Posted Date: November 13, 2019

Call for Applications: Sawyer Seminar Pre-doctoral Fellows

Deadline: January 30, 2020

Website: https://simpsoncenter.org/content/call-applications-sawyer-seminar-pre-doctoral-fellows#overlay-context=forms/funding-round

The Simpson Center is offering two residential dissertation fellowships for the AY 2020-2021 in association with a Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Humanitarianisms: Migration and Care in the Global South, led by Arzoo Osanloo (Law, Societies & Justice) and Cabeiri Robinson (Jackson School of International Studies).

Applicants for the fellowship should have a dissertation project related to at least one of the three thematic components of the seminar, which include Decentering Migration, Decolonizing Humanitarianism, Comparative Humanitarianisms and Rethinking the Human

External Site

https://simpsoncenter.org/content/call-applications-sawyer-seminar-pre-doctoral-…

Applications must be received by January 30, 2020. Application materials should be submitted here:

1. A proposal (5 pages in length, not including bibliography) detailing the project and the research and writing to be undertaken during the fellowship period. The proposal should include (a) a discussion of how the dissertation project relates to at least one of the three thematic components of the seminar and (b) a timeline that details the work to be done on the dissertation during the course of the fellowship;
2. CV;

In addition please request the following to be submitted here:

1. Two letters of recommendation, including a letter from the applicant’s dissertation committee chairperson that supports the timeline presented in the proposal.

Notification will be sent by March 30, 2020.

Application inquiries may be made with Prof. Arzoo Osanloo or Prof. Cabeiri Robinson.

Call for submissions – Special Issue of Gender & Society: “Gender Transformations of Higher Education Institutions”

Guest Editor: Julia McQuillan (University of Nebraska)

Guest Deputy Editors: Sheryl Skaggs (University of Texas, Dallas) and Kevin Stainback (Purdue University)

In 2001, the National Science Foundation (NSF) started to fund “Institutional Transformation” grants as part of a program called “ADVANCE” in recognition that the underrepresentation of women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields required changes in institutions and not just individuals. Since the ADVANCE program started, numerous gender scholars have brought a sociological gender lens to programs designed for institutional change in higher education. The goal of the NSF ADVANCE program was to recruit, retain, and promote more women in STEM fields. Research and publications on gender and STEM in organizations have burgeoned in the last two decades. Feminist and gender scholars often collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to report the results of their efforts, often publishing in interdisciplinary journals that focus more on outcomes than theories. Only a handful of articles use intersectional frameworks.

It is now time to assess what we know about the success and weaknesses of the attempts to transform higher education in feminist directions. We need to have theoretical explanations that help to predict success and failure at organizational attempts to bring women and people of color into STEM disciplines. We need to develop theories that integrate and guide understanding of the transformation of higher education institutions.

The aim of this special issue is to both compile empirical knowledge about strengths and weaknesses of different change methodologies, and generate theoretical insights to explain the outcomes of attempts at organizational change. Global analyses show that countries vary in how much STEM fields incorporate women. Government supported national efforts in the United States and Europe emphasize the need for more workers in STEM fields who will represent multiple constituencies. Therefore, gender scholars have an opportunity to review successes and failures of existing efforts, identify theoretical gaps, and provide next generation frameworks to create higher education institutions that reflect the populations that they serve.

Many scholars involved in institutional transformation efforts focus on one institution and prioritize evaluation over research. The special issue will be a forum for feminist scholars who are engaged in efforts to create greater gender equity in STEM fields and emphasize broader theoretical issues in their work such as the relationships between higher education and other institutions, including K-12 education, employers, parents, and the media. What does it mean to try to increase women in STEM fields when the gender categories are multiplying? If more women enter STEM fields, does that mean more men must enter non-STEM fields? Or should non-STEM fields shrink? Can research on ADVANCE projects inform theories and research on work organizations more generally? How does gender transformation of organizations coordinate with integrating people of color, people of all abilities and social class backgrounds? What conditions are necessary for an organization to claim “transformed” status? How much can institutions “push” gender integration in organizations with considerable employee input (i.e. faculty governance) and considerable hierarchy (i.e. faculty rank system)? For this special issue, we seek articles by scholars across the globe working to create gender transformation, who have had “successes” and “failures” and who are applying existing theories, plus recognizing the urgent need for new conceptualizations.

With the focus on “Gender Transformations of Higher Education Institutions”, we encourage submissions that include, but are not limited to leadership, intersectionality, power differentials, policies, organizations, social psychology, identities, sexuality, race/ethnicity, social movements, and comparative and international studies. All submissions should include some aspect of the strengths and weaknesses of recent attempts to transform institutions of higher education, what works, what does not work, and why. 

All papers must make both a theoretical and empirical contribution to the study of gender.

Completed manuscripts, due February 1, 2020, should be submitted online to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gendsoc and should specify in the cover letter that the paper is to be considered for the special issue.

For additional information, please contact any of the guest editors for this issue contact Special Issue Editor, Julia McQuillan at jmquillan2@unl.edu

The Network on Life Course Health Dynamics and Disparities in 21st Century America (NLCHDD), funded by the National Institute on Aging, invites interested researchers to submit pilot proposals that have the potential to better understand how health and mortality outcomes across the adult life course are shaped by US state contexts. Proposals are due January 10, 2020.

Investigators may request total (direct + indirect) costs in the range of $10,000-$20,000 for pilot projects, with a limit of 8% on indirect costs (IDC). Funds can be used for research assistance, salaries, travel, data acquisition, etc. Principal Investigators must hold a PhD. We expect to make 3-4 awards.

For further information, visit the information page at: https://asi.syr.edu/the-network-on-life-course-health-dynamics-in-21st-century-america/call-for-pilot-grants/

The Interdisciplinary Network on Rural Population Health and Aging (INRPHA), funded by the National Institute on Aging, invites researchers to submit proposals for pilot research that addresses key thematic priority areas (detailed in the RFP) related to U.S. rural population health and aging trends and disparities. Proposals are due January 31, 2020.

Investigators may request total (direct + indirect) costs of up to $10,000 for pilot projects, with a limit of 8% on indirect costs (IDC). Funds can be used for research assistance, salaries, travel, data acquisition, etc. Principal Investigators must hold a PhD. We expect to make 4-6 awards. 

For further information, please see attached PDF. The PDF is also linked here: http://lernercenter.syr.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/INRPHA-Y1-PILOT-RFP-Final.pdf

Proposal Deadline: November 30, 2019 

Co-editors Barrett Lee, Dennis Culhane, and Marybeth Shinn seek papers for a volume of The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science entitled The Dynamics of Homelessness: Trajectories and Policies. The volume will examine how the trajectories that people follow into, through, and out of homelessness are shaped by individual circumstances, structural forces, and the interactions between these two sets of factors. Our trajectory-oriented perspective also directs attention to evaluations of programs designed to prevent the onset of a homeless spell, shorten that spell, or end it. We expect that the papers selected for the volume will represent a range of disciplines, methods, and research orientations (theoretical, applied, policy-oriented).

To be considered for the volume, please email a 2-3 page proposal to Barry Lee at bal6@psu.edu no later than November 30, 2019. The proposal should describe your main research questions, their significance, and how you will address them. After initial evaluations by the co-editors, authors of 15 of the proposals will be asked to complete full paper drafts for presentation at a small conference in May 2020. They will then receive reviews from the co-editors and other conference participants, submitting revised versions of their papers by August 2020. Our volume of The Annals is scheduled for publication in early 2021.

Inquiries about the volume can be directed to Barry (bal6@psu.edu), Dennis (culhane@upenn.edu), or Beth (beth.shinn@vanderbilt.edu). We look forward to receiving your contribution to what promises to be a cutting-edge, multidisciplinary look at how the micro- and macro-level dynamics of homelessness are manifested in heterogeneous trajectories and policy responses.

Call for Papers: Time Use Data for Health and Well Being

June 22-23, 2020 at University of Maryland-College Park

Time is one of the most valuable and contested resources in contemporary societies. Analysis of variation in daily time use patterns over time, space, and social groups is needed to advance understanding of determinants and consequences of time use for well-being. The 2020 UMD Time Use Conference will give members of the growing interdisciplinary time use research community the opportunity to interact with one another and share ideas.

Researchers are invited to submit abstracts for papers that address any question related to the collection or analysis of time use data. Papers that address the 2020 conference theme, intersecting influences of macroeconomic conditions and micro-level factors on time use and well-being across the life course, are particularly encouraged. Registration is open to all individuals with an interest in how patterns of daily time use affect child, adult, and family well-being. Authors are asked to submit: 

1)    A brief abstract (150 words);

2)    A 2-to 3-page extended abstract must be sufficiently detailed to allow the organizing committee to judge the merits of the proposed paper.

The extended abstract must be sufficiently detailed to allow the organizing committee to judge the merits of the proposed paper.

The deadline for submission of paper abstracts is January 31, 2020. Authors chosen to present papers will be notified by March 30, 2020. Abstracts may be submitted by email to: timeuse-2020@umd.edu. Website: https://www.popcenter.umd.edu/research/sponsored-events/tu2020

The Graduate Opportunities and Minority Achievement Program (GO-MAP) is now accepting applications for the Latinx Scholars Graduate School Fellowship (LGSF).

 Established in 2013, the Latinx Scholars Graduate School Fellowship provides financial assistance to UW master’s and doctoral students with a demonstrated commitment to Latinx communities. DACAmented and undocumented graduate students are encouraged to apply.

 The LSGSF is a one-time award of $1,500 dispersed in Winter quarter. If a student is paying non-resident tuition, this award can be dispersed in bi-monthly payments to reduce tuition from non-resident to resident rates.

 For award details and student eligibility, please see the attached PDF. Applicants must submit materials through the MyGrad awards management system by Sunday, December 8^th, 2019 at 11:59 PM PST.

 Please contact Willa Kurland at 206.543.9016 or willamei@uw.edu, with any questions.

The GCRF Water Security and Sustainable Development Hub offers a postdoctoral research opportunity to a candidate who has been awarded, or is nearing completion of, a doctoral degree. The Research Officer will conduct field and research activities, including the collection of individual and household survey data in Ethiopia and Kenya, to support a programme of research on household decision-making around water issues under the direction of the PI, Dr Cheryl Doss. They will collaborate and publish with other team members, and undertake other tasks as directed.

Applications for this vacancy are to be made online. You will be required to upload a supporting statement and CV as part of your online application.

Only applications received before 12 noon (UK Time) on Friday 31 January 2020 can be considered.

The Department of Health Services at the University of Washington seeks to fill one or two full-time faculty positions with a focus on Population Health Research as an Assistant Professor (WOT*) on a 12-month service period, with an anticipated start date in fall 2020.

Applicants for this position should have research interests focused on populations in the United States whose health status is impacted by social and structural inequities, such as immigrant populations, people with lower socioeconomic status, racial and ethnic minorities, rural communities, and sexual or gender minorities. The successful candidate will be expected to:

• Focus on general health services research, health policy, and/or implementation science.

• Demonstrate strong methodologic skills, including qualitative, quantitative, or mixed-methods research approaches.

• Work in collaborative interdisciplinary research teams.

• Establish and maintain research ties to underserved communities.

• Involve graduate and undergraduate students in faculty-directed research and/or mentor diverse graduate and undergraduate students in independent research.

To be considered for this position, please submit the following:

• A letter of interest describing your mentoring experience, research interests and teaching history;

• A one-page diversity statement that describes your experience related to equity, diversity, and inclusion, as well as your potential to contribute to our diversity mission and commitment to being an anti-racist institution; and

• Curriculum Vitae (including description of extramural funding).

Review of applications will begin December 14, 2019. The position is open until filled.

To apply: https://apply.interfolio.com/70946

If you have questions please contact:

Holly Bergstrom, Manager of Faculty Human Resources – hb2@uw.edu

Department of Health Services, University of Washington

The Maryland Population Research Center has one opening for a post-doctoral research associate to undertake research contributing to the Delaware Contraceptive Access Now (DelCAN) Evaluation https://popcenter.umd.edu/delcaneval. This evaluation is being conducted by researchers at the University of Maryland, College Park, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Delaware, Newark to a project timetable from June 2016 through May 2022.Work on the evaluation is expected to lead primarily to papers submitted to peer-reviewed journals and scholarly research conferences. The contributions of the postdoctoral research associate to the project will include analysis of survey data collected specifically on Delaware in multiple rounds of representative samples respectively of all reproductive age women and of women attending Title X clinics. Other contributions may include analyses combining state and national data sources, and estimation and simulation of reproductive, infant health, and public-expenditure outcomes.

Application:

Send electronic submissions in standard document formats (preferably pdf) include the following:

1. Curriculum vitae.

2. Cover letter (500-750 words) explaining the applicant’s suitability for thejob.

3. Either 1 or 2 writing samples (published or unpublished).

4. List of referees with contact information. Letters will only be solicited for short-listedcandidates.

Please send application to: Mr. William Fennie – wfennie@umd.edu. For best consideration, applications should be sent by January 15, 2020 but applications will be accepted until the position is filled.