The Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) in Wiesbaden, Germany, seeks candidates for a part-time position in mobility studies for a period of 3 years (salary group E13 TVöD; 75%). 

The appointment will be made in the research group “Spatial Mobility and Internal Migration”. The successful candidate will participate in a quantitative empirical research project on the quality of life of expatriates living in megacities. The project is carried out in close collaboration with the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Candidates are required to demonstrate good scientific knowledge in the fields of international mobility (in particular expatriates), quality of life and/or psychological characteristics, stress and coping. Training and expertise in analysing survey data and strong quantitative analysis skills are essential. Good command of German language is required. See attached job offer 184/19 for details (for legal reasons in German language only). 

The start date is negotiable, preferably in summer or early fall 2019. 

See BiB website for details: 

https://www.bib.bund.de/DE/Institut/Stellenangebote/Stellenangebote.html   

https://www.bib.bund.de/DE/Forschung/Migration/Projekte/Lebensqualitaet-von-Auslandsentsandten-in-Megacities.html

The Economic Undergraduate Board presents an interdisciplinary discussion on academia’s response to climate change, moderated and presented by the Economics Undergraduate Board as their first interdisciplinary panel. Panelists include Dr. David F. Layton from the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance, Dr. Himanshu Grover from the College of Built Environments, Dr. Sandra O. Archibald from the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance, and Dr. Nives Dolšak from the School of Marine & Environmental Affairs. This Paul Heyne seminar is free of cost for all students, with dinner provided.

This year’s annual conference is entitled “Racial Categories and the 2020 Census.” We will highlight scholarly and community engaged work on the topic, and explore how definitions of race change to accommodate or contest power.

The U.S. government, through the decennial Census Bureau, has a goal “to count everyone once, only once, and in the right place.” Census data is used by state agencies, policy makers, scholars, and businesses to know, understand, and make policy decisions about our communities, to account for political representation, and to allocate public resources.

The Census does not simply reflect the racial identities in existence, rather, its racial categorization has powerful impacts on how ‘race’ is politically and socially defined, and how marginalized people are made visible to and by state institutions. In many ways, the history of the Census traces the history of the construction of racial identities.

The US 2020 Census presents unique challenges to consider. In response to decades of activism and lobbying, the Obama administration approved the addition of a ‘Middle Eastern, North African’ category to the 2020 Census; this addition has now been rejected by the current administration. Under the Trump administration, the debate on the constitutionality of adding a question about citizenship has heightened fears of an undercounting, especially for communities that remain ‘hard to count,’ such those experiencing homelessness, children, immigrant and refugee populations, and the LGBTQ+ community. Additionally, the 2020 Census will be the first digitized Census, bringing up new concerns around data security and further troubling the accuracy of the count. With a lower budget, fewer Census field offices, and new algorithms for differential privacy protections, activists, politicians, policy makers, and scholars are increasingly concerned about the dependability of the data collected by the 2020 Census.

Join us for an informative conference that explores the historical, political, and social aspects of the US Census. The Keynote lecture will feature G. Cristina Mora, Kim Williams, and Nazita Lajevardi on the historical and political impacts of the Census. The following day we will have a series of panels of scholars, activists, policy makers, and journalists that will speak to these and other specific challenges of the 2020 Census. The goal of this conference is to not only learn about the Census, but to collaboratively find ways to speak back to the Census.

The Aging Studies Institute (ASI) in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University invites applications for a postdoctoral position in the Demography and Economics of Aging, with a specialization in Population Health. The Aging Studies Postdoctoral Scholar will work with Professor Montez and other ASI Faculty Associates on health disparities research projects. Preference will be given to candidates who are interested in social determinants of health; the early-life origins of health in mid-to-late life; and/or macro-level structural factors shaping health inequalities. As a member of the Policy, Place, and Population Health Lab, the postdoctoral scholar will work with others to conduct analyses of secondary data, assist with the construction of a state-level policy database, coauthor peer-reviewed publications, and present research at conferences.

This 2-year postdoctoral position is partly supported by Syracuse University’s Office of Research with Invest Syracuse funds. The Aging Studies Postdoctoral Scholar will receive a salary of $50,000 plus benefits, $1,300 to offset moving expenses, and $1,000 in travel funds per year for conference participation. The position will start on August 19, 2019.
The postdoctoral scholar will have access to university resources and office space at ASI. ASI is located in the heart of the Syracuse University campus and has a vibrant community of 45 faculty representing 17 academic departments

Dear EAPS member,

• Post: Lectureship in Social Statistics & Demography, Full Time Permanent
• Location:  Highfield Campus
• Salary:   £38,460 to £43,267 depending on experience and qualifications 
• Closing Date:  Friday 07 June 2019
• Interview Date:  End of June 2019
• Reference:  1137019CC
• Job description and person specification available from: www.jobs.soton.ac.uk

The Department of Social Statistics and Demography at the University of Southampton invites applications from outstanding candidates with experience in technical aspects of demography and/or social and official statistics, with focus on formal demographic and statistical methodology, and other advanced quantitative methods. The post holder must have a PhD or equivalent level qualification in social/applied statistics, demography or in another relevant subject area, and be able to satisfy all the essential criteria detailed in the job description.

The post-holder will be required to contribute to the teaching and supervision of undergraduate and postgraduate students in at least two of the following areas: quantitative methods, methods of formal demography, and statistics. The successful candidate will be additionally expected to engage in advanced study and research, including the publication of research results in peer-reviewed international journals, and demonstrate leadership in seeking research funding.

The post is available on a full-time basis from 1 August 2019, and the successful candidate will be expected to start no later than 1 February 2020 (non-negotiable). The post is permanent, subject to satisfactory completion of a three-year probationary period.

The Department has world-class research expertise in demography, statistical modelling, survey methodology, official statistics, global health and social policy, and takes a strategic role in the development and promotion of the use of quantitative methods in the social sciences. The members of the Department contribute significantly to the research activities at the Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute (S3RI), the ESRC Centre for Population Change, National Centre for Research Methods, and Centre for Global Health, Population, Poverty and Policy. We offer an exciting and supportive place to work, with opportunities for further career progression. Details available from http://www.southampton.ac.uk/demography/.

The deadline for applications is midnight 7 June 2019 and interviews will be held late June 2019. Informal enquiries may be made to Professors Ann Berrington and Jakub Bijak, joint Heads of the Department of Social Statistics and Demography, by email: A.Berrington@soton.ac.uk and J.Bijak@soton.ac.uk.

View the job description, person specification and submit your completed online application form at www.jobs.soton.ac.uk.

The University Honors Program has an exciting opportunity to hire one graduate student assistant for Autumn 2019 – Spring 2020. We would appreciate your assistance in spreading the word about this opportunity – this is an excellent chance for graduate students to work with higher education professionals from across campus in the daily operations of the Honors Program.

A detailed position description can be found on the Handshake system under the requisition number #2709443 – please note that it closes on May 24, 2019.

The University Honors Program is an innovative and collaborative community engaged in rigorous interdisciplinary exploration. Students can pursue Honors as a general education track, as an in-depth program within their majors, or as a combination of the two. They may apply as new freshmen, at the end of their first year, or once they’ve selected a major. We prepare our students to ask and answer bold questions about the challenges facing our ever-changing world. Our students participate in small classes with faculty from across campus and work across the university, challenging themselves and each other to take intellectual risks and commit to conscious global citizenship.

In my new book, Documenting Aftermath, I explore post-earthquake information and communication practices amidst infrastructure breakdown in Northern California earthquakes: the 1868 Hayward Fault earthquake, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, and the public information infrastructures in place today. I discuss how people produce and circulate information in earthquake publics using a comparative historical lens, paying close attention to not only the circulation of knowledge, but also to the production of ignorance. In this talk, I discuss inequality in postdisaster experiences of Californians  through an analysis of the institutions, policies, and technologies that shape the information and communication landscape in these moments.