CSDE External Affiliate David Swanson and co-authors recently presented a paper entitled “Boosted Regression Trees for Small Area Population Forecasting” at the 2022 conference of the Southern Demographic Association. The authors received the “Terrie” Award as the best paper in applied demography presented at the conference.
Let’s wish Dr. Swanson a huge congrats on his third time receiving this award!
Simulations have been used throughout the COVID-19 epidemic to adjust social distancing measures in a careful balance between hospital capacity and the economic impact of restricting activities. Simulations are able to guide policy because they can combine theoretical processes with current data to construct justified stories about plausible futures.
Big data initiatives have made it relatively straightforward to include schools, transport and other infrastructure into these simulations. Similarly, census data can be used to construct synthetic households with simulated people who go to work or school or leisure activities. What is missing, however, is similar resolution data about social networks. This project will develop methods to build synthetic social networks that reproduce structural properties that we know are important in real social networks, like mutual friends.
The successful applicant will be expected to: conceive, design and implement network modelling algorithms under supervision; collaborate effectively with other researchers on the project and more broadly; communicate research findings to other researchers, through conference and journal publications.
The Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy & Governance, at the University of Washington, invites applications for two tenure-track faculty positions at the rank of Assistant Professor, beginning in Fall 2023 (100% FTE, 9-month appointment). Their mission focuses upon educating leaders, generating knowledge, and hosting communities to co-create solutions to pressing societal problems. As a result, their School values diversity, rigor, and innovative approaches to public policy and administration, including work that addresses issues of marginalization, discrimination, and opportunity in institutions, policy, and governance. Successful candidates will be motivated by the School’s purpose to inspire public service and democratize public policy. All University of Washington faculty engage in teaching, research, and service.
The International Programs Center (IPC) in the Population Division is hiring for multiple positions. They seek candidates with experience in sociology, demography, statistics, public health, survey methodology, human ecology, and/or data science.
The Population Wellbeing Initiative is a network of researchers at the University of Texas at Austin who conduct foundational research in demography, economics, and evaluation of long-term social welfare. Scholars will be hosted by the UT-Austin Population Research Center.
The Postdoctoral Scholar position is self-directed but the Scholar will concentrate a portion of their intellectual energies and independent work on program-related research areas. Examples of program areas include: long-term population dynamics; fertility decisions; social policy of care work and parenting; the effects of reproductive technologies; population ethics for evaluation of social welfare. Although scholars are free to choose their projects, collaboration is encouraged.
The City of Bellevue, Washington is rapidly maturing from a sleepy suburb into a tech-centric, vibrant, and diverse metropolitan city within the Puget Sound Region. The city’s planning team is looking for creative planners with the technical expertise to help us shape and catalyze positive change. This position requires you, the candidate to have a curious mind, technical prowess, research skills, an open, mature, and an inclusive view of prevailing social issues. We also need a demonstrated willingness to think beyond the usual or ordinary. Ability to work across projects requiring knowledge of diverse planning topics from demographics to urban design is a big plus.
This position is part of the Community Development Department’s Comprehensive Planning Team. It requires experience as a planner and experience curating, using and presenting demographic and economic data for community planning purposes. The ideal candidate will have skills in GIS mapping, managing datasets, communicating data, and statistical methods.
The chair for Applied Social Research and Public Policy in the Economic and Social Science Department at the University of Potsdam is hiring a PhD student (3 years) starting January 2023. The PhD student will conduct research at the intersection of migration, development, and climate change as part of the Leibniz Association-funded project “The Senegal Migration Panel: Understanding Mobility in a Climate-Stressed Population.” You can find the application here!
The department of Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities (ASH) in conjunction with the Center for Practice and Research at the Intersection of Information, Society, and Methodology (PRIISM) seeks an applied statistician for a tenure-track assistant professor position. The appointment begins September 1, 2023. You can find the application here.
Applicants should have a keen interest in both developing/evaluating new methods and applying methods in collaborative work with faculty and graduate students in areas represented by the Applied Statistics program in ASH and the PRIISM Center, as well as with faculty and graduate students in other parts of the University whose interests intersect with these entities.
Applicants would ideally have expertise in computational statistics particularly for methods relevant to the social, behavioral, health, policy, or education sciences. This could include a methodological focus on Bayesian inference, causal inference, machine learning, missing data, multilevel models, networks, or text analysis, among other areas. The ideal candidate should have strong communication skills as a classroom teacher and as a presenter of research findings to others who are not as well versed in his/her field of research.
Responsibilities: In addition to being an outstanding researcher, the person appointed will contribute to the core teaching mission of the Applied Statistics program in ASH. Applied statistics core faculty are members of a multi-disciplinary department of Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities, and synergistic collaborations across these disciplines are encouraged. The position will involve teaching and advising students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The person appointed will supervise student research; develop an active program of research and publication; participate in faculty meetings and committees; and engage in other service appropriate to a university faculty member. Ideally the appointee will also secure external funding to support their research.
Join us for this week’s CSDE lecture with guest speaker Professor Tod G. Hamilton (Princeton University) who will speak on “Lessons from a Century of Black Migration”.
Professor Hamilton is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and a Faculty Associate of the Office of Population Research at Princeton University. His research interests are in the field of demography, with an emphasis on immigration and health. His current research evaluates the relative importance of culture and selective migration in explaining differential patterns of stratification between U.S.-born and foreign-born individuals in the United States.
If you would like to meet with Professor Hamilton for a one-on-one meeting, please sign up here!
The Computational Demography Work group is having its meeting on October 26th from 3-4pm. The work group will be meeting in Raitt hall 223.
More information can be found here.