Diversity and Inclusion Seed Grants
The Vice President for Minority Affairs & Diversity and University Diversity Officer is pleased to offer Diversity and Inclusion Seed Grants. These small grants support projects for institutional transformation across the University of Washington’s tri-campus community that align with the goals of the 2017-2021 UW Diversity Blueprint.
The Mexican National Population Council (CONAPO) and the Health Initiative of the Americas, from the University of California, Berkeley (HIA-UC), extend this invitation to experts in migration and health to participate in the Migration and Health annual publication. The objective of this publication is to provide policymakers, scholars, nonprofit organizations, and the public with current information pertaining to the health of the mobile populations that travel across Mexico, the United States, and Central America. Topics include COVID-19 and its health implications among mobile populations, mental health, violence from a public health perspective, and more.
Team Collaboration in the Field with Criminal Justice Researchers, June 15, 2020, 12 PM to 1 PM EDT. Register here: https://go.nvivobyqsr.com/collaboration-field. Fieldwork is a fluid process defined by seemingly never-ending negotiation of both the professional and personal expectations of what it takes to be an effective qualitative researcher. The following webinar is a confessional tale by four dynamic criminal justice researchers with experience navigating collaborative qualitative research projects. These projects involve a range of participants from those who are incarcerated to hidden populations. This panel discussion will cover topics including challenges in recruiting people who use drugs for community public health surveillance projects, accessing & managing key informants and reciprocity, applied methods in criminal justice settings, and interdisciplinary collaborations for participatory research.
Panelists:
Wilson R. Palacios, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Master’s Program Director, School of Criminology and Justice Studies, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Amber Horning, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, School of Criminology and Justice Studies, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Rebecca Stone, PHD, Assistant Professor, Sociology, Suffolk University, Boston
Kimberly R. Kras, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of Public Affairs, San Diego State University.
Protecting Older Adults During a Pandemic: Challenges and Opportunities for Societies. Call for Papers for the Journal of Elder Policy, 2021 Special Issue. Editor-in-Chief: Eva Kahana. Distinguished University Professor, Case Western Reserve University. Abstracts of 500 words are due by June 15, 2020. Full papers (8000 -10000 words) due by September 30, 2020. For more info visit HERE.
The Urban Affairs Association is delighted to announce our new journal, the Journal of Race, Ethnicity and the City (JRE). We are making an open call for papers to be submitted to the journal.
The journal will:
- Serve as an outlet for ground-breaking theoretical and empirical approaches that explore race, ethnicity, identity and social justice;
- Examine the complex relations between race, ethnicity and other vectors of identity, including gender, class, religion and sexuality;
- Explore the influence of these complexities in shaping the social, economic, political, environmental, and cultural dimensions of urban spaces;
- Deconstruct the role of colonial and post-colonial practices and discourses on race and ethnicity in shaping the urban spaces of everyday life within a global context;
- Expand the global discourse on race, ethnicity and other vectors of identity;
- Promote interdisciplinary and comparative insights into race and ethnicity.
We are particularly interested in groundbreaking theoretical, empirical and engaged scholarship manuscripts that meet the aims and scopes of the journal and set the tone for future issues of the JRE. We invite manuscripts based on original empirical work, as well as review articles and shorter perspective pieces. At this time, we particularly welcome original articles (with a word count of around 8,000 words). Please see further guidance for authors here.
Submission Guidelines
When you are ready to submit a manuscript, please log into our online system: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ujre
For further questions, please contact the editors at jre.editor@uaamail.org.
Yasminah Beebeejaun, University College London (United Kingdom)
Ali Modarres, University of Washington, Tacoma (USA)
Further Editorial Board information can be found here.
Are you interested in doing empirical work on COVID-19? PAA2020’s next COVID webinar on Tuesday, June 23 10:00 – 11:30 AM will detail how six existing publicly available longitudinal studies are incorporating new measures to capture peoples’ experiences of the pandemic. Please register in advance with this link.
Panelists and surveys include:
- David Weir (University of Michigan): Health and Retirement Study (HRS)
- David Johnson (University of Michigan): Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)
- Vicki Freedman (University of Michigan): National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS)
- Carolyn Halpern (University of North Carolina): National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health)
- Arie Kapteyn (University of Southern California): Understanding America Study (UAS)
- Deborah Carr (Boston University): National Longitudinal Study of Youth (1979) (NLSY)
- Session Organizer and Chair – Pam Herd (Georgetown University)
The COVID-19 pandemic has touched every part of our global society, putting science and scientists in the front seat as we navigate this crisis. Join us for a special edition of “Amplify – Conversations about Science Communication”, where we explore the intersection of science and society, the role of science journalism and science communication, and how to make sense of all the information and turn it into action. Jointly brought to you by the University of Washington College of the Environment and School of Public Health, this live discussion will be hosted by Deans Lisa Graumlich and Hilary Godwin, with special guests Liz Neeley, Executive Director of the Story Collider, and Ed Yong, staff writer covering science and the coronavirus for The Atlantic.
4:00-5:00pm – Zoom webinar. Registration required
Climate scientists agree that in order to have any chance of continuing to live on this planet as a species, humans will need to coalesce into dense megacities. Urban planners across the world have already begun designing the sustainable cities of the future and include every aspect of human well-being save for one glaring omission- nature interaction. There is currently no tool for incorporating nature interaction into urban design, let alone quantify it. Nostos AI, founded by UW SEFS masters student Audryana Nay, seeks to fill this gap in the urban design industry, providing a design tool that can add meaningful and authentic human-nature into our cities allowing humanity to thrive.
12:00-1:00pm – Zoom meeting.
The senior manager is the chief survey research expert at the Pew Charitable Trusts and manages review and support of all surveys that the Trusts puts in the public domain. The senior manager will consult on survey designs and questionnaires and ensure that public releases adhere to industry standards for transparency and disclosure. The senior manager will serve as a liaison to the Pew Research Center to ensure that the Trusts’ standards remain aligned with the best practices of the Center, and keep current with best practices and standards in survey research. The senior manager will become a trusted advisor to colleagues who are subject-matter experts and will support their research projects through contract development, project management, research design, questionnaire development, and data analysis.
The position, based in Pew’s Washington, D.C., office, reports to the director, research support.