The Climate Hazards Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara seeks a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher for an exciting project supported by the US Geological Survey. This project focuses on using forecasts of climate variables, as well as remotely sensed datasets, and statistical methods such as machine learning to predict argicultural statistics in food insecure countries and will directly support the famine early warning efforts of USAID’s Famine Early Warning System Network.

The Center for Social Science Computation and Research is offering a variety of workshops that can help you expand your academic toolkit! The first of which is an introduction to R using Rstudio on January 23rd, 2023, with many others to follow described in their newsletter here. You can sign up for any of these workshops here, and if you’re interested in utilizing CSSCR for services they are available from 8am-5pm in Savery Hall 119. For more information on the CSSCR resources and how they can best serve you in your research click here!

Between 2022 and 2025, the Family Planning Impact Consortium (FP-Impact) will conduct a research, modeling and dissemination project centered on how support for women’s family planning intentions provides a path to women’s empowerment and economic development. The core research and modeling team is made up of the Guttmacher Institute, the African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP), Harvard University, the Institute for Disease Modeling (IDM) and Avenir Health.

FP-Impact aims to use a model-based approach to generate and disseminate robust, stakeholder-informed estimates of how family planning programs, policies and behaviors affect people’s well-being over the life course (adolescence through adulthood) and across a range of social and economic domains. FP-Impact will use the resulting evidence to advocate mobilization of funds for family planning—both from donor government development and foreign aid contributions and from national government allocations.  Applications can be found here!

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!

From the King County Evidence & Impact Officer, Carrie Cihak: The Federal Government’s Office of Evaluation Sciences (OES) has an annual fellows program, where fellows work for one year to help government agencies build and use evidence to learn what works. OES is recruiting their next cohort of Fellows for Fall 2023, with applications due January 11^th – but this is an annual process. Fellows are typically Ph.D.-level social and behavioral scientists and the work can be done remotely from anywhere in the US. Learn more or pass along the details here.   

The NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research is accepting applications for their Early Stage Investigators (ESI) Paper Competition for emerging scientists whose research reflect excellence in health-related behavioral and social sciences. The competition has been open since January 2nd, and submission deadline is January 14th, 2023. To apply for this opportunity see more information here! 

Between 2022 and 2025, the Family Planning Impact Consortium (FP-Impact) will conduct a research, modeling and dissemination project centered on how support for women’s family planning intentions provides a path to women’s empowerment and economic development. The core research and modeling team is made up of the Guttmacher Institute, the African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP), Harvard University, the Institute for Disease Modeling (IDM) and Avenir Health.

FP-Impact aims to use a model-based approach to generate and disseminate robust, stakeholder-informed estimates of how family planning programs, policies and behaviors affect people’s well-being over the life course (adolescence through adulthood) and across a range of social and economic domains. FP-Impact will use the resulting evidence to advocate mobilization of funds for family planning—both from donor government development and foreign aid contributions and from national government allocations.  Applications can be found here!

The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) is inviting applications for a summer research visit opportunity! The goal of the program is to enable discovery by bringing together data scientists and population scientists interested in projects of broad societal relevance. The program takes place over three months will students will be expected to work in small teams towards a common research goal alongside experienced mentors. The primary research goal this summer is focused on forecasting, and on leveraging online crowd-sourced data. If you’re interested in this program please see here for more information!