Please join us tomorrow as CSSS presents Letters of Recognition to graduate students completing a statistics concentration or track. This will be followed by a brief overview of CS&SS courses that will be offered in the 2019-2020 academic year.

King County’s Department of Community and Human Services (DCHS) provides equitable opportunities for people to be healthy, happy, self-reliant and connected to community.

DCHS manages a wide range of programs and services to assist the county’s most vulnerable residents. The department maintains a pro-equity focus aimed at developing the systems and standards necessary to achieve better outcomes for all county residents, regardless of race or income.

This position is centrally located within the Performance Measurement and Evaluation (PME) unit of the DCHS Director’s Office. PME is composed of a team of dedicated data scientists and program evaluators who work with partners within and outside of DCHS to test innovative approaches to tackling a variety of system, policy, and service delivery challenges.

This position supports the Behavioral Health and Recovery Division (BHRD) within DCHS. It affords a unique opportunity for a data scientist/evaluator with advanced quantitative skills to improve the performance of King County’s behavioral health system for the benefit of its clients. A key focus of the position is to develop performance measures and evaluate innovative projects and value-based payment initiatives aimed at ensuring timely, well-coordinated, integrated care. Note: This recruitment may be used to fill other similar career service positions.

Our Office of Policy and Strategic Initiatives is seeking a Research and Evaluation Analyst (REA) with a particular focus on and skillset in quantitative data analytics and data organization. This valuable role in our agency will provide a number of opportunities to:

• Improve the organization’s capacity to make data-informed decisions and use data to identify and explore questions toward furthering the agency’s mission.
• Serve as the key resource for cross-departmental and cross-sector data management, extraction, analytics, and utilization.
• Provide critical input on policy and program evaluation methods,

Please check out the details here and share this opportunity with anyone you think might be a good fit. Feel free to reach out to me with any questions.

With Tom Emery (GGP Deputy Director)

Tuesday, 28 May 2019 from 14:00 to 15:00 (Central European Summer Time GMT+2)

Register for the webinar: https://bit.ly/2JBFqog

The Generations and Gender Programme (GGP) is a Social Science Research Infrastructure that provides micro- and macro-level data which significantly improve the knowledge base for social science and policymaking in Europe and developed countries elsewhere. It offers one of the most complete datasets to study individual life courses, relationships, families and their children. Up till now, 20 countries have conducted at least one wave of data collection. The GGP is now ready for a new round of data collection, with an improved new questionnaire. Want to know what are the key innovations and what will be possible to know? In this webinar, Tom Emery, Deputy Director of GGP will present an overview of the new questionnaire, how it can be adapted to different languages and contexts and what it will measure in terms of Sustainable Development Goals.

The individual will collaborate with a group of other investigators and have some time for his/her own research. The successful applicant should have training and experience using demographic and statistical methods, including statistical analyses of large micro-level data sets. 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 Dawn Ryan, ryandawn@pop.upenn.edu. If you have questions, you should address them to Professor Irma Elo, Population Studies Center, 3718 Locust Walk, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. 19104 or email popelo@pop.upenn.edu.

We at the UW Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity (CERSE) are hiring a Graduate Research Assistant for Summer and Fall Quarter 2019 (with the possibility of extension). The job requires a diversity, equity, and inclusion orientation and strong quantitative and qualitative data analysis skills. The complete job description is attached.

The Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) in Wiesbaden, Germany, seeks candidates for a part-time position in mobility studies for a period of 3 years (salary group E13 TVöD; 75%). 

The appointment will be made in the research group “Spatial Mobility and Internal Migration”. The successful candidate will participate in a quantitative empirical research project on the quality of life of expatriates living in megacities. The project is carried out in close collaboration with the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Candidates are required to demonstrate good scientific knowledge in the fields of international mobility (in particular expatriates), quality of life and/or psychological characteristics, stress and coping. Training and expertise in analysing survey data and strong quantitative analysis skills are essential. Good command of German language is required. See attached job offer 184/19 for details (for legal reasons in German language only). 

The start date is negotiable, preferably in summer or early fall 2019. 

See BiB website for details: 

https://www.bib.bund.de/DE/Institut/Stellenangebote/Stellenangebote.html   

https://www.bib.bund.de/DE/Forschung/Migration/Projekte/Lebensqualitaet-von-Auslandsentsandten-in-Megacities.html

The Economic Undergraduate Board presents an interdisciplinary discussion on academia’s response to climate change, moderated and presented by the Economics Undergraduate Board as their first interdisciplinary panel. Panelists include Dr. David F. Layton from the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance, Dr. Himanshu Grover from the College of Built Environments, Dr. Sandra O. Archibald from the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance, and Dr. Nives Dolšak from the School of Marine & Environmental Affairs. This Paul Heyne seminar is free of cost for all students, with dinner provided.

This year’s annual conference is entitled “Racial Categories and the 2020 Census.” We will highlight scholarly and community engaged work on the topic, and explore how definitions of race change to accommodate or contest power.

The U.S. government, through the decennial Census Bureau, has a goal “to count everyone once, only once, and in the right place.” Census data is used by state agencies, policy makers, scholars, and businesses to know, understand, and make policy decisions about our communities, to account for political representation, and to allocate public resources.

The Census does not simply reflect the racial identities in existence, rather, its racial categorization has powerful impacts on how ‘race’ is politically and socially defined, and how marginalized people are made visible to and by state institutions. In many ways, the history of the Census traces the history of the construction of racial identities.

The US 2020 Census presents unique challenges to consider. In response to decades of activism and lobbying, the Obama administration approved the addition of a ‘Middle Eastern, North African’ category to the 2020 Census; this addition has now been rejected by the current administration. Under the Trump administration, the debate on the constitutionality of adding a question about citizenship has heightened fears of an undercounting, especially for communities that remain ‘hard to count,’ such those experiencing homelessness, children, immigrant and refugee populations, and the LGBTQ+ community. Additionally, the 2020 Census will be the first digitized Census, bringing up new concerns around data security and further troubling the accuracy of the count. With a lower budget, fewer Census field offices, and new algorithms for differential privacy protections, activists, politicians, policy makers, and scholars are increasingly concerned about the dependability of the data collected by the 2020 Census.

Join us for an informative conference that explores the historical, political, and social aspects of the US Census. The Keynote lecture will feature G. Cristina Mora, Kim Williams, and Nazita Lajevardi on the historical and political impacts of the Census. The following day we will have a series of panels of scholars, activists, policy makers, and journalists that will speak to these and other specific challenges of the 2020 Census. The goal of this conference is to not only learn about the Census, but to collaboratively find ways to speak back to the Census.