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Russell Sage Foundation Letter of Intent Due November 9

The Russell Sage Foundation has several relevant funding programs that may be of interest to a large number of CSDE affiliates. Their funding programs include: Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context; Future of Work; Immigration and Immigrant Integration; Race, Ethnicity and Immigration; Social, Political, and Economic Inequality.  LOIs are due November 9! Let CSDE know if we can be helpful!

Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context: supporting perspectives from multiple disciplines, including economics, psychology, political science, sociology, law, public policy, and other social sciences, to further our understanding of economic, social, political, and psychological decision-making processes, attitudes, behaviors, and institutional practices in public and private contexts such as policing/criminal legal systems, employment, housing, politics, racial/ethnic relations, and immigration. Funds up to $275,000. More information here.

 

Future of Work: supports innovative research on the causes and consequences of changes in the quality of jobs for low- and moderately paid workers and their families in the U.S. We seek investigator-initiated research proposals that will broaden our understanding of the role of changes in employer practices, the nature of the labor market and public policies on employment, earnings, and job quality. We are especially interested in proposals that address questions about the interplay of market and non-market forces in shaping the wellbeing of workers. Funds up to $275,000. More information here.

Immigration and Immigrant Integration:supporting innovative research on the effects of race, citizenship, legal status and politics, political culture and public policy on outcomes for immigrants and for the native-born of different racial and ethnic groups and generations. Funds up to $225,000. Full details are here.

Race, Ethnicity and Immigration : supporting innovative research that examines the roles of race, ethnicity, nativity, legal status —and their interactions with each other and other social categories—in the social, economic, and political outcomes for immigrants, U.S.-born racial and ethnic minorities, and native-born whites. RSF encourages multi-disciplinary perspectives and methods that both strengthen the data, theory, and methods of social science research and improve our understanding of how to foster the ideals of a pluralist society. Funds up to $275,000. More information here.

Social, Political, and Economic Inequality: supporting innovative research on the factors that contribute to social, political, and economic inequalities in the U.S., and the extent to which those inequalities affect social, political, psychological, and economic outcomes such as educational and labor market access and opportunities, social and economic mobility within and across generations, and civic participation and representation.  Funds up to $275,000. More information here.

Russell Sage Foundation Letter of Intent Due November 9

The Russell Sage Foundation has several relevant funding programs that may be of interest to a large number of CSDE affiliates. Their funding programs include: Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context; Future of Work; Immigration and Immigrant Integration; Race, Ethnicity and Immigration; Social, Political, and Economic Inequality.  LOIs are due November 9! Let CSDE know if we can be helpful!

 

Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context: supporting perspectives from multiple disciplines, including economics, psychology, political science, sociology, law, public policy, and other social sciences, to further our understanding of economic, social, political, and psychological decision-making processes, attitudes, behaviors, and institutional practices in public and private contexts such as policing/criminal legal systems, employment, housing, politics, racial/ethnic relations, and immigration. Funds up to $275,000. More information here.

 

Future of Work: supports innovative research on the causes and consequences of changes in the quality of jobs for low- and moderately paid workers and their families in the U.S. We seek investigator-initiated research proposals that will broaden our understanding of the role of changes in employer practices, the nature of the labor market and public policies on employment, earnings, and job quality. We are especially interested in proposals that address questions about the interplay of market and non-market forces in shaping the wellbeing of workers. Funds up to $275,000. More information here.

Immigration and Immigrant Integration:supporting innovative research on the effects of race, citizenship, legal status and politics, political culture and public policy on outcomes for immigrants and for the native-born of different racial and ethnic groups and generations. Funds up to $225,000. Full details are here.

Race, Ethnicity and Immigration : supporting innovative research that examines the roles of race, ethnicity, nativity, legal status —and their interactions with each other and other social categories—in the social, economic, and political outcomes for immigrants, U.S.-born racial and ethnic minorities, and native-born whites. RSF encourages multi-disciplinary perspectives and methods that both strengthen the data, theory, and methods of social science research and improve our understanding of how to foster the ideals of a pluralist society. Funds up to $275,000. More information here.

Social, Political, and Economic Inequality: supporting innovative research on the factors that contribute to social, political, and economic inequalities in the U.S., and the extent to which those inequalities affect social, political, psychological, and economic outcomes such as educational and labor market access and opportunities, social and economic mobility within and across generations, and civic participation and representation.  Funds up to $275,000. More information here.

Russel Sage Foundation Dissertation Research Grants

The Russell Sage Foundation (RSF) has established a dissertation research grants (DRG) program to support innovative and high-quality dissertation research projects that address questions relevant to RSF’s priority areas: Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context; Future of Work; Race, Ethnicity and Immigration; Immigration and Immigrant Integration; and Social, Political, and Economic Inequality. Proposed projects must be closely aligned with the funding priorities listed on the RSF website for any of these areas, contribute to RSF’s mission to improve social and living conditions in the U.S., and demonstrate appropriate use of relevant theory, innovative data, rigorous research methods, and measures.

Eligibility
Applicants must be enrolled doctoral students at an institution of higher education in the U.S. or a U.S. territory, who have completed all program requirements except the dissertation. To receive funding, an applicant whose proposal is selected for a grant must have their dissertation supervisor document that the dissertation research (a) is the same research that was described in the DRG proposal and (b) has been approved by the dissertation committee. In cases where a dissertation consists of several related papers, the proposal should focus on the most important paper. If your discipline, department, or institution does not use this process to approve dissertation proposals, please email programs@rsage.org to see if you or your project is at the appropriate stage for RSF support. These grants will support all aspects of dissertation research (data collection, data preparation, data analysis and writing), but are not intended for students who have completed data collection and analysis and propose to spend the entire grant period writing the dissertation.

There is a lifetime limit of one dissertation research grant per applicant. Previous recipients of RSF grants are also ineligible. RSF encourages applications from scholars who are traditionally underrepresented in the social sciences and its applicant pool, as we seek to promote diversity broadly, including (but not limited to), racial, ethnic, gender or sexual identity or orientation, first generation, disciplinary, institutional, and geographic. Priority will be given to doctoral students who are underrepresented in the social sciences and those lacking the resources to carry out the proposed research. If you are fully funded, for the proposed grant period, on a departmental, university, or national fellowship, your application is not likely to be externally reviewed because RSF prioritizes applicants who do not have sufficient time to devote to the dissertation and/or sufficient funds to pay for necessary research expenses. If your financial support is in the form of a Teaching or Research Assistantship, your application may still be externally reviewed if it is of interest to the Foundation.

Postdoctoral Fellowships Now Available at UNC’s Carolina Population Center

The Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is inviting applications for a postdoctoral position funded as part of its NICHD-funded T32 population science training program. The overall goal of the program is to create a cadre of future leaders in social science and public health disciplines with the subject matter expertise, interdisciplinary orientation, population perspective, and data skills to address and have an impact on pressing issues in demography, population health, and reproductive health.  For details visit the application page.

Postdoctoral Fellowships Now Available at UNC’s Carolina Population Center

The Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is inviting applications for a postdoctoral position funded as part of its NICHD-funded T32 population science training program. The overall goal of the program is to create a cadre of future leaders in social science and public health disciplines with the subject matter expertise, interdisciplinary orientation, population perspective, and data skills to address and have an impact on pressing issues in demography, population health, and reproductive health.  For details visit the application page.

*November 1* UW Data Science Seminar: Planet and Data Access through NASA SmallSatUW Data Science Seminar: Planet and Data Access through NASA SmallSat

If you have any interest in data from NASA, join on Tuesday, November 1st at 4:30 PM to hear Planet’s Director of Strategic Science Initiatives Dr. Tanya Harrison who will be presenting at the UW Data Science Seminar. Dr. Harrison’s talk entitled ” Introduction to Planet and Data Access through the NASA Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program” is sure to be one you don’t want to miss!

 

Biography: Dr. Tanya Harrison is the Director of Strategic Science Initiatives at Planet. Prior to this, she spent over a decade working in science and mission operations for multiple NASA Mars missions, including the Opportunity and Curiosity rovers and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. She holds a Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Western Ontario, a Masters in Earth and Environmental Science from Wesleyan University, and a B.Sc. in Astronomy and Physics from the University of Washington. You can find her tweeting prolifically about all things space as @tanyaofmars on Twitter.

Assistant or Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

The University of Washington’s College of Environment is hiring for an Assistant or Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to join their team!

The College is seeking an action-oriented Assistant or Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion to lead these efforts. In this role, you will work closely with the dean, senior staff, faculty, postdocs, students and other community members to integrate an equity and justice lens into our shared strategic vision. This position represents an opportunity to shape the future of the College of the Environment’s DEI work, and along with it, the future of some of the most critical environmental research on the planet.

Request for Proposals! Grand Challenges Global Call-to-Action Initiative

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has launched two requests for proposals through the Grand Challenges Global Call-to-Action initiative.

This new member of the Grand Challenges family of initiatives supports locally led research, exemplified by the five malaria projects funded through the request for proposals launched last year, Building Malaria Modeling Capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa. In addition, there are requests for proposals launched by Grand Challenges Africa, by Grand Challenges Senegal, and by Grand Challenges Canada. All are listed below and open for applications.

Please check the website at the links below for the application deadlines and more information.

*November 4* Developing Our Public Voice on Mass Media & Social Media: Hosted by Demographers of Color & Allies

On November 4, you are invited to join demographers and students from all backgrounds for a conversation about about developing a public voice.  The Demographers of Color Collective is hosting the conversation will be 10am-11:30am (Pacific time) via a zoom panel of experts on how to engage in mass media and social media.  The zoom link is: https://berkeley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUkc-msqzkpEtS3SXrCtrZLtMTwalriddET

This virtual panel discussion features PhD demographers of color and allies who know about engagement with media and journalists. Panelists will share about their career, life experiences, and advice. Join this event for a sincere discussion of pivots, resilience, and hope.

 

 

Panelists:

 

D’Vera Cohn (Pew Research Center, formerly The Washington Post) is a senior writer/editor at Pew Research Center who previously had a 21-year journalism career at The Washington Post. She studies and writes about demographics in the United States, especially the census, and manages Pew Research Center’s @allthingscensus Twitter account. She has spoken at national journalism conferences about how reporters can make use of demographic data in stories and often talks about the Center’s findings in print, broadcast and online media. On behalf of the Poynter Institute, a journalism education organization, she also organized and taught workshops that trained hundreds of journalists to analyze and write about 2020 census data.

 

Dr. Malia Jones (University of Wisconsin-Madison) is an interdisciplinary researcher working at the intersection of infectious disease, social epidemiology, demography, and geography. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community & Environmental Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on how the places we spend time affect our health, especially when it comes to infectious disease and vaccinations. She is also the co-founder of Dear Pandemic, a science communication platform offering practical, scientific health information on social media. Her current research program is funded by the National Institutes for Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). She received a MPH and a PhD in Public Health at UCLA, and completed postdoctoral training at the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine. Her work has been published in journals including the American Journal of Public Health, Health Affairs, and Demography. She is a knitter, a mom to two boys, and has way too many pets.

*November 4* Developing Our Public Voice on Mass Media & Social Media: Hosted by Demographers of Color & Allies

On November 4, you are invited to join demographers and students from all backgrounds for a conversation about about developing a public voice.  The Demographers of Color Collective is hosting the conversation will be 10am-11:30am (Pacific time) via a zoom panel of experts on how to engage in mass media and social media.  The zoom link is: https://berkeley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUkc-msqzkpEtS3SXrCtrZLtMTwalriddET

 

 

Panelists:

 

D’Vera Cohn (Pew Research Center, formerly The Washington Post) is a senior writer/editor at Pew Research Center who previously had a 21-year journalism career at The Washington Post. She studies and writes about demographics in the United States, especially the census, and manages Pew Research Center’s @allthingscensus Twitter account. She has spoken at national journalism conferences about how reporters can make use of demographic data in stories and often talks about the Center’s findings in print, broadcast and online media. On behalf of the Poynter Institute, a journalism education organization, she also organized and taught workshops that trained hundreds of journalists to analyze and write about 2020 census data.

 

Dr. Malia Jones (University of Wisconsin-Madison) is an interdisciplinary researcher working at the intersection of infectious disease, social epidemiology, demography, and geography. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community & Environmental Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on how the places we spend time affect our health, especially when it comes to infectious disease and vaccinations. She is also the co-founder of Dear Pandemic, a science communication platform offering practical, scientific health information on social media. Her current research program is funded by the National Institutes for Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). She received a MPH and a PhD in Public Health at UCLA, and completed postdoctoral training at the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine. Her work has been published in journals including the American Journal of Public Health, Health Affairs, and Demography. She is a knitter, a mom to two boys, and has way too many pets.