The College of the Environment Diversity, Equity and Inclusion team will celebrate its third Environmental Justice Conference on April 7, 2020 in Alder Hall. This conference emerges from an ongoing conversation across UW departments and community leaders regarding how to foster equitable collaborations with lo cal and global communities. We invite interested participants to join and extend this conversation to explore methodologies, challenges, and opportunities through the design of workshops that may include interactive presentations, discussions, and exercises. More info and submission guidelines >

Applications are being accepted for the Population Health Initiative Summer Social Entrepreneurship Fellows Program. The paid fellowship will be offered to three graduate students from different disciplines to develop strategic roadmaps for how UW innovations with societal impact can become successful and sustainable ventures. Learn more and apply >

The Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA), headquartered at the University of California, Berkeley, seeks an outstanding Postdoctoral Scholar (postdoc) to support its Psychology and Economics of Poverty (PEP) Initiative. In collaboration with the PEP Co-Scientific Directors, Drs. Supreet Kaur (Economics) and Mahesh Srinivasan (Psychology), the postdoc will engage in planning and carrying out original interdisciplinary research on the psychology and economics of poverty. To inform this research, the postdoc will conduct and publish an in-depth review of the literature at the intersection of psychology and economics, outlining key findings, knowledge gaps and promising avenues for further research. Both the research projects and review paper will focus on cognitive and behavioral effects of poverty and will serve to hone the research agenda for CEGA’s growing PEP initiative. 

In collaboration with the Co-Scientific Directors, the postdoc will help conceptualize and conduct research focused on how poverty affects cognition, decision-making, health, and early childhood development outcomes. To establish a framework for exploring emerging domains of interest in research on poverty, the postdoc will also undertake and publish a thorough review of relevant economics and psychology literature. Some potential lines of inquiry may include: 1) how poverty impacts cognitive load, decision-making, social cognition, mental health, aspirations, or economic and/or health outcomes; 2) belief formation, the relevance of belief-based utility, effective adaptations to poverty, and the role of the “psychological immune system” 3) the psychological consequences of resource stability or volatility, 4) the influence of cultural context and social norms on outcomes related to the above topics.

This is a one-year full-time position with possibility for extension. Salary range is commensurate with experience. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until April 1, 2020 or until the position is filled. The anticipated start date of the position is September 1, 2020. To apply, include your most recently updated Curriculum Vitae (required), a cover letter (required), and three professional references (required) to the Psychology and Economics of Poverty Postdoc Submittable page.

Demography aims to estimate and forecast population, fertility, mortality and migration. This is important for government policy-making, private sector planning, and research in the health and social sciences, and also critical for climate science and global health. It has traditionally been done using deterministic methods, but these ignore uncertainty and measurement error. In the past decade, modern statistical methods were developed for this at the UW Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences, and these were recently adopted by the UN for their official population forecasts for all countries. Another recent breakthrough is the use of social media data and other big data, particularly to estimate migration. Statistical demography and data science is expanding rapidly, and this course will teach theory and practice of methods and models of the field.

Topics:

Review of basic demographic methods

Modeling age-specic rates, including model schedules and Lee-Carter method

Statistical modeling and projection of fertility, mortality, migration and population

Reconstructing population and vital rates from imperfect data.

Demography and Big Data.

Prerequisites: A good grounding in basic probability and statistics, some exposure to

mathematical statistics, and basic mathematics including basic calculus and matrix algebra.

NIJ strives to support objective and independent knowledge and validated tools to reduce violence against women (VAW) (including violence against American Indian and Alaska Native women and girls), promote justice for victims of crime, and enhance criminal justice responses. For that reason, this solicitation seeks applications for grant funding to conduct research and evaluation projects examining a broad range of topics including the crimes of homicide, intimate partner and dating violence, rape and sexual assault, stalking, and trafficking, along with the associated criminal justice system response, procedures, and policies. This year, NIJ is particularly interested in research responding to the following two priority areas: Evaluation research on VAW programs. All applications are due by 3:59 p.m. Eastern Time on April 13, 2020. For more information download https://nij.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh171/files/media/document/NIJ-2020-17331.pdf

IAPHS greatly values and encourages student participation at the annual conference.The 2020 conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota will offer a variety of sessions of interest with lunchtime sessions specifically planned for students!

Travel Scholarship Applications are now being accepted. Eligible applicants must be current 2020 Student Members of IAPHS and submit an abstract to the conference.

Abstract Submission Deadline: March 9, 2020

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The Bay Area Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (BAY-SICSS), co-organized by BIMI (UC Berkeley) affiliate Jae Yeon Kim, is now accepting applications from graduate students, postdocs, or pre-tenure faculty to participate in their workshop. The Summer Institutes will involve lectures, group problem sets, and participant-led research projects. There will also be outside speakers who conduct computational social science research in a variety of settings, such as academia, industry, and government. Topics covered include text as data, website scraping, digital field experiments, non-probability sampling, mass collaboration, and ethics. There will be ample opportunities for participants to discuss their ideas and research with the organizers, other participants, and visiting speakers. There is no cost to attend.

Deadline: March 16, 2020| Workshop Dates: June 16-July 26, 2020 | UC Berkeley |More Information|Apply here|

TraffLab has an open call for applications for researcher positions in the next academic year (October 2020 – October 2021). TraffLab: Labor Perspective to Human Trafficking is a 5-year research project along with the European Research Council (ERC) that studies the causes of human trafficking and its regulation, in order to develop a labor approach to human trafficking. They are looking for post-docs, from a variety of disciplines, who would like to join the research team to further develop a structural analysis, understanding, and responses to severe forms of labor market exploitation and human trafficking, as well as for short-term visitors who will be interested in conducting their own research in the TraffLab academic environment.

Deadline: March 2, 2020 More Information

UC Davis is looking to recruit a post-doctoral scholar for an inter-disciplinary research project on A Network Analytic Study of the Determinants and Consequences of Burden Sharing in International Alliances and Defense Cooperation Agreements, 1945-2010. This is a one-year position, with a possibility for an additional one-year renewal. We are seeking candidates from various social, economic, physical, mathematical, or information sciences. Potential applicants should note that there are two postdoctoral positions available on this project. Applicants are welcome to apply for both positions. This ad seeks candidates with expertise in network analysis and computational modeling and substantive knowledge of social and political processes. The following qualifications are mandatory for this position:

a. Ph.D. in hand at the start of the position.

b. Knowledge of and experience in network analysis.

c. Knowledge of and experience with agent-based modeling.

d. Strong statistical data analysis and data management skills.

The following skills and experiences would be considered as strong advantages.

a. Programming experience (Python, Java, C++, C#, R)

b. Demonstrated research on social and political processes within and among nations.

c. Demonstrated research on social, physical, or communication networks.

d. Experience managing research assistants and research teams.

This is a full-time position with an annual salary of $54,000 plus UC Davis fringe benefits. UC Davis is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer.

Deadline for the application is December 31, 2019. The start date of the position is July 1, 2020. However, a slightly later date can be arranged.

Submit cover letter, CV, three letters of recommendation, and sample writing (article, dissertation chapters, etc.) to https://recruit.ucdavis.edu/apply/JPF03260.

Call for Papers for the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research (VYPR) 2021 Special Issue on “Demographic Aspects of Human Wellbeing”.

Deadline for submissions: 31 March 2020.

The VYPR is an open-access journal that has been published annually by the Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 2003. It is addressing population trends as well as a broad range of theoretical and methodological issues in population research. Examples of topics for the Special Issue include:

• Life expectancy based indicators of wellbeing
• (Economic) wellbeing over the life course and over time
• Demographic differentials/inequalities in wellbeing
• Wellbeing and intergenerational support
• Feedbacks from environmental change to human wellbeing