The Washington State Office of Civil Legal Aid (OCLA) seeks assistance with updating the Client Demographics/Client Service Delivery Matrix used to plan and monitor the deployment of legal aid staff and pro bono capacity throughout Washington State. The work involves updating census-based information to reflect the most recent information from the 1-YR 2016 American Community Survey on a county-by-county and regional basis.
This project offers the student volunteer a hands-on opportunity to gain familiarity with American Fact Finder and other US Census tools, find and select census data and see how such data is used to ensure equity of geographic access to civil legal aid services for low-income people in Washington State. Target Completion Date: September 15, 2018.
Interested parties should reach out to James Bamberger.
OCLA is an independent judicial branch agency that manages and oversees legislative and other public investments in the system that provides legal aid services to low-income people in Washington state.
Drexel University was founded in Philadelphia in 1891 to provide educational opportunities for women and men of all backgrounds. Now, as a comprehensive research university with over 26,000 students across its 15 colleges and schools, Drexel’s strength in co-operative education, experiential learning, and translational research provides its students and faculty with excellent opportunities for career success. Known for innovation and dramatic growth, Drexel has earned top rankings from U.S. News & World Report, appearing among its Top 100 National Universities for the past seven years and on its Best Colleges list for the past 11 years.
Job Overview
Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, Assistant Professor, Middle Eastern Studies. Teach undergraduate and graduate courses and perform research within the Global Studies and Sociology Departments related to Middle Eastern Studies.
Qualifications:
Requirements: Ph.D., or foreign equivalent, in Sociology or related discipline, plus experience in politics, peace studies, development, or area studies.
Essential Functions:
Maintain an active quality research agenda and publish scholarly work in referred academic journals of outstanding quality, thereby contributing to the University’s research mission.
Supplemental Posting:
Drexel University offers an attractive benefits package including tuition remission, a generous retirement package and an opportunity to join a talented team of professionals directly helping the University achieve its record growth and quality reputation.
The purpose of the NIH BRAIN Initiative Advanced Postdoctoral Career Transition Award to Promote Diversity (K99/R00) program is to enhance workforce diversity in the neuroscience workforce and maintain a strong cohort of new and talented, NIH-supported, independent investigators from diverse backgrounds in BRAIN Initiative research areas. This program is designed to facilitate a timely transition of outstanding postdoctoral researchers with a research and/or clinical doctorate degree from mentored, postdoctoral research positions to independent, tenure-track or equivalent faculty positions. The program will provide independent NIH research support during this transition in order to help awardees to launch competitive, independent research careers.
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is designed specifically for applicants proposing research that does not involve leading a clinical trial, a clinical trial feasibility study, or ancillary clinical trial. Applicants to this FOA are permitted to propose clinical trial research experience led by a mentor or co-mentor. Applicants proposing a clinical trial or an ancillary clinical trial to an ongoing clinical trial as lead investigator, should apply to the companion FOA.
Translational science is a unique part of medical research that focuses on moving new ideas and inventions from the lab to patients. Researchers need a flexible funding mechanisms to help transition their work along this path. To help fill this gap, ITHS offers four annual funding opportunities to promote novel, innovative, and collaborative translational science.
“These awards are intended to catalyze promising new research projects and partnerships,” said Dr. Nora Disis, Principal Investigator of ITHS and Associate Dean for Translational Science at the University of Washington School of Medicine. “As a disease agnostic institute, we are excited to offer funding for a diverse range of ideas and we look forward to seeing the proposed work across multiple research disciplines.”
In addition to receiving funds, ITHS pilot awardees become members of a multi-disciplinary community with access to career development, mentorship, and ongoing support for the conduct of quality research projects. Investigators from across the five-state WWAMI (Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, Idaho) region are encouraged to apply.
Program Description
The NEA’s five-year research agenda (https://www.arts.gov/sites/default/files/nea-five-year-research-agenda-dec2016.pdf) aims to build public knowledge about the arts’ contributions to individuals and society. Through the NEA Research Labs (“Research Labs”), we seek to extend this agenda and its impact by cultivating a series of transdisciplinary research partnerships, grounded in the social and behavioral sciences, to produce and report empirical insights about the arts for the benefit of arts and non-arts sectors alike. The purpose of this Program Solicitation is to select an organization(s) (Cooperator) to undertake the Research Labs program.
Pre-Proposal Instructions:
Please submit:
- a one-page letter of intent with a description of proposed aims and approach
- Biosketch or CV of the PI
- A letter of support from the Dean or Chair. This letter of support signifies that the Dean or Chair have ensured that the nominee and application are likely to be of sufficient quality to be competitive nationally
to research@uw.edu by 5:00 PM Thursday June 7, 2018. Full proposals are due to the sponsor 7/9/18, so you will need to have your materials in to the Office of Sponsored Programs by 6/29/18 for processing, if given the go ahead by the Proposal Review Committee. Other open limited submissions opportunities, as well as the internal proposal review committee review and selection process outline, are here:https://depts.washington.edu/research/funding/limited-submissions/. Please feel free to email us atresearch@uw.edu with questions or information on any limited submission opportunities that should be but are not already listed on that page.
The Department of Public Policy (DPP) at the University of Connecticut seeks to fill a one-year visiting position at the rank of Visiting Assistant Professor. DPP is home to the NASPAA-accredited Master of Public Administration program (MPA), the on-line Graduate Program in Survey Research (GPSR), the minor in Public Policy, the Master of Public Policy (MPP), and four graduate certificate programs in Nonprofit Management, Public Financial Management, Leadership and Public Management and Survey Research.
The Department of Public Policy is located on the University of Connecticut’s Hartford Campus in Hartford, Connecticut. The University of Connecticut is a premier research institution–designated as a Research University/Very High research activity by the Carnegie Foundation. The Department of Public Policy has 14 faculty (plus adjunct) and over 1,000 alumni. The Department’s MPA program is ranked by the U.S. News and World Report as 44th among public programs and 9th among public finance and budgeting programs.
This position will be filled at the Visiting Assistant Professor level. This is primarily a teaching position and the right candidate will be expected to teach in the area of public and nonprofit management, and/or other areas of specializations within the Department. Preference will be given to candidates who have research and/or teaching interests in public management, organization theory and behavior, human resource management, project management, labor relations, evaluation of nonprofit programs, fiscal health or financial management of nonprofit organizations, economics of philanthropy and charitable giving, and/or social entrepreneurship.
The successful candidates’ primary teaching assignments will be to offer core and elective classes in the MPA program, the MPP program and the undergraduate minor. The specific teaching assignment will be determined based on the abilities and interests of the candidate and the needs of the Department and might include graduate or undergraduate classes at the Hartford Campus or the main campus in Storrs. Duties include teaching and service to the Department and University.
Description
Although migration is a natural phenomenon that has always been an integral part of human history, the politics, regulations and debates about migration have intensified in recent years. Today, more than ever, institutions that contribute to the advancement and improvement of the human race, need to include migration as a priority area due to the worldwide magnitude of the effects of this phenomenon.
The Annual Summer Institute on Migration and Global Health is an event that has gained national and international recognition, since it is one of the few academic spaces dedicated to present and analyze the interrelation between migration and health, from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The Summer Institute provides researchers, faculty, graduate students and professionals working with migrant communities around the world, a unique opportunity to learn about different health issues that affect mobile populations.
The four-day course includes a combination of lectures, workshops, poster sessions, and field trips, to offer an exceptional opportunity not only to learn, but to create professional networks. This year’s agenda will include content in global and regional policies and strategies to address migrant health, human trafficking, refugee health, mental health, vulnerable populations such as children, elderly and women, research methodologies, and so much more!
Poster Presentations
The Summer Institute on Migration and Global Health provides an opportunity to researchers and students to showcase their investigations or successful interventions through a poster presentation. All posters must relate to topics concerning migration and health.
For Instructions look under the tab “Poster Presentations”.
We are delighted to announce an open request for proposals for character development research and implementation projects in low and middle income countries worldwide, and throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.
Ten proof-of-concept awards for up to $234,000 USD will be provided to proposals that:
1. Develop and evaluate novel approaches to fostering character strengths
2. Develop contextually appropriate scales for measuring character strengths
In a first-of-its-kind initiative, the Foundation seeks to develop a portfolio of scientific innovations to promote character development, through proof-of-concept and transition-to-scale awards.
Successful proposals will demonstrate a clear path to generating impact on individuals through demonstrable changes in knowledge, awareness and the practice of character strengths. They must include a rigorous evaluation methodology.
The Foundation is also offering an award of up to $1 million USD to scale up a character development innovation. This opportunity is open to innovations that have a peer-reviewed evidence base, and that are ready to achieve substantial impact through widespread implementation.
The Foundation conceives of character strengths as learned and learnable attributes, virtues, skills, habits, or capabilities that enable individuals to live better, more fulfilling, and prosperous lives. Examples include, but are not limited to: gratitude, honesty, humility, kindness, perseverance, responsibility, forgiveness, and empathy. We strongly encourage the identification and study for character strengths, not listed
As a whole, American metro areas have seen a decline in racial stratification since 1990 – yet some cities continue to defy this pattern. The Washington Post conducted an analysis to explore why, and they turned to CSDE Affiliate Kyle Crowder, Professor of Sociology, for context. He explained: “The separation of different racial and ethnic groups into separate social worlds means that members of different racial and ethnic groups have different lived experiences. They have different daily rounds. They’re exposed to different neighborhoods on a daily basis. Residential segregation has separated these groups by educational quality and occupational opportunity.”
Earlier this year, Crowder and co-author Maria Krysan published Cycles of Segregation, a book examines the systems that continue to reinforce residential segregation five decades following the passage of the Fair Housing Act. You can learn more about Cycles of Segregation here.
The Washington Post’s interactive analysis focuses on three cities: Washington, D.C., which has diverse suburbs; Chicago, which has legacy segregation; and Houston, which has rapidly integrated. Click below to explore the analysis in full.
We’re thrilled to announce that five students earned CSDE’s Demographic Methods Certificate in the 2017-18 academic year: Michael Esposito, Christian Hess, Yuan Hsiao, Charles Lanfear, and Madison Leia.
The CSDE Demographic Methods Graduate Certificate Program is the academic pathway to advanced population research at UW, with a curriculum that integrates a variety of disciplines and core demography, a professional development seminar series, a weekly research seminar, and opportunities for research collaboration with CSDE Faculty Affiliates.
Learn more about the 2018 Demographic Methods Certificate holders below:
- Michael Esposito will be receiving PhD in Sociology this summer and moving to Ann Arbor for a Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research’s Survey Research Center.
- Christian Hess is a doctoral student at UW’s Department of Sociology. His dissertation investigates the consequences of rising suburban poverty for continued racial and ethnic inequalities in neighborhood context, with empirical analyses that draw on Census data and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics.
- Yuan Hsiao was awarded a Fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research this summer. In addition to Sociology, he is expected to complete his Master’s Degree in Statistics in Spring 2019.
- Charles Lanfear is a doctoral student at UW’s Department of Sociology. His research explores how neighborhood social context and illicit opportunity structures influence the production and control of crime.
- Madison Leia graduated with an MA from UW’s Department of Sociology in Fall 2017. Her thesis was titled: Not So Black and White: The Association between Allostatic Load and Racial Residential Segregation in a Multi-Ethnic Cohort.
This milestone is the result of hard work and dedication. Come celebrate CSDE’s newest certificate holders this Friday at the End of Year Reception!