The Department of Public Policy at Purdue University Fort Wayne (PFW)1 is seeking an energetic and engaged Chair to begin July 1, 2018. The successful candidate will be an accomplished scholar with the administrative experience and skills to lead a department that emphasizes quality undergraduate and graduate instruction, research, and community engagement.

The mission of the Department is to improve the quality of public service through teaching current and prospective public servants, through research on public issues, and through service to organizations with public policy interests. The Department awards bachelor and master degrees. Undergraduate concentrations are Criminal Justice, Health Care Management, Law and Public Policy, and Nonprofit Management and Leadership. Graduate concentrations are Health Systems Administration and Policy, Public Administration and Policy, and Nonprofit Management.

The ideal candidate will have a PhD in criminal justice, health administration, public or nonprofit management, political science, sociology, or a related field and must have qualifications to be a tenured associate or full professor. Experience in government, criminal justice, health, nonprofit administration, or other related field is required. The candidate will be expected to teach undergraduate and graduate courses, maintain an active research agenda, and manage the day-to-day operations of the Department in collaboration with the faculty in the Department. Salary and rank are commensurate with qualifications and experience.

The faculty in the Public Policy have backgrounds in Political Science, Sociology, Criminal Justice, Public Management, and Public Health. The Department currently has approximately 210 undergraduate and graduate students. PFW1 (see www.ipfw.edu) is the largest institution of higher learning in northeast Indiana, offering more than 200 degrees and certificates to a student body of more than 8,000. PFW’s commitment to community engagement makes it an economic, cultural, and societal leader in the region. PFW is located in Indiana’s second-largest city, Fort Wayne, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 425,000. PFW is an Equal Opportunity/Equal Access University accredited by The Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.

The review of applications will begin March 26th and will continue until the position is filled. All candidates who are interviewed should prepare a 45-60 minute instructional presentation. Please submit a letter of application explaining how you would contribute to our program and teaching needs; a curriculum vitae; evidence of teaching effectiveness; unofficial transcripts; and the names, addresses, emails, and telephone numbers of three professional references to:

Andrew Downs, Search Committee Chair
Department of Public Policy
Purdue University Fort Wayne
2101 E. Coliseum Blvd., Room Neff Hall 260
Fort Wayne, IN 46805
Telephone: 260-481-6691
Fax: 260-481-6985
E-mail: downsa@ipfw.edu

The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), begun in 1968, is the world’s longest-running multigenerational household panel study. It is used widely in behavioral, social, and health sciences to investigate scientific and policy questions about life course trajectories in health and well-being, intergenerational social and economic mobility, income and wealth inequality, family investments in children, neighborhood effects on opportunity and achievement, and many other topics.

This five-day workshop will orient participants to the content and structure of the core PSID interview, its special topics modules, and its supplemental studies, including the 1997-2007 and 2014 Child Development Supplements (CDS I-III and CDS-2014), the Transition into Adulthood Supplement (TAS), the Disability and Use of Time Supplement (DUST), and the Childhood Retrospective Circumstances Study (CRCS).

Morning sessions will include lectures on topics such as study design, changes to content and sample composition over time, rules for following sample members into new households, and weighting. Classroom demonstrations using PSID data extracts will illustrate key concepts. In afternoon lab sessions, participants will develop their own analytic data files under the guidance of project staff.

Eligibility: The workshop is designed for faculty, research professionals, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students.

Software: Participants should be familiar with Stata or SAS, but all examples used in the workshop will be in Stata.

Application: Enrollment is limited to 25 participants. Apply using the Summer Program Portal (by clicking on the “Registration” tab at the top of this page) to provide your information and select the course. Also, upload the following documents via the Portal:

• Current curriculum vita.
• Cover letter summarizing research interest in this course and in PSID data.
• Indicate how the workshop will help you meet your research or your educational goals.

Stipends: Admitted graduate students, post-doctoral scholars, and junior faculty or researchers can request to be considered for a stipend to help with travel and housing costs. To be considered, applicants must include in their application:

• A one-page or shorter statement that describes why attending the PSID workshop is important to your success, what you hope to gain from the workshop, and any sources of funding you expect to receive to cover the costs of attending the workshop.
• Letter of recommendation from faculty adviser, project manager, or Department Chair. Your letter writer should directly submit their recommendation to the ICPSR Summer Program at sumprog@icpsr.umich.edu and include your name and “PSID Workshop” in the subject line or body of the email.
  • Letter writer’s contact information (email address or telephone number) to be included in the letter of recommendation.
• Stipend requests must be received no later than April 13, 2018.

Deadline: April 13, 2018.

Sponsor: Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)

Fee: $100 — to be assessed only after applicants have been accepted into the workshop.

Fannie Mae and the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) are together organizing a symposium that examines the evolving relationship between housing tenure choice, financial security, and residential stability. We invite article-length research papers on topics including wealth, foreclosures, tenure choice, financing, taxes, innovation, socioeconomics, and aging. Authors should submit a two-page abstract of their proposed paper to jchs@harvard.edu by April 13, 2018. The symposium will be held at Harvard in Spring 2019 with presented papers subject to a peer review process for inclusion in a special issue of Cityscape. For more information, visit the link below.

The California Department of Finance is seeking qualified candidates to fill a part time demographer/trainee position. The Demographic Research Unit serves as the State of California’s source of official, unbiased demographic data for planning and budgeting, and is the designated statewide liaison with the U.S. Census Bureau. The position requires the ability to work remotely with occasional travel for in-person meetings.

The incumbent will design and conduct research projects with minimal supervision. The project(s) may be part of a thesis, term paper or project, or dissertation that engages with issues relevant to the past, present, or future demography of California. The position is initially a one year traineeship, with the possibility of renewal.

We are seeking to find and support researchers whose interests overlap with our applied demographic research agenda. Our researchers work on topics related to the Census, small area methods, and the estimation and projection of population and housing unit counts through the study of fertility, mortality, and domestic and international migration.

Click here for more information and to apply to this position.

The Department of Political Science at Fort Hays State University invites applications for a tenure track position in Public Administration and Public Policy with a focus on Science and Technology issues.  The successful candidate will have expertise in public management, public budgeting and policy analysis broadly defined.  In addition, there is an expectation that the person will develop seminar experiences in areas like environmental policy, healthcare policy or public sector ethics. The applicant’s background and interests should also be conducive to effective teaching of research methods and introductory American politics courses. The successful candidate will be assigned current courses in the subfield to include Introduction to Public Administration, Urban Politics, Policy Analysis, Administrative Process, Public Budgeting and Public Personnel Management. Some of these courses are offered in both undergraduate and graduate programming; all are offered on-campus and online and in eight-week format; and teaching in the summer session and intersession are desirable.

The department is developing a new subfield in democratic engagement with the opportunity for course development and leading “high impact” learning experiences like service learning, internships, undergraduate research mentoring and honors programming.

The IZA-BIGSSS-Fellowships on Comparative Labour Market Research is a research-related, integrated doctoral program funded by the renowned Institute of Labor Economics (Das Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit). The program is fully operated by BIGSSS, granting all fellows unrestricted access to the resources of the graduate school.

BIGSSS is part of an international network of highly acknowledged graduate programs. It supports doctoral fellows in achieving early scientific independence and provides funds for the conduct, presentation, and publishing of their research. The language of instruction is English. In order to allow all of our fellows to engage into mutual discussions with other fellows and BIGSSS faculty and staff, English language proficiency at the level of C1 is required. PhD theses are typically written in English.

In addition to the regular curricular obligations at BIGSSS that will define the first three semesters of the program, the fellowship also provides for a practical, research-oriented part starting with the fourth semester. Fellows will then be working on their own dissertation projects at IZA, raising and analyzing data and getting valuable insights in the functioning of a large research institute. During the whole time, fellows will commit themselves to mandatory parts of the BIGSSS curriculum such as workshops, colloquiums and institutional meetings. IZA-BIGSSS-fellows will receive demand-tailored theoretical and methodological training and acquire teaching experience in small seminars.

Admitted fellows of the BIGSSS IZA Regular PhD will be offered a limited-time work contract (42 months, 65% TV-L 13), contingent on successful completion of all curricular requirements of the program. To support its PhD fellows, the fellowship also provides funds for conducting, presenting and publishing research.

The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) is recruiting 2-3 highly qualified Post-Docs/Research Scientists to join the newly established Laboratory of Digital and Computational Demography.

The MPIDR is one of the leading demographic centers in the world. It is part of the Max Planck Society, a network of over 80 institutes that form Germany’s premier basic-research organization. Max Planck Institutes have an established record of world-class, foundational research in the sciences, technology, and the humanities, and they offer a unique environment that combines the best aspects of an academic setting and a research laboratory.

The Laboratory of Digital and Computational Demography, headed by MPIDR Director Emilio Zagheni, is looking for candidates with a background in Demography, Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Economics, Sociology, Geography, Applied Mathematics, or related disciplines.

The successful candidate must have a PhD (or receive it soon) and is expected to conduct cutting-edge research in the field of Digital and Computational Demography. Priority areas for the Laboratory include:

1. Using Web and Social Media data to study demographic processes, like migration, fertility, health indicators, intergenerational relationships, and gender disparities.
2. Developing innovative forms of data collection for demographic research (e.g., surveys via Web and Social Media advertisement platforms or data collected via sensors, tracking devices, or Web Apps).
3. Leveraging agent-based models and microsimulation to understand individual- and population-level processes.
4. Evaluating the impact of the digitalization of our lives on demographic behavior and population processes.

Depending on interest and fit, the successful candidate would have the opportunity to participate in ongoing collaborative initiatives with leading scholars in digital and computational demography based at other institutions. These include Ingmar Weber (Qatar Computing Research Institute) and Francesco Billari (Bocconi University).

GO-MAP is seeking two GSAs to be members of a highly collaborative team and serve a primary role in the overall coordination and implementation of programs and events that support outreach and recruitment; retention and professional development; and Graduate School Advancement initiatives focused on serving graduate students of color at the University of Washington. Emphasis placed on applicants who have demonstrated experience and a passion and commitment to social justice, equity, and inclusion.

About GO-MAP
The Graduate Opportunities and Minority Achievement Program (GO-MAP) is a unit of The Graduate School and works with the University to provide an innovative and inclusive graduate student community and experience. GO-MAP takes a leadership role in the recruitment and support of ethnic minority and underrepresented graduate students at the UW. We help build community on and off campus while enhancing scholarship and research. By providing opportunities for graduate students of color to learn and grow through experiences rich in cultural, ethnic and racial diversity, GO-MAP simultaneously enriches the environment for all students, staff, and faculty.

The Governor, Legislature and state agencies serve the people of Washington State. The Forecasting and Research Division provides the executive branch, the Legislature and the public with estimates, forecasts and reports on the state’s population, demographic characteristics, economy and state revenues.
As the official partner of the U.S. Census Bureau for Washington State, the Population Unit helps disseminate information about the characteristics of Washington’s population, housing and economy, and provides guidance to a variety of stakeholders in accessing and using demographic information. The incumbent in this time-limited exempt position will be part of Washington State’s Local Update of Census Addresses (LUCA) team and be responsible for reviewing the U.S. Census provided list of addresses; researching and identifying missing addresses; and updating the list. Duties of this position include:

• Review and update the Census Bureau address list. Use LUCA/GUPS software provided by the Census Bureau and the Office of Financial Management’s compiled list of addresses to:
  – Identify missing addresses on the Census Bureau list.
  – Utilizing the LUCA GUPS respondent guide and team procedures, practices and workflow, conduct research to ensure proper addresses are identified.
  – Update the Census Bureau address list and provide it to the supervisor.