King County Metro Transit has released a Request for Proposals seeking behavioral science expertise. The primary deliverable for this RFP is development, implementation, and analysis of a set of experimental designs for applying behavioral science to decrease onboard cash payment of transit fares. Consistent with King County’s strong commitment to advancing equity, we seek to reduce onboard cash payment in a manner that maintains or enhances access to transportation for specific populations such as people with low or no income.
A secondary objective of the RFP is for King County to gain experience working with behavioral science, so that we may identify additional areas where this expertise can be applied to help us achieve results.
Please help us spread the word about this RFP by forwarding, posting, or getting it into the right hands at organizations at which you are affiliated. Or, if this opportunity is of interest to you, please submit a proposal! Bidding closes September 19 at 2PM Seattle time. You can view the RFP here: https://procurement.kingcounty.gov/procurement_ovr/detail.aspx?bidid=4186
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This is an exciting opportunity for us at King County and, I believe, for a research partner. King County Metro Transit is one of the largest transit agencies in the country, and one of the few that is growing. We were recently named the best large transit system in North America, recognizing our achievements in innovation, equity, and sustainability. Our leadership is eager to build and use evidence to support our decision making.
Join fellow graduate students and postdocs to learn how to develop your elevator speech for job search or career exploration. An elevator speech is a clear, brief message about you. It communicates who you are, what you are looking for and how you can benefit from a company or organization.
The study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this August finds that African American men are more than twice as likely as their white peers to die from police use of force. The study was co-authored by CSDE Affiliate Hedwig Lee, Professor of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis, and CSDE Fellow Alumnus Michael Esposito, Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan, as well as co-author Frank Edwards, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University.
The authors use data on police-involved deaths to estimate how the risk of being killed by police use of force in the US varies across social groups. They find that African American men and women, American Indian/Alaska Native men and women, and Latino men face higher lifetime risk of being killed by police than do their white peers. Risk is highest for black men, who face about a 1 in 1,000 chance of being killed by police over the life course. Risk peaks between the ages of 20 and 35 for all groups. For young men of color, police use of force is among the leading causes of death.
“It’s a striking number,” said Esposito. “There have been arguments about how widespread of a problem this is…This study shows us that police killings are deeply systematic, with race, gender and age patterning this excess cause of death.” He also added that, “Because a lot of our talk about this in public spaces is focused on black men, we sometimes lose sight of other groups with elevated risk…Conversations around who’s most at risk have to incorporate the diversity and intersectionality highlighted in this study.”
“I think that our results really underscore that police killings are a lot more common than we might have imagined,” commented Lee. “Our work also provides more evidence that people of color, particularly African American men and women, but also American/Indian and Alaska Native women are at risk.”
The study was featured by US News and the University of Michigan.
The Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara invites applications for a pool of qualified temporary lecturers for the 2019-20 academic year. The number of positions and desired thematic areas vary, depending on the needs of the department each quarter. Salary is based on UC’s salary scales and depends on qualifications. Review of applications will begin August 15, 2019 and will remain open until October 31, 2019.
CSDE is welcoming Jeffrey Neilson, Researcher at the Department of Economic History at Lund University, as a Visiting Affiliate for the 2019-2020 year. Neilson will share some of his research, which focuses on how men and women allocate their time between the household and labor market, during a CSDE Seminar this Fall. You can ask him more or say hello here!
Neilson looks at outcomes including the household division of labor and how it is impacted by parenthood, how working couples spend time together and invest time in their children, the division of paid labor, and caregiving responsibilities over the life course. Another research interest is sleep, including how it is influenced by work and family responsibilities. Neilson teaches courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, covering topics such as family demography, economic change in post-war Sweden, the demographic transition, and family and work in an international perspective.
The Center for Research on College to Workforce Transitions (CCWT) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) is seeking a Qualitative Researcher to provide leadership and support for for center projects on college-workforce issues. The Qualitative Researcher will work on the College Internship Study, which is a national mixed-method study examining issues related to participation, access, program quality and student outcomes in the world of college internships. The institutions involved in the study include community colleges, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic Servicing Institutions (HSIs) and regional comprehensive universities. As part of this applied research project, the Qualitative Researcher will work closely with institutional partners to ensure that all research activities are addressing immediate problems of practice at the local level.
The Department of Geography invites applicants for a full-time tenure-track position beginning fall 2020. The successful candidate will have a Ph.D. in Geography or related fields by the start of fall 2020. We seek candidates who can:
1) contribute regularly to the teaching of our introductory GIS curriculum, and
2) offer electives that complement our current course offerings in the candidate’s thematic, regional, and/or methodological areas of expertise. For example, we would welcome foci on the Global South and marginalized peoples, geographies of health and energy, and critical geography, but these are not exclusive – we are open to a wide array of areas of expertise.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Schools of Letters & Sciences is recruiting a tenure-track faculty member to lead a research program in the underlying causes and/or pathways to reproductive health and health disparities as well as the communities most adversely affected by reproductive health inequities in the United States. This position is part of an interdisciplinary cluster hire (https://facstaff.provost.wisc.edu/cluster-hiring-initiative/) pertaining to reproductive equity. The tenure home will be in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and/or the Department of Sociology.
The Department of Sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire invites applications for a tenure-track position specializing in Race and Ethnicity at the rank of Assistant Professor. This position carries an initial two-year probationary appointment beginning with the 2020–21 academic year on August 24, 2020. Salary commensurate with experience and qualifications.
Join the eScience Institute in celebrating the 2019 Data Science for Social Good fellows as they present research and results of their 10-week projects on affordable housing, equity, transportation, and mental health.