Postdoctoral Fellow Position at McGill University, Montréal, Canada

The Consortium on Analytics for Data‐Driven Decision‐Making (CAnD3) invites applications for a 1year postdoctoral fellow (renewable). Deadline for applications: 15 June 2020

See https://www.mcgill.ca/popcentre/opportunities/postdoctoral-fellow-cand3

The Betancourt Macias Family Scholarship Foundation has compiled a document of nationwide and state resources and fundraisers for undocumented communities amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.

NIH R01 for transformative research. The NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award Program supports collaborative investigative teams or individual scientists who propose unusually innovative research projects, which, if successful, would have a major impact in a broad area of relevance to the NIH. To be considered transformative, projects must have the potential to create or overturn fundamental scientific paradigms through novel concepts or perspectives, transform the way research is conducted through the development of novel tools or technologies, or lead to major improvements in health through the development of highly innovative diagnostic, therapeutic, or preventive strategies. Consistent with this focus, Transformative Research Award applications should propose research substantially different from current mainstream research. Those wishing to apply for the NIH Director’s Emergency Transformative Research Award for SARS-CoV-2-related research must apply in response to RFA-RM-20-020.

National Analysis of Rental Markets Using Scraped Online Data

We are seeking two summer graduate research student assistants (GRSAs) for the 2020 Summer Quarter. The GRSAs will assist with research on an emergent effort to collect data by scraping rental listings from online platforms in order to analyze rental markets. This is part of a broader research agenda with possible extension through the next two academic years if funding is available.

Duration: June 16, 2020 through September 15, 2020

Hours: Flexible

Supervision: Rebecca Walter and Arthur Acolin, College of Built Environments

C40 and the Mayors’ Migration Council are looking to build a training model to help cities a) internalize the connection between their inclusive climate action work and building a welcoming city for migrants and refugees, and b) begin to talk about these issues as part of the same objective to create policies that promote resilience and inclusion. To that end, they are hiring a consultant. Proposals are due on June 5th.

The first wave – likely not the unique – of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is ravaging the planet from a few months only and yet, in order to describe its dramatic demographic and socio-economic impact, the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic and the Great 1929 recession have been already evoked. Although the ultimate outcomes of the Covid-19 pandemic depend still on a wide number of unknowns, yet it is becoming clear that its consequences were largely modulated by a number of existing inequality gradients. And in turn, these gradients might dramatically worsen for long time in the future as a consequence of the pandemic. Assessments of these phenomena and the underlying causes, as well as the direct and indirect implications of current and future control measures, is critical for driving the world population out of the crisis.

This Genus Thematic Series aims to offer an updated examination of the key population dynamics and demographic and socio-economic implications of the Covid-19 pandemic – and of policies to face it – at a range of geographic, socio-economic, socio-demographic, and temporal scales.