The Population Health Initiative, Urban@UW, the Graduate School and the Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship are hosting a networking event for graduate students and postdocs from all schools and colleges across the UW who are engaged in scholarship around climate change.

The event will feature lightning presentations from 6 students/postdocs on a specific area of climate research. Topics will include:

• Health effects of climate change
• Climate change and conservation
• Ethics of climate engineering
• Pollution and public policy

Following the presentations, participants will break up into small groups based on the topics that are presented to enable discussions, networking and knowledge exchange.

Students and postdocs from all departments are welcome. Light refreshments will be provided.

Attendance is free, but as space is limited, registration is required. Please register using the link below.

https://is.gd/climate_change

Speaker: Ian Kennedy

We use Structural Topic Models (STM) to investigate whether and how rental listings from the Seattle metropolitan are Craigslist page differ in association with neighborhood racial proportion. We find that White neighborhoods are associated with words like ‘restaurant’ and ‘charming,’ while Black neighborhoods are connected to security terms like ‘gated’ or transportation out of the neighborhood with terms like ‘light rail.’ Qualitative analysis shows that listings from white neighborhoods emphasize the connection to neighborhood history and cultural roots, while listings from non-white, especially Black, neighborhoods are sundered from their surroundings.

SocSEM!

For many decades, the UW Sociology Department sponsored biweekly area seminars that offered graduate students and faculty an opportunity to present and discuss research (often in progress).  In addition to improving the quality of our work, these seminars provided an important albeit informal setting for strengthening our bonds as a community, and as consequence, all across the country UW alums fondly recall Friday afternoons in the Dev Sem, the MACRO group, and IA.  In recent years these seminars withered, victims perhaps of a restructured graduate program, new centers on campus, busy schedules, and increasingly challenging commutes.

And yet, many of us lament the loss of regular opportunities to learn about each other’s work, to think about sociological problems outside our narrow interests, and to just spend time with others in the department.  Enter SocSem, a new biweekly seminar for the entire department.  We’ll gather mid-afternoon on Fridays for research presentations and lively discussion.  Following long-standing tradition, light refreshments will be provided.  Please mark your calendars, and plan to join us.

The Department of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara invites applications for a tenured or tenure-track faculty position at the level of Assistant Professor with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2019. The Department is looking for exceptional individuals with particular emphasis in the area of urban inequality and health disparities. Urban social inequalities are observed at the individual, relationship/network, community/neighborhood, and societal levels, and are embedded in life course dynamics. The successful candidate will have research and teaching expertise on the social and structural determinants and/or observable manifestations of urban inequality at any of these levels. Topics could include, but are not limited to, disparities in health, income, transportation, or residence relating to race/ethnicity, socio-economic status, gender, or other characteristics. We are particularly interested in researchers using innovative theory and quantitative methods that account for social and spatial context. Applicants with perspectives from public health, demography, sociology, or other related fields in addition to geography are encouraged to apply. The University is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community through research, teaching and service as appropriate to the position. Applications received by December 1, 2018 will be given priority consideration, but the position will remain open until filled.  To apply please visit https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/apply/JPF01334.

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The 2018 annual conference will celebrate Global Washington’s tenth anniversary and will discuss what we want the world to look like ten years from now. From the refugee crisis to global health, food security to the future of work, we will explore the underlying root causes of poverty, disease, injustice, and inequality, as we seek to advance promising solutions that are working globally.

GlobalWA members are leading change all over the world, and if we work together, we believe a more connected Global Washington can usher in the best version of the future we all want to see. Join us!

Who:
Everyone

Where:

Bell Harbor International Conference Center
221 Alaskan Way, Pier 66
Seattle, WA 98121

When:
Thursday, December 6, 2018

9:30am – 5:00pm

Cost:
Members: $275 // Non-Members: $385

Email pratima@globalwa.org for member code

International Conference and Training Workshop on:
Household and Living Arrangement Projections for Informed Decision-Making
Beijing, China, 9-11 May 2019

Jointly organized by China Population and Development Research Center, Center for Healthy Aging and Development Study and Raissun Institute for Advanced Studies at National School of Development, Peking University, and Center for Households and Consumption Forecasting of Digit China Health

Significance: Households and living arrangements are pertinent in research and informed decision-making for sustainable development, because housing, energy-use (water, electricity and gas), food, furniture, vehicles, elderly care, children’s education, and other home-based services are typically consumed/purchased by households rather than individuals. The front line of this field is forecasting future trends in households and living arrangements, which is of great interest in research, policy making and market analyses, and is the focus of the “International Conference on Household and Living Arrangement Projections for Informed Decision-Making” (May 9-10, 2019) and the Training Workshop on ProFamy free software for household & living arrangement projections (May 11, 2019).

Topics to be Presented/Discussed at the Conference, May 9-10, 2019 include: (1) Past, present and future trends in households and living arrangements and their implications for sustainable development; (2) Methodologies for household and living arrangement projections; (3) Software and databases for household and living arrangement projections and applications; (4) Applications of household and living arrangement projections in socio-economic planning, socio-economic status analyses, policy analyses, children’s education, elderly care needs/costs and other home-based services, big data analyses, and market analyses of housing, home-based energy-use (such as water, electricity and gas), food, furniture, and vehicles, etc.; (5) Household and living arrangement projections at sub-national, county and small area levels; and (6) Other related topics.

ProFamy Training Workshop, May 11, 2019: The headship-rate method is still widely used, although it has been widely criticized by demographers for about three decades: it is not linked to demographic rates, projects only a few household types without size information, and deals with household “heads” (a vague and ill-defined concept) but excludes other household members. In contrast, the ProFamy extended cohort-component method uses conventional demographic data as input and projects detailed household types/sizes and living arrangements of all members of the population, including elderly, adults, and children, as well as detailed population size, age, and gender distributions. Published validation tests of household, living arrangement and population projections by comparing projected and census observations show that ProFamy method/software work well in applications for the United States, China and other countries at national, state/province and county levels. This training workshop includes lectures, tutorials, and guided exercises on how to use the new version of ProFamy free software (download from www.profamy.com.cn) with illustrative dataset for participants’ own countries applications. Please refer to attached “A Summary Note on Household and Living Arrangement Projections for Informed Decision-Making” as background materials for this international training workshop.

Logistics: Professor Yi Zeng serves as Chair of the Academic Committee for this conference and training workshop. Interested scholars, governmental officers, and business analysts are welcome to participate in the conference and/or training workshop. No registration fees will be charged and the conference will cover lodging and food costs in Beijing for registered participants. Participants will in general need to cover their own transportation costs. Developing countries’ researchers who plan to conduct household and living arrangement projections for their own countries and wish to learn the method/software from this conference/training workshop but have difficulty to obtain sufficient travel fund may send conference contacts a 2-page maximum research plan and CV to apply for partial financial support.

Contacts: send title of your presentation, academic titles and affiliations, etc. to Ms. Guoling Chen (glchen@nsd.pku.edu.cn, Tel. 86-1062753692; 15630626498) as soon as possible.

It is our pleasure to announce that the international conference entitled “New Technologies: Opportunity or Challenge for the Aging Population?” will be held in Prague on March 27–28, 2019.

Using modern technology can undoubtedly improve the lives of the older people. However, technological progress also comes with a dark side, as older people can be at risk of insufficient technological skills and are vulnerable to abuse.
The third annual international conference from a series organized in the frame of the long-term (eng)aging! project will be dedicated to discussing the interrelationships between aging and new technologies.

Extended deadline for submission of abstracts was October 21, 2018. However if you think that the topic of your research is highly valuable to the theme of the conference, do not hesitate to contact us.

On behalf of the European Association for Population Studies Working Group on Health, Morbidity and Mortality; ISA RC41 (Soiology of Population) and the local organising committee in Hanover, we are pleased to announce a workshop on “Health, Morbidity and Mortality in Europe – and Beyond”, to be held Wednesday, 4th September – Friday, 6th September 2019, at the Medical Sociology Unit, Hanover Medical School.

As in previous EAPS workshops, there will be no registration fee, but participants will need to make their own travel and accommodation arrangements. Further information on the workshop can be found in the attachement.

We anticipate that the workshop will have about 20 oral presenters, as well as posters, giving each participant ample time to present his/her work and have it discussed by the whole group. Researchers interested in presenting their work are invited to contact Jon Anson at anson@bgu.ac.il with an abstract or preliminary conceptualisation by 15th March 2019. Responses and tentative programme by the middle of April, 2019.

About the Center for Policing Equity

The Center for Policing Equity is a research and action think tank that, through evidence-based approaches to social justice, conducts quantitative research to create levers for social, cultural, and policy change.

Position Description

The Center for Policing Equity is looking for a skilled social and/or behavioral quantitative scientist and experienced teacher/manager with a passion for research on race and policing.

The position will focus primarily on managing the work of creating reports for police departments that have contributed their data to the National Justice Database. The National Justice Database is the first and largest standardized database on police behavior in the country (e.g., vehicle stops, pedestrian stops, use of force, complaints against officers, etc.). The Biostatistican / Advanced Quantitative Specialist will supervise a team to generate these reports which ultimately aim to help police departments reduce bias and increase procedural justice and legitimacy.

Key Responsibilities

• Train and supervise research team members in completing reports for police departments, which includes training on which analyses should be used, evolving quality assurance protocols, and providing mentorship
• Conduct advanced quantitative analyses of policing data to be included in reports for police departments
• Help to develop, maintain, and maximize the utility of the National Justice Database

·      Provide feedback to engineers to further develop custom automated data cleaning and analysis software for the National Justice Database

·      Contribute to production of academic research articles and public-facing reports that explore the intersection of law enforcement and racial/gender equity

Qualifications (required)

• PhD or MS in a relevant field (e.g., Economics, Epidemiology, Data Science, Psychology, Criminology, Demography, Political Science, Sociology), with an interest in social science and law regarding policing and social justice
• Superior research skills; strong quantitative and analytic skills
• Publication record includes peer-reviewed research articles

Other Relevant Qualifications (desired, but not required)

• Experienced in network analysis/exponential-family random graph models (ERGMs), particularly for multilevel networks; Bayesian data augmentation
• Experience with geo-coded data and multi-level modeling (using R, Stata, SAS, SPSS, and/or Python)

About NACC: The National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center (est. 1999) is located in the Department of Epidemiology of the University of Washington in Seattle, WA and is funded by a cooperative grant through the National Institute on Aging/NIH. The Center maintains a relational database of clinical and neuropathologic data and makes its data available to researchers around the world in order to advance understanding of Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders. NACC is in its fourth five-year funding cycle, with a budget of approximately $20 million.

The National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center (NACC) in Seattle, WA has an outstanding opportunity for a *TECHNOLOGY MANAGER.*

In this full-time, permanent position, you would provide leadership in three main areas:

• planning and management of programs and projects
• overseeing the design, development, and operations of a secure enterprise applications infrastructure
• supervision of a talented and dedicated eight-member computing group team

Among the position’s responsibilities will be creating a roadmap for the computing group’s work in migrating to a cloud-based operation, in re-architecting legacy systems, and in ensuring the secure collection and dissemination of data.

As a University of Washington employee, you would receive generous and comprehensive benefits.

For more information and to submit an application, please see Req. #160968 on the University of Washington’s employment website <https://uwhires.admin.washington.edu/eng/candidates/default.cfm?szCategory=jobprofile&szOrderID=160968>.