The Penn Development Research Initiative (PDRI) at the University of Pennsylvania invites applications for a postdoctoral fellowship during the 2020-2021 academic year. The principal job of the postdoctoral fellow will be to help design and execute new studies, conduct rigorous quantitative analyses using advanced causal inference methods, and contribute to manuscripts. Studies will be focused on selected topics in international development, especially in migration and health-related topics. The postdoctoral fellow will be involved in all aspects of the research, including data analysis and writing (policy reports and academic papers).

Diversity and Inclusion Seed Grants

The Vice President for Minority Affairs & Diversity and University Diversity Officer is pleased to offer Diversity and Inclusion Seed Grants. These small grants support projects for institutional transformation across the University of Washington’s tri-campus community that align with the goals of the 2017-2021 UW Diversity Blueprint.

• Deadline: June 12
• More information and to apply

The Mexican National Population Council (CONAPO) and the Health Initiative of the Americas, from the University of California, Berkeley (HIA-UC), extend this invitation to experts in migration and health to participate in the Migration and Health annual publication. The objective of this publication is to provide policymakers, scholars, nonprofit organizations, and the public with current information pertaining to the health of the mobile populations that travel across Mexico, the United States, and Central America. Topics include COVID-19 and its health implications among mobile populations, mental health, violence from a public health perspective, and more.

Team Collaboration in the Field with Criminal Justice Researchers, June 15, 2020, 12 PM to 1 PM EDT. Register here: https://go.nvivobyqsr.com/collaboration-field. Fieldwork is a fluid process defined by seemingly never-ending negotiation of both the professional and personal expectations of what it takes to be an effective qualitative researcher.  The following webinar is a confessional tale by four dynamic criminal justice researchers with experience navigating collaborative qualitative research projects. These projects involve a range of participants from those who are incarcerated to hidden populations. This panel discussion will cover topics including challenges in recruiting people who use drugs for community public health surveillance projects, accessing & managing key informants and reciprocity, applied methods in criminal justice settings, and interdisciplinary collaborations for participatory research.
Panelists:
Wilson R. Palacios, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Master’s Program Director, School of Criminology and Justice Studies, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Amber Horning, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, School of Criminology and Justice Studies, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Rebecca Stone, PHD, Assistant Professor, Sociology, Suffolk University, Boston
Kimberly R. Kras, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of Public Affairs, San Diego State University.

Protecting Older Adults During a Pandemic: Challenges and Opportunities for Societies. Call for Papers for the Journal of Elder Policy, 2021 Special Issue. Editor-in-Chief: Eva Kahana. Distinguished University Professor, Case Western Reserve University. Abstracts of 500 words are due by June 15, 2020. Full papers (8000 -10000 words) due by September 30, 2020. For more info visit HERE.

The Urban Affairs Association is delighted to announce our new journal, the Journal of Race, Ethnicity and the City (JRE). We are making an open call for papers to be submitted to the journal.

The journal will:

• Serve as an outlet for ground-breaking theoretical and empirical approaches that explore race, ethnicity, identity and social justice;
• Examine the complex relations between race, ethnicity and other vectors of identity, including gender, class, religion and sexuality;
• Explore the influence of these complexities in shaping the social, economic, political, environmental, and cultural dimensions of urban spaces;
• Deconstruct the role of colonial and post-colonial practices and discourses on race and ethnicity in shaping the urban spaces of everyday life within a global context;
• Expand the global discourse on race, ethnicity and other vectors of identity;
• Promote interdisciplinary and comparative insights into race and ethnicity.

We are particularly interested in groundbreaking theoretical, empirical and engaged scholarship manuscripts that meet the aims and scopes of the journal and set the tone for future issues of the JRE. We invite manuscripts based on original empirical work, as well as review articles and shorter perspective pieces. At this time, we particularly welcome original articles (with a word count of around 8,000 words). Please see further guidance for authors here.

Submission Guidelines

When you are ready to submit a manuscript, please log into our online system:  https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ujre

For further questions, please contact the editors at jre.editor@uaamail.org.

Yasminah Beebeejaun, University College London (United Kingdom)

Ali Modarres, University of Washington, Tacoma (USA)

Further Editorial Board information can be found here.

Are you interested in doing empirical work on COVID-19? PAA2020’s next COVID webinar on Tuesday, June 23 10:00 – 11:30 AM will detail how six existing publicly available longitudinal studies are incorporating new measures to capture peoples’ experiences of the pandemic. Please register in advance with this link.

Panelists and surveys include:

• David Weir (University of Michigan): Health and Retirement Study (HRS)
• David Johnson (University of Michigan): Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)
• Vicki Freedman (University of Michigan): National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS)
• Carolyn Halpern (University of North Carolina): National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health)
• Arie Kapteyn (University of Southern California): Understanding America Study (UAS)
• Deborah Carr (Boston University): National Longitudinal Study of Youth (1979) (NLSY)
• Session Organizer and Chair – Pam Herd (Georgetown University)

The COVID-19 pandemic has touched every part of our global society, putting science and scientists in the front seat as we navigate this crisis. Join us for a special edition of “Amplify – Conversations about Science Communication”, where we explore the intersection of science and society, the role of science journalism and science communication, and how to make sense of all the information and turn it into action. Jointly brought to you by the University of Washington College of the Environment and School of Public Health, this live discussion will be hosted by Deans Lisa Graumlich and Hilary Godwin, with special guests Liz Neeley, Executive Director of the Story Collider, and Ed Yong, staff writer covering science and the coronavirus for The Atlantic.

4:00-5:00pm – Zoom webinar. Registration required

Climate scientists agree that in order to have any chance of continuing to live on this planet as a species, humans will need to coalesce into dense megacities. Urban planners across the world have already begun designing the sustainable cities of the future and include every aspect of human well-being save for one glaring omission- nature interaction. There is currently no tool for incorporating nature interaction into urban design, let alone quantify it. Nostos AI, founded by UW SEFS masters student Audryana Nay, seeks to fill this gap in the urban design industry, providing a design tool that can add meaningful and authentic human-nature into our cities allowing humanity to thrive.

12:00-1:00pm – Zoom meeting.

Join a French project to undertake a Ph.D. thesis on the political participation of French-Asian migrants and their descendants at the Émile Durkheim Centre in Sciences Po Bordeaux, under the supervision of Prof Vincent Tiberj. The PolAsie project plans to investigate the specificity of French Asians’ political participation through different domains (voting practices, participation in political campaigns, trajectories of Asian elected representatives, political mobilizations and collective action at the local level, etc). It also aims at analyzing these political practices by evaluating the processes of political socialization before migration, after migration, and within the diasporic groups.  |Deadline: June 21|More Information|