Last week was a busy one! In partnership with the Population Health Initiative and Urban@UW, CSDE launched the University of Washington Data Collaborative (UWDC), a new data and administrative infrastructure for storing and accessing innovative data, and building collaborations across the campus community.
In addition, the UWDC team won a UW Student Technology Fee grant to support the hard and soft infrastructure that will be used to build the data collaborative’s virtual machines! Shout-out to our computing experts Matt Weatherford and Alan Li.
According to CSDE Science Core Director Matt Hall, “The STF grant will dramatically expand our ability to provide access to the innovative data that is held by the UWDC. The UWDC is particularly excited to work with students across campus and at all stages of their academic careers to advance their research skills and experiences in population and data science.”
Speaker: Rachel Berney, Urban Design & Planning College of Built Environments
Topic: Approaching the ROW through Tactical Urbanism
Reading: Tardiveau and Mallo (2014): “Unpacking and Challenging Habitus An Approach to Temporary Urbanism as a Socially Engaged Practice”
“Does Research Matter in the Real World? Reflections on Research Use Among Domestic Violence Serving Organizations”
TARYN LINDHORST
UW School of Social Work
*Q&A until 2:00 pm
XV Jornadas Argentinas de Estudios de Población – II Congreso Internacional de Población del Cono Sur
San Juan, Argentina, 18-20 September 2019
The Argentinian Population Studies Association issued a call for papers for its XV Argentinian Population Conference and the II International Congress of the Southern Cone. These events will take place in the National University of San Juan, San Juan Province, Argentina from 18 to 20 september 2019.
For more information: http://www.redaepa.org.ar/jornadas-2019/
For more information by email please contact: aepa.secretaria@redaepa.org.ar and jornadasaepa2019@gmail.com
XV JORNADAS ARGENTINAS DE ESTUDIOS DE POBLACIÓN. II CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL DE POBLACIÓN DEL CONO SUR
Las XV Jornadas de Estudios de Población se llevarán a cabo junto con el II Congreso Internacional de Población del Cono Sur en la sede la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad Nacional de San Juan (UNSJ), San Juan, los días 18, 19 y 20 de Septiembre de 2019.
CALENDARIO ACTUALIZADO
– Envío de resúmenes: hasta el 26 de abril de 2019.
– Aceptación de resúmenes: 17 de mayo de 2019.
– Envío de ponencias completas y pósters: 20 de mayo al 22 de julio de 2019.
This summer, one of the Homelessness Research Initiative’s affiliates will be offering a course, ANTH 269 – An Anthropology of Homelessness. This is a unique opportunity to engage with current research on homelessness and public space and develop your own research proposal.
ANTH 269: An Anthropology of Homelessness –
The Study and Biopolitics of Unsettled Communities
The study of so-called “homelessness,” unhoused and unsettled communities has a deep and controversial history in social science research. Such research has been used for advocacy and policy development, to suggest strategies, best practices, and push for structural responses to the root causes of social inequalities. However, separating people according to constructed identities can (re)produce harm by formalizing implicit bias into governing systems, erasing the lives and needs of people who live outside official demographics. In this course, students critically analyze the research and representations of people who inhabit public space. We discuss influential studies alongside responses to their theories and methods, to understand how they may help or hinder the stabilization of unsettled neighbors. In the second half of the course, students develop a grounded research proposal that ethically and compassionately investigates an issue relating to “homelessness” and the habitation of public spaces. Class time includes lectures, viewing films, and small or large group discussions.
Interested in what a Green New Deal would look like here in Seattle and Washington State? Join us for a panel discussion on what potential policies could be implemented at the national, state, and city level. We will discuss the details of transitioning to a clean energy economy that provides living wage jobs and protects the most vulnerable communities in our fight against climate change.
Panelists:
- Lylianna Allala, Legislative Aid for U.S. Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal
- Debolina Banerjee, Climate Justice Policy Analyst at Puget Sound Sage
- Mike O’Brien, Seattle City Council Member District 6
- Dr. Nives Dolsak, UW Center for Environmental Politics
Moderator: Ahmed Gaya, National Field Director for the Sunrise Movement
Sponsor: This UW Earth Week event is being co-organized by GreenEvans, UW Students of the Seattle Chapter of the Sunrise Movement and the Climate Justice Workgroup of the graduate student Union UAW 4121. Find out more about the event on our Facebook page.
Food will be served!
Kivan Polimis
Data Scientist, Maana, http://kivanpolimis.com/
Abstract
Natural disasters such as hurricanes can cause substantial population out-migration. However, the magnitude of population movements is difficult to estimate using only traditional sources of migration data. We utilize data obtained from Facebook’s advertising platform to estimate out-migration from Puerto Rico in the months after Hurricane Maria. We find evidence to indicate a 17.0% increase in the number of Puerto Rican migrants present in the US over the period October 2017 to January 2018. States with the biggest increases were Florida, New York and Pennsylvania, and there were disproportionately larger increases in the 15-30 age groups and for men compared to women. Additionally, we find evidence of subsequent return migration to Puerto Rico over the period January 2018 to March 2018. These results illustrate the power of complementing social media and traditional data to monitor demographic indicators over time, particularly after a shock, such as a natural disaster, to understand large changes in population characteristics.
One-on-one meetings
If you would like to meet with Kivan during his visit to the UW, sign up for a half-hour block here.
The Latino Center for Health is excited to announce the 2019 Small Grants Program providing funding to projects and partnerships benefiting Latinx communities in Washington state.
Two levels of funding are currently available through the program:
- Academic and community partners that are in the early stages of collaboration can apply for grants of up to $5,000 to continue their planning for future research projects
- Proposals to conduct pilot research projects can apply for up to $15,000
Principal Investigators can be either staff at community organizations or researchers at academic institutions. Academic researchers serving as Principal Investigators must be at one of our affiliated institutions, the University of Washington and Heritage University
To be considered for this award, you must first submit a 1-page letter of intent (LOI) using the template found at the end of the attached Request for Applications (RFA) document. This letter may be submitted by either the researcher or the community organization and should include background for the project, project goals, members of the project team, expected outcomes and level of funding request. Please submit your letter of intent by May 1st, 2019 to latcntr@uw.edu with “Latino Center for Health Small Grants Program” in the title. Full applications must be received by June 7th, 2019.
Please refer to the attached RFA for full details on how to apply. Any questions may be directed to Daron Ryan, Research Coordinator, at dryan89@uw.edu or at 206-685-3583. Please distribute widely through your networks.
The National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) team at the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) is seeking a new member for our team. Please spread the word on this exciting employment opportunity.
The job location is at NCHS in Hyattsville, MD, and the application window is April 15-29, 2019.
Two application links are provided below.
Applicants should review the MP link first to see if they fit any of the criteria for using this application link, and if not, they should use the DE (general public) link.
https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/530678300 – MP
https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/530676400 – DE
For more background on the NSFG, please visit our “about the NSFG” page: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg/about_nsfg.htm