Please read this important news regarding the American Community Survey (ACS) and the Census Bureau’s plans regarding the 2017-2021 ACS Five Year Estimates.
Pre-release webinar for ACS 5-year estimates: On Thursday, December 1, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. ET, the Census Bureau will host a pre-release webinar on the 2017-2021 American Community Survey (ACS) Five Year Estimates in anticipation of the ACS data becoming publicly available on December 8. The webinar will explain how to access data and online resources from the 2017-2021 ACS as well as provide tips for comparing ACS geographies and statistics over time.
Jing Xu and Ben Marwick are set to be co-teaching a graduate seminar on computational analysis of text, centered on the book “Text as Data: A New Framework for Machine Learning and the Social Sciences. A guide for using computational text analysis to learn about the social world”. If you have research that is using or expects to use social media posts, free-form survey responses, government documents or other text this may be a great opportunity for you!
More details about class time, location, available places are here: https://sdb.admin.uw.edu/timeschd/uwnetid/sln.asp?QTRYR=WIN+2023&SLN=22283
A Post-Doctoral Associate in the Division of Social Science at NYU Abu Dhabi is available for those who have or will soon receive a PhD in one of the social sciences or a related discipline. The Post-Doctoral Associate will spend half their time on independent research, and half of their time on collaborative research with Professors Anju Mary Paul and Bedoor AlShebli. The collaborative research will be at the intersection of international migration studies, and science and technology studies, with a focus on scientist migrations, the emergence of new science hubs, and shifting scientific cultures. They seek seek a candidate whose field of specialization is migration, science and technology studies, or the science of science. Training in qualitative research methods is essential, while skills in quantitative research methods, programming or knowledge in statistical packages would be welcome though not required.
The Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing at Princeton University is currently looking to fill a highly competitive postdoctoral research position with an individual with documented interest in the study of adolescence and the transition to young adulthood and experience working with the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS) or other, similar longitudinal survey data. This position will provide the successful applicant with the opportunity to be among the first to use data from the FFCWS age 22 survey.
You can find the application here!
The Population Studies Center T32 Training Program, located at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, is seeking to fill two postdoctoral fellowship positions beginning on or about September 1, 2023. Both fellowships will be sponsored by the National Institute on Aging (NIA). You can view the application here!
The Network for Data Intensive Research on Aging (NDIRA) is a collaboration between IPUMS and the University of Minnesota Life Course Center. NDIRA supports an emerging interdisciplinary community of scientists using novel collections of cross-sectional, longitudinal, and contextual data—including IPUMS—for research on population aging. Here are two NDIRA opportunities that may be of interest:
Data-Intensive Research Conference
Abstract submissions are officially open for the NDIRA-sponsored 2023 Data-Intensive Research Conference , being held August 2-3 in Minneapolis, MN. This year’s theme is How Place Shapes Health and Welbeing through the Lifecourse. IPUMS will host a pre-conference data training workshop July 31-August 1.
Pilot Project Program NDIRA members are eligible for pilot grants that support innovative research on the demography and economics of aging. The pilot program encourages population-based questions related to later life course health and well-being through improved understanding of social and economic contexts, disparities, and social participation. Join NDIRA and find out more information about the pilot program and key dates.
The University of Minnesota’s IPUMS has added the 2021 1-Year Summary File from the American Community Survey (ACS). Over 1,300 new tables are now available for geographic areas with 65,000 or more residents. NHGIS also completed over 1,400 updates in the “context fields” for selected summary datasets, including area measures, geographic coordinates, data suppression flags, and geographic class codes (e.g., incorporated vs. unincorporated places).
CSDE Trainee Delaney Glass recently published a paper entitled “Weathering within war: Somatic health complaints among Vietnamese older adults exposed to bombing and violence as adolescents in the American war” in the Journal of Psychosomatic Health. Glass and co-authors investigate whether wartime stress exposures in adolescents and early childhood affect weathering in late adulthood utilizing the Vietnamese Health and Aging Study. Their findings suggest that the age of exposure to armed conflict is a critical determinant of weathering across the life course.
The Department of Global Development invites applications for a new faculty position to study human population dynamics in the US and around the world in the context of environmental change. The successful candidate will be nominated to hold the inaugural appointment as the Schleifer Family Professor of Sustainability. Upon confirmation, the professorship will be held for an initial five-year period, with possibility of renewal.
With a rapidly globalizing world population of 10 billion, efforts to save the planet, leave no one behind, and broadly advance sustainable development objectives must include deep scholarship on demographic change as both a cause and a consequence of environmental change. Adaptive responses such as migration have profound implications for food security, poverty and inequality, and the global politics of climate action. Large-scale population movements are already underway and are expected to accelerate in the decade ahead due to flooding, extreme heat, and prolonged droughts — stresses that are often exacerbated by conflict, resource scarcity, and tenuous livelihood systems.
The Department of Quantitative Theory & Methods at Emory University invites applications for a tenured or tenure-track faculty member with a specialization in statistics or related empirical field to begin Fall 2023. We are open to the academic discipline, which could be computer science, economics, operations research, political science, public health, public policy, sociology, statistics, or a related field.
The successful applicant will be an exceptional, active researcher with strong interdisciplinary experience. They will teach courses in statistics and its applications at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The position is fully funded 9-month tenure-track, and open with respect to rank. The teaching load is competitive. A Ph.D. is required by time of appointment.
Further details of the position are available here: https://quantitative.emory.edu/people/faculty/qtm-is-hiring.html [quantitative.emory.edu]
Applications received by November 28, 2022 will receive full consideration. To apply for this position, please visit http://apply.interfolio.com/113155 [apply.interfolio.com] and submit your materials free of charge through Interfolio