NIH’s Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) is seeking to create a list of social science research accomplishments which have resulted in substantial health improvements or insights. Between now and July 31, 2019 any and all accomplishments can be submitted to OBSSR through this link. Don’t forget to copy csde@uw.edu so we can also promote your accomplishments!
Also, remember that NIH program officers need to know about upcoming NIH-supported papers before they are published. Send csde@uw.edu your pre-publication news! For more information, reach out to CSDE’s Administrator Scott Kelly.
The East-West Center invites graduate students from around the world to submit abstracts for the 19th International Graduate Student Conference (IGSC) on the Asia Pacific region, taking place in Honolulu, Hawai‘i, USA from February 13-15, 2020. The Conference provides an opportunity to share interdisciplinary perspectives through presenting and attending panel presentations in a warm and supportive environment.
ACCEPTING ABSTRACTS UNTIL
OCTOBER 15, 2019 11:59PM HST
The theme of this year’s IGSC is Community Voices: Bridging Borders. The conference encourages scholarly work on topics of concern to communities across the region, particularly of indigenous and marginalized communities.
The conference invites abstracts on a wide range of disciplines, and areas of focus may include, but are not limited to, community voices in the following areas:
• Environment
• Culture, Arts, and Education
• Gender and Sexuality
• Politics, Economics, and Governance
• Health and Science
Abstracts of up to 350 words are welcome for poster sessions and for traditional paper presentation formats. Authors can submit more than one abstract. A limited number of merit-based travel grants is also available.Download the conference flier and share this announcement via social media with your academic or professional network of contacts!
The East-West Center promotes better relations and understanding among the people and nations of the United States, Asia, and the Pacific through cooperative study, research, and dialogue. Established by the U.S. Congress in 1960, the Center serves as a resource for information and analysis on critical issues of common concern, bringing people together to exchange views, build expertise, and develop policy options. The Center is an independent, public, nonprofit organization with funding from the U.S. government, and additional support provide by private agencies, individuals, foundations, corporations, and governments in the region.
The Department of Sociology, Social Work & Anthropology at Utah State University invites applications for a nine-month tenure-track position in Sociology at the rank of Assistant Professor. The appointment begins in August 2020. We seek candidates who can contribute to our Demography and Community/Environment specialization areas through a research and teaching emphasis on either (1) community and/or environmental health (e.g., environmental health disparities) or (2) the dynamic interplay between population and the environment (e.g., the effects of climate change on migration). Scholars who have an interest in contributing to the department’s programs, curricular offerings, and research portfolio in ways that enhance diversity, equity, and inclusion are encouraged to apply.
Kyle Crowder (PI) and Erin Carll (Co-PI) are recruiting graduate and undergraduate students to conduct interviews in Somali and Spanish this summer. This is part of their study on residential mobility among families using Housing Choice Vouchers in King County.
See the attached separate position descriptions (with application instructions) for the graduate research assistant and the undergraduate research assistant roles. Positions are being filled as soon as possible.
Please feel free to direct any questions to Erin Carll.
Kyle Crowder (PI) and Erin Carll (Co-PI) are recruiting graduate and undergraduate students to conduct interviews in Somali and Spanish this summer. This is part of their study on residential mobility among families using Housing Choice Vouchers in King County.
See the attached separate position descriptions (with application instructions) for the graduate research assistant and the undergraduate research assistant roles. Positions are being filled as soon as possible.
Please feel free to direct any questions to Erin Carll.
This summer’s 2019 Population Health Applied Research Fellows will develop and apply their data analysis, critical thinking, and team science skills to better understand the impact of the First Steps Program on birth outcomes in King County. The interdisciplinary team of faculty, staff, graduate and undergraduate students bring with them skills in demography, economics, nursing, public health, public policy, and sociology with the recognition that, to tackle complex population health challenges and become future leaders in the field, the knowledge and insight must come from a collaborative effort across expert domains. Working with CSDE affiliates Sara Curran, Brandon Guthrie, and Matt Hall, seven students are part of the inaugural cohort:
- Claire Branley, undergraduate Public Health major
- Matt Driver, MPH student, Department of Epidemiology
- Jane Kim, Doctorate of Nursing Practice student, School of Nursing
- Christine Leibbrand, CSDE Fellow and PhD Student, Department of Sociology
- Kiana Rahni, undergraduate Economics and Political Science major
- Michelle Shin, PhD student, School of Nursing
- Hilary Wething, CSDE Fellow and PhD student, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance
The Population Health Applied Research Fellowships will support these students to work as a team with the Community Health Services Division (CHSD) of Public Health – Seattle & King County for 10 weeks over the summer to analyze disparities in birth outcomes by race, over time, in King County. This analysis will account for socio-economic and population trends and investigating possible causes.
CHSD is the largest provider of wraparound maternity and infant services for low-income pregnant women in King County, and despite successes in improving care for this population, the County has not been able to comprehensively achieve race equitable birth outcomes. The student’s work will help inform CHSD’s plans for redesigning and refining its delivery of prevention-based services for pregnant and parenting families to help improve birth outcomes.
By working on a real-world, client-driven project as part of a multidisciplinary team, students will understand how to integrate their disciplinary expertise into a team-oriented, problem-solving approach that develops multi-pronged solutions to population health challenges.
“There was an incredible level of interest from highly qualified and motivated students to work in a multidisciplinary, team-based environment on a project that could have a real impact on population health in their own backyard,” said CSDE Affiliate Ali Mokdad, the university’s chief strategy officer for population health and professor of Health Metrics Sciences. “It reflects the demand among students for meaningful, experiential learning opportunities that can make a real difference in people’s lives.”
The bachelor’s degree program in sociology at CSU-Pueblo is intended to increase the student’s knowledge of social organization and social relationships and to assist students in developing skills in the processing, integration and utilization of knowledge within the discipline. The department offers majors in sociology and criminology with either a Bachelor of Science or a Bachelor of Arts degree. The curriculum reflects a core interest in critically examining the human condition, interpreting social events from diverse perspectives, and understanding stability and change in social life. Both majors are organized to provide a firm foundation in theory and research methods while allowing students to tailor their coursework to their specific subject interests. Students are encouraged to take advantage of many opportunities in the department, including field placement, service learning, and field-based research.
*Review Date Extended*
The Program in African & African American Studies (AAAS) at Stanford University invites applications for its Postdoctoral Visiting Fellows Program.
This is a one-year fixed term position for the 2019-2020 academic year. Fellows are welcome to reapply for a second year, given satisfactory performance and available funding.
As an interdisciplinary academic program, AAAS welcomes applications from scholars who have demonstrated excellence in research and teaching within the broad, multi-disciplinary fields of African-American, African, Caribbean, or Diaspora Studies. The goal of the postdoctoral program is to augment current curricular offerings and to continue building a robust intellectual community while supporting the research and growth of emerging scholars. We are especially interested in applicants whose work aligns with the main thematic emphases and scholarly pathways of our undergraduate major. These thematic emphases include:
- Art and Cultural Expression (including inquiry and practice that engages language, literature, performance studies, art and visual culture, philosophy, religious studies, ethnomusicology, etc.)
- Historical Inquiry Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Media, Science, and Technology (including journalism and communications, digital studies, science, technology, and society, environmental studies, etc.)
- Social Science Inquiry (including education and education policy, linguistics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, economics, etc.
- Politics and the Law (including public policy, government, international relations, etc.)
- Race, Health, and Medicine (including biotechnology, medical sociology/anthropology, etc.)
- Social Impact and Entrepreneurship (including social movements, community-based research, etc.)
Sustainable Development Goal 8 calls for economic growth to be “a positive force for the whole planet.” Target 8.7 within this goal calls for “immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labor, end modern slavery and human trafficking … and by 2025 end child labor in all its forms.” The global community has its work cut out for it. In 2017, the International Labour Organization released research finding that more than 40 million people remain trapped in modern slavery. Additionally, the ILO estimated that 152 million children, between the ages of 5 and 17, were involved in some form of forced labor. Join GlobalWA, its partners and members for an in-depth look at how to we start to bring an end to human trafficking and modern slavery.
SPEAKERS
Shanen Boettcher
Advisor
FRDM.co
Lisa Shannon
Cofounder and CEO
Everywoman Treaty
Who:
Everyone
Where:
Global Washington
1601 Fifth Ave, Suite 1900
Seattle, WA 98101
When:
Wednesday, July 10, 2019
Registration: 2:30pm – 3:00pm
Program: 3:00pm – 4:30pm
Cost:
Members: $25
Non-Members: $35
Students: free
Email pratima@globalwa.org for member code and free student code.
More speaker information coming soon.
“LGBTQ elders have largely been invisible and people really haven’t thought about their needs, both in health, in housing and other areas,” CSDE Affiliate Karen Fredriksen-Goldsen, Professor of Social Work, recently commented for a CNN story about New York’s first LGBT-friendly housing.
According to Fredriksen-Goldsen, director of the UW Healthy Generations Center, the Pride generation was the first to unite to demand civil rights and social acceptance, but the discrimination they experienced throughout their lives has left them with smaller savings and in worse health than their non-LGBT peers, as they have aged. But the Pride generation is resilient, she added, and the tide is turning as more cities embrace LGBT-friendly housing.
The story featured Fredriksen-Goldsen’s survey of LGBT elders, in which 22% of respondents had difficulty paying bills and 21% had to cut back on other expenses to make ends meet. It also highlighted the first federally funded longitudinal study of LGBT elders, led by Fredriksen-Goldsen, which found that 51% of those who lived in private residences and 72% living in senior housing experienced social isolation.
Fredriksen-Goldsen was also recently featured in a The Whole U faculty spotlight, where she comments on LGBTQ Pride, public health, and her landmark study Aging with Pride: National Health, Aging, and Sexuality/Gender Study.