CSDE Affiliate Karin Martin and UW Public Policy Doctoral Candidate and CSDE Trainee Matthew Fowle recently published an article in Sociological Perspectives examining restitution as a concept and a practice. Employing descriptive analyses of a national survey experiment and document review, they find that the common and strongly preferred conception of restitution is “direct,” entailing a convicted person compensating a victim for quantifiable loss. Evidence from Victim Compensation Funds (VCFs) in all 50 states demonstrate the widespread use of “indirect” restitution, through which funds from various sources are distributed to qualifying victims. They conclude that the divergence between common conception and widespread practice indicates a need for a revised notion of restitution. To read the article click here.
Join CSDE & NIH TADA for Webinar Featuring UW’s Bergstrom on Avoiding the Pitfalls of Selection Bias
The NIH Training in Advanced Data Analytics (TADA) Program at the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences is hosting a regular webinar series covering advanced data analytics and data science underlying modern behavioral and social sciences research, with presentations from experts showing the basics of data management, representation, computation, statistical inference, data modeling, causal inference, and various other topics relevant to “big data” and teaching for behavioral and social sciences researchers. On January 21st, Dr. Carl T. Bergstrom from the University of Washington will discuss some of the many ways that selection bias and related phenomena, from right censoring to the “Will Rogers effect,” can arise in medical research and beyond. He will draw from a range of examples, including recent studies on COVID-19. The presentations will be streamed live on Zoom, recorded, and archived on YouTube. To register, visit this link.
Join UW’s Innovations in Aging and Multigen Practice Lunchtime Series
UW Social Work and the Healthy Gen Center are hosting a regular lunchtime series covering innovations in Aging and Multigen Practice. Upcoming speakers for Winter 2021 include Gillian L. Marshall (UW Tacoma School of Social Work) on January 21, Jordan Lewis (University of Minnesota Medical School) on February 4, Ian Johnson (UW Seattle School of Social Work) on February 18 and Megan Toothaker (Lifelong) on March 4. To register, click here.
*New* UW Data Science for Social Good Call for Project Proposals and Student Applicants
Students and faculty who are interested in an opportunity to work closely with data science professionals and students to make better use of your data are invited to apply to the Data Science for Social Good summer program at the University of Washington eScience Institute. The summer program brings together data scientists and domain researchers to work on focused, collaborative projects for societal benefit. The Call for Project Proposals is open now through February 22nd. The Call for Student Applications opens January 11th, with an application deadline of February 15th. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 program will be conducted remotely.
The program supports compelling, timely, publicly-relevant projects that are poised to take advantage of tremendous student and professional technical talent and computation resources. If you have an idea for a project that could benefit from access to a team of talented and motivated students, exposure to new data-intensive methods, and guidance in best practices for software development, reproducible science, and human-centered design, then we would love to hear from you.
*New* T32 Pre-doc/Postdoc Trainee Applications for STD & AIDS Research Due Feb. 22
UW’s Center for AIDS and STD has opened its call for trainees at the pre-doctoral and post-doctoral levels. The program’s goal is to train the next generation of leaders in STD and AIDS research and, since its inception in 1974, has trained 72 predoctoral and 170 postdoctoral trainees. Information about the program and the application can be found here.
Participation in Seattle’s Democracy Voucher Program: A Comparison of the 2017 and 2019 Election Cycles
At the CSDE seminar on January 15th, Dr. Brian McCabe and Dr. Jennifer Heerwig will present “Participation in Seattle’s Democracy Voucher Program: A Comparison of the 2017 and 2019 Election Cycles”. Dr. Jake Grumbach (Assistant Professor, UW Department of Political Science) will be the discussant. The talk will discuss how the demographic composition of participants in Seattle’s Democracy Voucher program shifted at the conclusion of the 2019 election cycle. Between 2017 and 2019, the number of participants in the program nearly doubled from 20,727 to 38,092 residents. Although participation increased across demographic groups, the largest gains were concentrated among white, high-income and older residents, as well as those who vote regularly in elections. Dr. McCabe is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University and an affiliated faculty member in the McCourt School of Public Policy. Dr. Heerwig is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Political Science at SUNY-Stony Brook.
Register for Dr. McCabe and Dr. Heerwig’s Zoom seminar here. This quarter, CSDE is recording the seminar series and posting the links on its website. Visit our site here.
UW CoLab Hosting Webinar on Integrating Race and Culture in Evidence-Based Treatments
UW CoLab for Community and Behavioral Health is hosting a lunch webinar on “Integrating Race and Culture in Evidence-Based Treatments” on Jan 21, 2021 from 12-1pm. The webinar will include an overview of effective evidence-based strategies for marginalized populations, and panelists to share their personal and professional experiences and expertise. Speakers & Panelists:
- Won-Fong Lau Johnson, PhD, NCSP: Assistant Director of Service Systems @UCLA-Duke National Center for Child Traumatic Stress
- Laura Escalona-Flores, MSW, LICSW: School Based Mental Health Manager @ Neighborcare Health
- Seema Mhatre, LICSW, MPH: Odessa Brown Clinic Seattle Children’s Hospital
- Rickey “Deekon” Jones: Founder and CEO of New Developed Nations
Please click this link for more details and registration.
Attend Webinar on New Perspectives on Lifespan Inequality
The Herczeg Institute on Aging at Tel Aviv University, in collaboration with the Interdisciplinary Centre on Population Dynamics (University of Southern Denmark) and the Leverhulme Center for Demographic Science (Oxford University), hosting a webinar on “New Perspectives on Lifespan Inequality” on January 21st 2021 at 9 AM EST. Please click this link to register.