3 Postdoctoral Researcher Positions

We would like to appoint three creative, exciting and innovative postdoctoral researchers who will work within the new innovative interdisciplinary environment of the LCDS. The post holder is responsible for her or his own independent research project within a discrete area of the wider LCDS research programme, while being encouraged to work with others in the centre and our international partners. In this first round of postdoctoral advertisements we are looking for researchers in the area of sociogenomics, molecular genetics, digital and computational demography, causality and methodological advances. Supervision and collaboration can occur within the core domains and with researchers within the LCDS. At least one of these posts will include co-supervision with Cecilia Lindgren and/or Augustine Kong (Big Data Institute).

The position is a fixed-term appointment for 3 years commencing from 1 September 2019 or as soon as possible thereafter.

Deadline June 7 (midday).

To apply: https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.display_form?p_company=10&p_internal_external=E&p_display_in_irish=N&p_process_type=&p_applicant_no=&p_form_profile_detail=&p_display_apply_ind=Y&p_refresh_search=Y&p_recruitment_id=140330

The University of Oxford’s new Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science (http://www.demographicscience.ox.ac.uk/) is currently advertising for various positions. See also: http://www.demographicscience.ox.ac.uk/post/new-assistant-professor-and-postdoctoral-positions-what-are-we-looking-for

3 Assistant Professorships (termed University Research Lecturers in Oxford)

We are looking for 3 creative and inspirational Departmental Research Lecturers (Assistant Professors) who want to develop an independent research programme within one or more of the 7 linked programmes of the centre, together with delivering academic teaching and supervision. Duties are divided as 70% research time (we value your development as an independent researcher and scientist) and up to 30% teaching (we value your career progression and development of skills). Research can be in any area of the LCDS, but the positions will be formally located within the Department of Sociology, who hosts the LDCS. Teaching will involve leading or contributing to courses in quantitative methods, advanced methods, life course research, demographic and research methods and the opportunity to develop your own course. You may also have the opportunity to supervise PhD (DPhil) or other Master’s levels students.

This is a fixed-term appointment for 5 years in the first instance, commencing 01 September 2019 or as soon as possible thereafter.

Deadline June 7 (midday).

To apply see: https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.display_form?p_company=10&p_internal_external=E&p_display_in_irish=N&p_process_type=&p_applicant_no=&p_form_profile_detail=&p_display_apply_ind=Y&p_refresh_search=Y&p_recruitment_id=140547

ABSTRACT: Previous studies on sexual orientation and earnings show that lesbians earn more and gay men earn less than their heterosexual counterparts. However, most of these studies come from Western countries, and research in non-Western countries has not received much scholarly attention. Using the 2019 Osaka City Survey, this paper examines the association between sexual orientation and earnings in Japan, an East Asian society with an arguably distinct legal, cultural, and religious context regarding sexual minorities compared to Western societies. While previous qualitative and community-based quantitative research in Japan has pointed out that there may be an earnings disadvantage for both lesbians and gay men, this preliminary analysis suggests that there is no earnings disadvantage for lesbians although there is an earnings disadvantage for gay men. Possible mechanisms behind these earnings patterns will be discussed at the time of presentation.

Daiki Hiramori is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Washington. His research interests include quantitative methodology, queer and feminist studies, sexuality and gender stratification, and Japanese society. In particular, Hiramori is interested in (1) the association between sexual orientation and gender identity, and socioeconomic statuses in Japan, (2) sexual/gender minorities and social attitudes, (3) the measurement of sexual orientation and gender identity in quantitative research, and (4) queer and feminist methodologies. In addition to an M.A. in Sociology and a Graduate Certificate in Feminist Studies from the University of Washington, he holds a B.A. in Sociology with a minor in Mathematics from the International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan.

I would like to advise you that the Alcohol Research Group (ARG), in association with the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, is currently accepting applications for two-year Postdoctoral Fellowships.  ARG is a nationally and internationally recognized center for research on alcohol epidemiology, policy, and intervention that is located in Emeryville, CA.  Fellowships are sponsored by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) and offer research training in the study of alcohol and drug use and problems, including basic and applied social and epidemiological research.  Although some of the research at our center considers clinical issues, fellowships are not appropriate for persons interested primarily in clinical practice.  Our program focuses on alcohol-related disparities, so we are particularly interested in applicants with research interests in socially or economically disadvantaged groups (e.g., racial/ethnic minorities, sexual minorities, women, and those of low socioeconomic status), but others will also be considered.

We would very much appreciate it if you could circulate this email and the attached flyer to your center or department as well as others who you feel may be interested.

Additional information about our program and on how to apply can be found at www.arg.org/training.

Applications must be received by June 30, 2019, for a start date between August and May 2020; please alert Vicky Fagan at vfagan@arg.org before applying.

 If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Vicky or me.  Thank you very much for helping us to get the word out about these opportunities!

Post-Doctoral position at LIVES, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Deadline for applications: 26 May 2019

NCCR LIVES offers a position as postdoctoral researcher in the project “Meso-level and policy mechanisms of vulnerability”. The successful applicant will study the local context in which adverse life events are experienced, establishing whether and why specific neighbourhood and community economic factors cushion or worsen the negative effects of adverse events on people’s socio-economic trajectories.

This paper, a chapter of Aguirre’s dissertation, argues that migrant healthcare by the United Farm Workers (UFW) and the Chicano Movement’s Clinica de Salubridad de Campesinos (Clinica) in the Imperial-Mexicali borderlands was a labor and social movement politic to provide access to medicine to marginalized farmworkers from both sides of the international border. Though growers and conservative voices continued to see the border as a site of exploitable labor, the UFW and Clinica offered a counternarrative that understood the borderlands as a place of opportunity to launch an innovative social and labor policy that challenged the confines of a regulated and bifurcated border space.

Michael D. Aguirre is completing his PhD in the Department of History at the University of Washington, Seattle. He will be an Inequality in America Initiative postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University beginning in Fall 2019. His work appears in Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era, edited by Maylei Blackwell, Maria Cotera, and Dionne Espinoza (UT Press, 2018).

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, https://www.hfedlab.com/

Abstract

Adoption has been hypothesized to increase the risk of mortality for children reared by non-relatives. Yet the sociological and economic contexts shaping decision-making around adoption are critical to understanding associated costs and benefits to adoptive parents. In this talk, I describe the association between adoption and mortality using data drawn from household registers in Taiwan from 1895-1945. In contrast to previous results focused on binary associations, our event history analyses suggest that adopted girls experienced lower or equivalent mortality compared to biological children being raised by their parents. Furthermore, we explore the risk of mortality for girls who were adopted as “little daughters-in-law” (ADIL) to serve as brides for co-resident boys and for girls adopted for any other reason (AD). In this more finely resolved analyses, we confirm that adopted girls experience lower mortality than their biological counterparts, but find that ADIL experience relatively higher mortality than AD. We interpret these findings in light of evolutionary theory addressing the possible costs and benefits of adoption in historical Taiwan.

About the Series

The weekly Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences (CSSS) seminar provides a forum for local and visiting scholars to present current research at the interface of statistics and the social sciences. Talks range in their level of technical detail and substantive motivation, and often result in spirited discussion. During the Winter and Spring 2019 quarters, we are celebrating CSSS’s 20th anniversary, with many speakers drawn from the population of past CSSS students. Current students may receive credit for attending the seminar by enrolling in CS&SS 590. All seminars are held at 12:30 on Wednesdays in Savery (SAV) 409 unless otherwise noted, and we will aim to conclude by 1:30. We provide coffee and light refreshments; attendees are also welcome to bring their lunch. For information or questions about the CSSS Seminars, please contact our Seminar Organizer, Will Brown (brownw@uw.edu). You can receive updates via a mailing list or calendar.

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An Earl and Edna Stice Memorial Lecture
Sociology Colloquium: “Working for Respect: Community and Conflict at Walmart“

Adam Reich, Associate Professor of Sociology, Columbia University

In Working for Respect, Adam Reich and Peter Bearman examine how workers make sense of their jobs at places like Walmart in order to consider the nature of contemporary low-wage work, as well as the obstacles and opportunities such workplaces present as sites of struggle for social and economic justice. They describe the life experiences that lead workers to Walmart and analyze the dynamics of the shop floor. As a part of the project, Reich and Bearman matched student activists with a nascent association of current and former Walmart associates: the Organization United for Respect at Walmart (OUR Walmart). They follow the efforts of this new partnership, considering the formation of collective identity and the relationship between social ties and social change. The book draws on a wide array of methods, including participant-observation, oral history, big data, and the analysis of social networks, to reconsider the modern low-wage workplace.