CSDE External Affiliate David Swanson will be inducted into the Mississippi Academy of Science as a Fellow, a lifetime recognition, based on his professional achievements and service. He will be inducted and receive a certificate as well as a pin at a special inaugural ceremony during the upcoming Annual MAS meeting on February 22, 2023, at 6:00 PM, in Biloxi, MS. Let’s wish our David a huge Congratulations!
CSDE Bids Farewell to Angie Thai and Opens Up New Position
CSDE would love to wish a big farewell to our outstanding budget/fiscal analysts lead Angie Thai who has departed CSDE and wish her the best of luck in her new role! Angie’s expertise have been invaluable to CSDE and we can’t express our appreciation enough! As we begin our search for a new budget/fiscal analysts to join our team we’d like to share this job link, where you can encourage anyone you might consider to be a good fit to apply!
*Reminder* CSDE Winter Workshops (Biomarkers, REDCap, Intro to Unix, Intro to Bayesian Statistics)
Each quarter, CSDE offers 3-5 workshops on data sources, statistical and biomarker methodology, introductions to analysis programs, and more, all given by CSDE staff and faculty affiliates. These workshops can include hands-on training in novel methods and programming, lectures on innovative data sources, and discussions of important issues in research and data collection. This winter the workshops will cover Biomarkers in the Social Sciences (2/2/23), Basics of REDCap Survey and Project Design (2/9/23), Introduction to the UNIX/Linux Shell (2/23/23), and Intro to Bayesian Statistics – Inference (3/2/23).
You can find our workshop website and register for our Winter 2023 workshops in the links below. We will be filling in our schedule for Spring workshops soon, so stay tuned!
Please reach out to CSDE’s Training Director, Jessica Godwin (jlg0003@uw.edu), if you have additional workshops you would like to see offered in the future and we will do our best to accommodate those requests.
Winter Workshops
- Biomarkers in the Social Sciences and the CSDE Biodemography Lab
- Date & Time: Thursday, Feb. 2 @ 11:00AM–12:00PM
- Location: Zoom
- Instructor: Tiffany Pan
- Basics of REDCap Survey and Project Design
- Date & Time: Thursday, Feb. 9 @ 12:00PM–2:00PM
- Location: SAV 121
- Instructors: Matt Dunbar & Phil Litwin
- Introduction to the UNIX/Linux Shell
- Date & Time: Thursday, Feb. 23 @ 2:30PM-4:30PM
- Location: SAV 117
- Instructors: Phil Hurvitz & Ihsan Kahveci
- Introduction to Bayesian Statistics: Inference
- Date & Time: Thursday, Mar. 2 @ 10:00AM–12:00PM
- Location: SAV 121
- Instructor: Jessica Godwin
Glass Invites Study Recruits for Research Program on Arab and Arab American Physical and Mental Health Needs
Do you identify as Arab or Arab American, ages 18-25, live in Western WA, AND want to share your perspectives on health needs and what health means to you? Consider participating in a visual ethnography and survey project! CSDE Trainee Delaney Glass (Ph.C. in Biological Anthropology and MPH student) is doing a project to explore the unique physical and mental health needs and perceptions of health among Arab and Arab American youth ages 18-25. She is using PhotoVoice which involves three community meetings, taking photos, and development of narratives to share with the Iraqi Arab Health Board of Washington and a short 10-15 minute online questionnaire. Please see the attached flyer for the link to the questionnaire and contact Delaney if you’re interested in participating in PhotoVoice. PhotoVoice participants will receive a $100 giftcard. Feel free to share widely with your networks!
Request for Proposals EarthLab Innovation Grants (Due 1/26/2023)
The 2023 Cohort Request for Proposals (RFP) process is seeking proposals from teams of community members, researchers, and students across the University of Washington to co-produce actionable science and knowledge at the intersection of climate change and social justice. The maximum funding request is $75,000 over 17 months.
Letters of Intent are due January 26, 2023 at 5:00pm PT. Applicants invited to submit a full proposal will be notified by February 15, 2023. Full proposals are due March 16, 2023. Applications and more information can be found here.
*NEW* Request for Proposal: Research on Federal Nutrition Assistance Programs (Due 1/30/2023)
The Research Innovation and Development Grants in Economics (RIDGE) Partnership has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for research on federal nutrition assistance programs. Funding will support innovative research on nutrition assistance programs and looks to broaden the network of researchers applying their expertise to USDA topics. This grant program seeks applications from a diverse community of experienced nutrition assistance researchers, early career scholars, and established researchers who are new to nutrition assistance research. Proposals are due Jan. 30, 2023. Awards are capped at $75,000 and 18 months in duration.
The research program is administered by a partnership of Tufts University, the University of Connecticut, and the University of Missouri. More information about the RIDGE program is available at https://ridge.nutrition.tufts.edu/. To access the 2023 Request for Proposals (RFP), instructions, and application templates, see Information for 2023 Applicants.
Applications Are Open for College of Built Environment Inspire Fund (Due 2/1/2023)
The CBE Inspire Fund, funded through Research Cost Recovery as well as the Applied Research Consortium, is designed to support research activities for which a relatively small amount of support can be transformative. This may include work that is traditionally underfunded, or that done by scholars who are members of groups currently underrepresented in our college. Inspire Fund proposals may request awards between $1,000 and $5,000. We anticipate awarding up to $21,000 in this funding cycle. More information can be found here!
UN Hosts Talk on The Preeminent Impact of Two-Child Limits Throughout China’s Great Malthusian Campaign (1/19/2023)
Dr. Daniel Goodkind (Independent Research), an expert on the demographic dynamics in China, will be speaking to the UN’s Population Division on January 19, 2023 at 11am (Pacific). The talk will reflect upon the divisive debates that continue over the demographic impact of China’s half century Malthusian campaign to control its population (1970-2021), the underlying disagreement concerns what to call it. The ubiquitous “one-child policy” label narrows attention to one-child limits imposed during a 35-year sub-era (1980-2015), a long-recognized misnomer that excludes the initial decade of compulsion and obscures the broader program of regulations and enforcements that evolved during that sub-era (and lingered afterwards). The misnomer is further flawed for misidentifying the birth ceiling most responsible for its demographic consequences. This research begins with common ground – that Malthusian intervention reduced China’s current population by over 600 million, independent of developmental forces. It then estimates 200 million one-child era singletons. If half or less of them resulted from compulsion, as conventional wisdom suggests, at least 73 percent of the overall population reduction was due to two-child (and higher) limits and associated regulations, the key constraints even during the one-child era. Relatedly, although one-child limits account for only 166 million of that population reduction (less than half the official estimate of 400 million averted), that estimate jumps to 475 million when the one-child era is broadly defined. A companion analysis of female “missing births” illustrates widespread acceptance of the broader definition. Although routinely attributed to “the one-child policy,” 90 percent or more of missing females were second or later births constrained instead by higher-order birth ceilings. Intuition fails because decades of one-child images, along with each utterance of the phrase, keep refreshing the misnomer.
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Panel: Migration in Ukraine during the Russian Invasion
This panel will address current demographic knowledge, theory, and methods for studying migration processes in Ukraine during the Russian invasion of 2022. Panelists will discuss the background of their own and others’ research on the topic, including migration before the armed conflict, Ukrainian refugees in Poland, and internally displaced persons in Ukraine. They will also discuss the difficulties of measurement and analysis of data on movement during armed conflict. Short presentations by panelists will be followed by discussion with the audience.
Brienna Perelli-Harris is Professor of Demography at the University of Southampton. She studies family change around the world, including fertility decline in Ukraine and Russia. Over the past few years, she has collaborated with colleagues to study the well-being of Internally Displaced Persons, depopulation, and fertility uncertainty in Ukraine.
Cynthia Buckley is Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her current research centers on issues of population, social equity, and development in Eurasia. Buckley received a BA in Economics and an M.A. in Russian Studies before completing her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Michigan. Prior to her arrival at Illinois, Professor Buckley was a faculty member of both the Department of Sociology and Eurasian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and also served as a Program Director at the Social Science Research Council (2010-2012).
Martin Piotrowski is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Oklahoma. He received his PhD in sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and training at the Carolina Population Center (CPC). His research focuses on aspects of rural-to-urban migration, marriage and fertility, and familial and gender attitudes especially in parts of Asia and most recently parts of Europe. He has done research in several countries including Thailand, Nepal, China, Japan, and Poland and has explored topics involving inter-generational and family relations, household structures, and life course transitions. He has published widely in sociology, family, and demography journals.
Health Informatics Analyst- State of Hawaii Health Analytics Office
The Health Analytics Office at the State of Hawai’i’s Med-QUEST Division is hiring a full-time Health Informatics Analyst to join their team! As a member of the Health Analytics Office you will be part of a dynamic and collaborative group that supports data needs across the Division. This job is a fantastic opportunity for a candidate interested in health analytics to drive population health in a government-funded healthcare program that provides healthcare coverage to over 450,000 low-income residents in the State of Hawai’i with a budget of approximately $3 Billion per year.
Submit your application today!