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Congratulations to the Recipients of the Best Poster Award of the CSDE Winter 2021 Trainees’ Lightning Talks and Poster Session!

Over 70 participants engaged with last week’s CSDE Biannual Graduate Student Lightning Talks and Poster session! Their engagement, insightful questions and thoughtful written feedback to the presenters contributed significantly to the success of this event. Congratulations to Taehoon Kwon (Economics) and Carolina Coimbra Vieira (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research) who shared the best poster award. Kwon presented “Less Study, More Leisure? Impact of SAT and GPA Grading Policy Reform” and Coimbra Vieira presented “Assessing Cultural Distance between Countries using Facebook Data: The Case of Food as a Cultural Marker and the Role of Migration”. CSDE Training Director Christine Leibbrand invited a diverse panel of CSDE Affiliates to rate the posters and provide individual feedback. Thank you, Mark Ellis (Geography), Dave Grembowski (Health Services), Crystal Hall (Evans School of Public Policy), Rachel Heath (Economics), Taryn Lindhorst (Social Work), and Dafeng Xu (Evans School of Public Policy) for your service. The posters and presentations were evaluated based on the innovation, quality and appropriateness of research design and methodology, effectiveness in communicating the research, overall design and organization of the poster and effectiveness of visualizations. CSDE was lucky to have Maxine Wright, CSDE Trainee and Sociology Doctoral Student, organize the Lightning Talk session. Maxine helped recruit presenters, advertise the event, brainstorm an innovative method for holding the lightning talks remotely, and coordinate with the large number of people required to make the event a success.

Attendees at the session also had the opportunity to learn about COVID-19 beliefs and behaviors in Bangladesh, oil well siting and health, the impact of COVID-19 on low-income housing security, and the diffusion of lay Catholic movements from the other excellent presentations given at the Lightning Talks. Larissa Caldeira (Sociology) presented “Keep the Faith, Change the Church: Understanding the Diffusion of Lay Catholic Movements in the United States,” Matt Fowle (Evans School of Public Policy) presented “The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Low-Income Tenant Housing Security,” Nicholas Hadjimichael (Evans School of Public Policy) presented “Narrative Power of Place: What is the Effect of Place on Uptake of a Campaign for a 2500 ft. Oil and Gas Well Setback Requirement in California, and Ferdous Sardar (Economics) presented “How COVID-19 Risk Information Affects Beliefs and Behaviors: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh.”

Students and Trainees Checkout the Demography or Population-related Courses for Next Quarter

CSDE’s certificate in Demographic Methods and its training program in Data Science, Demography and Population Health is happy to highlight for students courses that may be of interesting in the upcoming quarter.  In spring quarter, the regularly offered Social Demography course (CSDE 513 and SOC 513) will be offered on Tuesdays (asynchronously) and Thursdays (synchronously, 4:30-6pm) by CSDE Director Sara Curran. Also offered in Spring quarter: Professor Mark Ellis’ course on Social & Population Geography, Professor Adrian Raftery’s course on Statistical Demography, and Professor Steve Goodreau’s course on Social Networks & Health. For a list of relevant spring quarter classes, read more here.
  • Barbara Baquero – EPI 547/HSERV 514 – Social Determinants of Population Health and Health Disparities
  • Stephen Bezruchka – GH 514 – Global Population Health
  • Sara Curran – SOC 513/CSDE 513 – Demography & Ecology
  • Mark Ellis – GEOG 542 – Social & Population Geography
  • Steve Goodreau – CS&SS 523 – Social Networks & Health: Biocultural Perspectives
  • Rachel Heath – ECON 593 – Microeconomics of Development
  • Adrian Raftery – CS&SS 5263/ SOC 563/ STAT 563 – Statistical Demography
  • Clarence Spigner – HSERV 579 – Racism and Public Health
  • Jon Wakefield – STAT/BIOSTAT/CSSS 529 – Sample Survey Techniques 
  • Stephen Wilson – SOC W 592 – Social Work Practice with African-American Families
  • Dafeng Xu – PUBPOL 562 – Immigration Policy

CSDE Welcomes Four More Faculty Affiliates!

CSDE’s Executive Committee is pleased to introduce four of our new UW Faculty Affiliates:

  • Anne Conway– Urban Child Institute Endowed Professor and Director of the Child and Youth Development Lab, College of Social Work, University of Tennessee. Conway studies the development of neurocognition (i.e., focusing attention and ignoring distractions) and self-regulation (i.e., self-management of emotion, behavior, sleep), and associations with child well-being, health, and educational outcomes. Her research has been published in leading journals including Child Development, Psychological Science, Journal of Affective Disorders, Early Childhood Research Quarterly, among others. Conway joins CSDE as a regional affiliate.
  • Jake Grumbach– Assistant Professor, Political Science, University of Washington
    Grumbach’s research focuses broadly on the political economy of the United States. He is particularly interested in public policy, American federalism, racial capitalism, campaign finance, and statistical methods. His book project, based on his award-winning dissertation, investigates the causes and consequences of the nationalization of state politics since the 1970s. Grumbach joins CSDE as a faculty affiliate.
  • Elizabeth Harrington – Acting Assistant Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Washington. Harrington is a clinician and researcher with expertise in global reproductive health, family planning, and the social and behavioral influences on contraceptive decision-making. She is a practicing obstetrician-gynecologist with subspecialty training in family planning, and her research aims at understanding women’s complex needs and desires around prevention of unintended pregnancy. Harrington joins CSDE as a faculty affiliate.
  • Darcy Rao– Acting Assistant Professor, Epidemiology, University of Washington. Rao is an infectious disease epidemiologist with training and experience in mathematical modeling of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and measurement of sexual behavior and healthcare utilization. Her research interests center on using mathematical models to bridge epidemiologic research and public health practice, with the goal of informing the design and implementation of effective programs and policies. Rao joins as a CSDE faculty affiliate.

These affiliates bring a wealth of knowledge and unique approaches that enhances our community of demographers and collectively advances population science. We look forward to supporting each of them as they pursue their research. You can learn more about their individual research interests by visiting their affiliate pages, linked above.

If you are interested in becoming an affiliate or you know of someone who should become one, you can invite them to do so by directing them to this page. Affiliate applications are reviewed quarterly, by CSDE’s Executive Committee.

CSDE Affiliate Berridge to speak at AARP & Future of Privacy Forum Event [03-18-2021]

CSDE Affiliate and UW Social Work Assistant Professor Clara Berridge is the keynote speaker for a joint AARP & Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) event on March 18, titled Adding Age to AI: The Importance of Representing Older Adults in Data and Design. The event is part of a collaboration between the Future of Privacy Forum and AARP to evaluate the risks and benefits for older adults in a digital world. Berridge will discuss elder care technologies as they relate to power and ethics, highlight common value tensions and risks of data intensive care technologies and suggest ways to mitigate these. For more information or to register, click here.