This interdisciplinary course seeks to engage in dialogic and reflexive skill-building practices to deepen understanding and abilities to interrupt and address microaggressions and to enhance the experience and practice of mentorship.
Tuesdays, 4:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Learn about The Nature Conservancy’s exciting and innovative scientific research, and how science informs policy and practice around the world. The Nature Conservancy is one of the largest conservation organizations in the world, working in 79 countries and territories to conserve the lands and water on which all life depends..
Application deadline: March 23, 2020
The positions will be established at the Centre for Fertility and Health, a Centre of Excellence funded by the Research Council of Norway and hosted by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. The scientific goal of the Centre for Fertility and Health is to greatly advance the understanding how changes in patterns of fertility and family structure influence child and adult health through social and biological pathways. As a doctoral research fellow at the centre, you will be part of an interdisciplinary and international team. The centre has a strong academic and social environment and has recently hired several postdoctoral and doctoral fellows.
Project: As part of its research program on twins, the French Museum of Natural History (MNHN) is conducting a project on the increase in twinning rates in high‐income countries over recent decades. The project receives financial support from the French Research Agency and is a partnership between the Eco‐anthropology Unit of the MNHN and the French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED). The principal investigator is Gilles PISON, professor at the MNHN and associate researcher at INED.
Partner incarceration is an increasingly common experience for Black and Hispanic women. However, existing research on the health and wellbeing of these women is minimal—this is why CSDE Regional Affiliate Hedwig Lee and CSDE Alum Angela Bruns examine partner incarceration and how this is a source of women’s chronic stress and subsequent substance use in a recent study published in the Journal of Marriage and Family. Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, Lee and Bruns find a significant association between partner incarceration and drug use, with this association being concentrated among Black women.
Current data demonstrates incarceration as the source of chronic stress for both those who are incarcerated and their family members. Lee and Bruns’ findings specify the collateral consequences of incarceration to Black women and suggest that “incarceration compounds the disadvantages Black women already face in a social system that stratifies access to social goods based on skin color and ethnic origin, which may contribute to health disparities more broadly.” Additionally, drug use as a collateral consequence of incarceration relates to health, social, and economic problems. Lee and Bruns explain intergenerational disadvantage as one such problem, especially for children of Black mothers with incarcerated partners.
Lee and Bruns’ study provides insights into how researchers, policymakers, and healthcare providers can rethink the characteristics of populations at risk of drug use and consider social factors such as partner incarceration to adopt policies and practices that “identify this largely invisible population and to provide appropriate and accessible sources of care.”
Click the link below for the full study, accessible with UW Libraries.
This Friday, Irma Elo from the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania will present recent findings from a study of the trends in U.S. mortality from 1990 to 2017. Elo is a demographer and sociologist studying socioeconomic, racial, and ethnic disparities in health, cognition, and mortality across the life course and demographic estimation of mortality. In recent years, Elo has extended this focus to include health and mortality among racial and ethnic immigrant subgroups. Elo’s seminar presentation draws from her NIA-funded study titled “The Causes of Geographic Divergence in American Mortality”.
120 years ago, Rep. George Henry White’s anti-lynching bill failed to pass through Congress. This week, lawmakers introduced another such bill that gives hope for anti-lynching legislation. CSDE Affiliate Amy Bailey provides her expertise on lynching and the history of racial violence in the U.S. for a recent Washington Post article on the new bill. In the article, Bailey explains how white lawmakers for decades used “state’s rights” as an excuse to avoid anti-lynching legislation. This aspect of U.S. policy “enables local and state jurisdictions to turn a blind eye to highly racially discriminatory practices and to a campaign of racial terror,” Bailey states.
Amy Bailey is a CSDE visiting affiliate whose research examines race and inequality. One of her areas of research focuses on historical patterns of racial violence in the American South, also known as lynching. You can read the full Washington Post article here or by clicking the link below.
CSDE’s Winter 2020 Trainees’ Lightning Talks and Poster Session is just around the corner! Join us on Friday, March 13, 12:30-1:30 PM in Room Green A, Research Commons, Allen Library South, for short (~2 minute) presentations and posters from the following students:
William Atienza, Sociology
Undocumented Migration and Residential Segregation of Undocumented Mexicans in Sanctuary Cities
Jessica Godwin, Statistics
Subnational Estimation of Child Mortality at Older Ages in a Low and Middle Income Countries Context
Beatrix Haddox, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Applied Math
Differential Privacy in the 2020 Census: Considering Acceptable and Unacceptable Biases
Ian Kennedy, Sociology
Metro Area and Tract-Level Influences on Online Rental Listings from Two Platforms
Yohan Min, College of Built Environment
Social Equity of Clean Energy Policies and Technologies in Residential Electric-Vehicle Charging
Nathan Welch, Statistics
Probabilistic Migration Flow Forecasts for All Pairs of Countries
Calling all demography students! In Spring 2020, CSDE Affiliate Adrian Raftery is offering Statistical Demography and Data Science (CSSS/STAT/SOC 563). Raftery will cover statistical methods and models for estimating and forecasting population quantities and as well as a variety of innovative topics, including probabilistic population projections and Bayesian hierarchical models. Preerequisites for this course include a good grounding in basic probability and statistics, some exposure to mathematical statistics, and basic mathematics including basic calculus and matrix algebra. CSDE encourages demography students to take advantage of this opportunity to learn core and cutting-edge statistical methods in demography from a world leader in this area. Click the link below for a flyer with more information!
Urban@UW invites proposals from UW faculty or PI-eligible research staff, across all three UW campuses, with current or emerging research interests in critical aspects of contemporary urban societies for the Research Spark Grants Program. The goal of this small grants program is to spark new and emerging urban research initiatives via funding for convenings or pilot work. Proposals may request up to $8,000 and Urban@UW anticipates funding 2-4 projects. The application window opens March 1 and deadline for applications is March 31!
Click the link below for more information.