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Create a Research Website in the Next Computational Demography Working Group Meeting

For next week’s Computational Demography meeting, we’ll hold a tutorial on creating research websites. Websites can be useful to showcase and communicate information about particular research projects, working groups, or personal academic profiles more generally. The good news is, the same tools and skills we use for computational research (GitHub, R, etc.) can be repurposed to create websites supporting that work!

We’ll meet Thursday, 2/14/2019, from 12:00-1:30, in Raitt 114. Food will be provided, and all are welcome. The Computational Demography Working Group is co-sponsored by CSDE and eScience.

This meeting will be similar in style to Tim’s GitHub tutorial from last quarter. We’ll focus on using GitHub pages and blogdown, but discuss alternatives as well. Connor will be leading the tutorial with a demo of creating a webpage for the working group itself, and collaborative contributions are more than welcome. Also, mark your calendars for our last meeting of the quarter, on 3/7/2019, when Ian Kennedy will present some of his work linking text data and demography.

The Biomarker Working Group Meets Tomorrow!

The next CSDE Biomarker Working Group meeting will be this Wednesday, February 13, 2:30 – 3:30 PM, in 114 Raitt Hall. We’ll discuss a recent review article relevant to recurring topics of discussion for our group: stress and allostatic load.  This will be an informal discussion (with a brief overview of the article and the issues it raises for those who haven’t read it) and all are welcome.

This article contrasts the allostatic load model, in which coping with stress has a long-term physical health cost, with the authors’ Adaptive Calibration Model, in which the stress response is an adaptive response with costs and benefits. We’ll use this article as a starting point to talk about how varying models of stress and its role in health may translate into practical approaches to biomarker measures of stress and health outcomes.

The purpose of the CSDE Biomarker Working Group is to provide a forum for discussions of practical and theoretical issues associated with collecting and using biomarker data in social and behavioral science research. We hope to provide an opportunity for faculty and students with an interest in biomarker methods to meet researchers with similar interests from departments across campus. Please feel free to forward this announcement to colleagues.  Those who would like to receive regular meeting announcements by email may subscribe to the mailing list here.  If you are interested in joining meetings via video conferencing, please RSVP to Ellie (ebrindle@uw.edu) before each session to receive instructions.

Reinventing Globalization with Dani Rodrik (JSIS Talk, 2/13/2019)

Join us to hear Harvard University Professor Dani Rodrik speak on the reason globalization is under threat, and the need to reinvent it to serve more people better.

RSVP by visiting this link! 
This event is free and open to the public.
About the speaker
Dani Rodrik is the Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He has published widely in the areas of economic development, international economics, and political economy. His current research focuses on the political economy of liberal democracy and economic growth in developing countries.

Rodrik is the recipient of the inaugural Albert O. Hirschman Prize of the Social Sciences Research Council and of the Leontief Award for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. Professor Rodrik is currently President-Elect of the International Economic Association. His newest book is Straight Talk on Trade: Ideas for a Sane World Economy (2017). He is also the author of Economics Rules: The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science (2015), The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy (2011) and One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth (2007).

For media inquiries or RSVP registration, contact thormm@uw.edu or 206.685.0578

For other inquiries, contact tleonard@uw.edu or 206.685.2354

Autonomous Vehicles & Equity (Urban @UW and WCPC Roundtable, 3/1/2019)

You are invited to a roundtable discussion exploring how equity concerns are (and are not) being built into planning for the introduction of autonomous vehicles (AVs) into cities. We hope that you can join a group of practitioners, policymakers, and researchers for this interactive conversation.

Friday, March 1, 2019

8:30 -10:00 am

Room 305 A/B
UW Social Work Building
4101 15th Ave NE, Seattle 98105

Sponsored by Urban @UW and the West Coast Poverty Center

Registration is required.
Please register at the link below by 2/22.

 

Panelists:

Ted Bailey
Cooperative Automated Transportation Program Manager
Washington State Department of Transportation

Anne Brown
Assistant Professor
Planning, Public Policy, and Management
University of Oregon

Sahar Shirazi
Policy and Planning Lead for AVs
WSP USA

Don Mackenzie (Moderator)
Assistant Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Washington

SeniorAdvice Caregiver Scholarship

SeniorAdvice.com has just announced a new $2,000 scholarship for CSDE students who have acted as a caregiver.  I would greatly appreciate your help in getting the word out to your students by having the award listed under your external scholarships section on the CSDE website.   This award has an application deadline of July 15, 2019 and we are encouraging students to apply early.

Full details for this new award are below:

SeniorAdvice Caregiver Scholarship – $2,000 Award

For students who have acted as caregiver to an adult friend or relative in any capacity:

https://www.senioradvice.com/senior-caregiver-scholarship-fall-2019

https://www.senioradvice.com/news-room/senioradvice-announces-fall-2019-scholarship-award

Information on Previous Scholarship Winners (can be kept confidential at the student’s discretion):

https://www.senioradvice.com/news-room/senioradvice-announces-spring-2019-scholarship-winner

https://www.senioradvice.com/blog/general/senioradvice-com-spring-2019-senior-caregiver-scholarship-winner

Research Scientist

The Center for Health Outcomes and Population Equity (HOPE) at the University of Utah Huntsman Cancer Institute is accepting applications for a Research Scientist. Applicants should submit their application at https://utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/87031 . The call for applications is attached.

The Center conducts community-based and clinical research that focuses on health inequities, behavioral risk factors, cancer screening and vaccination, and use of state of the science mobile health technologies for both assessment and intervention. Special populations of interest include Latinos, American Indians/Alaska Natives, African Americans, LGBTQ+, low socioeconomic status individuals, and rural/frontier.

The research scientist will have the opportunity to participate in NIH- and PCORI-funded intervention, mechanism, and dissemination/implementation studies. Treatment approaches include smartphone apps, motivational enhancement therapies, mindfulness meditation, cognitive behavioral interventions, and health care system changes. Assessment approaches include on-body human sensing technologies and ecological momentary assessments. Study designs include Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trials (SMART), Micro-Randomized Trials (MRT), and longitudinal cohorts.

 

Call for Papers: Workshop on Demographic Research with Web and Social Media Data (Munich, 6/11-6/14/2019)

Call for Papers:

Workshop on Demographic Research with Web and Social Media Data
Munich, Germany, 11 June, 2019

Deadline for submissions: 22 March 2019

The workshop will take place at the International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-2019) in Munich, Germany, 11-14 June 2019.

Complete information is available in the attached PDF file and on the MPIDR website.

The spread of the internet and online communities provide unprecedented opportunities for studying global population dynamics such as fertility, mortality, migration, and health. Internet users do not only leave ‘digital traces’ of their existence, the online world also influences their behaviour, from daily decisions (like commuting patterns and kin interactions) to major life events (like childbirth and migration). There are clear benefits inherent in connecting demography and data science. Demographers can help identify and answer research questions relevant to the social sciences using well-established analytical and theoretical frameworks. Data scientists possess invaluable technical and computational understanding of digital phenomena needed for this task. As social media services become a major source of social scientific data, the interaction with data science holds great potential to advance demographic research. Despite the great potential of these interactions, the communication between population researchers and data scientists has been very limited so far. This workshop is intended to favor communication and future collaboration between the two communities.

Examples of topics include:

  • Nowcasting demographic processes (migration, fertility, mortality, etc.)
  • Online     experiments, surveys and simulations for demographic research
  • Inferring age, gender and interests from text and images: recent developments
  • Limitations of social media and internet data and how to overcome them
  • Monitoring population health using social media data
  • Inference from biased or non-representative samples
  • Implications of the digital revolution on demographic behavior
  • Demographic change, human mobility and disease dynamics
  • Combining traditional sources with Web data
  • Other…

This event is organized by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, in partnership with the IUSSP Panel on Digital Demography.

Attending the workshop:

Participants who would like to present must send an extended abstract (2-4 pages) or a full paper to icwsm2019@demogr.mpg.de by March 22, 2019 with the subject “Paper Submission”. The submissions will be evaluated by the Organizing Committee on the basis of quality and fit to the workshop theme. Accepted abstracts and papers will be presented as short presentations. All submissions and presentations must be in English.

Participants who are interested in attending but not in presenting a research paper should submit a paragraph by May 1, 2019 explaining why they are interested in participating, what they would gain from participation, and how they can contribute to the workshop. Participants who have submitted these paragraphs will be given priority to attend over walk-in attendees in case the workshop is full. These paragraphs should be submitted by email to icwsm2019@demogr.mpg.de with the subject “Attendance Only” and they will not undergo formal evaluation.

There will be no formal Proceedings for the abstracts and papers submitted. However, authors of high quality submissions will be invited to submit their paper to a special issue on Social Media and Demographic Research of the open access, peer-reviewed journal Demographic Research – one of the top journals in the field. The issue would include a selection of papers presented at workshops organized in collaboration with the IUSSP Panel on Digital Demography.

Please note that participants are expected to make their own travel and hotel reservations and to cover these costs.

Important Dates:

  • March 22, 2019 –  Deadline for abstract/paper submissions for presentations (in English). Submissions via email: icwsm2019@demogr.mpg.de (subject: “Paper Submission”).
  • April 2, 2019 – Notification of acceptance of submissions for presentations.
  • May 1, 2019 – Deadline for informal paragraphs outlining interest to attend. Submissions via email: icwsm2019@demogr.mpg.de (subject: “Attendance Only”).
  • June 11, 2019 – Workshop to be held in Munich, Germany. Priority to attend will be given to presenters and participants who had sent in a paragraph by email before.