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.

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.

The Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) offers Postdoctoral Research Fellowships to encourage independence early in the fellow’s career by supporting his or her research and training goals. The research and training plan of each fellowship must address important scientific questions within the scope of the SBE directorate and the specific guidelines in this solicitation. The SPRF program offers two tracks: (I) Fundamental Research in the SBE Sciences (SPRF-FR) and (II) Broadening Participation in the SBE Sciences (SPRF-BP).

 

More information can be found here.

You are invited to submit your ideas about scientific priorities for the NIH’s Office of Behavior and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) strategic planning.  OBSSR’s mission is to enhance the impact of health related behavioral and social sciences research (BSSR); coordinate BSSR conducted or supported by the NIH and integrate these sciences within the larger NIH research enterprise; and communicate health related BSSR findings to interested parties within and outside the federal government.  You can visit the Request for Information (RFI) here and complete their survey form.  You can view the most recent strategic plan (2017-2021) here.