What can Digital and Computational approaches reveal about the relationships between mortality, fertility, mobility, and the spread of COVID-19? Through focused lighting talks, an expert panel of computational scientists tackles issues that include running Facebook surveys to study reproductive health, behavioral change and trust, as well as using digital trace data to understand misinformation, patterns of spatial mobility and their impact on infections and on mortality. This webinar is organized by the IUSSP Panel on Digital Demography.
The format will be a series of lightning talks.
(Webinar Registration): https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_awdrO42eQXOMcoMnXvLNOw
The conference theme, “Aging and Social Justice,” invites work that addresses how age as a dimension of difference intersects with – and is illuminated by – questions concerning justice. Participants are encouraged to consider both terms broadly: “aging” may encompass work that addresses how age matters throughout the life course (not only in old age), and “social justice” may address different aspects of justice, at scales ranging from the interpersonal to the global, and including both basic social science and crossdisciplinary research and intervention science. More details at: http://anthropologyandgerontology.com/conferences/2020conference/
Graduate student, preferably with genetic algorithm experience for our below research project from PoP-health. We aim to develop a simple tool that can support generative design on office space layouts, based on visualized optimizations of topology and geometry.
For example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fvXtdnKDfI. The tool will be applied to a number of existing Seattle office buildings. The goals are (1) to determine optimized layouts and reduced occupancy levels given the COVID-19 physical distancing requirements; and (2) to support sensitivity analysis based on a set of scenarios (e.g., open- vs close-floor plan) and constraints (e.g., 6ft vs 8ft distancing). This hourly position is for the summer. The compensation will be around $34 (+ benefit) per hour for 15 hours per week. The title of our project is “Economic Impact of Office Workplace Transformation Due to COVID-19: How Can Buildings and Surrounding Areas Recover?” More information about our project can be found from https://www.washington.edu/populationhealth/2020/06/16/initiative-announces-award-of-18-covid-19-economic-recovery-grants/
For details, contact Prof. Sofia Dermisi, College of Built Environments, sdermisi@uw.edu
The ESADE Institute for Entrepreneurship is searching for a Postdoctoral Researcher. We offer one postdoctoral position, to be funded by a Horizon 2020 project titled “BLINDSPOT – Diversity and Performance: Networks of Cognition in Markets and Teams”. The postdoc researcher will work closely with the Principal Investigator, Professor David Stark, and the Co-PI, Matteo Prato. A description of the project can be found here: http://blogs.cim.warwick.ac.uk/diversityandperformance/
We are looking for candidates with strong quantitative analytic skills. Advanced coding skills (in Python, Julia, or R) are required. Candidates with research experience with Natural Language Processing and/or Network Analysis will be favored. The candidate must hold a PhD in economics, management, sociology, psychology, computer science, information systems or a related field.
The position is based in ESADE (Sant Cugat Campus). This is a full‐time position for 1 year, ideally starting in September 2020 (but with the starting date negotiable). The position includes a travel budget to attend conferences, summer schools and research meetings.
Responsibilities will include:
1) Data collection and analysis
2) Preparation of the deliverables and reports for the funded project
3) Co-authorship of academic articles based upon research activities
4) Preparations of competitive funding proposals in future funding
Please send your CV, a motivation letter and a sample of your scholarly work to Matteo Prato (matteo.prato@esade.edu). Please state in the subject of your email “Post-Doctoral Researcher”. Applications are welcome anytime up to 1st August 2020, with evaluations of applications ongoing throughout July up to the deadline and until the position is filled.
If you are interested, please contact David Stark (dcs36@columbia.edu) or Matteo Prato: matteo.prato@esade.edu. The institutional infrastructures are in Barcelona and Warwick UK, but given the public health crisis, location is flexible.
We are looking to hire a post doc at the Psychology Applied Research Center at Loyola Marymount University. Candidates with a Ph.D. in Public Health, Sociology, Psychology, Public Policy or other related fields are welcome. Please see the listing here: https://jobs.lmu.edu/postings/44245
UC Berkeley and UCSF are currently soliciting applications for outstanding data scientists to join the Data Science Health Innovation Fellowship Program. Selected fellows will receive 2 years of financial support to develop and execute innovative, high-impact, data-driven translational research projects in areas of unmet patient needs. Fellows will have access to computer science, engineering, and statistics expertise and technology innovation at UC Berkeley; clinical expertise and data resources at UCSF;
and pharmaceutical. Visit here for more information:
https://bids.berkeley.edu/news/data-science-health-innovation-fellowships-call-applications-due-july-15
HDC is the nonprofit membership association dedicated to fulfilling our vision that all people live with dignity in safe, healthy, and affordable homes within communities of opportunity. The Housing Development Internship Program (HDIP)seeks to brings students of color into the affordable housing sector so that we can create the next generation of affordable housing leaders that reflect our communities.Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) in their last year of undergraduate
or last year of graduate school, who are studying Urban Planning, Development or related subject matter and interested in affordable housing, should apply. We strongly encourage bilingual/ bicultural students to apply for this program.
This is a paid
internship at $15-$20/hour for 15-20 hours a week for 9 months. Students will intern at one of our host agencies. HDC acts as the Program Administrator, providing support to the intern and host agency, and acting as bridge builder while centering the needs of BIPOC interns.The deadline to apply for this program is July 24. Don’t hesitate to reach out to me if you have any questions, and you can also provide students my emails who are interested in applying for this program or want to learn more about the program.