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Jennifer Utrata Discusses Women’s Invisible Labor and Masculine Heavy Drinking in Russia

The heavy drinking of alcohol remains primarily a masculine ritual worldwide. Yet, scholarship has undertheorized women’s practices in shaping the boundaries of masculine rituals, including drinking. CSDE Visiting Affiliate and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Puget Sound Jennifer Utrata addresses these questions in her paper, “Invisible Labor and Women’s Double Binds: Collusive Femininity and Masculine Drinking in Russia,” published recently in Gender & Society.

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with mothers, fathers, and grandmothers, she demonstrates that Russian women perform extensive invisible labor to produce responsible men. Constrained by a gender division of domestic labor, wives and mothers engage in “patriarchal bargains” as they shape men’s drinking practices, co-producing hegemonic masculinity.

Whereas in the Soviet period women also managed men’s drinking, today more women are held accountable to a collusive femininity involving both accommodation and resistance, upholding men’s drinking privileges only if breadwinning occurs. Some women embrace an alternative femininity by becoming single mothers and refusing to manage men’s drinking. Theorizing collusive and alternative femininities advances our knowledge of how multiple femininities shape, and may in time change, hegemonic masculinity.

Connor Gilroy Receives Graduate School Award for Distinguished Masters Thesis in the Social Sciences

CSDE Fellow Connor Gilroy, PhD Student in Sociology, was awarded the Graduate School Award for Distinguished Thesis in the Social Sciences for his thesis titled “How Distinct is Gay Neighborhood Change? Patterns and Variation in Gayborhood Trajectories.” Gilroy, who is also the co-leader of CSDE’s Computational Demography Working Group, did a significant part of the work for his thesis while a CSDE fellow.

Gilroy believes that residents of gay neighborhoods, and everyone who cares about their future, deserve an accurate account of what these spaces were like in the recent past, and how they’ve changed up until now. He hopes that his work shifts the narratives we have about change — gay neighborhoods aren’t “disappearing,” and it’s wrong to ascribe the changes we do see in some places to their special status as enclaves for LGBTQ people. Instead, we need to shift our focus to local urban forces that impact gay and other neighborhoods alike. Capitol Hill, for example, might have more in common with Belltown in Seattle than Boystown in Chicago.

According to Gilroy, his adviser, CSDE Affiliate and Professor & Chair of Sociology Kate Stovel, had a significant impact on his work by pushing him to think more generally and abstractly about the concrete empirical puzzles he deals with in this work.

 

Tim Thomas Presents on the History and Impacts of Redlining to King County Council

CSDE Affiliate Tim Thomas, Postdoctoral Fellow at the eScience Institute and Sociology, was recently invited by the King County Council Equity and Social Justice Team to present on the history of redlining in Washington and how it impacts King County today. Thomas walked the audience through an account of the great migration, redlining, restrictive housing covenants, the home ownership gap, gentrification, and evictions. He also facilitated a lively policy discussion and presented recommendations regarding home ownership, renter protections, and development & zoning.

Thomas is transitioning to a CSDE Regional Affiliate as he is soon starting as a Postdoc at Berkeley’s Urban Displacement Project. There he will work on tools that identify residential displacement risk, analyzing risk in relation to other neighborhood dynamics, write policy briefs for U.S. cities, and publish his findings in academic journals. He will continue to be the PI for the Evictions Study where CSDE Affiliate and eScience data scientist Jose Hernandez will be the local lead. Thomas says he is incredibly grateful to CSDE for the training and research support making his projects a reality.

PAA Submissions Are Due September 29!

The Population Association of American (PAA) is holding its annual conference in Washington, DC, April 22-25 2020.  Submissions are due September 29. PAA is the premier professional organization in demography, and its annual conference has increasingly expanded to capture a range of disciplinary approaches to population processes. Check out PAA 2020 Call for Papers which includes the submission rules and instructions and the list of sessions. (Here is the program from last year.) The quality of the presented work is always very high and the conference is a great opportunity to learn about new and innovative approaches to demography, as well as a chance to connect with some of the best scholars in the field.

To help you prepare and to share some tips on structuring an effective submission, CSDE is hosting a PAA Prep and Review workshop. Here’s how it will work:

  • Join us for discussion on best strategies for PAA submission Monday, September 9 from 12-1:30 pm in Raitt 115. We’ll provide pizza and drinks!
  • RSVP to David Fernandes by Wednesday, September 5 at 5:00 p.m. Please also provide your paper working title, co-authors and their institutions.
  • Prepare for the workshop by reading the PAA 2020 Call for Papers carefully and bringing questions.
  • Submit a draft of your submission by the following Monday, September 16.
  • You’ll receive brief comments on your submissionwithin a few days from a faculty member and a fellow student (which means you’ll be asked to review a colleague’s proposal).

Even if you’re a PAA veteran, I very much hope you can join us to share your perspective and offer some guidance for PAA rookies.

 

Heather Hill Appointed to Population Health Initiative Executive Council

CSDE Affiliate Heather Hill, Associate Professor at the Evans School, joins CSDE Director Sara Curran and CSDE Executive Committee Member India Ornelas, Associate Professor of Health Services at the School of Public Health, on the 30-member Population Health Initiative Executive Council. Ali Mokdad, Professor of Health Metrics Sciences, Chief Strategy Officer for Population Health, and Executive Council Vice Chair of the Population Health Initiative is also a CSDE Affiliate.

The Population Health Initiative addresses the most persistent and emerging challenges in human health, environmental resilience and social and economic equity and CSDE is honored to collaborate with the initiative on a number of research efforts.

Through partnerships with local, national and global communities, they develop, implement and disseminate transformative knowledge through our research, service and teaching. The Initiative is governed by a 30-member executive council responsible for developing, implementing, and measuring progress toward the initiative’s goals.

Advancing BSSR to Address National Priorities for Health Care and Population Health Improvement, Dr. Felicia Hill-Briggs (Webinar, 9/24/2019)

Please join OBSSR for a virtual presentation by Felicia Hill-Briggs, Ph.D., ABPP, Professor of Medicine and Core Faculty of the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, on Tuesday, September 24, from 2:00 to 3:00 pm ET. Please feel free to share this information with your colleagues and stakeholders.

Register: https://obssr.od.nih.gov/advancing-bssr-to-address-national-priorities-for-health-care-and-population-health-improvement/

Presentation Overview
In the era of transformation to value-based care, new accountability is placed on health care delivery systems to provide high quality care that improves the health of populations, improves the patient experience of care, and concurrently reduce costs. Many priority conditions for value-based care have associated lifestyle, behavioral, and/or mental health components that contribute to disease outcomes and costs. To address these factors, there is a growing demand for BSSR interventions that are reliable, effective in achieving desired prevention and management outcomes, acceptable to patients, and flexible for integration directly into health care and population health practice. Despite the volume of effective interventions resulting from BSSR funding, adoption of these interventions into care delivery remains rare.

Facilitators of BSSR intervention integration into practice are emerging. To illustrate, diabetes is presented as a priority disease example for value-based care. Diabetes, which affects over 30 million Americans and costs $327 billion annually in direct medical costs and reduced productivity, is a disease with concomitant lifestyle, behavioral, and mental health factors. Three diabetes-related BSSR interventions are used to demonstrate pathways to BSSR integration into health care and population health practice: the Collaborative Care Model; the National Diabetes Prevention Program; and DECIDE, a diabetes self-management program. Features of pathways to integration are discussed. Implications for the design and outcomes reporting of BSSR interventions to facilitate readiness for integration into practice in the current era are identified.

Presenter Biography
Felicia Hill-Briggs, PhD, ABPP is Professor of Medicine and Core Faculty of the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is Senior Director of Population Health Research and Development for Johns Hopkins HealthCare LLC and Co-Lead of the Behavioral, Social, and Systems Science Translational Research Community for the Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (an NIH CTSA). A clinical psychologist, neuropsychologist, and behavioral scientist, Dr. Hill-Briggs conducts clinical trials of individual- and systems-level interventions for the prevention and management of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and related conditions. A particular emphasis of her research is effective intervention design and adaptation for populations of health inequity. She is developer of the DECIDE program, a problem-solving training approach to chronic disease self-management in high-risk populations, developed through NIH-funded trials. Her dissemination and implementation work extends internationally to governmental and private sector partnerships for population health management and improvement in regions with high diabetes burden, including the Caribbean and Middle East.

Dr. Hill-Briggs served as 2018 President of the American Diabetes Association, Health Care and Education. She has served on the NIH Interagency Committee on Diabetes Mellitus and several NIH Special Emphasis Panels. Dr. Hill-Briggs is the recipient of the Rachmiel Levine Medal from ADA, the Nelson Butters Award for Research Contributions to Clinical Neuropsychology from the National Academy of Neuropsychology, and the Tracey Orleans Award from the Society of Behavioral Medicine. In 2017, Dr. Hill-Briggs was elected to the National Academy of Medicine of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM).

The recording of this webinar will be available with closed captioning on OBSSR’s website approximately one month after the event: https://obssr.od.nih.gov/advancing-bssr-to-address-national-priorities-for-health-care-and-population-health-improvement/

Getting Your First NIH Grant (Webinar, 9/10/2019)

Are you thinking of developing an NIH proposal to support additional career development or a research project? Are you overwhelmed by the grant writing and submission process? Join us as we convene an interdisciplinary panel of scholars who have ongoing NIH funding and will share their advice about preparing your first NIH career-development or research project grant.

Click here to register.

Global Innovation Fund

The Global Innovation Fund offers seed funding of up to $20,000 to develop cross-disciplinary and cross-continent collaborations.

  • Open to faculty members, research scientists, and non-faculty researchers
  • Eligible projects include: Research collaborations, faculty-student collaborations, study abroad programs (new or existing), faculty exchanges, and conferences
  • Learn more and apply: uw.edu/globalaffairs/gif
  • Deadline: Friday, November 1, 2019

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (Info Sessions, 9/12/2019 and 10/2/2019)

The application for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) is now open, and the Graduate Fellowships Office is here to help applicants.  Please forward this message to graduate students in science, technology, engineering and math fields.

We can help by reading statements (for organization, grammar and style—applicants should ask faculty adviser(s) to read statements for feedback on the content) and by offering application tips in individual appointments and information sessions.  All applicants should carefully read the GRFP Program Solicitation available with the application at:

https://www.research.gov/grfp/Login.do

The UW Graduate and Undergraduate Fellowships Offices are offering the following online sessions for applicants:

UPCOMING SESSIONS FOR CURRENT UW APPLICANTS TO NSF GRFP:

Wednesday, August 28, 1-2 PM

Thursday, Sep 12, 3:30-4:30 PM

Wednesday, Oct 2, 4:30-5:30 PM

 

Access the sessions at:

https://washington.zoom.us/j/978501298

Or iPhone one-tap :

US: +16699006833, 978501298# or +16468769923, 978501298#

Or Telephone:

US: +1 669 900 6833  or +1 646 876 9923

Webinar ID: 978 501 298

International numbers available: https://zoom.us/u/abmVr1uGBy

 

Questions? Contact Robyn Davis at rldavis@uw.edu or using the phone number or scheduler below.

Intern, Data for Development Policy

The United Nations Foundation links the UN’s work with others around the world, mobilizing the energy and expertise of business and non-governmental organizations to help the UN tackle issues including climate change, global health, peace and security, women’s empowerment, poverty eradication, energy access, and U.S.-UN relations.

The Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD), hosted at the UN Foundation, with a distributed team working from five countries, is a fast-growing, dynamic international partnership bringing together over 200 different organizations including governments, UN agencies, private companies, civil society organizations, and many others. The GPSDD makes connections and brokers partnerships to address the problems of gaps in data production, poor data use, access, quality, and works with stakeholders to fully harness the new opportunities of the data revolution in the service of sustainable development.

The intern would be a full part of the GPSDD secretariat team and would report directly to the Senior Director of Policy. S/he would also collaborate with the Policy Associate, the M&E Manager and the External Relations team.