Early Stage Investigator Paper Competition
The submission period is now open for the Early Stage Investigators (ESI, within 10 years of their terminal degree) paper competition. OBSSR will pay the travel expenses for up to four ESI honorees to present the findings from their accepted paper and participate in a moderated discussion of future research possibilities during the meeting. More information about the paper competition can be found at the link below. OBSSR encourages you to share this information with your grantees.

Save the Date for the 12th NIH Matilda White Riley Behavioral and Social Sciences Honors!
Thursday, June 6, 2019
8:00 am to 12 noon
NIH’s Main Campus – Wilson Hall, Building 1
A registration link will be provided soon.

The 2019 Matilda White Riley Distinguished Lecturer is Mark J. VanLandingham, Ph.D. Thomas C. Keller Professor Director, Center for Studies of Displaced Populations Tulane University.

Presentation Title: Culture and Resilience: Insights from the Vietnamese American community in post-Katrina New Orleans

Dr. Mark J. VanLandingham’s Biography:
Mark J. VanLandingham, PhD, is the Thomas C. Keller Professor at Tulane University. His research focuses on a wide array of topics related to demography, sociology, and public health. He has led recent major projects focusing on the antecedents and consequences of largescale rural-to-urban migration within Southeast Asia; and acculturation, health, and well-being among Vietnamese immigrants in the United States. One major project underway investigates Health and Demographic Disparities in Long-term Recovery from Hurricane Katrina (HDDR-HK), funded by a Program Award (P01) from NIH. He co-leads this team of researchers from Tulane, Harvard, NYU, Brown, and Michigan with Mary Waters and David Abramson. This project is based at Tulane’s new Center for Studies of Displaced Populations (CSDP), which he directs. An enduring interest is community resilience within immigrant communities, and he has a recent book on this topic published by the Russell Sage Foundation: Weathering Katrina (2017). Regarding teaching, he co-leads (with Katherine Andrinopoulos) the International Health and Development (IHD) Section and Program within the Department of Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences in Tulane’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. For teaching and student mentoring, Dr. VanLandingham has recently received the school’s Teaching Excellence Award (2013) and the school’s award for Outstanding Long term Commitment to Student Needs (2018).

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is offering an internship within the Statistics Team/Field Information and Coordination Support Section in our Copenhagen  Headquarters in Denmark.

The internship will be within UNHCR’s Statistics Team, which sits within the Division of Programme Support and Management (DPSM). This internship offers a unique opportunity to support a new initiative on improving statistics on stateless populations as well as experience working within the UN system. Therefore we seek a dynamic and driven individual with a keen interest in reporting on hard to reach and marginalized populations as well as strong organizational and analytical skills.

UNHCR is a global organisation dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights and building a better future for refugees, forcibly displaced communities and stateless people. Every year, millions of men, women and children are forced to flee their homes to escape conflict and persecution. We are in over 130 countries, using our expertise to protect and care for millions.

Title: Statistics Intern
Duty Station: Copenhagen, Denmark
Duration: Six months
Contract Type: Internship
Closing date: Sunday 10 March, Mid-Night Central European Time (CET)
Start date: 01 April 2019 or as soon as possible

UCLA and Princeton are recruiting for one newly funded post-doctoral fellow for a collaborative project on the role of occupational stratification by race/ethnicity and immigrant status and its effects on older adult health in the United States. A main focus is on the higher rate of functional limitations by age among the native-born and immigrant Latino/Hispanic population.  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.

Successful candidates MUST have advanced statistical modeling experience (e.g., complex growth curve models, multilevel models, multistate processes) and excellent statistical programming skills (preferably in Stata and R) plus graduate training in a sociology, demography, or another social science. Strong writing skills, the ability to get things done, and the habit of working in a collegial manner are also important.  Knowledge of the research literature on immigration and on the social determinants of health is a real plus, but not absolutely essential.

For UCLA:  https://ccpr.ucla.edu/2019/01/24/postdoctoral-fellow-for-a-research-project-on-the-role-of-occupational-segregation-by-race-ethnicity-and-immigrant-status-on-older-adult-health/

For Princeton:  https://opr.princeton.edu/jobs/

Research Fellow in Family Demography, ESRC Centre for Population Change

Social Statistics & Demography, University of Southampton

Location:  Highfield Campus
Salary:   £30,395 to £37,345 Per annum 
Full Time Fixed Term for 24 months
Closing Date:  Monday 11 March 2019
Interview Date:   TBC in late March
Reference:  1107619CC

The Centre for Population Change at the University of Southampton is looking to recruit a talented quantitative researcher with interests in family demography and/or quantitative sociology. The project will explore factors associated with partnership formation, dissolution and childbearing. You will use the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS), and other secondary data to examine the relationship between partnership dynamics and housing and labour market transitions across the lifecourse. The work will focus on the UK but will reflect on the changing nature of partnerships within Europe and the US.

The successful applicant will work for 24 months under the direction of Professor Ann Berrington and Dr. Brienna Perelli-Harris. You will have a PhD or equivalent professional qualifications and experience in a quantitative social science discipline and experience with advanced quantitative methods, excellent knowledge and solid practical experience in the use of STATA or a similar software program and good written and oral communication skills. Prior experience with analysing the UKHLS is desirable.

The deadline for applications is 11 March 2019. The position is tenable from 1 June 2019.  Informal inquiries may be made via email to Prof Ann Berrington  a.berrington@soton.ac.uk / Dr. Brienna Perelli-Harris B.G.Perelli-Harris@southampton.ac.uk or telephone: +44 (0)23 8059 7180/ +44 (0)23 80 594549. Submit your completed online application form at www.jobs.soton.ac.uk.

Department of International Development 

LSE Fellow in Health and International Development 

The closing date for receipt of applications is 29 March 2019 (23.59 UK time)

Salary from £35,999 to £43,360 pa inclusive with potential to progress to £46,617 pa inclusive of London allowance  

This is a 12 month appointment in the first instance, with potential to extend to 24 months.

The Department of International Development promotes interdisciplinary postgraduate teaching and research on processes of political, economic, and social development and change. We are dedicated to understanding problems of poverty and late development within local communities, as well as national and international political and economic systems. The appointed candidate will contribute to the intellectual life of the School through conducting and publishing outstanding quality research, engaging in high quality teaching as instructed by the Head of Department, and participating in the School and wider Department activities.

Based in the Department, the Fellow’s teaching will be concentrated in the MSc in Health and International Development with some teaching on Development: History, Theory and Policy. This is a Fellowship for an early-career scholar; it is intended that you will dedicate a significant amount of time to your own research, writing and professional development.

Successful applicants will also contribute to the scholarship and intellectual life of the School by conducting teaching and research which will enhance the School’s reputation as a research-led teaching institution, with appropriate mentoring from department. A key part of the work will involve supervising, teaching and examining Master’s level students through lectures, seminars, course work and tutorials.

Candidates should have completed or be close to completing a PhD from a social science discipline such as Politics, Development Studies, International Relations, Sociology, Anthropology, Geography, Social Policy, Health Policy or related subjects. A strong knowledge of health and international development, combined with a developing research record in health as related to broader issues in the field of international development, is required.  

We offer an occupational pension scheme, generous annual leave and excellent training and development opportunities.

For further information about the post, please see the how to apply document, job description and the person specification.

To apply for this post, please go to www.lse.ac.uk/LSEJobs. If you have any technical queries with applying on the online system, please use the “contact us” links at the bottom of the LSE Jobs page. Should you have any queries about the role, please email Professor Ernestina Coast (e.coast@lse.ac.uk). 

The closing date for receipt of applications is 29 March 2019 (23.59 UK time). Regrettably, we are unable to accept any late applications.

An LSE Fellowship is intended to be an entry route to an academic career and is deemed by the School to be a career development position.  As such, applicants who have already been employed as a LSE Fellow for three years in total are not eligible to apply. If you have any queries about this please contact the HR Division.

Urban@UW will be hiring a student assistant to collaborate on communications and administration during UW’s spring quarter, with a possibility to continue through summer 2019. Please see the attached position description / announcement and share with folks who would be a great fit!

The Institute for Population Research at the Ohio State University seeks a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the team of project entitled “Demand for Modern Contraception in sub-Saharan Africa: New Methods, New Evidence.” This project is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and is co-directed by John Casterline and Samuel Clark.

CCU Population Center (CUPC) at the University of Colorado Boulder is currently recruiting a postdoctoral fellow with expertise in population-environment research, to start August 2019. The initial term of appointment is one year, but reappointment for a second year is possible subject to performance evaluation.

CUPC, housed in the Institute of Behavioral Science, is a national leader in demographic research on population health, environmental demography and migration patterns and processes. This postdoctoral research position builds on CUPC’s strengths in environmental demography, and within that area, candidates should have research expertise in migration-climate within livelihoods and potentially including health linkages, rural demographic processes, social vulnerability and natural hazards, and/or urbanization processes and their effects on the environment and health.

Key Responsibilities:  Candidates must have experience in quantitative methods, the use of computational, statistical or data scientific approaches applied to social science or interdisciplinary research settings as well as data integration involving spatial and non-spatial data. They are expected to bring particular interest in interdisciplinary research and to participate in, and develop, projects collaborative with Earth Lab Boulder, an initiative harmonizing the wealth of Earth observation data to facilitate innovative scholarship using combinations of satellite, survey, and field data at various spatial and temporal scales.

Postdoctoral fellows are expected to spend time working independently as well as collaboratively with CUPC faculty affiliates on large-scale research projects and grant proposals. Postdoctoral researchers will be resident within CUPC in the Institute of Behavioral Science, will coordinate and/or participate in relevant working groups, regularly attend and present within the CUPC speaker series and other CUPC workshops and mentoring activities. We also expect fellows to attend the Population Association of America (PAA) annual meetings, submit two or more population-focused articles for publication during their time at CU Boulder, and help strengthen connections between CUPC and Earth Lab.

Qualifications:  Candidates must be Ph.D. degree in social sciences related to CUPC research themes.

The University of Colorado Boulder is one of the largest employers in Boulder County and offers an inspiring higher education environment. The University of Colorado Boulder is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and offers excellent benefits, including medical, dental, retirement, paid time off, tuition benefit and ECO Pass.

Application review will begin March 6, 2019.

The candidate’s cover letter should describe research interests and a 2-year plan including potential collaborative links as related to above substantive areas of interest.  Application materials will not be accepted via email and must be submitted through CU Boulder Jobs.

For questions or additional information: Please contact Lori Hunter, Director, CU Population Center:  Lori.Hunter@colorado.edu

Mini-conference announcement:

Climate Change, Human Migration and Health: Integrating social and environmental data to accelerate innovative science

University of Colorado Boulder

May 20-21, 2019

Organized by CU Population Center, Earth Lab, IUSSP Panel on Migration-Climate-Health

Climate change is influencing human migration patterns, while also impacting human health. Innovations in the integration of social and ecological data are essential to move forward these critical research frontiers, as well as to investigate other human dimensions of global environmental change. This conference will move forward understanding of successes, challenges and the potential of social and ecological data integration. Participation by both social and natural scientists is essential in this endeavor.

Since 2008, an average of 26.4 million people per year have been displaced from their homes by natural disasters — an estimated one person every second.[1] Recent IPCC reports suggest some extreme events will become more intense as global temperatures warm.[2] Human movement in response to climate extremes have critically important implications for human health in both sending and receiving regions as new health challenges emerge and health systems are increasingly taxed. Climate change also has documented impacts, itself, on human health such as increased heat-related deaths.

During this 2-day conference, Day 1 will open with inspirational speakers reviewing innovations, challenges and needs in socio-ecological data integration with a focus on climate change as related to migration and human health. Afternoon research panels and a poster reception will provide important empirical examples. Day 2 will offer flash research sessions as well as topically-focused working groups aimed to set research agendas, build collaborations, and/or work toward high-impact scientific publications.

Applications are required to ensure adequate space and to identify key thematic areas for working groups. Limited funds are available to support travel expenses. In your submission, please include your CV and describe your interest in the conference including its relation to your research agenda or interests. If interested in presenting your research, please also include an extended abstract. Also please note if funding is required. Participants and presenters will be selected based on research alignment with conference objectives, quality of abstract. Attention will also be paid to maintaining a diversity of representation by discipline, geography, career stage and socio-demographics.

Submit materials by March 18^th, decisions will be made by March 22^nd.

Questions? CUPC Director: Lori.Hunter@colorado.edu

Application to CUPC Program Manager: Marisa.Seitz@colorado.edu

This conference is supported and organized by the University of Colorado Population Center, the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, as well as CU Boulder’s Institute of Behavioral Science, Grand Challenge and Earth Lab. The conference is also supported by Grant 5R13HD078101‐03 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and has benefited from the NICHD‐funded University of Colorado Population Center (Project 2P2CHD066613-06) for research, administrative and computing support.  The views expressed do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention by trade names, commercial practices or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government