The postdoc scholar will work with Dr. Shannon Monnat and other Lerner Center faculty affiliates, staff, and graduate students on research related to social and spatial determinants of health, health disparities, and/or premature mortality. Desirable applicants will have research agendas that align with one or more of the Center’s key strategic priority areas of substance abuse, mental health, tobacco use, diet and nutrition, or physical activity. Candidates with interests in rural health and/or rural demography are especially encouraged to apply. The postdoc position will work closely with Dr. Monnat and other Center affiliates to design and conduct community-based research studies and/or conduct secondary analysis of health and other demographic data (particularly related to social and geographic disparities in health outcomes), co-author peer-reviewed publications, publish research briefs for the Lerner Center Population Health Research Brief Series, and present research at conferences. This position will offer exceptional opportunities for collaboration with Lerner Center graduate students, staff, and affiliated faculty as well as faculty and graduate students within the Center for Policy Research (https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/cpr.aspx), the Aging Studies Institute (https://asi.syr.edu/), and the Policy, Place and Population Health Lab (https://asi.syr.edu/policy-place-and-population-health-lab/). At least 25% of the Lerner Postdoctoral Scholar’s time will be reserved for the individual’s own research.
The initial term of appointment is one year, but reappointment for a second year is expected, subject to good performance. The Scholar will have access to university resources and office space in the Center for Policy Research at SU.
The Department of Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation in the College of Education at the University of Kentucky invites applications for a post-doctoral scholar in sociology of education for the 2019-2020 academic year. We seek candidates with a disciplinary base in the sociological study of education paired with strong training in quantitative, qualitative, and/or mixed methods. The candidate will join a department committed to interdisciplinary study of P-20 educational policy, its formation, implementation, and evaluation.
The EPE department offers an EdD in Educational Policy Studies, Evaluation & Measurement, a PhD in Studies in Higher Education, two interdisciplinary PhD tracks in Education Sciences, an MS in Educational Policy Studies, an MS in Higher Education, an MS in Research Methods, and graduate certificates in International Higher Education and Research Methods.
Responsibilities for this position include:
• Develop and teach graduate courses in sociology of education, social policy issues in education, policy analysis, and/or research and evaluation methods (teaching load of 3 courses during the academic year – 1 in fall and 2 in spring)
• Maintain an active line of research, publication, and other scholarly activities
• Provide service to the program and department
• Provide consultation to graduate students as needed in relevant areas of expertise
Interested candidates should submit:
• A letter of application (upload under Cover Letter)
• Curriculum Vitae
• One representative publication/working paper – e.g., dissertation chapter (upload under Special Request 1)
• Statement of teaching philosophy (upload under Special Request 2)
• Names and contact information for three references when prompted in the application. This information will be used to solicit reference letters from finalists only.
Review of applications will begin April 20, 2019 and continue until the position is filled. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.
We are delighted to announce that the Call for Abstracts is now Open!
Theme: ‘Public Data for Public Good’
Topic areas:
The conference programme will include a range of presentations across the following topic areas to share new knowledge, generate discussion and promote collaboration opportunities:
• Applied research: work that has contributed new knowledge, using data linkage or population data sciences approaches. Research that is either complete or will have significant findings by the conference date
• Case studies and concepts: research study protocols; local/case-specific technical developments; proof of concept studies; concept dictionaries; data resource descriptions; capacity building
• Ethical, Legal and Social Implications: regulatory and governance challenges and solutions; confidentiality; data security; public and other stakeholder engagement; ethical issues; social acceptability
• Evidence to support policy making: work generating evidence to inform policy making; engaging with policy makers; demonstrating and measuring impact
• Methodological and analytical advances: dealing with large scale, complex and messy data; data linkage and quality; emerging data types; data visualisation; data interoperability;
Please note: the deadline of Friday 12th July 2019 will not be extended so be sure to submit early.
Daniel Belsky, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University, will review data from analysis of US, UK, and New Zealand cohorts to test how proposed quantifications of biological aging are related to other indicators of healthy lifespan; if different approaches to quantification of biological aging measure the same underlying construct; and if measured biological aging is modified in a randomized trial of caloric restriction, an intervention known to extend healthy lifespan in animals. Results suggest new directions for population health science and offer evidence for an approach to accelerating development of interventions to extend healthy lifespan.
Dear community members, researchers, and service providers who have shared interests in addressing homelessness in the University District:
The Doorway Project’s Spring Pop-Up Cafe and Town Hall event is just over two weeks away!
Please join us on Thursday May 9th, 2019 from 2:00-5:30pm at the UW School of Social Work 1st Floor Gallery. We look forward to gathering our U District and Seattle neighbors to collaboratively design and implement a community engagement cafe.
Your perspective and expertise continue to be invaluable in co-creating an innovative community-based approach to end youth homelessness in our region.
Please RSVP to the Town Hall event here by Monday, May 6th.
Sincerely,
The Doorway Project team members
www.doorwayproject.org
Dear Graduate Students,
On May 23rd and 24th, the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences (CSSS) will be celebrating its 20th anniversary with a program of short courses, a poster session, and a scientific conference. And we need your help. The conference mixer and Poster Session will be held on May 23rd from 5:30pm – 8:00pm, and will feature posters from graduate students doing research at the intersection of statistics and the social sciences.
Posters will be judged and gift certificates will be awarded for first place ($200), second place ($100) and third place ($50).
Please consider presenting your research. Note that you do not need to register for the conference or workshops to present your work at the poster session.
Submit your poster presentation before May 10 by clicking here.
More conference information:
- The short course and conference schedule can be found here.
- The conference program (pdf) is here.
- If you wish to attend the short courses, conference, or conference dinner, please register by clicking here.
The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), with support from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National
Institute on Child Health and Human Development, the National Institute on Aging, and the National
Science Foundation, announces a call for papers for the 2019 PSID Annual User Conference.
The conference welcomes submissions on any topic, from researchers in any field, that use data from
PSID or its supplements—the Child Development Supplement, the Transition into Adulthood
Supplement, the Disability and Use of Time Supplement, the Childhood Retrospective Circumstances
Study, or the Wellbeing and Daily Life Supplement.
The submission deadline is 3 June 2019. A total of 20 to 25 papers will be accepted for the conference,
either for presentation or as posters. The conference will be held in Ann Arbor, Michigan, 12–13
September 2019. Travel and lodging expenses will be available for one author per accepted paper.
Meals will be provided to all conference participants.
See the complete call for papers here. The application portal is available here. Visit psid.org for more
information about the Panel Study of Income Dynamics
Dan Eisenberg, CSDE Affiliate and Associate Professor of Anthropology, studied the DNA of nearly 3000 grandparents, plus their children and grandchildren, and found that a child’s telomere length correlates with the age at which their fathers and grandfathers reproduced. Telomeres are stretches of repetitive DNA at the ends of our chromosomes. These shorten each time a cell divides, so usually get shorter over a lifetime.
Because telomere length may play a role in longevity, this could represent older fathers adapting their children’s DNA for an environment in which it may be possible to live a longer life, says Eisenberg. “The father’s age at reproduction is likely to be containing a signal about what the recent environment was like,” he says. “It breaks some of the ways
biology is supposed to work.”
CSDE Regional Affiliate David Swanson, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at UC-Riverside, was recently appointed by the University of New Mexico Dean for Research to serve as a member of the External Advisory Committee of the Center for Geospatial and Population Studies. Swanson was also invited to visit the U. S. Bureau of the Census as a 2019 Summer at Census Scholar. He is invited to engage in collaborative research with Census Bureau researchers and staff and to prepare and present a Summer at Census seminar based on his research. In addition, he was just interviewed by Wallet Hub regarding the health of US cities real-estate environment, which pointed Seattle at the top. In naming the top five indicators for evaluation best cities for real estate agents, Swanson replied “demographics, demographics, demographics, demographics, and demographics.”
Applications for CSDE’s Grant Writing Summer Program are due by 6:00 PM on 5/3/2019! The program is designed to assist early-career scholars and those who are relatively new to writing NIH grant applications. Participants will be coached through the process of developing a competitive application, learn more about NIH grant mechanisms, writing, and reviewing, and engage in an intensive writing workshop with regular meetings, discussion sessions, and feedback. CSDE aims to demystify the grant-writing process and create a supportive environment that produces proposals ready for submission by the Fall.