We know that population scientists have crucial research insights to share! Are you interested in sharing them a more general audience?
UW News and the Office for Faculty Advancement are hosting a seminar and workshops on 5/2 and 5/3/2019 for faculty, postdocs, graduate students and other UW-affiliated researchers interested in writing analysis and opinion pieces for mainstream audiences. They hope to help UW researchers share their knowledge worldwide by helping them learn how to write for general audiences and how to approach nonacademic publishing venues. The seminar and workshops will be led by an editor from The Conversation, a news analysis website that publishes articles on timely issues written by academic scholars, and UW News staff.
Last year, 45 UW researchers across academic disciplines published 49 analysis pieces and reached more than 1.3 million readers through The Conversation, which makes its published pieces available to other news outlets for free, including Scientific American, Business Insider, The Atlantic, Salon and many others.
The seminar on May 2 is open to all faculty, graduate students and other researchers on campus who are interested in learning more about writing for a general audience. The scope of this session will be broader than the smaller workshops, and we hope attendees will learn tips and strategies for translating academic research into articles and posts appropriate for newspapers, magazines, journals, online forums, etc., and how to pitch a story idea. Following the seminar, we will run a series of smaller workshops aimed at helping you develop a specific story idea. If you have some ideas in mind already or want to hit the ground running, we encourage you to select a workshop as one of the sessions you’re interested in on the signup form.
If you’re interested in attending the seminar, a workshop or both, please fill out this short form telling us why you’re interested and what you hope to get out of the training. Note: If that link doesn’t work, copy and paste this URL into your browser to access the short form: http://bit.ly/2019workshopsUW
Email us at uwnews@uw.edu if you have any questions. Thanks, and we look forward to hearing from you.
Population and Development Review will hold Editor Office Hours at the Population Association of America annual meeting in Austin, Texas.
Landis MacKellar will be available from 9:30-11 a.m. CDT on Friday, April 12, at the Population Council booth (#29). Meet with Landis to get feedback on a potential submission or to chat more generally about the path to publication.
Email rfriedman@popcouncil.org to schedule a time or stop by the booth on Friday. Please help me spread the word about this opportunity by forwarding my email to any colleagues who might be interested.
Elizabeth Cooksey (PI of the NLSY79 Child and Young Adult studies) and Steve McClaskie (NLSY User Services guru) will provide an overview to the NLSY79 (including the NLSY Child and Young Adult surveys) and the NLSY97, present information on data updates and future survey directions, and show new and returning users how to search through our thousands of variables and download data into SPSS, SAS, STATA and R.
Other possible titles we considered for this session were: “From Youth to Retirement – The NLSY79 Covers it all”, “Children of the NLSY79 – Not really Children Any More” and “The NLSY97 – Fast Approaching 40”!
If you are interested in any life course stages from childhood to “early” aging, we have longitudinal data for you! The NLSY79 has tracked respondents for 40 years, and the oldest respondents are in their early 60s, while NLSY97 respondents have been tracked for more than 20 years and are now in their thirties. See www.nlsinfo.org
The session will take place from 3-5pm on WEDNESDAY APRIL 25 in Room 305 at the Marriott Hotel. This is a member initiated meeting, and is FREE of charge. COME TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE NLSY AND TO HAVE YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED.
There is no need to reserve a place, but if you do plan to attend, it would be helpful if you could email Elizabeth at cooksey.1@osu.edu.
We look forward to seeing you in Denver!
Elizabeth and Steve
Center for Health Innovation & Policy Science’s 1st Annual Health Policy Writing Contest
Do you have policy writing chops?
Submit a policy brief at the beginning of Spring Quarter for cash prizes of up to $1,000 and some serious bragging rights!
We are looking for brief, succinct writing on a health-related topic (broadly defined). The winning submission will incorporate high quality writing and visual communication appropriate for their stated audience. Submissions can be based on or actually be a class assignment. You can also team up on a submission, but you have to share the prize money if you win!
The winners will be recognized briefly at the School of Public Health’s award ceremony in early May. The first place winner receives $1,000 and the second place winner will walk away with $500. Both award-winners and their briefs will be featured on the CHIPS website. You’ll also have bragging rights of winning the first Health Policy Writing Contest! See the attached PDF for full contest details.
Deadline: March 29, 2019 at 5:00pm
Submit your submission with the completed form (attached Word document) to: uwchips@uw.edu, with “2018-19 CHIPS Policy Writing Contest” in the subject line.
NIH Seeks to Fund Research on Ethical Considerations Related to Biomedical Research
Yesterday, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for administrative supplements to support research on bioethical issues to inform future policy directions. Consideration of ethical issues associated with biomedical research is intrinsic to the responsible conduct of science and the translation of scientific and technological advances into practice. The investment in and the integration of bioethics-related research and policy demonstrates NIH’s commitment to safeguarding the integrity of the research that it conducts and supports.
Applications will be accepted until May 13, 2019, and all organizations administering an eligible parent award may apply for a supplement under this announcement. Interested applicants may supplement parent awards focused on bioethics or add a component related to bioethics to a parent award in which bioethics was not the focus. Issues addressed are expected to fall within the scope of research and policy activities of the NIH but may be beyond the focus of any one Institute or Center. In addition to overarching areas of interest, individual Institutes and Centers have indicated specific areas of research interest within the announcement. Complete Information, including how to apply can be found here.
For more background on this FOA, please see Dr. Carrie Wolinetz’ recent Under the Poliscope blog: Investing in Bioethics Research to Inform Science Policy
Questions about the FOA may be directed to the agency contacts included in the announcement.
The Population Health Initiative is now accepting applications for graduate student conference travel awards.
Awards of up to $1,500 each are available to further students’ academic, research or professional goals as they strive to become the next generation of leaders in population health.
Applications are due on April 26, 2019.
We seek to train scientists to understand complex health problems and health disparities as resulting from multiple interacting layers of influence that unfold over chronological, biological, and historical time. This exciting new program at the University of Minnesota, housed in the Minnesota Population Center, features cross-training in the biology and etiology of disease, as well as in the social sciences. The program includes engagement in independent and collaborative population health research supervised by interdisciplinary teams of faculty, and intensive professional socialization designed to integrate trainees from diverse disciplinary backgrounds and prepare them to have outstanding careers as population health scientists.
Interested candidates can read more about our program online (https://pop.umn.edu/training/postdoctoral) and can download an application in the “How to Apply” section. We are accepting applications now.
Please direct all questions to Lindsey Fabian (fabian@umn.edu).
At the upcoming 2019 PAA meeting, 4 CSDE Fellows, 9 CSDE Trainees, and 28 CSDE Affiliates are scheduled to participate as presenters, chairs, coauthors, and discussants. Our scholars tackle a wide range of demographic issues, represented in the varied presentations listed here.
CSDE will also sponsor an IAPHS panel discussion and reception on community-engaged research titled “Population Health Reception: The Perils and Promise of Community Engaged Research” (Wednesday, 4/10/2019, 6:00-7:30 PM, JW Marriott, Brazos 206). Organized by Chris Bachrach and Dawn Upchurch, this panel will feature comments by Mark Hayward, University of Texas-Austin, Lourdes Rodriguez, University of Texas-Austin, David Vlahov, Yale School of Nursing, and Rachel Kimbro, Rice University. There will be plenty of time for networking, refreshments, and a lively audience discussion.
CSDE has supported Trainees and Fellows by awarding PAA travel grants to Ian Kennedy, Christine Leibbrand, Connor Gilroy, and Hilary Wething. CSDE Trainees also participated in a PAA workshop led by Matt Hall last Fall, where they received feedback from CSDE Affiliates on drafts of their submissions.
CRAFTING EFFECTIVE DIVERSITY STATEMENTS & COVER LETTERS
A panel and workshop for postdocs and graduate students.
Thursday, Apr 4th, 3:00-5:00 p.m.
Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center, Unity Suite
What is a diversity statement? Why is it important? How do I describe my potential to contribute to diversity, inclusion and equity in academia and industry?
Panelists:
- Rickey Hall, Vice President and University Diversity Officer, UW
- Evangelina Shreeve, Director, STEM Education and Outreach, PNNL
- Butch de Castro, Professor and Associate Dean, Nursing, UW
- Cynthia del Rosario, Diversity, Equity and Access Officer, Information School, UW
Hear panelists talk about what they look for in a diversity statement when they are hiring; discuss expectations for a diversity statement in your job application; and begin writing one as part of the workshop.
RSVP: http://bit.ly/diversityStatement
In celebration of 2019 Graduate and Professional Student Appreciation Week, this event is generously co-hosted by:
- UW Postdoc Diversity Alliance
- Center for Teaching and Learning
- Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity
- Office of Postdoctoral Affairs
- Core Programs, Graduate School
Interested in applying to the Doctoral Consortium at the International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography (ICQE) 2019? The call for participation is now out!
The Doctoral Consortium is designed to support the development of graduate students who are in the early stages of working on their dissertations. Doctoral students will meet and discuss their work with peers and mentors from the field of Quantitative Ethnography. Graduate students accepted into the Doctoral Consortium will receive free conference registration, hotel accommodations, and travel stipends.
Interested? Check out the ICQE schedule and the call for participation below for more information about this chance to present and get feedback on your research and to learn more about new research and developments in Quantitative Ethnography!