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UW Interdisciplinary Individual Ph.D. (IPhD) Program

The IPhD program is a small program for exceptionally able graduate students whose objectives for pursuing Ph.D. level graduate study are (1) interdisciplinary and (2) require supervision from faculty in two or more UW programs that offer Ph.D. degrees. Students in this program design an individual course of study with guidance from their interdisciplinary Supervisory Committee.

Good applicants for the IPhD program include students who have or will soon have a master’s degree and are: Passionate about a compelling interdisciplinary research problem that does not fit within the scope of a single campus program that offers a Ph.D. degree; Drawn to working with graduate faculty from multiple departments; Self-starters and highly motivated; Seeking a flexible schedule—either full time or part time.

If you identify possible applicants for this program, please suggest that they read the IPhD program website and contact either the IPhD Program Coordinator (Jean Rogers, jeanp@uw.edu) or the IPhD Program Director (Mark Zachry, zachry@uw.edu) for more information.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Role of Occupational Segregation on Older Adult Health

Postdoctoral Fellow for a Research Project on the Role of Occupational Segregation by Race/Ethnicity and Immigrant Status on Older Adult Health

Post-doctoral fellow for a new project on the role of occupational segregation by race/ethnicity and immigrant status and its effects on older adult health in the United States. The main focus is on the higher rate of functional limitations by age among the native-born and immigrant Latino/Hispanic population.

The availability of the position is contingent on research grant funding. If funding is available as expected, this position will begin in the summer or fall of 2019 and be for one year. It is renewable for a second year contingent on excellent job performance and continued funding.

Candidates are required to have a PhD or equivalent doctoral degree in demography, sociology or other social science field, public health, public policy, or statistics. All requirements for the degree must be completed before the position begins. Candidates must have strong statistical skills, hands-on experience with quantitative research, and excellent Stata and/or R programming skills and experience. Candidates must work well in a collaborative research environment and have good interpersonal skills. Excellent professional writing is also essential. Experience working with complex social survey data (e.g., HRS, PSID, NLSY, etc.) is strongly preferred.

This position can be held either at the Office of Population Research, Princeton University, or at the California Center for Population Research, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The successful applicant will collaborate with researchers at both institutions and also have some time for his/her own research.

To apply, applicants should submit a brief cover letter describing why they are interested in the position, a curriculum vitae, a writing sample, and two letters of recommendation. Submit all applications to Rachel Veerman, rveerman@ucla.edu.

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For the complete University of California nondiscrimination and affirmative action policy, see: UC Nondiscrimination & Affirmative Action Policy at: http://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4000376/NondiscrimAffirmAct

Postdoctoral Fellow, Rutgers School of Social Work

Rutgers University School of Social Work seeks a postdoctoral scholar to work on a collaborative, multi-year, multi-faceted project focused on understanding the role that fathers can play in improving the well-being of children and the role of social policies in promoting or inhibiting fathers’
involvement with their children in the United States and Latin America. The project, led by associate professor Lenna Nepomnyaschy and assistant professor Laura Cuesta, involves quantitative analyses of several large national and international datasets and the collection of state-level data on
employment, wage, criminal justice, and child support arrears policies in the United States, and country-level data on child support policies in Latin America.

Postdoctoral Researcher, LIMA Project

The Centre for Demographic Research of the Université catholique de Louvain | UCLouvain (Belgium – www.uclouvain.be/demo) is recruiting a Postdoctoral researcher to work on the ARC-funded LIMA project.

“Personal Aspirations and Processes of Adaptation: How the Legal framework Impacts on Migrants’ Agency” 

Deadline for applications: 26 February 2019.

Job description

The postdoctoral researcher will work in collaboration with the lead researchers. He/she will participate in the following tasks:

  • Contribution to multidisciplinary articles on migration and integration, with a focus on asylum seekers and refugees in Belgium.
  • Analysis of large-scale longitudinal databases on migration, administrative status and employment (population register, crossroads bank for social security), and analysis of survey data on migration and integration.
  • Participation in the design of a quantitative survey on migrants’ histories and aspirations.

Profile

  • PhD in demography, quantitative sociology or related discipline.
  • Strong quantitative skills and experience with individual longitudinal data.
  • A good knowledge of STATA and/or R.
  • Strong interest in international migration and integration research.
  • Good writing skills.
  • Good working knowledge of English and/or French.

Conditions

  • Starting date: between March 2019 and May 2019.
  • Duration: 12 months (possibility of extension, conditional on availability of funds).
  • Net monthly allowance of 2,490 €.

Application

Applications will include a complete CV, a motivation letter and the names and addresses of two reference persons who can be contacted.Applications should be sent (by e-mail) before February 26, 2019 to

Bruno SCHOUMAKER – bruno.schoumaker@uclouvain.be

Centre de recherche en démographie – Université catholique de Louvain

The LIMA Project: “Personal Aspirations and Processes of Adaptation: How the Legal framework Impacts on Migrants’ Agency”

The LIMA project examines how legal frameworks – Belgian and European – correlate with third country national migrants’ agency. The scientific aim is twofold: understand how legal frameworks shape migrants’ professional, family and migratory trajectories and life projects; and analyse if, and which strategies migrants develop to bend the rules and circumvent obstacles, and/or use the opportunities offered by legal systems to fulfil their professional and family aspirations. This interdisciplinary project is conducted by researchers in migration law, demographers and sociologists.

 

 

Call for Papers: Data and its Discontents: SSHA Annual Meeting (Chicago, 11/21-11/24/2019)

The States and Societies Research Network invites you to submit panels, papers, and book session proposals for the SSHA annual conference. The conference will take place in Chicago on November 21-24, 2019. For more information on the conference as well as the general call for proposals, please see the SSHA website: https://ssha.org/. The deadline for full panel or individual paper proposals is February 16, 2019.  

The theme of the 2019 conference is “Data and its Discontents.”

We welcome proposals on this theme and on the broader research network’s continuing interests states, societies, and the political institutions and social movements that shape their relationship throughout history and around the globe.  In addition to single papers, we also welcome full panel proposals, which should include at least 1) four papers, a 2) discussant, and a 3) chair. Book panel (“Author meets Critics”) proposals are also warmly welcomed.

Submissions should include paper title, brief abstract, and contact information and can be submitted at http://ssha.org [scroll to the bottom and click “Submit to Our Annual Conference] Additional information about the 2019 conference can be found at https://ssha.org/files/2019%20SSHA%20CFP.pdf

If you have any questions, please contact any of the States & Society co-chairs: Shiri Noy at snoy@denison.edu, Edwin Ackerman at efackerm@maxwell.syr.edu, Mark Cohen at mark.cohen@cuhk.edu.hk, and Tim Gill at timgill1984@gmail.com

 

Intermittent Labor Force Participation: a Source of Bias?: An Experimental Approach Examining Mechanisms and Types of Discrimination

Kate Weisshaar, Assistant Professor of Sociology at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, will present on mechanisms producing hiring penalties for applicants with intermittent employment. Employment interruption is a common experience in today’s labor market, most frequently due to unemployment from job loss and temporary lapses to care for family or children. Audit studies have documented that both unemployed job applicants and parents who “opted out” of work face disadvantages in re-gaining a job, relative to applicants with continuous employment histories. This research highlights the significance of ideal worker norms leading to employer decisions, and suggests that the organization of work and family contributes to cognitive biases against caretakers. I then extrapolate from this example to propose that this type of experimental framework could be used to test types of discrimination for other groups as well.

Summer Institute in Migration Research Methods (Penn State, 6/9-6/16/2019)

Co-sponsored with the Carnegie Corporation of New York

Application Deadline: Monday, February 18, 2019

The 8-day Summer Institute in Migration Research Methods helps to train early career researchers in best-practices and in methodologies particularly relevant to the study of immigration and migrant populations. The 2019 institute will focus on: (1) ethics and best practices for mixed methods research design; (2) estimating causal relationships in research on immigrants and immigration policy; and (3) the use of administrative and linked, longitudinal data sources to study change over time and across generations. The institute will also include sessions on professionalization, including how to increase the impact of research by translating findings for policy discussions and the public.

Understanding the Correlation between Alzheimer’s Disease Polygenic Risk, Wealth, and the Composition of Wealth Holdings

Dean Lillard, Professor in the Department of Human Sciences at Ohio State University, explores whether people save differently when they have a greater or smaller polygenic risk of developing Alzheimer’s Disease. The issue is salient for two principal reasons. First, the so-called Baby Boomers are rapidly aging into ranges at which people develop Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (hereafter ADRD). Second, social scientists increasingly use variation in genetic make-up of individuals to account for individual differences in social and economic behavior. This seminar is co-sponsored with the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance.

Family Planning Symposium Follow-Up Meeting (3/13/2019) – RSVP by 1/31/2019

The key leaders of the recent Family Planning Symposium recently met and decided to institute quarterly meetings as follow up to facilitate further collaborations and build momentum for a possible Center.

The first meeting will take place on Wednesday, March 13, 2019 from 3-5PM in the Health Sciences Building on the University of Washington campus.  The exact location will be determined by the number of people that plan to attend.  The format of this meeting is still being developed but the general consensus is to have 1-2 “speakers” who will use 15-30 min to discuss their work (hopefully including speakers from areas we haven’t yet touched upon in our multidisciplinary symposia such as legal/policy issues around FP, economics of FP and a deeper dive into Implementation Science and FP).  Then we will have 3-4 folks discuss “work in progress” including new collaborations, grant proposals, paper ideas for feedback.

If you’re interested in attending, please RSVP via this link by January 31, 2019: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/metab/365323

The leaders would also like to create a shared list to be used as a clearing house of information for people at the UW working in Family Planning and would like to add your contact information to the list.

If you would like to be included in the Family Planning clearing house, please also respond via the previous link.