A Research Associate works with a substantial degree of independence under the direction of senior research staff, performs a variety of complex research and management tasks, and supervises research assistants, especially, but not only, on fielding activities. Research tasks may include collection of quantitative data (often by overseeing fielding of surveys), collection of qualitative data, data processing and/or implementing data analyses, coordinating project timelines, compilation of information, and writing reports, including publishable products. A Research Associate contributes to a range of other administrative and institutional activities and typically serves as a project manager on one or more projects or project components. We are seeking individuals with interest and experience in sexual and reproductive health research in the United States.
CSDE Fellow Michael Esposito Receives Ph.D. in Sociology
Congratulations to CSDE Fellow Michael Esposito for receiving his Ph.D. in Sociology from University of Washington! Dr. Esposito will begin a three-year Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute for Social Research’s Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan, beginning September 2018.
Mike established a research agenda in population health early on in graduate school that seeks to explain how and why race matters for health. His work describes the processes that generate racial disparities in health outcomes and addresses methodological difficulties by applying cutting-edge methods to unique data. Specifically, Mike’s research connects health disparities to institutional and structural features related to race—for example, education, mass incarceration, and residential segregation).
In his innovative dissertation, “Interwoven Social Determinants: Race, Education, and Health in the United States,” Mike interrogates the well-documented heterogeneity in the health-protective effects of education in the US. This research describes the processes that give rise to smaller health protective effects of education in the black population than the white population. To estimate the effects of education on health, the study employs machine/statistical learning methodologies and techniques that allow for causal(-like) inferences from observational data. Mike examined different mechanisms, including the role of income in explaining black-white differences in the educational gradient in health.
Mike’s paper in Longitudinal and Life Course Studies with his CSDE mentors, Jerald Herting and Hedwig Lee, and other co-authors estimates the impact of early adult incarceration on health. In another paper that will be published soon, Mike, and his coauthors Frank Edwards and Hedwig Lee, explicate racial-disparities in police-involved mortality (i.e., deaths, of civilians, resulting from interactions with law-enforcement) by examining how place or location factors into this important institutional and public health concern. The paper utilizes crowd-sourced data on fatal encounters to address several shortcomings in federal document of deaths involving police and uses Bayesian, multilevel models, with weakly informative priors to achieve precision on relatively sparse events.
In addition to his CSDE Fellowship and completing the Graduate Certificate in Demographic Methods, Mike completed a concentration in social statistics through the Center for Statistics and Social Sciences. Last year, Mike was also a Dissertation Fellow through the UW Graduate Opportunities and Minority Achievement Program (GO-MAP).
IAPHS 2018 Conference: Pushing the Boundaries of Population Health Science (10/3-10/5)
IAPHS conferences feature the latest in population health science from diverse disciplines and promote exchanges about population health issues between scientists and stakeholders from policy and practice fields.
This year’s conference is hosted by the National Academies Roundtable on Population Health Improvement. The Roundtable and IAPHS are offering a joint symposium, Population Health Science in the United States: Trends, Evidence, and Effective Policy, to be held prior to the start of IAPHS sessions, October 3, 8:15 AM – 1:00 PM.
Call For Applications: 2018–2019 Emerging Poverty Scholars Fellowship
Awards
IRP anticipates providing two fellows with $20,000 in flexible funding over a one-year award period beginning September 1, 2018. IRP will also match each fellow with a senior poverty scholar mentor.
Goals
IRP’s Emerging Poverty Scholars Fellowship aims to support the career development and success of promising emerging poverty scholars from underrepresented racial and ethnic populations by
- enhancing the resources available to them,
- providing high-quality mentoring from nationally renowned senior poverty scholars, and
- fostering interaction among a diverse set of scholars in order to broaden the corps of U.S. poverty researchers.
Beyond providing Fellows with flexible funding and opportunities for expanding their networks and receiving feedback on their research and career trajectories, the program intends to establish long-term relationships between Fellows and other poverty scholars, which may lead to future collaborations.
Funding
Fellowships may be used for a wide range of professional development activities, including
- engaging in substantive and methodological training;
- travel for data collection, collaboration, or research presentation;
- securing release time from teaching; or
- summer salary support.
IRP will separately provide travel funding for Fellows to visit IRP, other institutions from the U.S. Collaborative of Poverty Centers (CPC), and/or their mentor’s home institution twice during the one-year funding period.
Expectations
Fellows will be invited to attend and may be asked to present their research at a variety of IRP events. They are also expected to participate in follow-up activities such as program evaluation of this initiative and efforts to support future Fellows.
William Lavely Presents at “China in Time and Space: G. William Skinner’s Ideas Going Forward”
Demographers worldwide came together for “China in Time and Space: G. William Skinner’s Ideas Going Forward,” a conference co-sponsored by CSDE. The goal of the event was to apply Skinner’s theoretical concepts to the understanding of social, demographic and economic processes in China. CSDE Affiliate William Lavely, Professor at the Jackson School of International Studies, chaired one session and presented “Skinner’s Concept of Conjugal Power.”
The conference was hosted Hong Kong University of Science and Technology., and sponsored by HKUST, the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong, the Department of History at Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the G. William Skinner Fund at the University of Washington.
Connor Gilroy and Lee Fiorio Organize Seattle SICSS and ICWSM Workshop
CSDE Fellows Connor Gilroy and Lee Fiorio were the primary organizers behind last week’s Summer Institute in Computational Social Science. The event, co-sponsored by CSDE, connects scholars from a range of computational and social-science backgrounds to share complementary strengths and enhance each other’s work.
These future leaders in demography also organized MPIDR’s workshop Making Sense of Online Data for Population Research at the International Conference on Web and Social Media. CSDE is grateful for their contributions to computational demography.
PAA 2019 Call for Workshops
The PAA Program Committee invites submissions from individuals or groups to conduct workshops in conjunction with the PAA 2019 Annual Meeting. Workshops topics could include (but not limited to): statistical methods, data set usage, data visualization, research communication, and professional development. Workshop proposals that include a variety of instructional approaches and materials are strongly encouraged.
CSDE’s Summer Workshops
Designed to complement formal course instruction, CSDE Workshops are offered in a shorter, more accessible format responsive to the specific demographic research needs of CSDE’s Trainees and Faculty Affiliates. Join us for:
- Introduction to R: Friday, June 29th, 1:30-3:30pm
- Introduction to Graphics in R: Tuesday, July 10th, 1:30-3:30pm
- R Programming for Sample Size Calculations: Friday, July 20th, 1:30-3:30pm
Click below to register for each workshop.
Call for Proposals: Royalty Research Fund
The Royalty Research Fund (RRF) grant program is funded from royalty and licensing fee income generated by the University’s technology transfer program. Applications are now being accepted for the Autumn 2018 round of these awards, which are for up to one year and $40,000. The purpose of the RRF is to advance new directions in research, particularly:
- in disciplines for which external funding opportunities are minimal, and/or
- for faculty who are junior in rank, and/or
- in cases where funding may provide unique opportunities to increase applicants’ competitiveness for subsequent funding.
Student Assistant, Graduate School GEMS Office
Graduate Enrollment Management Services (GEMS) is a division of the Graduate School that facilitates admissions and graduation at the graduate level. GEMS is hiring an hourly student assistant to provide critical administrative support to our team. This position will primarily include clerical duties such as processing incoming mail, filing, assisting with our departmental email, providing back-up telephone support, and special projects as assigned.
The assistant will report to the Administrative Program Specialist, but will provide support to the GEMS advisors and Director as needed.
Skills: Candidate must be detail oriented, reliable, and highly organized, and should have excellent oral and written communication skills. A strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, and UW administrative systems