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)
Urban@UW invites proposals from across all three UW campuses to pursue research interests in critical aspects of contemporary urban societies. The goal of this small grants program is to spark new and emerging urban research initiatives to scope out their mission and initial research, teaching, and engagement goals. Proposals may request up to $20,000. Urban@UW anticipates funding 2 projects. The application period opens June 15, 2020 and completed proposals are due by July 15, 2020.
Timeline:
● May 26, 2020: RFP announced
● June 15, 2020: application period opens
● July 15, 2020: application deadline (11:59pm Pacific)
● August 15, 2020: awardees notified
● September 15, 2020-March 15-2021: period of performance quarterly reports will be requested
● May 15, 2021: final report detailing accomplishments and final budget reconciliation due
Postdoctoral Fellow Position at McGill University, Montréal, Canada
The Consortium on Analytics for Data‐Driven Decision‐Making (CAnD3) invites applications for a 1year postdoctoral fellow (renewable). Deadline for applications: 15 June 2020
See https://www.mcgill.ca/popcentre/opportunities/postdoctoral-fellow-cand3
The Betancourt Macias Family Scholarship Foundation has compiled a document of nationwide and state resources and fundraisers for undocumented communities amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
NIH R01 for transformative research. The NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award Program supports collaborative investigative teams or individual scientists who propose unusually innovative research projects, which, if successful, would have a major impact in a broad area of relevance to the NIH. To be considered transformative, projects must have the potential to create or overturn fundamental scientific paradigms through novel concepts or perspectives, transform the way research is conducted through the development of novel tools or technologies, or lead to major improvements in health through the development of highly innovative diagnostic, therapeutic, or preventive strategies. Consistent with this focus, Transformative Research Award applications should propose research substantially different from current mainstream research. Those wishing to apply for the NIH Director’s Emergency Transformative Research Award for SARS-CoV-2-related research must apply in response to RFA-RM-20-020.
National Analysis of Rental Markets Using Scraped Online Data
We are seeking two summer graduate research student assistants (GRSAs) for the 2020 Summer Quarter. The GRSAs will assist with research on an emergent effort to collect data by scraping rental listings from online platforms in order to analyze rental markets. This is part of a broader research agenda with possible extension through the next two academic years if funding is available.
Duration: June 16, 2020 through September 15, 2020
Hours: Flexible
Supervision: Rebecca Walter and Arthur Acolin, College of Built Environments
C40 and the Mayors’ Migration Council are looking to build a training model to help cities a) internalize the connection between their inclusive climate action work and building a welcoming city for migrants and refugees, and b) begin to talk about these issues as part of the same objective to create policies that promote resilience and inclusion. To that end, they are hiring a consultant. Proposals are due on June 5th.
The first wave – likely not the unique – of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is ravaging the planet from a few months only and yet, in order to describe its dramatic demographic and socio-economic impact, the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic and the Great 1929 recession have been already evoked. Although the ultimate outcomes of the Covid-19 pandemic depend still on a wide number of unknowns, yet it is becoming clear that its consequences were largely modulated by a number of existing inequality gradients. And in turn, these gradients might dramatically worsen for long time in the future as a consequence of the pandemic. Assessments of these phenomena and the underlying causes, as well as the direct and indirect implications of current and future control measures, is critical for driving the world population out of the crisis.
This Genus Thematic Series aims to offer an updated examination of the key population dynamics and demographic and socio-economic implications of the Covid-19 pandemic – and of policies to face it – at a range of geographic, socio-economic, socio-demographic, and temporal scales.
CSDE Affiliate Ruanne Barnabas is leading a study on hydroxychloroquine and whether the drug can protect people from COVID-19 infection—this study is funded by the The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the British government, and other donors to accelerate development of COVID-19 treatments. With the recent publicity on hydroxychloroquine, multiple news sources are featuring Barnabas’ expertise on the drug’s effectiveness and the status of clinical trial enrollment for the study. In a Seattle Times article, Barnabas explains how volunteers for clinical trial enrollment has fallen in recent weeks, yet researchers still “need an adequate number of people to enroll to know what [hydroxychloroquine’s] effectiveness is with confidence.”
Barnabas was featured in NPR, KOMO News, The Daily of UW, and another Seattle Times article.
If you a graduate student who has completed all of the requirements for the Graduate Certificate in Demographic Methods, it is not too late to submit your documentation to receive your certificate.
- Please follow the instructions on the CSDE webpage for requesting the certificate.
- Upload your documentation to this link
You may receive the certificate even if you have not yet applied to the Graduate Certificate Program. You can be admitted into the program and awarded the certificate at the same time! Please submit your documentation asap but no later than May 29 by noon.
You will need to work with the Graduate Program Advisor (GPA) of your graduate program so fill out the form as soon as you can. Your unit’s GPA will need time to do a credit audit to confirm that the overlap of credits between the Certificate Program and your graduate program, or degree track or specialization, does not exceed 6 credits and is limited to electives. If your GPA needs more time to audit your credits please contact Aimée Dechter asap (dechter@uw.edu).
The Certificate Program’s required courses consist of 14 credit hours in core demography. The program requires an additional 2 elective courses (a minimum of 6 credit hours) that may be selected from a broad range of disciplines. Review the curriculum requirements and rules here.
If you plan to graduate in 2020 and will complete all the requirements at the end of this quarter, you can be included in the June 5th CSDE end of year event during the CSDE seminar time slot by submitting preliminary documentation now, and updating the documentation after you have received credit for the course(s). The formal Graduate School certificate will appear on your transcript after you complete the requirements and submit the updated documentation.
ADDITIONALLY: Please fill out this 5-minute survey ASAP for all CSDE students so that CSDE can update CSDE records necessary for reporting to NIH and the Deans, and to gather good news to celebrate you at the end of year celebration June 5th.