The experiences of working people fundamentally shape ideas, institutions, and movements.  At this critical juncture in our history, this colloquium is designed to let us pause and take stock of labors’ experiences and where it appears to be heading.

April 9 –  Futurizing the Washington State Labor Force

Eleni Papadakis, Director, Washington State Workforce Training & Randy Spaulding, Director, Washington Board of Education.

1:30 PM. Zoom.  Join URL: https://washington.zoom.us/j/786559967

 

April 14 – Gig Labor and the Law.  

Charlotte Garden, Professor of Law, Seattle University

1:30 PM Zoom. Join URL: https://washington.zoom.us/j/469004771

 

April 21 – Forged Together: Labor and the Carceral State Education Project

Sabina Vaught, Professor, U of Oklahoma & Damien Sojourner, Professor UC Irvine

1:30 PM Zoom. Join URL: https://washington.zoom.us/j/469004771

 

April 28 – Japanese Teacher Unions

Keith Nitta, Professor UW Bothell  & Jordan Woljter, Law, Economics and Public Policy

1:30 PM Zoom. Join URL: https://washington.zoom.us/j/469004771

 

May 12 – Social Movement Unionism from the Grassroots

Dan Berger, Professor, UW Bothell

1:30 PM Zoom. Join URL: https://washington.zoom.us/j/469004771

 

May 19 – Organizing LGBT Women

Debbie Carlsen, Director LGBTQ Allyship, & Ching-in Chen, Professor UW Bothell

1:30 PM Zoom. Join URL: https://washington.zoom.us/j/469004771

 

May 26 – Strategies for supporting Immigrant and survival sex workers

Emi Koyama, Coalition for Rights and Safety & Kari Lerum 

1:30 PM Zoom. Join URL: https://washington.zoom.us/j/469004771

 

June 2 – Undermining Academic Labor

Dan Jacoby, Professor, UWB

Tentative.  1:30 PM Zoom. Join URL: https://washington.zoom.us/j/469004771

The Lazer Lab at Northeastern University is conducting a search for a postdoctoral fellow in computational social science. The core research duties of the fellow will be to conduct research around social media and misinformation, with particular foci around the two topics of politics and COVID-19.

Requirements for the position include: PhD in computer science, or a social science, or related field. Strong computational skills, and experience collecting and analyzing social media are essential. The position would be for two years; starting date would be negotiable, but sooner is preferable. Compensation would be competitive. Location would begin as virtual, but would transition to the Network Science Institute at Northeastern in Boston as conditions allow.  Application should include: cover letter, CV, writing sample, and two letters of reference. Please send materials to j.briceno@northeastern.edu, with subject line that says “postdoc application for [your name]”. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis, and no decision will be made before May 4.

The UW Libraries and eScience Institute are searching for a graduate student starting in fall 2020 to provide text mining assistance for UW students, staff and faculty. This hourly job (8-10h/week) will work in both locations; job duties include providing text mining assistance to UW researchers at various levels, creating guides and tutorials for various techniques and UW resources, and helping assess this new type of service for the Libraries. More information available here.

Summary: The Climate Hazards Center (https://chc.ucsb.edu/) at the University of California, Santa Barbara seeks a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher for an exciting project supported by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the US Geological Survey. The project focuses on using remote sensing and machine learning to predict agricultural statistics (crop production, crop yields, prices) in food insecure countries and will directly support the famine early warning efforts of USAID’s Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET). The project will have a strong focus on applications and will leverage cutting edge science to support lives and livelihood saving early warning information.

Qualifications:

Applicants must have completed all requirements for a PhD Degree in Statistics, Geography/Remote Sensing, Agricultural Economics, Agronomy, hydrology, environmental science, Earth Science or a related discipline except the dissertation at the time of application.

Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia) will offer up to 10 full-time Research Fellowship positions commencing in 2021 (including five fellowships in HASS). Fellowships will be awarded on a competitive basis and will be fixed-term for three years.

Applicants are eligible only if their PhD has been awarded on or after 1 March 2017 (or if they have successfully made a case at Expression of Interest stage for an exemption to this rule); or their thesis will be submitted on or before 26 August 2020.

If you have an interest in applying for a Fellowship in the 2021 round through the Department of Sociology, please send the following two files:

1.      An application document containing:

a.      Provisional project title and a brief (400-word) project description.

b.      Name of potential Sponsor.

c.       PhD award date (or thesis submission date if the PhD is not yet awarded).

2.      A CV, including a list of publications. Publications should be listed under the headings: books, book chapters, peer-reviewed journal articles and other. Your CV should also briefly detail any career interruptions since the award of your PhD.

Please send applications to Dr Nicholas Harrigan nicholas.harrigan@mq.edu.au by *5pm on Wednesday, 22 April 2020*. To help expedite the process, please name the two files <surname_mqrf_app.docx> and <surname_mqrf_cv>, starting the file name with your surname.

If the Department is able to sponsor your application, you will be notified on* 29 April 2020*. Sponsored applicants will then be invited to work with their sponsors to develop their formal Expressions of Interest which must be submitted to the University by *5 pm* *14 May 2018*.

It is important that there is a good fit between the research interests of applicants and sponsors. For this reason, potential applicants are strongly advised to review the research profiles of potential sponsors from within the Department of Sociology. These can be viewed via this link:

https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/organisations/department-of-sociology/persons/

You can also read more about the major research strengths and themes of our department here:

https://www.mq.edu.au/faculty-of-arts/departments-and-schools/department-of-sociology/our-research/our-research-themes

Fulbright Awards provide teaching and/or research grants to U.S. faculty and experienced professionals in a wide variety of academic and professional fields. Since 1991, 685 scholars received fulbright awards to conduct research in either the United States or Canada. 2020 marks the 30th Anniversary of Fulbright Canada.

Don’t miss the upcoming IAPHS events. Join in on the conversation with the IAPHS community!

April 29, 2020 – 12pm EDT (Webinar)

“Intersections Between Econometric and Epidemiologic Methods for Assessing Impact of Policies and Interventions on Population Health”

The Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER) and Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS) will hold a joint webinar featuring Drs. Tim Bruckner and Rita Hamad. Members of all organizations are invited to participate. Registration is required.

Click here to learn more.

May 1, 2020 – All Day Event

#PopHealthTacklesCOVID – #BarberTakeover

Join Sharrelle Barber for an IAPHS Twitter Takeover where she will discuss stark racial disparities in COVID-19 risk/mortality from a structural racism lense. Join the conversation! @ia4phs

May 8, 2020 – All Day Event

#PopHealthTacklesCOVID – #ZotaTakeover

Join Ami Zota for an IAPHS Twitter Takeover where she will discuss emerging evidence of links between environmental injustice and COVID-19 risk. Join the conversation! @ia4phs

May 15, 2020 – All Day Event

#PopHealthTacklesCOVID – #DowdTakeover

Join Jennifer Dowd for an IAPHS Twitter Takeover where she will discuss population-science innovations, insights and solutions to COVID-19. Join the conversation! @ia4phs

May 21, 2020 – 12pm EDT (Webinar)

“Balancing health and economic considerations in COVID-19 responses: Dilemmas and opportunities for population health”

Join Drs. Erika Blacksher, Frederick Zimmerman, and Roland Thorpe for a panel discussion on the impacts on both health and economics of the current COVID-19 pandemic. This event will be moderated by Dr. Julie Maslowsky. Registration is now open!

Click here to learn more.

May 22, 2020 – All Day Event

#PopHealthTacklesCOVID – #Schoch-SpanaTakeover

Join Monica Schoch-Spana for an IAPHS Twitter Takeover where she will discuss the history of pandemics, their lasting social/structural effects, and what’s different about COVID-19. Join the conversation! @ia4phs

May 29, 2020 – All Day Event

#PopHealthTacklesCOVID – #ThomeerTakeover

Join Mieke Thomeer for an IAPHS Twitter Takeover where she will discuss mental health consequences of a pandemic. Join the conversation! @ia4phs

A Five day intensive course titled “Data visualization – the art/skill cocktail”, to be held at MPIDR on July 13- 17, will be offered as an online course due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

The application deadline has been extended to 15 May 2020.

For more information and application instructions please visit https://www.demogr.mpg.de/go/course-visualization.