The Director of the Institute for Portland Metropolitan Studies, reporting to the Dean of the College of Urban and Public Affairs, provides leadership for activities, projects and functions of the Institute. The Director also provides overall supervision of the Population Research Center, an interdisciplinary public service, research and training unit focused on urban demography which operates within the Institute. The Director oversees a staff that includes research faculty, administrative staff and graduate students.
The Director is expected to collaborate with the Institute’s Board of Directors, composed of civic and campus leaders, to create and implement effectively an annual work plan focused on creating knowledge and partnerships to advance the overall vitality of the greater Portland-Southwest Washington region. The Director is responsible for organizing and overseeing all projects of the Institute, raising funds through grants and contracts to support the Institute’s mission: Providing the Portland and metropolitan region with the tools and information policymakers and citizens need to advance the economic, environmental, and social goals of the region.
Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago and the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration (SSA) invite applications for the Harold A. Richman Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. This year, the program will place one recent PhD into a two-year position under the joint mentorship of two nationally recognized researchers. The selected Fellow will participate in substantive research activity, benefit from professional mentoring, and have opportunity to pursue publication and other scholarly activities. This appointment offers both a competitive salary and benefits.
Chapin Hall and SSA seek applications from recent PhDs who aspire to receive advanced training, learning, and independent research opportunities. The program guidelines below include important details regarding topical areas, mentors, and eligibility. The application period is open until April 19, 2019.
This is an excellent opportunity; please share with interested talent within and across your networks. Please send questions regarding the fellowship program to Richmanpostdoc@uchicago.edu.
The Population Research Institute at Pennsylvania State University seeks a Research Associate in Applied Demography. With support from Penn State, PRI is helping to lead a new initiative to develop the Pennsylvania Population Network (PPN) – a coalition of related research centers and resources from across the Pennsylvania State University. The PPN provides analyses focused on the role of population structure and change on health outcomes that can inform decision making by stakeholders in Pennsylvania and beyond. We are seeking a highly qualified applied demographer who can take a lead role in research and coordinate graduate internships across participating centers and programs. We seek candidates with strong motivation, ability to conduct research with a proven track record, excellent project management, written and oral communication skills and the ability to effectively interact with and mentor graduate students. Candidates must have a Ph.D. in Demography, Geography, Sociology or related field. Strong data analysis skills are required. Experience in spatial modeling, GIS, complex and multi-level data is preferred. The initial appointment will be for one-year, but renewable for additional years pending funding availability. Applications must be submitted electronically and include a cover letter, CV and the names, addresses and email contact information for three professional references. The review of applications begins on 4/15/2019 and will continue until the position is filled. Contact Dora Hunter, PRI Project Manager (email: dmh63@psu.edu).
We seek a highly motivated Postdoctoral Research Fellow with a background in epidemiology, psychology, statistics, or econometrics with a strong interest in ageing and gerontology. The Postdoctoral Research Fellow will conduct research for a project examining lifecourse determinants and social variation in Healthy and Working Life Expectancies in Australia. The project also includes cross-national comparisons with UK and (potentially) other European data.
Any experience working with longitudinal household panel data, and knowledge of multi-state modelling, mortality modelling, or other methods and software used to calculate healthy life expectancies and disability free life expectancies is highly desirable.
The position will be based at the University of New South Wales (Australia) and at Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA).
To apply and for more information please see: http://external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/496455/postdoctoral-fellow-psychology
Informal inquiries please contact Dr Kim Kiely (k.kiely@unsw.edu.au)
Take the Next Four Weeks to Prepare Your Submission for the WSDS 2019 Program
Wherever you are in your career, participating in WSDS is a valuable opportunity to present your work or research or to share your perspective on the role of women in today’s statistics and data science fields. Take some time to think about what you might contribute, then prepare a concurrent, panel, or speed session abstract to submit for the WSDS 2019 program!
Text as Data – eScience Special Interest Group
Summary
Text is a ubiquitous and valued data source in the computer and information sciences, many areas of the natural and social sciences, engineering, business and more. This eScience Special Interest Group is for students, faculty and researchers interested in sharing and learning about UW research and teaching that uses text as data. The group’s objectives include:
- Promote connections, conversations and collaborations among domains with text-as-data interests on the UW campus
- Provide a forum for sharing research and receiving feedback
- Learn about new research advances, data, and funding opportunities
- Provide a forum discussing teaching resources and pedagogy
- Discuss methods and software tools for processing and understanding text as data
Activities
Spring Seminar and Discussion Group
The text-as-data discussion group is a forum for learning and and sharing information. The bi-weekly session is for discussing research and receiving feedback on text methods, data, discoveries, and tools.
Time: TBD, Spring Quarter 2019
Location: WRF Data Science Studio, Physics/Astronomy Tower, 6th Floor
Please contact Spencer Wood (spwood@uw.edu) if you are interested in presenting on research or teaching during the discussion-group this Spring. The date and time will be determined based on
availability of interested participants.
Moderated list serve
Anyone interested in text-as-data at UW can sign-up to receive and share information about research and activities on campus from textasdata@u.washington.edu.
Contacts
Spencer Wood (eScience Institute) spwood@uw.edu
John Wilkerson (Department of Political Science) jwilker@uw.edu
UW Text-as-data Listserve textasdata@u.washington.edu
Last Friday the CSDE community gathered to celebrate our graduate students, their insightful research, and the end of the Winter quarter. Five CSDE trainees from Sociology, Geography, Anthropology, and Public Policy presented research on topics ranging from tenant eligibility discourse to relationship duration. Lee Fiorio, Geography doctoral student and former CSDE Fellow, won the best poster award for his poster titled “Measuring U.S. Interstate Mobility Using State of Birth Stocks: 1850 to 2010.”
CSDE thanks all those who presented, attended, and contributed to the event. In particular, panelists Rachel Berney, Clara Berridge, KC Gary Chan, Karin Frey, William Lavely, Adrian Raftery and Jon Wakefield, the Center for Social Science Computation and Research, and Madeline Mundt’s team. A special thanks to our student organizer Yuan Hsiao, CSDE Training Director Jon Wakefield, Training Coordinator Aimée Dechter, Administrator Scott Kelly, and Information Specialist Luiza Barbato Montesanti.
Migration is an important social determinant of health for immigrants in the United States. In an article published in the March 2019 issue of Journal of Social Policy, CSDE Affiliate Jane Lee, Assistant Professor of Social Work, investigates potential mechanisms that link the sociopolitical context and health among Latino immigrants. Specifically, she explores how perceptions of the sociopolitical context are implicated in this relationship. While prior research has assessed the potential health impact of specific immigration policies, there is limited understanding of how the overall sociopolitical context shapes the health of Latino immigrants.
Qualitative interviews with community gatekeepers (n=13) and Latino immigrants (n=34) in New York City revealed general perceptions about the overall sociopolitical context, which were characterized by discrimination towards immigrants, unpredictable and mercurial circumstances, and confusion and lack of information. These perceptions influenced participants’ psycho-emotional health and health-related behaviors. Findings suggest the importance of integrating immigrants’ perceptions of the sociopolitical context into health promotion efforts. Furthermore, findings demonstrate the need for paradigm shifts in developing policy-related actions to integrate immigrants’ perspectives.
In two recent articles, CSDE Affiliate Clara Berridge, Assistant Professor of Social Work, examines the implications of web-enabled video cameras adopted by families to protect elders in residential care from the possibility of harm, often with insufficient attention to ethical implications and privacy vulnerabilities for residents, care workers, and roommates. Considering the ethical implications of how we use technology to keep older adults safe has become urgent, with seven state laws now regulating camera monitoring and more on the way.
The first article, published in the Elder Law Journal, presents a comparative analysis of seven state regimes that regulate the use of monitoring systems in nursing home resident rooms. Authors find that states attempt to protect privacy through a variety of interlocking privacy constraints: social, technical, and institutional safeguards that restrict how monitoring devices can be introduced and operated.
The second, published in AJOB Empirical Bioethics, draws on findings from the first facility survey on this topic to address three ethical issues: the risk that in-room cameras pose to residents’ privacy and dignity, the risk of undermining care workers’ sense of being fiduciaries for residents, and the probable extension of camera use by facilities to monitor staff and residents. Authors argue that with an aging population, intensifying strain on the care workforce, and ease of access to Web-connected cameras, this is a critical moment to address these ethical challenges
Last week, NPR featured a Proceedings of the National Academy of Science study revealing that air pollution is disproportionately caused by white Americans’ consumption of goods and services, but disproportionately inhaled by black and Hispanic Americans. The study first authored by Christopher Tessum, a UW postdoctoral researcher. NPR quoted CSDE Affiliate Anjum Hajat, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, who says “This paper is exciting and really quite novel…Inequity in exposure to air pollution is well documented, but this study brings in the consumption angle.” According to Hajat, the study reveals an inherent unfairness: “If you’re contributing less to the problem, why do you have to suffer more from it?”
Authors found that black and Hispanic Americans bear a “pollution burden”, with populations on average exposed to 56 and 63% respectively more PM2.5 than they produce. Non-Hispanic white people, on the other hand, experience around 17% less air pollution exposure than results from their resource consumption. These disparities appear to be driven by societal trends ranging from income inequality to the division of neighborhoods that house different ethnic groups in US cities. While similar studies in the UK and the US have revealed the unequal burden of pollution on minority groups, this is the first to contrast that against the volume of pollutants emitted by those groups.
This research was also featured in The Independent, Health Day, Reuters, The Washington Post, VOA News,