Call for Applications:
15th Migration Summer School: Bridging the gaps: connecting research, public debates and policy-making on migration
Florence, Italy, 24 June–5 July 2019
Deadline for applications: 24 March 2019
The Migration Policy Centre is now taking applications for the 2019 edition of the Migration Summer School, which will take place at the European University Institute in Florence (Italy) from 24th June – 5th July 2019. Applications are welcome from research and policy professionals to create an enriching mix of postgraduate students, civil servants, international organisation practitioners, NGO workers, journalists, policy analysts and teachers from around the world. The Migration Policy Centre has a long-standing experience in organising summer schools and executive trainings. It has been selected by the European Commission (DG DEVCO) to train civil servants in Brussels and in the EU Delegations worldwide. It coordinates the provision of training in the field of migration for the European University Institute’s new School of Transnational Governance.
Seven scholarships will be funded by the School of Transnational Governance on a merit basis. Scholarships will cover the fees, travel and accommodation and they will be awarded to outstanding candidates applying from low income economies in Africa and Asia.
For more information and details about the application process, please see the Migration Summer School page on the MPC website.
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HCEO is pleased to announce that applications are now open for our 2019 Summer School on Socioeconomic Inequality (SSSI) Moscow. SSSI will provide a state-of-the-art overview on the study of inequality and human flourishing. Through rigorous lectures, students will be trained on the tools needed to study the issue of inequality.
The summer school will be held at the New Economic School in Moscow from June 10 through June 14, 2019. It is our second SSSI program to be held in Russia. SSSI Moscow is organized by HCEO Co-Director Steven Durlauf and MIP network member Shlomo Weber.
The summer school is open to graduate students from around the world. Participants will be selected from a diverse pool of applicants, representing many disciplines, including: economics, sociology, public health, public policy, and education.
Details on how to apply, as well as more information, can be found here. You may find additional information about SSSI, including past programs and videos, here. Please contact coordinator.hceo@uchicago.edu with any questions.
Click here to apply for Summer School in Moscow.
Given the recent spate of inclement weather that disrupted many people’s work schedules, we have extended the project proposal submission deadline for our Data Science for Social Good Program by a few days.
The deadline is one week from today, on February 21st at 11:59 pm.
The full call for proposals can be found here.
And please read our FAQ guide for prospective project leads before submitting.
UW News recently featured two studies about Seattle’s minimum wage ordinance conducted by research teams replete with CSDE Affiliates. One paper, published in the Social Work and Society International Online Journal, found that more than half of Seattle’s child care businesses were affected by increased labor costs. Co-authors include CSDE Affiliates Heather D. Hill and Scott W. Allard, Evans School of Public Policy and Governance, Jennifer Romich, School of Social Work, and Jennifer J. Otten, Health Services.
Another article, published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, found no significant evidence of price increases on local area supermarket food prices associated with the minimum wage ordinance. CSDE Affiliates Mark Long, Evans School of Public Policy and Governance, and Jennifer J. Otten, Health Services, are co-authors.
Congratulations to all for leading such important research!
CSDE Affiliate Tim Thomas, Data Science Fellow at the eScience Institute & Department of Sociology, heads the UW Evictions Project and is the lead researcher for a report recently released by Washington State’s Democratic legislators in support of legislation aimed at redressing the housing crisis.
The study looks at evictions across Washington and finds that they disproportionately affect women and people of color. Researchers determined that 1 in 11 black King County residents were evicted between 2004 and 2017. In Pierce County, one in six black residents were evicted over the same time span.
Thomas conducts research on how evictions intersect with race, gender, and class. “Not only are evictions a function of the housing crisis, and [a contributor] to the homeless population, but [they are] also a civil rights issue,” he said.
The researchers scraped court records from across Washington state to get names and addresses of people who had “unlawful detainers” — were given three days to pay rent or move out, and who didn’t pay up. They then used machine learning on those two pieces of information to infer the races of the people on the list.
Media mentions include KUOW, The Daily UW, Sequim Gazette, SeattleMet, KOMO News
A team of CSDE scholars featuring trainee Rebecca Rebbe, Social Work, Affiliate Joe Mienko, Senior Research Scientist at Partners for Our Children, Social Work, and Affiliate Ali Rowhani-Rahbar, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, has just published two articles on prenatal substance exposure and child protection. Both papers use population-based linked administrative data, specifically birth, hospital discharge, and child protective services (CPS) records.
The first paper, “Child protection reports and removals of infants diagnosed with prenatal substance exposure,” was published in Child Abuse & Neglect. Findings indicate that most infants diagnosed with prenatal substance exposure (PSE) were not removed by child protective services. Minority PSE infants were not reported to CPS or removed by CPS more than white infants, presenting opportunities for targeted prevention efforts.
The second, “Hospital Variation in Child Protection Reports of Substance Exposed Infants,” has been published in The Journal of Pediatrics. It finds that hospital-level and individual birth-level factors impact the likelihood of infants prenatally exposed to substances being reported to CPS. Targeted education and improved policies are necessary to ensure more standardized approaches to CPS reporting of prenatal substance exposure.
James R Elliott, Professor of Sociology at Rice University, will discuss newly published findings on how rising natural disaster costs drive rising social inequality over individual lifetimes, and the extent to which federal disaster assistance is exacerbating rather than reducing this social problem. Longitudinal data come from approximately 3,400 randomly selected Americans drawn from the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics who experienced varying degrees of local disaster damage in their counties of residence during 1999-2013. Implications call for wider recognition of how disaster recovery should not just respond to pre-existing social inequalities but also minimize the growth of these inequalities in the years that follow.
This one-day workshop on 10/1/2019 will provide an orientation to the value of interdisciplinary collaboration, challenges inherent in interdisciplinary work, and skills and resources that facilitate interdisciplinary success in population health science. Funded by a grant from NICHD, the PI, Christine Bachrach (University of Maryland) worked closely with several co-investigators including three CSDE Affiliates: Sara Curran, CSDE Director and Professor of International Studies, Sociology & Public Policy, Anjum Hajat, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, and David Takeuchi, Professor of Social Work (returning to UW in 2019).
Workshop participants will engage with leading population health and interdisciplinary scholars in interactive group exercises and case studies with a focus on the combining the knowledge, theory, and methods of diverse fields to understand and address health disparities. The workshop is open to scientists training and/or working in any field that contributes knowledge, at one or more levels of analysis (from the molecular to the societal and environmental), relevant to understanding the causes of health disparities and/or the ways in which health disparities can be ameliorated. Students who have completed at least two years of post-baccalaureate training in a specific discipline and early career scientists are especially encouraged to apply, but individuals at all career stages are welcome.
Workshop enrollment is limited to facilitate the success of small-group activities.
The workshop will take place on 10/1/2019, 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM, at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel, in Seattle. Applications will be accepted through 5/5/2019. Applicants will be notified by the end of June. Funding to defray travel costs will be available on a limited basis.
CSDE Affiliate Jennifer Otten, Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Services, was lead author on a study that found that childcare facilities’ labor costs increased after the wage hikes. She looked at payroll data from 2014 and 2016 for about 200 businesses, surveyed 41 childcare directors three times, and interviewed 15 directors. Otten found that more than half saw their costs increase, often raising tuition and cutting staff hours or jobs as a response. According to Otten, “this study illustrates how singular policies can affect more than just payroll and can shape organizational structure and service delivery.”
The story also featured another UW study on the minimum wage, which did not find significant evidence of supermarket food price increases linked to the wage hike. Other than The Seattle Times, the studies were also featured in MyNorthwest and King 5,
Organisation
The Faculty of Spatial Sciences at the University of Groningen is looking for an Assistant Professor in Population/ Development Studies. The Faculty of Spatial Sciences consists of approximately 100 members of staff, 100 PhD students and around 1000 undergraduate students. We focus on high quality teaching and research in the fields of social and economic geography, demography, and spatial planning. With a single collective research theme of ‘towards Wellbeing, Innovation and Spatial Transformation’ (tWIST), it is our mission to produce research, which is world-leading, distinctive, and policy-relevant. With two bachelor and eight master programmes, we provide a wide range of courses within the fields of geography and spatial sciences.
The Department of Demography contributes to the bachelor programme of Human Geography and Planning and the master programme Population Studies. The Department’s research is centred around Population and Wellbeing in Context. We continuously renew our research and educational programmes, for example by incorporating innovative digital developments.
Job description
As an Assistant Professor, you will contribute to teaching, research and management tasks. Your main teaching tasks will be in bachelor and master courses related to population and development studies and qualitative methods, and in supervising master and/or bachelor theses. Other teaching tasks could depend on your expertise. To strengthen our team, we are looking for a colleague who is eager to work in an interdisciplinary team that uses qualitative as well as quantitative methods and works on the Global South as well as the Global North. To complement the expertise of our current team, the candidate should contribute to the department’s research and teaching with regard to inequality and inequity in the context of population issues, as well as qualitative research methods. The Assistant Professor will invest 60% of his/her time in teaching and management and 40% in research (including PhD supervision).