The Urban Affairs Association is delighted to announce our new journal, the Journal of Race, Ethnicity and the City (JRE). We are making an open call for papers to be submitted to the journal.

The journal will:

• Serve as an outlet for ground-breaking theoretical and empirical approaches that explore race, ethnicity, identity and social justice;
• Examine the complex relations between race, ethnicity and other vectors of identity, including gender, class, religion and sexuality;
• Explore the influence of these complexities in shaping the social, economic, political, environmental, and cultural dimensions of urban spaces;
• Deconstruct the role of colonial and post-colonial practices and discourses on race and ethnicity in shaping the urban spaces of everyday life within a global context;
• Expand the global discourse on race, ethnicity and other vectors of identity;
• Promote interdisciplinary and comparative insights into race and ethnicity.

We are particularly interested in groundbreaking theoretical, empirical and engaged scholarship manuscripts that meet the aims and scopes of the journal and set the tone for future issues of the JRE. We invite manuscripts based on original empirical work, as well as review articles and shorter perspective pieces. At this time, we particularly welcome original articles (with a word count of around 8,000 words). Please see further guidance for authors here.

Submission Guidelines

When you are ready to submit a manuscript, please log into our online system:  https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ujre

For further questions, please contact the editors at jre.editor@uaamail.org.

Yasminah Beebeejaun, University College London (United Kingdom)

Ali Modarres, University of Washington, Tacoma (USA)

Further Editorial Board information can be found here.

Are you interested in doing empirical work on COVID-19? PAA2020’s next COVID webinar on Tuesday, June 23 10:00 – 11:30 AM will detail how six existing publicly available longitudinal studies are incorporating new measures to capture peoples’ experiences of the pandemic. Please register in advance with this link.

Panelists and surveys include:

• David Weir (University of Michigan): Health and Retirement Study (HRS)
• David Johnson (University of Michigan): Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)
• Vicki Freedman (University of Michigan): National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS)
• Carolyn Halpern (University of North Carolina): National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health)
• Arie Kapteyn (University of Southern California): Understanding America Study (UAS)
• Deborah Carr (Boston University): National Longitudinal Study of Youth (1979) (NLSY)
• Session Organizer and Chair – Pam Herd (Georgetown University)

The COVID-19 pandemic has touched every part of our global society, putting science and scientists in the front seat as we navigate this crisis. Join us for a special edition of “Amplify – Conversations about Science Communication”, where we explore the intersection of science and society, the role of science journalism and science communication, and how to make sense of all the information and turn it into action. Jointly brought to you by the University of Washington College of the Environment and School of Public Health, this live discussion will be hosted by Deans Lisa Graumlich and Hilary Godwin, with special guests Liz Neeley, Executive Director of the Story Collider, and Ed Yong, staff writer covering science and the coronavirus for The Atlantic.

4:00-5:00pm – Zoom webinar. Registration required

Climate scientists agree that in order to have any chance of continuing to live on this planet as a species, humans will need to coalesce into dense megacities. Urban planners across the world have already begun designing the sustainable cities of the future and include every aspect of human well-being save for one glaring omission- nature interaction. There is currently no tool for incorporating nature interaction into urban design, let alone quantify it. Nostos AI, founded by UW SEFS masters student Audryana Nay, seeks to fill this gap in the urban design industry, providing a design tool that can add meaningful and authentic human-nature into our cities allowing humanity to thrive.

12:00-1:00pm – Zoom meeting.

The senior manager is the chief survey research expert at the Pew Charitable Trusts and manages review and support of all surveys that the Trusts puts in the public domain. The senior manager will consult on survey designs and questionnaires and ensure that public releases adhere to industry standards for transparency and disclosure. The senior manager will serve as a liaison to the Pew Research Center to ensure that the Trusts’ standards remain aligned with the best practices of the Center, and keep current with best practices and standards in survey research. The senior manager will become a trusted advisor to colleagues who are subject-matter experts and will support their research projects through contract development, project management, research design, questionnaire development, and data analysis. 

The position, based in Pew’s Washington, D.C., office, reports to the director, research support. 

The WHO Human Reproduction Program (HRP) will soon be advertising consultant opportunities for researchers to support us in areas listed below. 

1. Product 1: Manuscript describing attitudes of potential male and female users based on a global survey.   The manuscript would address key questions as to whether: men will use contraception and why, their partners will trust them to use contraception and why, male contraception would address unmet contraceptive needs and how, and availability of these methods would improve men’s access to other reproductive health services and how.

1. 1. Development of protocol
   2. Manuscript writing          

1. Product 2: manuscript based on modelling potential of new methods of male contraception to increase contraceptive demand satisfied and to engage men in health care

1. 1. Review of male contraception methods under development 
   2. Market analysis 
   3. Analysis of the key drivers of unmet need 
   4. Model potential fertility, health and non-health impact of male contraception on

1. Product 3: Manuscript based on a review of evidence on impact of unintended pregnancy on men

1. 1. Landscape review
   2. Manuscript writing

The time commitment is about 30-45 working days for each product, these can be spread out over the next 7 months.  The work can be done remotely without travel to Geneva. Contact James Kiarie at kiariej@who.int if you are interested. 

The Population Research Institute (PRI) at The Pennsylvania State University anticipates an 1-2 openings for a postdoctoral fellow in the NICHD-supported Social Environments and Population Health training program, starting on or about August 17, 2020.

Applicants must have a Ph.D. in demography, sociology, family studies, anthropology, health policy and administration, or a related discipline by the starting date. A strong background in quantitative analysis of social science data is desirable.

We seek trainees with an interest in deepening their substantive and methodological expertise in both demography and social environments and population health. Postdoctoral fellows devote most of their time to research collaborations with faculty mentors and independent research and research grant proposal writing, but they may also audit selected courses to increase their disciplinary expertise. Fellowships are for one year, with possibility for a second year.

Candidates must be U.S. citizens or Permanent Residents at the time of application. Salary and benefits are competitive. Screening of applications will begin on June 1, 2020 and continue until the position is filled.