Job announcement:

Professeur·e ou professeur·e régulier·e en dynamiques migratoires, l’Université Laval (Québec, Canada)

Date limite du dépôt de candidatures: 6 mai 2019

Voir annonce complète: https://www.rh.ulaval.ca/emploi/HCM/2637/emplois-professeurs

 

Description du poste
Le Département de géographie de l’Université Laval désire combler un poste de professeur régulier dans le domaine de la géographie des dynamiques migratoires avec spécialisation dans les migrations forcées.

•    Enseigner à tous les cycles en géographie;
•    Développer un programme de recherche original et porteur;
•    Encadrer des étudiantes et des étudiants à tous les cycles en géographie ;
•    Être actif dans les réseaux de recherche en géographie et être en mesure de collaborer avec des équipes multidisciplinaires.

Critères de sélection
Détenir un Ph. D. en géographie ou dans une discipline pertinente;
Être capable d’enseigner en français;
Avoir publié plusieurs articles scientifiques dans des revues arbitrées et reconnues;
Seront considérés comme un atout:
•    Avoir une formation et expertise dans les méthodes d’analyse quantitative;
•    Avoir une expertise sur les mouvements de population pour des raisons environnementales;
•    Avoir une expérience en enseignement universitaire et d’excellentes aptitudes à la communication.

Conditions
Engagement et traitement: Salaire selon la convention collective en vigueur.

Candidature
Date limite du dépôt de candidatures: Lundi le 6 mai 2019

Date d’entrée en fonction: 1er septembre 2019

Les dossiers de candidature doivent comprendre une lettre de motivation présentant le programme de recherche de la candidate ou du candidat, un CV complet et un exemplaire de publication. Le cas échéant, un exemplaire de plan de cours et les évaluations de l’enseignement pourront faire partie du dossier. Les candidates ou candidats doivent également demander à trois personnes de faire parvenir une lettre de recommandation confidentielle directement à l’adresse ci-dessous :

Marie-Hélène Vandersmissen, directrice
Département de géographie, Faculté de foresterie, de géographie et de géomatique
Pavillon Abitibi-Price, local 3137
Université Laval
Québec (Québec) CANADA
G1V 0A6
Vous pouvez également faire parvenir votre candidature par courriel à :
direction-geographie@ggr.ulaval.ca

Lieu de travail
Faculté de foresterie, de géographie et de géomatique
Département de géographie

Information générale
Milieu de vie privilégié au cœur de la ville de Québec, l’Université Laval est une grande université complète reconnue pour sa culture de l’excellence en enseignement et en recherche.

Valorisant la diversité, l’Université Laval invite toutes les personnes qualifiées à présenter leur candidature, en particulier les femmes, les membres de minorités visibles et ethniques, les autochtones et les personnes handicapées. La priorité sera toutefois accordée aux personnes ayant le statut de citoyen canadien ou de résident permanent.

Research associate position at the Office of Population Research, Princeton University to study the formation and evolution of adolescent romantic and sexual partnerships

Screening of applicants will begin in May.

The Office of Population Research (Princeton University) is seeking a research associate for a project using intensive longitudinal data to study the formation and evolution of adolescent romantic and sexual partnerships. This position is anticipated to begin in the summer or fall of 2019. The appointment is for one year, renewable for a second year contingent on excellent performance and continued funding.

Candidates are required to have an advanced degree in demography, public health, psychology, sociology, or other social science field. In addition to strong statistical skills, preferably including multi-level modeling, and programming proficiency in Stata and/or R, hands-on experience analyzing complex longitudinal social survey data (e.g., Fragile Families, PSID, NLSY) is essential. Familiarity with intensive longitudinal methods (e.g., diary, EMA, ESM) is highly desirable. Excellent professional writing is also required.

Candidates can apply at https://www.princeton.edu/acad-positions/position/11381 and need to submit a current CV, contact information for two references and a cover letter. This position is subject to the University’s background check policy.

Position Description:

The Office of Planning & Community Development (OPCD) is seeking a graduate student intern to provide research and analysis support. This will include collecting and analyzing data for OPCD’s new Equitable Development Monitoring Program which is tracking community outcomes and displacement risks to better inform the City’s work. Other duties will include helping to respond to demographic data requests.

The internship is within the Long Range Planning division of OPCD. This division leads comprehensive planning for the city’s future, manages the City’s participation in regional planning, and provides City officials with data and analysis to help understand community needs.

The intern’s work will support OPCD’s data-informed approach to City planning. The monitoring program that the intern will help establish is an integral part of the work needed to implement the recent update of the City’s Comprehensive Plan and advance equity.

AMAZON CATALYST RETURNS – WITH A TWIST!

In 2015, Amazon teamed up with CoMotion at the University of Washington to announce Amazon Catalyst, a program that helps students, faculty, and staff launch truly innovative ideas. To date, Amazon Catalyst has funded 50 UW teams – Amazon Catalyst Fellows – across a range of disciplines.

This year, we are trying something different. To tightly focus inspiration on the pressing issues of our time, this round of Catalyst will be based on specific themes: Urban Transportation and Computational Social Science (i.e. using data and computing analysis, like machine learning and simulation, to address social problems).

Proposals must address one of these themes. Preference will be given to those which leverage machine learning.

Call for Applications:

CRVS Fellows Program

The IUSSP Scientific Panel on Population Perspectives and Demographic Methods to Strengthen Civil Registration and Vital Statistics is pleased to announce a CRVS fellows program.

To stimulate and support increased engagement of young demographers and population scientists in CRVS/Legal-ID related work, we invite young and mid-career professionals to apply to undertake a mentored fellowship with our IUSSP Panel.

Deadline for applications: 31 May 2019.

Programmatic Focus
Selected fellows are expected to undertake research in one of three complementary and mutually-strengthening focus areas:
1.    Applied research on completeness and quality assessment of vital event registration (namely births, deaths and marriages) and strengthening of the feedback loop between completeness/quality assessment and CRVS systems strengthening efforts;
2.    Interdisciplinary research into the relationship between civil registration and related population data systems and new biometrically-based legal identity systems;
3.    Practical research (including qualitative field-based research and mixed methods research) on the proximate determinants and the social and economic consequences of under-registration of vital events.

Duration 
Fellowships will be for a period of 2 years – starting in July, 2019 and concluding in June, 2021.

Mode of Engagement
The fellowship will be a non-resident fellowship.

The IUSSP Scientific Panel on Population Perspectives and Demographic Methods to Strengthen Civil Registration and Vital Statistics will guide and support selected fellows in their research over the course of the fellowship. Fellows will be mentored in the development of a scholarly paper, over the course of the fellowship. Fellows will receive funding to present their ongoing research in workshops and side meetings of the panel in 2019-2021. The Fellowship funding will cover travel, accommodation and any conference registration fees associated with participation in workshops and conferences. Fellows will not receive a stipend during the course of their fellowship.

Expected Outputs
Selected fellows will be expected to publish the CRVS research they undertake in a peer-reviewed journal or edited volume. The IUSSP Scientific Panel will guide and support selected fellows towards this publication goal. Fellows will also be encouraged to communicate their research and findings to a broader, non-technical audience via a short article in N-IUSSP, a blog post, or short article.

Eligibility
The program is open to early and mid-career demographers and population statisticians interested in civil registration and vital statistics. Early/mid-career professionals from official statistics, civil registration authorities, university graduate programs, and research institutes are encouraged to apply. Applicants from low- and middle-income countries are strongly encouraged to apply. Applicants should hold, at least, a Masters degree in demography or Population Studies (or related discipline), be fluent in either English, French or Spanish, and have a working-level competence in English or French (if not fluency).

How to Apply
Interested individuals are encouraged to apply, by completing the online application form (also accessible via the home page of the IUSSP website: www.iussp.org).

The form requires:

• uploading of a short cover letter* (max. 1 page), briefly describing the proposed mentored research project being proposed.
• uploading of a curriculum vitae*
• listing your university degrees.
• listing your professional experience.
• listing up to five publications (those most relevant to civil registration and demography).
• listing the names and contact details of at least 2 professional/academic references.

Please prepare your application materials beforehand to be able to copy-paste into the online application form.

The application form can be edited after completion until the 31 May deadline (using the same email as the first time).

Applications received after the deadline will not be considered.

Enquiries:  Any enquiries should be directed to Dr. Romesh Silva.

*The cover letter and CV should be uploaded in Word or pdf formats and should use the following file naming convention: 
– for the cover letter: “LASTNAME-firstname-CoverLetter” e.g. SMITH-Lynda-CoverLetter.pdf
– for the CV: “LASTNAME-firstname-CV” e.g. SMITH-Michael-CV.doc

The deadline is fast approaching for graduate students in British Columbia, Washington State, and Oregon interested in applying for the 2019 Bullitt Environmental Fellowship.

The Foundation awards this two-year, $100,000 Fellowship annually to one graduate student who has overcome adversity, demonstrates strong leadership potential, and is focused on work to safeguard the natural environment by promoting responsible human activities and sustainable communities in the Emerald Corridor, stretching from Vancouver, BC to Portland, OR.

Eligible candidates will have a strong academic record and a university faculty member who will nominate and recommend them. Students of color are highly encouraged to apply.

Please share this announcement widely and encourage qualified candidates to apply by April 26, 2019. Visit www.bullitt.org for more information.

Please join us for our upcoming Sociology Department Colloquium and Stice Lecture:

Afternoon Reception: 4:30 – 6 p.m. in Savery 245

 

Where The Millennials Will Take Us: A New Generation Wrestles with the Gender Structure

Professor Risman will discuss revisions to her theory of gender as a social structure that are offered in her 2018 book. New here is the argument that we must distinguish between material and cultural phenomenon because tracing whether culture or material opportunities change first is important to understand the pace and direction of the gender revolution.

With a sample gender diverse, and majority minority, Chicagoland Millennials, Dr. Risman provides unique insights into today’s young adults. Gender is definitely being reimagined by some, but not by all. Some in this sample are true believers that men and women are essentially different and should be so. Others are gender innovators, defying stereotypes themselves, and rejecting sexist ideologies and organizational practices. Perhaps new to this generation are the gender rebels who go beyond rejecting sexism, to rejecting sex categories themselves, and often refusing to present their bodies within them, some claiming the new identity of genderqueer instead of man and woman. And finally there are those who are simply confused by all the changes around them. There is no one typical Millennial. These interviews show how dramatically gender still constrains life in America. Professor Risman concludes with a call for a fourth wave of feminism to eradicate not only sexism but also the gender structure itself.

Barbara J. Risman is a College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her works have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, The Seattle Times, The Raleigh News & Observer, CNN.com, and the Huffington Post. She is a former President of the Southern Sociological Society and former Vice President of the American Sociological Association. Awards include the 2011 American Sociological Assocation’s Award for the Public Understanding of Sociology and the 2005 Katherin Jocher Belle Boone Award from the Southern Sociological Society for lifetime contributions to the study of gender. She has also served as President of Sociologists for Women in Society.  

How to Build Relationships with the Media
April 23rd at 4pm in Savery 409

The Washington Chapter of the Scholars Strategy Network, together with the SSN national office, invite you to join a hands-on workshop where participants will learn how to:

• respond when a journalist calls
• communicate their research in a clear and effective manner
• identify what reporters are looking for in interviews with scholars
• maintain media relationships

Anyone who is looking to do more media work and need advice on how to prepare for interviews and build relationships with members of the media is welcome. Conducted by Danielle Kim from the national Scholars Strategy Network office, this free workshop is great for all scholars, whether you’ve done media work before or are just starting to think about public engagement.

Come with questions about how to talk to reporters and walk away feeling ready for your next interview! All attendees will receive customized resources and tipsheets on engaging the media.

There will be a wine and cheese reception following the conclusion of the workshop at 5:30.

TO REGISTER, EMAIL scholarswashington@gmail.com

 

Morgan Hardy

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, NYU Abu Dhabi https://sites.google.com/a/nyu.edu/morganhardy/

Although haggling over the prices of goods and services is an integral part of life for the world’s poor, little work has been done to extend bargaining models to a developing country context. We develop a theoretical model of bargaining that takes into account the initial endowment of the seller. Our model predicts that sellers with lower initial endowment will settle for a lower price. We test our model using data from a bargaining exercise over a real product, a child’s shirt, with garment making microenterprises in Ghana. Our data supports the major testable prediction from our model: sellers from poorer households agree to a lower price than rich sellers. This relationship is robust to controlling for a number of potentially confounding firm and owner characteristics, including firm size and product quality. Preliminary findings from a lab-in-the-field experiment, in which we randomly assign initial endowments in a bargaining game that mirrors the shirt exercise, appear to corroborate our results. We conclude that further exploration of this “need-bargaining” relationship is a key frontier in future bargaining research aimed at understanding the lives of the poor.

 

On Wednesday, April 17, join Jewish Studies graduate fellows Kerice Doten-Snitker and Berkay Gülen for lunchtime talks on using sociology to track anti-Semitism in medieval Europe, and understanding foreign policy makers in Israel through interviews.

Wednesday, April 17, 12:00 – 1:30pm

HUB 145 (map)

Please RSVP here: https://bit.ly/2Z2gE5V

Kerice Doten-Snitker, Sociology – “Jewish Expulsions in the Medieval Holy Roman Empire”

Berkay Gülen, International Studies – “Discussing Turkey-Israel Relations in Israel: Common Themes, Different Perspectives”

Faculty respondents: Liora Halperin, International Studies; Annegret Oehme, Germanics

Learn about the dynamics and political calculations behind expulsions of Jews from cities in medieval Europe — dramatic anti-Semitic actions that political elites used to bolster their own power— from the perspective of sociology; and what Israeli foreign policy makers think about Israel’s international relationships, especially with other Middle Eastern countries like Turkey, and the benefits and challenges of using interviews and qualitative methods in academic research.

 

Light lunch will be served.