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Postdoctoral positions in Computational & Behavioral Social Sciences, LABSS-CNR, Rome

The Laboratory of Agent Based Simulation (LABSS-CNR, Rome) is opening a 2-year post-doc position investigating the role of social norms in the spread of misinformation about the Covid pandemic in online communities. Specifically, we are interested in understanding the extent to which social norms are acting as obstacles to consensus formation and their potential role as catalyst of behaviour change in social platforms (e.g., Twitter).  The study is part of a EU-funded research and will be done in collaboration with the Complex Multilayer Networks (CoMuNe) Research Unit of Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento. It will adopt a multidisciplinary approach that combines big data, online surveys,
experiments and social simulations. We are looking for highly motivated scholars with expertise in computational and behavioural social sciences, with knowledge of statistical analysis tools.

For more information please contact eugenia.polizzi@istc.cnr.it and mdedomenico@fbk.eu

LABSS-CNR:
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FBK-CoMuNe:
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Carolina Postdoctoral Program for Faculty Diversity

The UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Geography is recruiting applicants to the Carolina Postdoctoral Program for Faculty Diversity (CPPFD), a prestigious 2-year postdoc that has the goal of preparing recent PhDs for tenure track appointments at UNC-Chapel Hill. Our department’s nominations of postdoctoral fellows have been successful in the university-wide selection process in the past, and we have hired multiple tenure-track faculty through this mechanism. We hope to recruit another such scholar this year. The target applicants are US-born scholars from groups that are underrepresented in the academy, working in any subfield of geography. This is a full-time research appointment with no service obligations and the option of teaching a maximum of one course per year.The CPPFD program and our department provide strong mentorship to selected postdoctoral fellows. Applicants who are interested in ranking Geography as their first choice placement should identify potential faculty mentors in Geography and contact Geography faculty members Clark Gray (cgray@email.unc.edu), Banu Gokariksel (banug@email.unc.edu), or Diego Riveros-Iregui (diegori@email.unc.edu) for more information about applying.
Stipend
$47,476 per calendar year
$2,000 per year research fund for research expenses, including travel.
Eligibility
Applicants must have completed their doctoral degree or terminal degree in their field within the past five years and no later than July 1st of the award year.
The primary criterion for selection is evidence of scholarship potentially competitive for tenure track appointments at the University of North Carolina and other research universities.
An important secondary criterion is the support of prospective departments.
Preference will be given to individuals who are lawfully eligible to work in the United States. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill strongly encourages applications from individuals that have experience, background and/or scholarship that will contribute to the diversity of the campus community.
Application materials
Cover letter addressed to Vice Chancellor for Research
Curriculum vitae
A statement of research plans (1-3 pages)
A contribution to diversity statement on why you should be selected for this program (1–3 pages)
Writing samples (e.g., publications and/or dissertation chapters)
Two references for letters of recommendation
Applications are accepted September 15th-November 15th.

Autumn 2020 Opening Reception

Join us for our opening reception on Friday, where you can hear about exciting news regarding our new T32 Training Program, learn about new initiatives our trainees have undertaken or accomplished this summer, and meet some of our new staff members and new members of our leadership team. For a full schedule of this autumn’s seminar schedule, you can click here for a pdf version. To register, please click here.

Message from CSDE Director, Sara Curran

Welcome to the 2020-21 academic year. While we’re still mostly virtual at CSDE, we are looking forward to a productive year with lots of events, seminars, working groups, and collaborative initiatives. Our seminar series for this autumn will be an engaging one. CSDE Affiliate and School of Nursing Professor Maria Bleil is chairing this year’s seminar series. You can download a printable PDF poster here.  Join us for our opening reception on Friday, where you can hear about exciting news regarding our new T32 Training Program, learn about new initiatives our trainees have undertaken or accomplished this summer, and meet some of our new staff members and new members of our leadership team.

This autumn’s seminar series will feature a mix of population scientists speakers outside UW and across campus. On October 9, Dr. Magali Barbieri (UC Berkeley) will be presenting findings from the Human Mortality Database, which she directs.  On October 23, Dr. Brittany Morey (UC Irvine) will be speaking about migrant health selectivity and the role of immigrant visas.  On November 6, Dr. Claudia Masferrer (El Colegio de Mexico) will be speaking about labor market impacts of US-Mexico return migration.

The seminar will also include speakers from on campus and several panels that feature UW researchers and CSDE community members.  On October 30, Dr. Wendy Barrington (School of Nursing) will be speaking on racism as a social determinant of equity.  And, on November 13, Dr. Jake Grumbach (Political Science) will present research on gender, race, and intersectionality and campaign finance.

CSDE’s Primary Research Area Chairs, Anjum Hajat and Heather Hill, have organized two fantastic panels this quarter – one on policy analytics and population health and the other on Covid 19 and Child Well Being.  With Urban@UW we are co-hosting a panel on displacement in historical Black neighborhoods in Seattle on November 20.

We’ll also be co-hosting a series of lectures with the UW Retirement Association and the UW Alumni Association that focuses on The Future of Aging. For that series, Dr. Eileen Crimmins (USC) will provide a keynote lecture on November 10 on the Aging in the 21st Century: New Issues in a New World.  Registration and news about this series will be forthcoming.

With support from the Evans School, we have a new information and communications RA, Veda Patwardhan. Veda is also a CSDE Trainee and PhD Candidate at the Evans School. Veda is your ‘go to’ person for all announcements and news items (send her your news via csde@uw.edu). She will be working with CSDE during the entire academic year to translate your research for news stories, help with press releases, and keep our website full of great content. Please stay in the loop by signing up for our calendar of events.

Spotlight on CSDE Affiliate, Rawan Arar

Assistant Professor of Law, Societies and Justice Dr. Rawan Arar studies the Sociology of refugee migration. Her work has appeared in the Annual Review of Sociology and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.  This summer she was awarded a UW Royalty Research Fund grant to study Syrian Refugees and their relationship to governance mechanisms in Jordan. She completed her Ph.D. in sociology at the University of California San Diego. In her research program she starts with the refugee as a central figure of analysis. Arar argues that refugee displacement is the manifestation of the breakdown of borders and citizenship rights while refugee status, as a legal construct, is delimited by the principle of sovereignty. Furthermore, refugees’ lives and life chances are inextricably tied to national and global policies, which create or impede access to basic needs, education, rights, and mobility. Arar’s research lies at the intersection of these issues and pushes forward debates about states, rights, and theories of international migration.

Spotlight on CSDE Affiliate, Tom Burch

Dr. Tom Burch is Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the University of Victoria, with research interests in family and household demography, demographic modelling, and fertility theory. His research focuses on the relations among theory, models, and data in empirical social science, particularly demography. Dr. Burch has recently published in World Economics and is the author of the book Model Based Demography.

Spotlight on CSDE Affiliate, Jacqueline Darroch

Dr. Jacqueline E. Darroch is a senior fellow at the Guttmacher Institute. She is the author or coauthor of more than 100 articles and publications on sexual behavior, fertility, family planning, maternal and child health, teenage pregnancy and abortion. Recently, Dr. Darroch, along with co-authors, published a report titled “Adding It Up: Investing in Sexual and Reproductive Health 2019” on the unmet need for contraception in low and middle-income countries.

The study documents the sexual and reproductive health needs of 1.6 billion women of reproductive age (15–49) in 2019, the positive impacts of meeting those needs, and the costs associated with improving and expanding services. They estimate that 218 million women in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have an unmet need for modern contraception. In the 132 countries that they study, the need is disproportionately high among adolescents aged 15–19 who want to avoid a pregnancy (43%, compared with 24% among all women aged 15­–49).

*CALL FOR PAPERS** Russell Sage Foundation Requests Articles on Suburban Inequality in the United States

The Russell Sage Foundation is requesting articles for its new issue on suburban inequality in the United States.  Prospective contributors should submit a CV and an abstract (up to two pages in length, single or double spaced) of their study along with up to two pages of supporting material (e.g., tables, figures, pictures, etc.) no later than 5.00PM EST on December 7, 2020 to: https://rsf.fluxx.io

This issue of RSF will bring together scholars who study diverse aspects of suburban inequality, to develop a deeper understanding of how suburban inequality is both distinct from and similar to urban inequality. In doing so, RSF hopes to bring scattered literatures together to assert the contemporary relevance of suburban inequality, and thereby lay a foundation for the emerging field of research on suburban inequality. Please click here for a full description of the topics covered in this call for articles.

Anticipated Timeline:

Prospective contributors should submit a CV and an abstract (up to two pages in length, single or double spaced) of their study along with up to two pages of supporting material (e.g., tables, figures, pictures, etc.) no later than 5 PM EST on December 7, 2020 to: https://rsf.fluxx.io

Note that if you wish to submit an abstract and do not yet have an account with us, it can take up to 48 hours to get credentials, so please start your application at least two days before the deadline. All submissions must be original work that has not been previously published in part or in full. Only abstracts submitted to https://rsf.fluxx.io will be considered. Each paper will receive a $1,000 honorarium when the issue is published. All questions regarding this issue should be directed to Suzanne Nichols, Director of Publications, at journal@rsage.org and not to the email addresses of the editors of the issue.

A conference will take place at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York City on November 5, 2021. The selected contributors will gather for a one-day workshop to present draft papers (due a month prior to the conference on 10/1/21) and receive feedback from the other contributors and editors. Travel costs, food, and lodging for one author per paper will be covered by the foundation. Papers will be circulated before the conference. After the conference, the authors will submit their revised drafts by 1/13/22. The papers will then be sent out to three additional scholars for formal peer review. Having received feedback from reviewers and the RSF board, authors will revise their papers by 7/11/22. The full and final issue will be published in the spring of 2023. Papers will be published open access on the RSF website as well as in several digital repositories, including JSTOR and UPCC/Muse.