Applications are currently open for graduate students to present their research and receive feedback at this event, and we would love to receive your submissions. This is a wonderful, low-stakes opportunity to practice your presentation skills and grow your network.

What is the purpose of the session?

This session is a unique opportunity to make new connections with faculty and students working in your area, and to improve your presentation and poster-making skills in advance of larger conferences. Many professional organizations and their associated conferences include space on their programs for posters or lightning talks (sometimes known as flash talks). This session is a great opportunity for:

• anyone who is preparing a poster presentation for an end-of-the-quarter requirement for a class
• anyone who is preparing to present work at a conference (anyone prepping for an upcoming PAA [Population Association of America] poster session?!)
• students who just want to present a research idea and receive feedback. This session can be valuable! Faculty attending the poster sessions find it to be one of the most rewarding experiences because it gives them an opportunity to meet students and talk about research.

What will the session look like?

As of now, despite our on-campus presence, the lightning talks are scheduled to take place remotely over Zoom. The session will be split into two sections: the Lightning Talks and the Poster Session.

• Each participant will prepare 3 PowerPoint slides: the first 2 slides will be high-level summaries for the lightning talk portion and the 3rd slide will be the “poster” that you’ll present as people circulate through breakout rooms.
• Each presenter will have 2-3 minutes for their lighting talk presentation before we move presenters in breakout rooms and allow attendees to circulate.

Two previous winning posters are attached to this email for your perusal!

Will there be judges?

Yes, there will be a faculty panel that will give all participants feedback on their slides and presentation and determine a winner. CSDE will recognize the best poster with an award and prize. Posters will be assessed based on the following criteria:

• Relevance to demographic research or population health
• Innovative aspects of the research project
• Quality and appropriateness of research design and methodology
• Effectiveness in communicating key aspects of the project
• Overall design and quality of visuals, images and/or tables

Is my research a fit for the CSDE Trainee lightning talks?

CSDE seeks to build bridges across disciplines and aims to highlight a broad array of research topics. If your research focuses on demographic measures and methods, population growth, population health, population and environment, mobility, migration, fertility, mortality, family composition, life course, neighborhood change, or other related topics, you should consider participating! Learn more about the CSDE HERE.

How do I apply to participate?

You only need to submit a brief abstract and information about yourself and your collaborators on the project. Submit your application HERE. We will select up to 7 participants.

Dates and deadlines:

• COB Friday, October 22: deadline to submit an abstract
• COB Friday, October 29: you will be notified if you have been selected
• COB Friday, November 19: deadline to email presentation slides to Courtney Allen (ckallen@uw.edu)
• Friday, December 10: CSDE Lightning Talks and Poster Session from 12:30-1:30pm! Zoom link TBA.

Please email ckallen@uw.edu if you have any questions. We look forward to seeing your submissions!

This week, Dr. Ben Marx from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will be presenting. His talk, titled “(When) Do Transfers Respond to Need? Evidence from Natural Disasters,” covers findings on determinants of disaster donations using data from the American Red Cross. Dr. Marx’s economic research focuses on organizations and programs that benefit disadvantaged groups including charitable giving, government programs, and nonprofits.

You can register for this seminar here and check out all the upcoming topics and register for each individual webinar on our website.

After the seminar, UW Evans PhD student and CSDE Trainee Lizzie Pelletier will facilitate a graduate student discussion with Dr. Marx. RSVP by emailing her at epell@uw.edu.

This seminar is co-sponsored with the Evans School for Public Policy and Governance and the Population Health Initiative.

CSDE Trainee Alumna Vedavati Patwardhan, a recent Public Policy Ph.D. graduate, was interviewed by the Evans School to discuss her research on the impacts of cash-transfer programs for pregnant and nursing mothers on child nutrition outcomes. Patwardhan was recently awarded a grant from the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy for this research. Her dissertation spanned the topics of the impact of maternal cash transfers on child nutrition in India, women’s control over household income, and the effect of weather variability on women’s financial decision-making in Malawi.

Read the full interview about her research here.

Join the Sociology Department at Savery Hall room 409 on Wednesday, October 6th for a lecture from Charles Crabtree, Assistant Professor of Government at Dartmouth and Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford’s Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. His talk, titled, “Patients’ Traits Shape Healthcare Providers’ Choices on How to Best Allocate Life-Saving Care,” will present evidence from three conjoint experiments around ventilator distribution during the COVID-19 pandemic. The lecture will cover, in part, differences in resource allocation according to provider political affiliation, patient probability of survival, and patient race and religion. You can find the full event information here.