Matthew Powers (Associate Prof., Communication) will offer a 5-credit graduate seminar, COM 597 A “Interviewing for Social Research” this spring on MW from 10:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m.

“Interviewing for Social Research” is a methods class that introduces students to the strategies, issues and challenges associated with conducting interview-based research. Students will learn by doing: weekly exercises will help class members to design, develop, conduct, analyze and write-up an interview-based study. Course readings will immerse students in key debates regarding the use of interviews in social research.

Below is a tentative plan for the terrain we will cover over the 10 week quarter. The syllabus is still being made, but I am happy to share it with anyone when it’s complete.

Week 1: Course Overview, Identify RQ for quarter

Week 2: Validity and reliability in interview research

Week 3: Ethics and IRB

Week 4: Recruitment & sampling strategies

Week 5: Preparing for interviews

Week 6: Conducting interviews

Week 7: Issues that arise during interviews

Week 8: Preparing and organizing interview data

Week 9: Analyzing interview data

Week 10: Reporting interview data

If you have questions, don’t hesitate to get in touch. My email is mjpowers@uw.edu

Have you conducted experiments and performed hypothesis testing? Are you willing to share your data and analysis scripts with us? If so, we would like to invite you to participate in a study about understanding the process of statistical analysis.

In the study, we will ask you open-ended questions about the statistical analysis decisions in one of your previous projects. If you have concerns about us inspecting your analysis scripts, please rest assured that our goal is not to find flaws and we will not publish anything without your consent. Instead, we seek to understand analysis processes better. The study will take place on UW campus between Jan. 30 and Feb. 13. We expect the study to last around 60 to 90 minutes. As a thank you for your participation, you will receive a $20 Amazon gift card.

If you are interested, please fill out this survey (https://goo.gl/forms/R4hIbqcZrWzUbRV03). We will contact you shortly to set up a time if you are eligible. Feel free to email me (yliu0@cs.washington.edu) if you have any questions!

 

Please join us at our winter pop-up cafe event focusing on advocacy for youth and young adults experiencing homelessness.

12:30 – Advocacy 101 Training with Nancy Amidei

1:00 – Advocacy Panel featuring:

Tim Harris, Director of Real Change News

Alison Eisinger, Executive Director of SKCCH (Seattle King County Coalition on Homelessness)

Krystal Koop, Partnership for Native Health

Also including:

– Re-Writing the Media Narrative on Homelessness

– DIY Advocacy Poster Making, with prizes for best posters!

– Free Lunch and Coffee!

ABSTRACT: Universities market their social science graduate programs as pathways into the exclusive arena of academia or high-paying policy or industry jobs. Yet these promises fail to trickle down to working-class students, further reinforcing the mythology of the American Dream. While there’s been much work done on the effects of socioeconomic status on undergraduates, this paper addresses the impacts of the compounding precarity it creates for those pursuing graduate studies.

Monday, February 11th

“Refractive Surveillance: Monitoring Customers to Manage Workers”
KAREN LEVY – Cornell University
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm, Q&A until 2:00 pm
School of Social Work, Room 305A

Junior and senior scholars in the social, economic, and behavioral sciences are invited to participate in the Foundation’s Visiting Scholars Program. The application due date is 27 June 2019 for the 2020-2021 academic year.

 

 

 

Postdoctoral Fellow for a Research Project on the Role of Occupational Segregation by Race/Ethnicity and Immigrant Status on Older Adult Health

Post-doctoral fellow for a new project on the role of occupational segregation by race/ethnicity and immigrant status and its effects on older adult health in the United States. The main focus is on the higher rate of functional limitations by age among the native-born and immigrant Latino/Hispanic population.

The availability of the position is contingent on research grant funding. If funding is available as expected, this position will begin in the summer or fall of 2019 and be for one year. It is renewable for a second year contingent on excellent job performance and continued funding.

Candidates are required to have a PhD or equivalent doctoral degree in demography, sociology or other social science field, public health, public policy, or statistics. All requirements for the degree must be completed before the position begins. Candidates must have strong statistical skills, hands-on experience with quantitative research, and excellent Stata and/or R programming skills and experience. Candidates must work well in a collaborative research environment and have good interpersonal skills. Excellent professional writing is also essential. Experience working with complex social survey data (e.g., HRS, PSID, NLSY, etc.) is strongly preferred.

This position can be held either at the Office of Population Research, Princeton University, or at the California Center for Population Research, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The successful applicant will collaborate with researchers at both institutions and also have some time for his/her own research.

To apply, applicants should submit a brief cover letter describing why they are interested in the position, a curriculum vitae, a writing sample, and two letters of recommendation. Submit all applications to Rachel Veerman, rveerman@ucla.edu.

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, age or protected veteran status. For the complete University of California nondiscrimination and affirmative action policy, see: UC Nondiscrimination & Affirmative Action Policy at: http://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4000376/NondiscrimAffirmAct

Rutgers University School of Social Work seeks a postdoctoral scholar to work on a collaborative, multi-year, multi-faceted project focused on understanding the role that fathers can play in improving the well-being of children and the role of social policies in promoting or inhibiting fathers’
involvement with their children in the United States and Latin America. The project, led by associate professor Lenna Nepomnyaschy and assistant professor Laura Cuesta, involves quantitative analyses of several large national and international datasets and the collection of state-level data on
employment, wage, criminal justice, and child support arrears policies in the United States, and country-level data on child support policies in Latin America.

The Centre for Demographic Research of the Université catholique de Louvain | UCLouvain (Belgium – www.uclouvain.be/demo) is recruiting a Postdoctoral researcher to work on the ARC-funded LIMA project.

“Personal Aspirations and Processes of Adaptation: How the Legal framework Impacts on Migrants’ Agency” 

Deadline for applications: 26 February 2019.

Job description

The postdoctoral researcher will work in collaboration with the lead researchers. He/she will participate in the following tasks:

• Contribution to multidisciplinary articles on migration and integration, with a focus on asylum seekers and refugees in Belgium.
• Analysis of large-scale longitudinal databases on migration, administrative status and employment (population register, crossroads bank for social security), and analysis of survey data on migration and integration.
• Participation in the design of a quantitative survey on migrants’ histories and aspirations.

Profile

• PhD in demography, quantitative sociology or related discipline.
• Strong quantitative skills and experience with individual longitudinal data.
• A good knowledge of STATA and/or R.
• Strong interest in international migration and integration research.
• Good writing skills.
• Good working knowledge of English and/or French.

Conditions

• Starting date: between March 2019 and May 2019.
• Duration: 12 months (possibility of extension, conditional on availability of funds).
• Net monthly allowance of 2,490 €.

Application

Applications will include a complete CV, a motivation letter and the names and addresses of two reference persons who can be contacted.Applications should be sent (by e-mail) before February 26, 2019 to

Bruno SCHOUMAKER – bruno.schoumaker@uclouvain.be

Centre de recherche en démographie – Université catholique de Louvain

The LIMA Project: “Personal Aspirations and Processes of Adaptation: How the Legal framework Impacts on Migrants’ Agency”

The LIMA project examines how legal frameworks – Belgian and European – correlate with third country national migrants’ agency. The scientific aim is twofold: understand how legal frameworks shape migrants’ professional, family and migratory trajectories and life projects; and analyse if, and which strategies migrants develop to bend the rules and circumvent obstacles, and/or use the opportunities offered by legal systems to fulfil their professional and family aspirations. This interdisciplinary project is conducted by researchers in migration law, demographers and sociologists.