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Sustainability Science Researcher (Social Responsibility)

Amazon’s Sustainability organization points Amazon’s innovative culture at environmental and social impacts with enormous scale. We consider the full lifecycle of our impact, from supply chain to customer experience, operational efficiency to waste diversion. We take action to improve the impact amazon has on the environment and people within our supply chains, looking for wins that are good for our customers, suppliers, and our business as well. Sustainability Science and Innovation (SSI) is a team of environmental and social research scientists and product managers answering core sustainability questions for the larger organization and looking around corners to identify environmental and social impacts and opportunities.

A Research Scientist at Amazon applies data science, subject matter expertise, and business acumen to deliver results at scale. As a Sustainability Science Researcher (Social Responsibility), you will be responsible for conducting assessments of social issues/impacts across Amazon, evaluating social sustainability impacts of value chains, from manufacturing, to transportation, to consumer. The ideal candidate will have industry experience researching key social issues/impacts/opportunities across the value chain. The candidate should be comfortable working with ambiguity, imperfect data, identifying sources of uncertainty, and finding public data or working with program teams to fill the gaps where needed. This candidate will also possess excellent communication, negotiation and influencing skills to drive consensus across multiple stakeholders.

Center Supervisor

The Center for International Social Science Research (CISSR) at the University of Chicago is seeking a Center Supervisor to support the center’s research programs and advance new initiatives for fostering empirical research in the social sciences. CISSR is a small community of dedicated scholars; the work is interesting, flexible, and semi-structured.

The Center Supervisor reports to CISSR’s Faculty Director and works closely with the Director, Board and Faculty Fellows on a day-to-day-basis. In managing CISSR’s day-to-day activities and operations, the Center Supervisor exercises considerable independent judgment and coordinates with key Divisional and University staff as appropriate. The Center Supervisor will: execute programs and sponsored activities designed by the Board; serve as liaison between the Director, Faculty Fellows, University Administrative Offices, and external agencies; supervise student assistants; coordinate logistics for visitors; support the Director and Faculty Fellows to disseminate research findings; oversee the CISSR website and bi-weekly Digest.

Request for Proposals: Panel Study of Income Dynamics

The University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research, in conjunction with the United States Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service and the Food and Nutrition Service, announces a new Request for Proposals for food insecurity research using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). Research funded competitively under this announcement will focus on economic analyses of longitudinal household food insecurity and its links to food assistance program participation, work, income, consumption, and wealth. It is anticipated that five (5) grants at $50,000 each will be awarded.

The PSID began in 1968 as a survey of 4,800 American families and has since followed the children and grandchildren of original respondents. Today there are more than 11,000 PSID families and 26,000 individuals who participate in the survey. The USDA provided funding to include the 18-item Household Food Security Module on the 1999, 2001, and 2003 PSID main family surveys, as well as the 1997 Child Development Supplement (CDS). Food Security Module questions were also included on the 2014 CDS and on the 2015 and 2017 main family surveys.

The aim of this grant initiative is to expand upon the first round of PSID grants (see http://ukcpr.org/research/food-assistance-food-insecurity/psid) by competitively awarding cutting-edge longitudinal research on causal links between food insecurity and child, adult, and family well-being across the domains of income, employment, consumption, wealth, and family structure utilizing both the historical, and especially, the newly released 2015 and 2017 data on food insecurity in the PSID.

Prospective researchers are encouraged to submit a letter of intent to UKCPR by Oct. 10, 2019, with full proposals due Nov. 14, 2019, by 5 p.m. For details on submission, see the full request for proposals here. Interested researchers may also contact UKCPR Assistant Director Jeff Spradling at ukcpr@uky.edu or 859-257-7641 for more information.

 

Assistant Professor, Medical Sociology, Health, Migration

The Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites applications for a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor. The substantive focus of the candidate’s research is open, including a research focus on medical sociology, health, migration, and other related areas. Priority will be given to a sociologist who complements the department’s longstanding strengths in inequalities and global and transnational sociology. Candidates must possess strong theoretical, analytical, and empirical skills; a commitment to excellence in research and teaching is essential. Successful candidates are expected to teach effectively at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, establish and maintain an active and independent research program, and provide service to the department, the university and the profession. Ideal candidates will be able to teach Introduction to Sociology, Research Methods in Sociology, or Sociological Theory.

The Illinois College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is a world leader in research, teaching, and public engagement. Faculty in the College create knowledge, address critical societal needs through the transfer and application of knowledge, and prepare students for lives of impact in the state, nation, and globally. To meet these objectives, the College embraces and values diversity and difference through hiring faculty candidates who can contribute through their research, teaching, and/or service to the diversity and excellence of the Illinois community.

The University of Illinois is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. Minorities, women, veterans and individuals, with disabilities are encouraged to apply. For more information, please visit http://go.illinois.edu/EEO.

PhD in Sociology or a closely related field is required. PhD is required at time of application or by June 20, 2020 to be appointed as an Assistant Professor. Candidates with superior qualifications who will complete all the Ph.D. requirements within the first appointment year may be appointed at the rank of Instructor. After the Ph.D. requirement is met, the appointment will be changed to Assistant Professor.

Target start date is August 16, 2020. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience.

To apply, create your candidate profile through the University of Illinois application login page at https://jobs.illinois.edu and submit your application materials: a letter of application, curriculum vitae, statement of teaching and research interests, up to three representative publications or writing samples, evidence of teaching effectiveness, and contact information or Interfolio ID for three professional references. References will be contacted electronically within 2–3 days of application submission. Only electronic applications submitted through https://jobs.illinois.edu will be accepted.

To ensure full consideration, all required application materials must be submitted by October 15, 2019; letters of reference must be received no later than October 22, 2019. Early application submission is encouraged to allow time for referees to submit letters of recommendation. The University of Illinois conducts criminal background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer. For additional information, please contact Rebecca Riley at rriley@illinois.edu.

Assistant Professor, Criminology, Law and Society

The Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites applications for a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor in the fields of criminology, law and society, broadly defined. We are especially interested in candidates with research interests and expertise in one or more of the following areas: 1) Digital transformations; 2) Global challenges in criminology, law and society; 3) Health criminology; 4) Developmental and life-course criminology; and 5) Environmental criminology. Priority will be given to a criminologist with a digital specialization who can research and teach about the multifaceted role performed by

digital technologies in the criminal justice field. We also aim to deepen our longstanding departmental strengths in global and transnational sociology. Candidates must possess strong theoretical, analytical, and empirical skills; a commitment to excellence in research and teaching is essential. Successful candidates are expected to teach effectively at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, establish and maintain an active and independent research program, provide service to the department, the university and the profession.

The Illinois College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is a world leader in research, teaching, and public engagement. Faculty in the College create knowledge, address critical societal needs through the transfer and application of knowledge, and prepare students for lives of impact in the state, nation, and globally. To meet these objectives, the College embraces and values diversity and difference through hiring faculty candidates who can contribute through their research, teaching, and/or service to the diversity and excellence of the Illinois community.

The University of Illinois is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. Minorities, women, veterans and individuals, with disabilities are encouraged to apply. For more information, please visit http://go.illinois.edu/EEO.

PhD in Sociology or a closely related field is required. PhD is required at time of application or by June 20, 2020 to be appointed as an Assistant Professor. Candidates with superior qualifications who will complete all the Ph.D. requirements within the first appointment year may be appointed at the rank of Instructor. After the Ph.D. requirement is met, the appointment will be changed to Assistant Professor.

Target start date is August 16, 2020. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience.

To apply, create your candidate profile through the University of Illinois application login page at https://jobs.illinois.edu and submit your application materials: a letter of application, curriculum vitae, statement of teaching and research interests, up to three representative publications or writing samples, evidence of teaching effectiveness, and contact information or Interfolio ID for three professional references. References will be contacted electronically within 2–3 days of application submission. Only electronic applications submitted through https://jobs.illinois.edu will be accepted.

To ensure full consideration, all required application materials must be submitted by October 15, 2019; letters of reference must be received no later than October 22, 2019. Early application submission is encouraged to allow time for referees to submit letters of recommendation. The University of Illinois conducts criminal background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer.

For additional information, please contact Rebecca Riley at rriley@illinois.edu.

 

 

27th Annual Symposium on Family Issues – Families and Food (State College, 10/21-10/22/2019)

Families play a crucial role in their members’ eating behaviors and orientations toward food. For example, responsive parenting practices can promote the development of healthful eating behaviors, and the social and emotional climate of mealtimes can serve as a context for promoting healthful behaviors around food. At the national level, overweight and obesity have reached epidemic levels, and low-income and minority families bear a disproportionate burden. Yet, there is a paradoxical relation between obesity and food insecurity: many low-income communities with high rates of obesity are also considered food deserts ─ with little or no access to fresh produce and nutrient-dense foods. Speakers will discuss the latest research on the role of family in food access, diet, and health as well as policies and programs aimed reducing food insecurity and promoting healthful eating.

Dan Goldhaber Comments on Teacher Shortages and Pay for The Associated Press

Across the U.S., teachers and school districts are grappling with the realities of educator pay, emboldened by the national teacher protest movement demanding higher wages and better conditions and a steadily brewing shortage of educators. CSDE Regional Affiliate and UW-Seattle Affiliate Professor Dan Goldhaber, who is also the director of the UW Center for Education Data and Research, spoke to The Associated Press about these challenges.

It’s difficult to compare school pay scales because of the endless variables across classrooms and campuses, said Goldhaber, but merely increasing salaries for all without differentiating for other factors such as student population and regional issues means pay disparities will remain. “If it doesn’t address the relative differentials between school systems, there’s no reason to think it would help with teacher equality,” he added.

Jennifer Utrata Discusses Women’s Invisible Labor and Masculine Heavy Drinking in Russia

The heavy drinking of alcohol remains primarily a masculine ritual worldwide. Yet, scholarship has undertheorized women’s practices in shaping the boundaries of masculine rituals, including drinking. CSDE Visiting Affiliate and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Puget Sound Jennifer Utrata addresses these questions in her paper, “Invisible Labor and Women’s Double Binds: Collusive Femininity and Masculine Drinking in Russia,” published recently in Gender & Society.

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with mothers, fathers, and grandmothers, she demonstrates that Russian women perform extensive invisible labor to produce responsible men. Constrained by a gender division of domestic labor, wives and mothers engage in “patriarchal bargains” as they shape men’s drinking practices, co-producing hegemonic masculinity.

Whereas in the Soviet period women also managed men’s drinking, today more women are held accountable to a collusive femininity involving both accommodation and resistance, upholding men’s drinking privileges only if breadwinning occurs. Some women embrace an alternative femininity by becoming single mothers and refusing to manage men’s drinking. Theorizing collusive and alternative femininities advances our knowledge of how multiple femininities shape, and may in time change, hegemonic masculinity.

Connor Gilroy Receives Graduate School Award for Distinguished Masters Thesis in the Social Sciences

CSDE Fellow Connor Gilroy, PhD Student in Sociology, was awarded the Graduate School Award for Distinguished Thesis in the Social Sciences for his thesis titled “How Distinct is Gay Neighborhood Change? Patterns and Variation in Gayborhood Trajectories.” Gilroy, who is also the co-leader of CSDE’s Computational Demography Working Group, did a significant part of the work for his thesis while a CSDE fellow.

Gilroy believes that residents of gay neighborhoods, and everyone who cares about their future, deserve an accurate account of what these spaces were like in the recent past, and how they’ve changed up until now. He hopes that his work shifts the narratives we have about change — gay neighborhoods aren’t “disappearing,” and it’s wrong to ascribe the changes we do see in some places to their special status as enclaves for LGBTQ people. Instead, we need to shift our focus to local urban forces that impact gay and other neighborhoods alike. Capitol Hill, for example, might have more in common with Belltown in Seattle than Boystown in Chicago.

According to Gilroy, his adviser, CSDE Affiliate and Professor & Chair of Sociology Kate Stovel, had a significant impact on his work by pushing him to think more generally and abstractly about the concrete empirical puzzles he deals with in this work.

 

Tim Thomas Presents on the History and Impacts of Redlining to King County Council

CSDE Affiliate Tim Thomas, Postdoctoral Fellow at the eScience Institute and Sociology, was recently invited by the King County Council Equity and Social Justice Team to present on the history of redlining in Washington and how it impacts King County today. Thomas walked the audience through an account of the great migration, redlining, restrictive housing covenants, the home ownership gap, gentrification, and evictions. He also facilitated a lively policy discussion and presented recommendations regarding home ownership, renter protections, and development & zoning.

Thomas is transitioning to a CSDE Regional Affiliate as he is soon starting as a Postdoc at Berkeley’s Urban Displacement Project. There he will work on tools that identify residential displacement risk, analyzing risk in relation to other neighborhood dynamics, write policy briefs for U.S. cities, and publish his findings in academic journals. He will continue to be the PI for the Evictions Study where CSDE Affiliate and eScience data scientist Jose Hernandez will be the local lead. Thomas says he is incredibly grateful to CSDE for the training and research support making his projects a reality.