix file system, and some practical applications.
The target audience for this workshop spans the range from those who are curious about what the Unix shell is to those who are wanting to perform data-related tasks efficiently, particularly on large text files.
CSDE invites you to join us for a Panel on U.S. Immigration and Detention Dynamics this week!
How do changes in U.S. immigration detention capacity influence interior immigration enforcement in the surrounding region? What can we expect to happen to enforcement rates if a detention center closes, opens, or expands? Using records obtained via the Freedom of Information Act and other sources, we have assembled national-level panel data for the period from October 2015 through June 2019. CSDE Trainees Maria Vignau Loria and June Yang join Center for Human Rights Director Angelina Godoy, CHR Research Scientist Phil Neff, and Trung Anh Nguyen (Duke University) for the presentation.
The Panel will feature:
• Phil Neff is Research Coordinator for the UW Center for Human Rights.
• Maria Vignau Loria is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at UW.
• Trung-Anh Nguyen is a PhD student in the Department of Political Science at Duke University.
• June Yang is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at UW.
• Angelina Godoy is professor of International Studies and Law, Societies, and Justice, and director of the UW Center for Human Rights
Midwest Political Science Association Conference
Registration is now open for the 80th Annual MPSA Conference! Reduced registration rates are available to MPSA members and to those who reserve a room at one of the official conference hotels.
Attendees have the flexibility to change their registration status from in-person to virtual (or vice versa) if their plans change. In order to minimize any changes to the program, all panels, roundtables, lightning talks and working groups will feature a hybrid format (for in-person or virtual participation) and will be broadcast in real time. Poster sessions are available for in-person participation only.
To ensure you receive the best conference registration rate:
- Check to see if your membership is active through April 30, 2023 to get member pricing. Login to your account to check your membership status, and join the MPSA/renew your membership before registering for the conference.
- Book your hotel accommodations in an official MPSA hotel to receive the in-hotel registration rate. If you are planning to participate virtually, you will automatically receive the lower in-hotel rate. Unsure about the length of your stay? Book as many nights as you want in order to secure the reduced rate, and then drop any extra unneeded room nights before the cutoff date. Please be aware if you register for the conference at the lower in-hotel rate but are not a registered guest in an official conference hotel, you will be billed for the difference between the in-hotel and out-of-hotel rates. If more than one person is staying in the room, make sure everyone’s name is on the reservation or your conference registration rate will be adjusted.
- Register by the deadline of March 29, 2023 to get regular registration rate pricing.
You must be logged into your MPSA account to access the registration system. If you do not have an account, or are unsure, please click here. If you need to reset your password, please click here.