The NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Coordinating Committee invite you to attend the 2019 NIH Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Festival: Connecting People to Advance Health, on Friday, December 6th, 2019 from 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. in the William H. Natcher Conference Center, Building 45, on the NIH’s Main Campus in Bethesda, MD.

This annual festival brings together behavioral and social scientists across the NIH extramural and intramural communities to network, collaborate, and share scientific ideas; highlight recent NIH funded behavioral and social sciences research; and explore ways to advance behavioral and social sciences research across biomedical and health-related fields.

Click this link or the link below to register and for more information.

The College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin invites applications for up to five open-rank, tenure-track or tenured positions to begin Fall 2020. This interdisciplinary cohort hire is focused on recruiting scholars with ambitious research agendas who address racial retrenchment, or the losses and setbacks that often follow racial justice and diversity gains. Scholars who study race in relation to gender, sexuality, disability, indigeneity, migration, the environment, mass incarceration, poverty, socio-economic class, capitalism, populism, fascism, global ideological trends, and other systems of power are especially welcomed.

These hires are part of a new multidisciplinary project at UT called GRIDS—The Gender, Race, Indigeneity, Disability, and Sexuality Studies Initiative. Candidates’ tenure lines will be housed in one or more of the following departments in the College of Liberal Arts: African and African Diaspora Studies, Mexican American and Latina/o Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, and American Studies. Candidates will have the opportunity to build research partnerships and mentoring relationships with their cohort through GRIDS. Associate and Full Professors will have the option of holding a joint appointment with any two departments named above, or if appropriate, the opportunity to hold a 50% teaching appointment in the Native American and Indigenous Studies Program, the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, or the Center for Asian American Studies.

Please submit an electronic application via Interfolio with your CV, letter of interest, writing sample, statement describing your work addressing racial equity in your field(s), and a list of three references and their contact information addressed to Dr. Karma Chávez and Dr. Cherise Smith, co-Chairs, College of Liberal Arts Diversity Committee. Applications will continue to be accepted until the position is filled, but for full consideration, submit by November 15. Please direct any questions to: Karma Chávez at karma.chavez@utexas.edu.

The Department of Sociology and Criminology seeks a dynamic, energetic leader with the ability to effectively engage faculty, staff, students, and external constituencies in a collegial and collaborative manner. The ideal candidate will have a proven record of excellence in scholarship, academic leadership, faculty development, fundraising, and financial management.

The Chair represents the Department as part of the college’s leadership team, and is primarily responsible for the recruitment, development, and retention of the Department’s faculty and staff. Other responsibilities will include resource attainment, financial management, and stakeholder-relationship management. The Chair manages a diverse community of faculty, staff, and students and oversees a broad curriculum, so the ideal candidate must be adept at building and supporting multi-disciplinary partnerships and outreach activities, within a diverse community.

The ideal candidate must have an active and vibrant research agenda, be able to model intellectual leadership, be knowledgeable about higher education trends and issues, and be collaborative in developing team-focused, data-driven approaches to problem solving.  

Working in partnership with the senior administration of the College of Arts & Science, the successful candidate will be expected to embrace and contribute to the missions of the Department and University.

Applications should include a cover letter and curriculum vitae.  Applications and nominations will be accepted until the position is filled. Confidential review of materials and screening of candidates will begin immediately.

Contact Information:

Dr. Nikki Taylor

Chair, Department of History and Sociology

 and Criminology Chair Search Committee

Howard University

NIH’s mission is to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and to apply that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability. To achieve this mission, NIH substantially invests in research that encourages people to engage in behaviors that prevent illness or optimize their overall wellbeing while living with a chronic condition.

The purpose of this notice is to encourage research into maintenance of health behavior change. Many FOAs state the importance of the maintenance of behavior change, and request research projects that aim to promote long-term behavior change. Nevertheless, much more research is needed on how best to promote the maintenance of behavior change, particularly given mounting evidence that the mechanisms underlying the initiation of behavior change are not synonymous with those underlying the maintenance of behavior change.

Testing for behavior change maintenance often requires longer-term follow-up than what is achievable within a single NIH R01 grant timeframe. The NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices (ICOs) listed on this notice are expressly interested in competitive renewal (type 2) applications that propose continued research with participants from a previously-funded behavioral intervention to see if and how behaviors were maintained. Ideas for unique approaches using other types of NIH research mechanisms are welcome. Regardless of NIH funding mechanism, applicants are encouraged to explore, for example,

• What types of behaviors were maintained,
• Why the behavior(s) were or were not maintained,
• What intermediate behavior-related changes emerged,
• Impact on health outcomes, or at least intermediate outcomes or lab values,
• Underlying individual, social, community, or environmental processes influencing behavior maintenance or discontinuation,
• The effectiveness/value of boosters, or
• Illuminate populations or subgroups of participants who were able to maintain the behavior change.

The bulleted items above are exemplars and do not constitute an exhaustive list of ICO-specific interests. Analysis of data on longer-term health-related behavior change can help build a more cumulative and integrated knowledge base on behavioral and social sciences in public health and work toward reducing health disparities

Monday, November 25th

12:30 – 1:30 pm

School of Social Work 305A

“Deepening our Understanding of America’s Most Vulnerable Communities”

Luke Shaefer, University of Michigan

WCPC (West Coast Poverty Center)’s quarterly Seminar Series on Poverty and Public Policy brings nationally prominent poverty researchers to the university to present and discuss their findings with faculty and students. The seminars are open to the public and attract a range of faculty and students from disciplines across campus, as well as local service providers and engaged community members. Available as a for-credit course to graduate-level students, the seminar series also offers an opportunity for networking and career development, as students meet with poverty researchers throughout the quarter. 

The Allen Library Consultation Studio wants to help UW graduate students across the disciplines with navigating the final weeks of the quarter. The Consultation Studio in Allen Library offers several services, including drop-in hours. Depending on the service, they can also schedule appointments.

 Citation Tools Management: By appointment

Design Help Desk: Drop-ins Mondays 12pm-2pm, Tuesdays 10am-12pm, and by appointment M & T

Digital Scholarship: Drop-ins Mondays 2pm-3pm

Graduate Funding: Drop-ins Mondays 12:30pm-1:30pm, Thursdays 1pm-2pm, and by appointment M, T, Th, & F

Graduate Writing: Drop-ins Fridays 11:45am-2:45pm

Text Mining: Drop-ins Tuesdays 1pm-4pm

 A complete list of services, drop-in hours, and contact information can be found here: https://www.lib.washington.edu/commons/services

This course illustrates the essential components required to create a professional quality documents with the LaTeX. LaTeX is frequently used to write thesis, reports, scientific papers for journals, conferences and making presentations. The essential beauty of LaTeX is that it separates the task of document layout/visual representation from that of the contents of the documents. As a result you pay more attention to the actual contents and are not distracted by the visual appearence. It also automates many of the tedious processes involved in writing a professional publications such as managment of references, visual layout and formatting styles.

With LaTeX, you will find easy and effective management of references, figures, tables, footnotes, formatting, mathematical equations, algorithms, scientific proofs, that have no match compared to the the conventional document setting and word processing software.

The course is design in a way that it will introduce you to tools that are freely available online. The examples and other instructional material are included for you to download and practice. 

At the end of this course,  

• You will be a confident user of LaTeX 
• You will be able to create your own document in LaTeX
• You will learn about different elements of creating professional documents such as how to manage references, figures, tables, footnotes, formatting, mathematical equations, algorithms, scientific proofs and many others
• You will be able to create well formatted mathematical equations, algorithms, and proofs

Who is the target audience?

• Researchers, Entrepreneurs, Instructors, College Students, Engineers, Programmers, Simulators who wants to quickly create front ends for their users to run their code and projects

Ohio State University invites your submissions to the 4th Annual PhD Conference on Real Estate and Housing, which takes place on April 28 and 29, 2020, in Columbus, Ohio. The conference is specifically intended as a platform to showcase and develop the work of doctoral students through constructive discussions and sharing of ideas. PhD students whose papers are selected for presentation will be provided with a hotel room and have the opportunity to apply for a financial package to help cover the costs of travel.

TOPICS: The PhD Conference on Real Estate and Housing program committee welcomes draft paper submissions from doctoral students examining a wide array of real estate and housing topics related to policy, practice and theory. Submissions may address issues including, but not limited to:

• Real estate finance and economics • Housing and community development

• Urban and regional economics • Housing affordability

• Housing policy • Real estate law

We invite studies from all disciplines including finance, business, public policy, sociology, economics, urban planning, geography, demographics, law, criminology, and public health.

PAPER SUBMISSION: Submissions must consist of unpublished draft research papers that may be single-authored or co-authored. The deadline for proposal submissions is February 3, 2020. Accepted authors will have the opportunity to revise their draft prior to final paper submission deadline on March 31, 2020. Please submit your proposals via the conference website: https://fisher.osu.edu/centers-partnerships/center-real-estate/node/668

Please send questions to phdrealestateconf@osu.edu.

The Department of Sociology in the Faculty of Arts at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver) invites applications for a tenure-stream faculty position (rank open) with a particular focus on computational social science.

The ideal candidate would be an established Sociologist offering intellectual leadership in this exciting new area of scholarship. They should be engaged in methodologically advanced work with “big” or innovative data structures and/or examining their consequences for social life.

The position is listed at the level of Associate or Full Professor, but we would consider exceptional applicants at the level of Assistant Professor. The appointment is expected to begin July 1, 2020.

We expect applicants to have a Ph.D. in Sociology or a cognate social science discipline at the time of appointment and a demonstrated record of excellence in research and teaching. The Department is especially interested in attracting candidates with diverse backgrounds and interests who will be capable of successfully working with a multicultural and multiethnic student population.  For information about the Department, visit: http://sociology.ubc.ca/.

Applications will begin to be reviewed on December 15th and should be received before then in order to receive full consideration.

Application materials are to be submitted online at the following link: https://soci.cms.arts.ubc.ca/?p=14592. We ask interested individuals to submit the following materials: a CV; a detailed cover letter describing their interest in the position with a strong emphasis on their research achievements, longer term aims in the field, leadership ideas related to programmatic development, and their fit with the department;  a 1 page statement identifying the applicant’s contributions, or potential contributions, to diversity, along with their ability to work with a culturally international student body; and 2-3 sample publications. Candidates applying at the Assistant Professor level should have confidential supporting letters sent by the December 15th deadline via email to soci.head@ubc.ca with the applicant’s name in the subject line. Candidates at the Associate and Full Professor stages may defer requesting letters of support until they are notified of reaching the long list stage. All candidates at the long list stage will also be requested to provide a one-page teaching statement and evidence of teaching effectiveness as well as a record of successful graduate supervision.

Required Qualifications: Ph.D. in Sociology by August 31, 2020.

Research and teaching interests in utilizing the novel data and methodologies from the emergent field of Computational Social Science, e.g. large-scale digital data on social behavior, social network data, data assembled from a variety of historical and contemporary sources, and data from internet experiments. Expertise in the global dimensions of health, migration, and inequality are required.

Responsibilities & Requirements: The ideal applicant will add a distinctive sociological focus to existing interdisciplinary collaborations across the University. The position is a joint appointment with the Institute for Advanced Computational Science (IACS) with the tenure home in Sociology. Stony Brook University expects the candidate to teach courses at both the Undergraduate and Graduate levels in their areas of expertise as well as both introductory and advanced quantitative methods at the graduate level.

Application Procedure

Those interested in this position should:
Complete the online Applicant Information Survey.  Do not submit this survey to the department with your application.  Any questions regarding the survey, please email oide@stonybrook.edu.

The application consists of the following: 1) State employment application, 2) Cover letter, 3) Curriculum Vitae, 4) Research Statement, 5) Teaching Statement, 6) copies of up to 3 writing samples, and 7) a minimum of three letters of recommendation.  Alternatively, you may submit items 1-7 to the departmental address or fax below.

Chair, Sociology Faculty Search

Department of Sociology

Stony Brook University

Stony Brook, NY 11794-4356

We will give primary consideration to all applications received by December 15, 2019, although we will continue to accept applications after that date.