Two Senior Research Analyst Positions with the State of Washington
Senior Research Analyst – State of Washington
Senior Research Analyst – State of Washington
New Research Published in the Journal of Demographic Outcomes
The Journal of Demographic Outcomes has published its most recent Issue. Journal of Demographic Economics welcomes both empirical and theoretical papers on issues relevant to Demographic Economics with a preference for combining abstract economic or demographic models together with data to highlight major mechanisms. Check out some of the most recent articles relating to topics such as fertility, household expenditure and children’s health and more!
NSF Funding to Support Research Relating to Preventing and Predicting Future Pandemics
The National Science Foundation has published nearly $26 million dollars in new awards supporting interdisciplinary investigations and collaborations aimed at predicting and preventing the next infectious disease outbreak. These new projects span the entire lifetime of pandemic response including supporting data collection and analysis, creation of new sensors and predictive capabilities, methods for understanding impact and spread, processes to increase our ability to anticipate the role of human behavior and information sharing, and development of mitigation strategies and policy recommendations. Awards are available through the Predictive Intelligence for Pandemic Prevention program (PIPP).
Dafeng Xu and Co-author Publish Research on the Relation between English Proficiency and Carpooling Among Immigrants
CSDE Affiliate Dafeng Xu and co-author Yuxin Zhang have published an article in Travel Behavior and Society. The article estimates the effect of English proficiency on carpooling outcomes. Results indicate that immigrants with lower English skills are more likely to carpool and support the hypothesis of “need-based networking”.
CSDE Autumn Course Offerings!
CSDE Director, Sara Curran, will be teaching Demography & Society (CSDE 513/SOC 513) this Autumn Quarter. In addition to the core course required for the CSDE Certificate in Demographic Methods, we have compiled a list of recommended electives being taught this quarter by CSDE Faculty Affiliates that may be relevant to you or your research.
CSDE Core Courses
- CSDE/SOC 513 Demography & Society
- Instructor: Sara Curran
- Time: W 1:30 PM – 4:20 PM
Recommended Electives
- *BIOA 454 Hormones & Behavior Seminar
- Instructor: Melanie Martin
- Time: TTh 10:30 AM – 12:20 PM
- *BIOA 455 Laboratory Methods in Hormones & Behavior
- Instructor: Melanie Martin
- Time: W 9:30 AM – 12:20 PM OR 1:00 PM – 3:50 PM
- GEOG 595 Special Topics: Climate Migration
- Instructor: Mark Ellis
- Time: W 2:30 PM – 5:20 PM
(*Note: BIOA454 and BIOA455 are to be taken together)
The Center for Statistics in the Social Sciences (CSSS) is Hiring!
The Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences (CSSS) at the University of Washington invites applications for one full-time (9-month) tenure-track Assistant Professor, with an anticipated starting date of September 16, 2023. This CSSS core faculty position will be appointed 100% in one of the following Social Sciences departments: Communication, Ph
Russell Sage Foundation: Immigration and Immigrant Integration Research Grants
This initiative seeks to support 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. This initiative falls under RSF’s Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration Program and represents a special area of interest within the core program, which continues to encourage proposals on a broader set of issues. RSF and the Carnegie Corporation of New York invite proposals for new research that will strengthen the theory, methods and empirical knowledge about the effects of race, citizenship, legal status, and the interplay of politics and policy on immigrant outcomes. Because of limitations in government statistics, researchers are curating and analyzing data from both public and private sources (e.g., specialized surveys, administrative sources from tax, social security and citizenship and immigration services, as well as social media), and collecting their own data to measure the progress of the foreign-born and their children. Many of the questions listed below are difficult to answer because of data limitations (Blau & Mackie, 2016; Duncan & Trejo, 2016; Massey, 2010; Waters & Pineau, 2015) regarding age and time of arrival, time spent in the U.S., legal status at present and upon entry, including visa type, parents’ and grandparents’ place of birth, longitudinal data, and data linked across sources. Thus, we welcome proposals to improve the measurement of immigrant progress over time and across generations. We are especially interested in creative uses of administrative and other data sources that enhance our ability to identify immigrants by generation and legal status. Full details are here [russellsage.org]. Deadline: 1
Russell Sage Foundation Social, Political and Economic Inequality Research Grants
This RSF program supports 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. We seek innovative investigator-initiated research that will expand our understanding of social, political, and economic inequalities and the mechanisms by which they influence the lives of individuals, families, and communities. We welcome projects that explore the relevance of economic, racial, ethnic, age, gender, immigration, residence, or other statuses for the distribution of social, political, and economic outcomes within and across different status groups. RSF prioritizes analyses that make use of newly available data or demonstrate novel uses of existing data. We support original data collection when a project is focused on important program priorities, projects that conduct survey or field experiments and qualitative studies. RSF encourages methodological variety and inter-disciplinary collaboration. Proposed projects must have well-developed conceptual frameworks and rigorous research designs. Analytical models must be well-specified and research methods must be appropriate. RSF priorities do not include analyses of health or mental health outcomes or health behaviors as these are priorities for other funders. For the same reason, RSF seldom supports studies focused on educational processes or curricular issues but does prioritize analyses of inequalities in student achievement or educational attainment. Full details are here [russellsage.org]. Deadline: 1
CFComPASS Program Seeks Community Organization Applicants For Health Equity Interventions
Are you an affiliate who works with a community organization that directs health equity interventions? If so, your community organization partner might be a good candidate for the following call for funding. Research organizations can be partners on the grant, but the grant needs to be led by a community organization.
The NIH Common Fund is soliciting applications from community organizations in support of the goals of the Community Partnerships to Advance Science for Society (ComPASS) Program’s [commonfund.nih.gov] Community
Applicants are required to submit a letter of intent by November 18, 2022, 11:59 PM ET. Applicants will be selected from the LOIs to submit full applications, which will be due by January 23, 2023. For more details, read the full Research Opportunity Announcement (ROA) at: https://commonfund.nih.
Key Details:
- Applicants must be community organizations (non-profits with and without 501(C)(3) IRS Status) defined as a non-Federal, non-academic or non-research organization that provides goods, services, support, resources, or advocacy to members of a defined community. (See “Eligibility” section in the ROA)
- Additionally, applicants must propose at least one potential research organization/research investigator, who has agreed to support and participate in the community organization’s full application. The research organization(s)/research investigator(s) can be academic or non-academic institutions.
- A letter of intent (LOI) is required and due by November 18, 2022, 11:59 PM ET (E-mail LOIs to Dr. Yvonne Owens Ferguson at CFComPASS@od.nih.gov)
- NIH staff will hold technical assistance webinars for the required letter of intent (LOI) on October 4th and October 11th at 2pm-3pm ET. Registration is required.
- To help prepare a LOI for this ROA, applicants are encouraged to watch a pre-recorded technical assistance presentation [gcc02.safelinks.protection.
outlook.com]and view slides [commonfund.nih.gov]. Additionally, answers to Frequently Asked Questions about OTA-22-007 are available on the ComPASS website [commonfund.nih.gov]. - LOIs will be used to select those invited to submit full applications, which will be submitted through the Application Submission System & Interface for Submission Tracking (ASSIST) [public.era.nih.gov] system by January 23, 2023.
Additional background about ComPASS:
The overall goals for ComPASS are to 1) develop, share, and evaluate community-led health equity structural interventions that leverage partnerships across multiple sectors to reduce health disparities and 2) to develop a new health equity research model for community-led, multisectoral structural intervention research across NIH and other federal agencies. The program will enable communities and researchers to work collaboratively as equal partners in all phases of the research process to enhance the quality of interventions and advance health disparities research.