This talk is presented by the Qualitative Multi-Method Research Initiative (QUAL) Speaker Series with support from the Anne H.H. and Kenneth B. Pyle Assistant Professorship, Center for Korea Studies, Center for Global Studies, Comparative Religion Program, Isaac Alhadeff Professorship in Sephardic Studies, Jackson School Ph.D. Program, JSIS Japan Studies Program, Job and Gertrud Tamaki Professorship, Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Near and Middle Eastern Studies, School of Law, and South Asia Center.

CBE Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series Featuring Lance Freeman Wednesday, Jan 16, 6:30-7:30pm – UW Architecture Hall, Room 147

Lance Freeman, a professor in the Urban Planning program at Columbia GSAPP, conducts research on affordable housing, gentrification, ethnic and racial stratification in housing markets, and the relationship between the built environment and well being. As part of the Dean’s Distinguished Lecture series, he will be presenting on his newest book, A Haven and a Hell, the culmination of his research on issues related to neighborhood change, urban poverty, housing policy, urban sprawl and residential segregation. He examines how the ghetto shaped black America and black America shaped the ghetto, tracing the evolving role of predominantly black neighborhoods in northern cities from the late nineteenth century through the present day.

This event is free and a great opportunity to learn about homelessness research happening on another campus.

Click Here for more Info on Lance Freeman’s Upcoming Lecture

Friday, January 18, 2019 from 9:30am to 3:30pm

UW Leadership Without Borders

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Training Overview

The Undocu Ally Training highlights best practices to support undocumented students as well as the following topics:

-Narratives of undocumented students and their families.

-An overview of the history, policies, and current issues impacting this student population.

-Why and how to be an ally to undocumented students.

-Strategies and models to support undocumented students.

-Recommendations for how to personalize and adapt best practices.

CSSS 544: Event History Analysis (Winter 2019)

The desire to understand duration data is a major goal of research spanning many areas of social-scientific inquiry and application, from the demographer’s focus on lifespan, birth spacing, and cyclical migration; to the sociologist’s interest in recidivism and the rate of dispersal of contagions throughout social networks; to the healthcare researcher’s concern for time between exposure and infection, addiction relapse, and injury recovery; to the political scientist’s interest in the longevity of peacetime and partisan control of government; to the educator’s interest in drop-out rates and timing to completion of education programs; and so on. For graduate students in the University of Washington social science community who wish to master statistical concepts and methods particularly well-suited to describing, explaining, and predicting all manner of duration data, as well as how duration data are related to other variables of salient research interest, please consider enrolling in CSSS 544: Event History Analysis this (Winter 2019) quarter (http://www.csss.washington.edu/academics/time-schedule/2019,winter,CS&SS,544).

Plenty of spots are still open in the class. We meet Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:30a-12:20p, in Savery Hall 117. There are no course prerequisities, though students knowledgeable in R, probability theory, applied regression, maximum likelihood estimation, or Bayesian statistics will be especially well-prepared for the course content. If you are interested or desire further information, please contact the course instructor, William Brown (brownw@uw.edu).

You are invited to the Healthy Generations Hartford Center of Excellence Annual Lecture by LaShawnDa Pittman, PhD: “When You Say Grandmother You Still Say Mother: Black Grandmothering in the 21st Century.”

Please RSVP here.

The Race, Indigeneity, Gender, and Sexuality (RIGS) Studies Initiative presents the RIGS Dissertation Proposal Fellowship (DPF). The DPF encourages applications from students from underrepresented groups and whose research engages broadly with issues of inequality with an intensive week-long dissertation proposal workshop in March 2019. In addition, we will award a $1000 stipend/fellowship.

Our focus is to support graduate students, approximately in their second to fourth years of graduate study, who are in the middle of developing their dissertation proposals. In this inaugural year, we are looking for projects in the humanities, education, policy, and the social sciences, that are committed to addressing and engaging with some of the most pressing socio-economic issues and inequalities of our time.

The RIGS DPF workshop will run from March 18, 2019, through March 21, 2019, and active participation in this workshop is a requirement of the fellowship.

The ITHS TL1 program is a one-year mentored research-training program in translational science for predoctoral students. The TL1 program is open to applicants from all disciplines and backgrounds who meet the eligibility criteria.

The deadline to apply for the 2019-2020 cohort is coming up – January 15. It may be offered again next year, so mark your calendar to apply for the 2020-2021 cohort.

Program benefits include:

• A cross-disciplinary community of emerging researchers
• Funding (monthly stipend, tuition, and research activities)
• Mentorship and career development

Interested in attending the Annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Washington DC this February? Check out the following call for applications for a travel grant, due January 20, 2018.

The AAAS Social, Economic and Political Sciences Section  budget contains money that will allow help support several grad or post grad students to attend the February AAAS annual meeting from Wednesday February 13 through Sunday February 19.

Note that airfare must be purchased 14 days in advance at cheapest rates and student registration rates increase by $10 on January 22.  Also depending on the number of applicants for support it is possible if not likely that there will be a cap on the amount of support that any one student or post doc can receive.  (I am thinking of $600) Those supported should be studying for a degree or working as a post doc in one of the social science disciplines included under the Sections umbrella (broadly interpreted to include social sciences closely related to our named sciences if they are not represented by another AAAS section.). They should  also commit to attend the Section Business Meeting from 10 until noon on February 15.

Any person interested in applying for Section K support should send a support request to Professor Richard Lempert (rlempert@umich.edu) by January 20, 2018.  In their letter they should indicate the discipline in which they are studying for a graduate degree or working as a post doc; provide a budget indicating the minimum Section support they think they will need to attend the annual meeting;  and list other sources of support that they have available to attend the meeting.

Researcher for SSHOC project, Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics, CEE (UMR 8239), Sciences Po (Paris, France)

Deadline for application: 25 January 2019

The Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics seeks to appoint a Researcher to work with Prof Laura Morales in the project “Social Sciences and Humanities Open Cloud (SSHOC)”, grant number 823782, of the H2020 programme INFRAEOSC-2018-2 funded by the European Commission.

SSHOC is a large-scale collaborative project and, within its larger scope, the team led by Prof Morales at CEE will take care of a sub-project in coordination with COST Action 16111 ETHMIGSURVEYDATA in order to consolidate a comprehensive (and constantly updated) database that lists all the hundreds of quantitative surveys undertaken with ethnic and migrant minority (sub)samples across Europe in a way that it complies with the FAIR principles. Additionally, the team at CEE will lead the development of a pilot sub-project that will allow assessing the feasibility of setting a full stream of the European Question Bank (EQB) dedicated to the ethnic and migrant minority (EMM) survey data that will be compiled by the COST Action ETHMIGSURVEYDATA, in coordination with other partners in the larger SSHOC project. The appointed research will thus join a large international team of experts from all across Europe on the integration of EMMs and on survey research and will have the chance to work on a research project that will break new ground in these fields. This is, thus, a unique opportunity to build a career in survey research focusing on this specific sub-population. Download the call for applications

Interviews will be planned for the week of 4 February 2019.

For more information please read the attached job description.