As part of the Homelessness Research Initiative Urban@UW and CSDE will be partnering to host an in-person gathering on November 29th, 2022 from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM.
The event will be held at the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health (room 101), on the Seattle campus. You may RSVP here and we ask you to provide a brief description of your relevant research related to homelessness. This form will be used as a resource for all those who are interested in being part of this group. If you have interest in being part of this group of like-minded researchers, but are unable to attend this event, please fill out the form and include your contact information and a brief description of your research. We look forward to seeing many of you next month.
The Homelessness Research Initiative aims to be a nexus for researchers and practitioners to exchange discoveries, experiences, and ideas on the topics of homelessness, housing access, and their drivers and consequences. By connecting the efforts of faculty from across disciplines and campuses, the HRI serves to amplify research findings and translate them to a broader community of state and local governments, nonprofit providers, philanthropies, and others dedicated to improving the lives of those experiencing homelessness. The Homelessness Research Initiative unites faculty efforts from across the University of Washington to address homelessness through a research lens.
CSDE Affiliate Anjum Hajat and External Affiliate Trevor Peckham recently published research results in The Journal of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences. Their study entitled “The Inequitable Burden of the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Marginalized Older Workers in the United States: An Intersectional Approach” examines the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on employment conditions by race/ethnicity, gender and educational attainment and the association between such conditions and well-being in older adults in the United States.
CSDE External Affiliate Jennifer Laird and partners at Columbia University have been awarded a $26M grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant, which is expected to bring $980,456 to Lehman over five years, supports research centers focused on developing engineered systems technology and educational initiatives with high societal impact. It will fund the research and development of streetscape applications using advanced wireless technology to forge livable, safe, and inclusive urban communities—while promoting privacy and security. We look forward to the results of this study and congrats on the grant!
CSDE External Affiliate Daiki Hiramori has received a prestigious “Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up” from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. The title of the project “Queer Quantitative Sociology in Japan: Possibilities and Potentialities” will support research on (1) attitudes toward sexual and gender minorities, (2) the demographic diversity of sexual and gender minority populations, and (3) sexuality stratification (stratification by sexual orientations that are recognized normative or non-normative) in Japan. Let’s wish Dr. Hiramori a huge congrats!
The Institute for Education Sciences (IES) has released a new request for applications for fiscal year 2023 (FY 2023). The National Center for Education Research (NCER) is inviting applications for leadership of a Career and Technical Education (CTE) Research Network and research teams for the Digital Learning Platforms Network.
NCER seeks to establish a new CTE Research Network and to expand the Digital Learning Platforms Network, also known as SEERNet (https://www.seernet.org), established in FY 2021.
For more information about these networks and the application process, visit the IES Funding Opportunities [ies.ed.gov] web page.
IES will provide virtual office hours for this new competition. Please see the Digital Technical Assistance [ies.ed.gov] web page for additional details.
The National Science Foundation is offering Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants that supports doctoral research including field, laboratory and computational research on human and nonhuman primate adaptation, variation and evolution to advance knowledge about human origins and the dynamics between biology and culture.
The anticipated funding amount is $600,000 to $800,000 per fiscal year (1 October through 30 September), pending availability of funds.
Project budgets should be developed at scales appropriate for the work to be conducted. Proposal budgets cannot exceed $25,000 in direct costs for the entire duration of the award. Indirect costs are in addition to this direct cost amount and are subject to the awardee’s current federally negotiated indirect cost rate. The maximum project duration is 24 months.
The proposer may concurrently submit a doctoral dissertation proposal to other funding organizations. Please indicate this in the “Current and Pending Support” section of the NSF proposal, so that NSF may coordinate funding with the other organizations.
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!
Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in computational social science. This position requires strong programming and quantitative skills with an interest in social science. The successful applicant will be working in a small team funded by the MRC to develop algorithms to generate synthetic social networks for simulation projects. The principal investigator for the project is
Dr Jennifer Badham.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.