This vacancy is for a Survey Statistician in the Center for Economic Studies, Demographic Research Area located at the U.S. Census Bureau Headquarters in Suitland, Maryland.  The Census Bureau is accessible from the Metro Rail Green Line – Suitland Station.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct empirical research.
• Plan and coordinate project activities related for research using administrative records.
• Communicate with senior management, internal and external stakeholders.
• Lead, manage, and supervise team.

Deadline to apply is October 22, 2019. Click the link below for more information.

This event consists of a series of web-seminars organized by the Center for Innovation and Research in Graduate Education (CIRGE).

With the goal to make visible the role that doctoral education plays in questioning systems of exclusion and inequality, the Center for Innovation and Research in Graduate Education (CIRGE) is inviting scholars across the world to participate in the CIRGE life lecture and webinar Series “Committing Ourselves to Social Justice: Doctoral Education for Complex Times.” This series aims to provide doctoral students, instructors, departments and funders of doctoral education, a better understanding of the structures, practices, and pedagogies that would need to be addressed in different disciplines and organizations, to be more inclusive, embrace diversity and equity.

CIRGE acknowledges that the meaning of social justice is tied to specific political and cultural contexts. Rather than starting with a (single) definition of the term, the CIRGE series will begin with an open investigation of what “social justice” does and would look like for various academic disciplines and university communities across the world.

Interested in presented in the web-seminar series in the future:

Please contact Roxana Chiappa | rchiappa@uw.edu

First Talk of the Series

November 18th, 2019: Viewing the landscape of doctoral education against the horizon of policy: Placing ourselves in the academic arboretum

Speaker: Dr. Amy Scott Metcalfe, University of British Columbia

Time: November 18th, 2019, at 9.30 am (Pacific Time)

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This tenure track professor will cover the field of multi-dimensional demographic modelling and forecasting focusing on human characteristics (in addition to age and sex) such as educational attainment, place of residence and others. Applications of these methods should also address the role of population trends with respect to sustainable development goals. Application deadline is November 20, 2019.

Please click this link or the link below for more information and to apply!

The UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program seeks outstanding women and minority Ph.D. recipients to pursue academic careers at the University of California. The current program offers postdoctoral research fellowships, professional development and faculty mentoring to outstanding scholars in all fields whose research, teaching, and service will contribute to diversity and equal opportunity at UC.

Click this link or the link below for more information on this program and how to apply.

GFIS works with current and admitted UW graduate students, helping them identify and locate funding opportunities for graduate school-related expenses including tuition, research, conference and research travel. Students can visit GFIS during drop-in advising hours, schedule individual appointments, or request information by email. Students can also visit the GFIS Funding Resources Guide and blog to learn about campus funding resources, databases, search strategies, and events.

Grants of up to $5,000 are available to help support dissertation expenses of doctoral students in the United States and Canada whose studies have the potential for adding significantly to knowledge about problems in the functioning or well being of children, adults, couples, families, or communities, or about interventions designed to prevent or alleviate such problems. The research for which funding is requested must focus on the United States or Canada or on a comparison between the United States or Canada and one or more other countries.

Deadline: Nov. 1, 5 p.m. ET

Please click this link or the link below for more information.

Call for Chapter Proposals:

Routledge Handbook of African Demography: A book to be edited by Clifford Odimegwu, PhD, Wits University, South Africa.

Proposal Submission Deadline: 31 October 2019.

African demography in terms of structure, training and research has been in transition since 1994, leading to a massive increase in the number of population scientists and research outputs. With the golden generation of African demographers and population scientists tending to retirement from training and research scenes, there is urgent need to document the body of research in Africa in the past 50 years and define the future of African demographic scholarship.

Principally the handbook will be a comprehensive collection and documentation of methodological, theoretical, practical and substantive issues on African demography. The book will also provide exhaustive bibliography rich in references to African demography research done in Africa by Africans and African scholars. The handbook will be an essential collection for teachers, researchers, policy makers and programmers in the field of population research. No new study or analysis is needed, except a comprehensive review of what is known and what should be known in the next decades of demographic research in Africa.

The handbook is expected to be launched at the forthcoming IUSSP conference in India in 2021.

Abstracts should be sent by email to Prof Clifford Odimegwu: Clifford.Odimegwu@wits.ac.za.

Please click this link or the link below for a document with more information.

The Department of Demography at University of California at Berkeley is generating an applicant pool of qualified temporary instructors to teach a range of courses in the department should openings arise during the following terms: Spring 2020, Summer 2020, and Fall 2020. This pool will remain open until October 15th, 2020 to accommodate upcoming course needs and new applicants. If you wish to remain in the pool after October 15th, 2020, you will need to reapply.

Getting Connected is GO-MAP’s largest event of the year! It’s an excellent opportunity for graduate students of color across disciplines to mingle, break bread and dance!

The first half of Getting Connected is the New Student Orientation.

The New Student Orientation is the perfect place for new graduate students of color to learn tips and tricks for succeeding in graduate school. Through a series of panels with current graduate students and faculty of color, incoming graduate students can get a taste of campus life and set the stage for a vibrant first year.

We look forward to seeing you alll on Thursday, October 10th!

RSVP here or click the link below!