The Behavioral Sciences department is seeking qualified part-time instructors to teach sociology. Teaching assignment(s) may include any of the curriculum approved courses within the discipline of sociology.
Call for Papers: Leisure for Older Adults in Asia
The goal of this international conference is to holistically examine leisure engagements by older participants in Asia (from 55 years old and above), the socio-economic and cultural factors that influence their leisure lifestyles (eg. family structures and relationships, class, ethnicity, region, etc.), and the implications and effects leisure participation has on both participants and their socio-economic and cultural environments. Leisure activities that are being looked at in this conference include, but are not limited to: sports, physical and mental games, music, arts and crafts, language learning, and others.
SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS
Paper proposals should include a title, an abstract (250 words) and a brief personal biography (150 words) for submission by 15 February 2020. Please note that only previously unpublished papers or those not already committed elsewhere can be accepted. The organizers plan to publish a special journal issue that incorporates some selected papers presented at the conference. By participating in the conference, you agree to participate in the future publication plans of the organizers. Hotel accommodation and a contribution towards airfare will be provided for accepted paper participants (one author per paper).
Please submit your proposal using the provided template to Ms Minghua Tay at minghua.tay@nus.edu.sg. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 15 March 2020. Participants will be required to send in a completed draft paper (5,000 words) by 11 August 2020.
IUSSP Expert Group Meeting on Population Data for the 21st century: Advances in data collection methodologies (12/4/19)
IUSSP Expert Group Meeting on Population Data for the 21st century: Advances in data collection methodologies
UNFPA Headquarters New York City, 4-6 December 2019
Next week, the IUSSP and UNFPA, with support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, UNFPA and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), will hold an Expert Group meeting on Population Data for the 21st century: Advances in data collection methodologies at UNFPA headquarters in New York from 4 to 6 December 2019. This meeting will bring together key researchers, practitioners and institutions innovating in data collection methodologies, to present their work and, when possible, to critically confront alternative approaches and underlying hypotheses, validate innovations, refine estimators, and seek consensus on the lessons learned. In addition, the meeting seeks to inform the larger research and data practitioner communities about advances in this area and of recommended best practices.
The program is available here.
The meeting will be live-streamed and a video recording will be accessible from the home page of the IUSSP website. More details on how to follow the streamed sessions will be sent to members on the day before the meeting and will be posted on the IUSSP home page.
Jane Simoni Quoted in Undark Magazine Article on Peer Support Groups for HIV Patients
A recent Undark Magazine article “Can Peer Support Programs Help Those Living With HIV?” quoted CSDE Affiliate and Professor of Psychology Jane Simoni regarding her expertise on the effect of peer support groups on mental health, substance abuse, homelessness, and other such issues. Simoni offers her expertise, based on her 2011 review on the efficacy of peer support interventions for people with HIV, “peers will always be helpful to some patients…but they will unlikely be sufficient to help all patients, especially those with mental health or other issues (substance use, homelessness) that require a higher level of intervention and assistance.”
Click the links above for the full Undark Magazine article and for Simoni’s 2011 review article.
New NICHD Call for Proposals to Archive Original Datasets!
Have you conducted original data collection relevant to NICHD? Is it ready for data sharing? NICHD just issued a call for R03 proposals ($50k/year for 2 years) to help with archiving those data – here is the link to the call – PAR-20-064: Archiving and Documenting Child Health and Human Development Data Sets (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed). CSDE is happy to help with your submission. The next deadline for this call is February 16 to NIH. If you would like to work with CSDE, submit your request to CSDE’s proposal planning submission form by no later than February 1, 2020.
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
The University of St Andrews is seeking to appoint a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow to work on a project on Understanding Life Trajectories of Immigrants and Their Descendants in Europe and Projecting Future Trends (MigrantLife) funded by the European Research Council (ERC). The five-year project is led by Prof. Hill Kulu and it will investigate how employment, housing and family trajectories evolve and interact in the lives of immigrants and their descendants in selected European countries; and how factors related to a societal context, an early life context and critical transitions shape their life histories. The study will project their future life trajectories using innovative computer simulation techniques, considering the main life domains and diversity between and within immigrant groups. The post is available from January 2020 for three years with the possibility of extension for one year. Please see the link below for further details. Closing Date: 3 December 2019.
Jeffrey Neilson and Co-Authors Examine the Time Costs of Unpaid Caregiving in Cross-National Study
CSDE visiting scholar Jeffrey Neilson, from Lund University (Sweden), co-authored a recent article that examined the time costs of unpaid caregiving across three distinct policy contexts.
The article appears in SSM – Population Health Issue 9 and the authors present results analyzing time use survey data from Sweden, the UK, and Canada from 2000 to 2015. Among a sample of men and women aged 50-74, they analyze how caregiving time is traded off against time in paid work and leisure. Their results illustrate how women provide more unpaid care in each country, but the impact of caregiving time on labor supply is similar for both men and women. Caregivers reduce time in paid work to provide caregiving to a greater extent in the UK and Canada, than they do in Sweden, while caregivers in Sweden reduce their leisure time. The study highlights how caregivers make labor and leisure tradeoffs and supports the idea that context may mitigate the labor market effects of unpaid care. The full article is linked below.
NW CASC Webinar: What Can Successful Communication Look Like in Actionable Science? Examples from the Climate Adaptation Science Centers (12/3/2019)
While the peer-reviewed publication is the mainstay of academic science communication, science that is co-produced with decision-makers to help address environmental challenges often demands products that look quite different. While a peer-reviewed publication may in fact be a vital outcome of such work, so too may be specialized reports, tools, trainings, and a diverse suite of other products. So what can such products look like and how are they developed? In this webinar, presenters from across the Climate Adaptation Science Centers (a national network of federal-academic partnerships designed to facilitate the production of actionable climate adaptation science) will share a suite of creative products used to communicate collaborative research and inform decision-making, highlighting both the products and the processes used to collaboratively develop them.
Teaching Poverty 101 Workshop
The Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) is accepting applications for the 2020 Teaching Poverty 101 Workshop, which is designed to help college instructors plan courses on the causes, consequences, and policy responses to poverty. The workshop is open to college faculty and instructors in any postsecondary institution—university, college, or community college. Applicants need not have prior experience in poverty studies, but should plan to include material from the workshop in future courses.
The workshop will be held on the UW–Madison campus from Tuesday, June 2, through Friday, June 5, 2020. Invited participants will be expected to attend the entire program.
Space is limited. Applications must be submitted by January 12, 2020, to receive priority. We anticipate notifying all applicants of their application status by March 2, 2020.
To apply for the workshop, please prepare a brief (up to 800 words) statement detailing your background, interest in teaching a poverty-related course, information about poverty-related courses you currently teach or plan to teach, and what you hope to learn in the workshop. Upload this statement and a current CV as a single PDF file to the application form.
Questions should be directed to:
IRP Apply | irpapply@ssc.wisc.edu
Associate Professor or Professor with tenure in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Department Global Health (Joint Recruitment)
The Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Global Health at the University of Washington are recruiting a full-time (100% FTE) Director of a new Global Health Family Planning, Innovation Program. This faculty position will be at the Associate or full Professor with tenure rank, with a 12 month service period per year on an academic year, from July 1st – June 30th. The successful applicant must qualify for an appointment to the full-time faculty position at the University of Washington at the Associate or Full Professor level commensurate with qualifications. The primary appointment will be held in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and have an anticipated start date of February 1, 2020. Applicants from within and outside of academia are encouraged.
The successful applicant will have an active program of scholarship related to contraception, family planning, and/or abortion, a strong publication record, and mentoring expertise appropriate to rank. Administrative expertise and a track record of inter-disciplinary partnerships to take advantage of the outstanding opportunities for collaboration at the University of Washington are desired.
Applicants must have an MD or PhD degree (or foreign equivalent) with a clinical and/or research focus in family planning and global health. In order to be eligible for University sponsorship for an H-1B visa, graduates of foreign (non-US) medical schools must show successful completion of all three steps of the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE), or equivalent as determined by the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Interested applicants should submit a cover letter and CV through Interfolio. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.