Professor Weitzman at the University of Texas, Austin seeks a Postdoctoral fellow for a William T. Grant funded project, “Understanding How U.S. Immigrant and Immigration Policies Affect Latino Adolescents’ School Lives.”
The fellowship is a full-time position that entails project-related research and activities. This position is for twelve months and includes the possibility of renewing for a second twelve-months, conditional on performance. Start date is ideally September 1, 2023 but is flexible. Deadline to submit applications is December 1st, 2022. The position is hybrid and flexible!
When: October 14, 2022
Where: Virtually via zoom, register
here
Join us for a talk with Assistant Professor at University of Delaware
AR Siders, on a talk regarding ethical dilemmas in relocation as climate change adaptation. Adaptation to climate change may redress, perpetuate, or create social injustices. While stakeholders agree that adaptation should be just, they disagree on how justice should be defined or pursued. This talk will describe several ongoing projects related to adaptation justice in the context of relocation as an adaptation strategy. This includes a critical assessment of gaps between justice theory and adaptation practice, including the difficulty in allocating resources that cause simultaneous harm and benefit; a case study of how adaptation administrator values create conflicts and inequities; a critique of voluntariness as a universal good; and a discussion of why efforts to predict future climate relocation may perpetuate injustices.
If you’d like to sign up for the one-on-one meetings please
RSVP by emailing Aryaa (
rajouria@uw.edu).
Panel Bios
A.R. Siders is an Assistant Professor in the Disaster Research Center, Biden School of Public Policy and Administration, and Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences at the University of Delaware. She is also a director of the Mangone Climate Change Science and Policy Hub. Her research focuses on climate adaptation decision-making: understanding how and why communities and governments decide when, where and how to adapt and how those decisions and decision-making processes affect risk reduction and equity. Recent projects have centered on managed retreat and adaptation justice.
Microsoft Word for the Social Sciences
- Date & Time: Thursday, Oct. 13 @ 10:00AM–12:00PM
- Location: SAV 117
- Instructor: Phil Hurvitz
CSDE Affiliate Alison Drake along with co-authors have published a new article in Contraception entitled “Trajectories of method dissatisfaction among Kenyan women using modern, reversible contraception: A prospective cohort study” The authors sample included a cohort of 947 women and identified four trajectories: consistent satisfaction, increasing dissatisfaction, decreasing dissatisfaction, and consistent dissatisfaction. Their study points to the need for deeper understanding of trajectories of contraceptive experience for advancing person-centered family planning care that addresses users’ changing preferences and challenges.
CSDE Affiliate Emilio Zagheni and co-authors publish in Population Research and Policy Review. The article entitled “The Impact of Demographic Change on Transfers of Care and Associated Well-being” aims to evaluate the impact of demographic change on long-term, macro-level childcare and adult care transfers, accounting for the associated well-being effects of informal caregiving. The authors measure the impact of demographic change on non-monetary between different groups. They utilize American Time Use Survey data as well as the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, Disability, and Use of Time Module from 2013 to produce estimates of well-being associated with two forms of care and their future projections. They project a progressively widening gender gap in terms of positive feelings related to care in the coming decades. Future reductions in absolute caregiver well-being influenced by demographic changes at the population level may reduce workforce participation, productivity, and adversely impact psycho-physical condition of caregivers, if not offset by targeted policies.
The Applied Demography Conference hosted by the Population Association of America is to be hosted in Annapolis, Maryland February 7th-9th! There is a current call for papers attached here, those seeking to share their work should look to submit by October 31st, 2022.
Population and Environment has released a new issue including several publications. Readers can find new research on demographic characteristics of populations living near oil and gas, the psychology of wildfire and smoke related migration intentions, and much more! Check out this new issue for yourself here!
The City of Bellevue, Washington is rapidly maturing from a sleepy suburb into a tech-centric, vibrant, and diverse metropolitan city within the Puget Sound Region. The city’s planning team is looking for creative planners with the technical expertise to help us shape and catalyze positive change. This position requires you, the candidate to have a curious mind, technical prowess, research skills, an open, mature, and an inclusive view of prevailing social issues. We also need a demonstrated willingness to think beyond the usual or ordinary. Ability to work across projects requiring knowledge of diverse planning topics from demographics to urban design is a big plus.
This position is part of the Community Development Department’s Comprehensive Planning Team. It requires experience as a planner and experience curating, using and presenting demographic and economic data for community planning purposes. The ideal candidate will have skills in GIS mapping, managing datasets, communicating data, and statistical methods.
In this role, you will work across four broad sets of responsibilities:
- Keeping the community, staff, council, and boards and commissions informed of demographic trends and issues;
- Responding to specific requests for data;
- Contributing expertise in community data to projects as a member of one-time and recurring projects across city departments;
- Leading innovation in data acquisition, organization, analysis and communication.
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission seeks labor economist in Hybrid job format.
CSDE Affiliates Dobra and McCormick part of amazing team that secured a $5M National Science Foundation grant to provide financial support, research opportunities, and mentoring to students who want to pursue education in statistics and data science! The University of Washington’s Statistics department has recently announced the formation of the Pacific Alliance for Low Income Inclusion in Statistics and Data Science (PALilSaDS), a partnership led by UW and the University of California, Santa Barbara. Let’s congratulate their team on an amazing partnership and opportunity to advance education!