On behalf of the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Chief Evaluation Office (CEO), Avar Consulting is pleased to announce the 2018–19 DOL Scholars Program. The purpose of the DOL Scholars Program is to promote and expand labor research that directly relates to DOL policies and programs. The program expects to fund researchers, with individual awards ranging from $20,000–$50,000.

Please use the documents that follow to learn more about the program and how to apply.

Applications are due by 5:00pm EDT, April 6, 2018; late or incomplete applications will not be reviewed. Funding decisions are expected in May, 2018.

• Announcement describing the program

• Answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs)

• Application

The Chief Evaluation Office coordinates, manages, and implements the Department of Labor’s evaluation program. CEO works closely with all offices and agencies in DOL to develop and implement research and evaluation projects that address Department priorities. For more information about CEO, see: https://www.dol.gov/asp/evaluation/.

For additional information regarding the application process or the program in general, please contact Avar Consulting at scholars@avarconsulting.com.

The Columbia Population Research Center is now accepting applications for the  Fragile Families Summer Data Workshop to be held July 11-13, 2018, at Columbia University in New York City.

​The workshop is designed to familiarize participants with the data available in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a national study following a birth cohort of (mostly) unmarried parents and their children, providing information about the capabilities, circumstances, and relationships of unwed parents, the wellbeing of their children, and the role of public policy in family and child wellbeing.

​The 2018 workshop will include special sections on the 15 year follow-up data which will become publicly available in early 2018. The workshop is targeted toward early-career scholars from social science disciplines. We particularly encourage applications from junior faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students using the Fragile Families data in their doctoral dissertations. Underrepresented scholars are strongly encouraged to apply.

Applicants must possess basic quantitative data analysis skills. About 25-30 applicants will be selected. Travel support will be available for out-of-town participants.

The Fragile Families Summer Data Workshop is made possible by a grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (R25HD074544).

The application deadline for all components, including letters of reference, has been extended to Friday, March 16, 2018 (11:59PM EST).

Submissions are invited for the IAPHS 2018 conference, “Pushing the Boundaries of Population Health Science: Social Inequalities, Biological Processes, and Policy Implications.” This 4th annual interdisciplinary population health research conference will convene October 3-5, 2018 at the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine in Washington, DC.  Please see the Call for Submissions for more details and information on how to submit. The deadline for submissions is March 15, 2018 and those submitting will be notified of decisions by June 15, 2018.

Registration for the October conference will open April 1, 2018 for members of IAPHS and May 15 for non-members.  Follow the links for further information about the conference and membership in IAPHS.

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.

 

Winter Incubator participants will present their project findings at this informative session. A reception will follow in the Studio.

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.

Brown University announces a search for the position of Associate Director of the research initiative on Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences.  More information on the program is available at https://www.brown.edu/academics/spatial-structures-in-social-sciences/.  This is a 10-month per year position, with potential for salary during summer from external grants, beginning September 1, 2018.

The Associate Director will participate in scholarly program development and training across multiple disciplines.  The individual will have primary responsibility for coordination of a series of colloquia, workshops and clinics designed to introduce faculty and students to tools of spatial analysis.  The Associate Director will teach two courses per year including Introduction to GIS and will lead the S4 Fellows program for doctoral students.  Candidates should have a PhD in hand or firmly expected by September 2018 and should show promise of significant scholarship and ability to provide instruction in methods of spatial analysis. 

The Associate Director will be appointed as Assistant Professor (Research) in the Population Studies and Training Center, and will have access to the considerable PSTC research infrastructure.  Salary will be commensurate with experience and credentials. 

 Submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, a copy of up to three publications or working papers, and names/contact information for three persons who can comment on qualifications for this position.  Materials should be posted to Interfolio at: https://apply.interfolio.com/49059

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled but to guarantee full consideration a candidate should apply by April 10, 2018.

You are invited to the Fourth UC Davis
Qualitative Health Research Symposium

A one-day, skill-building and professional-development symposium to highlight and demonstrate qualitative research methods as well as provide networking opportunities for researchers interested in qualitative or mixed-methods health research.

New! For those with limited exposure to qualitative research methods, Kathy Charmaz, author of Constructing Grounded Theory and co-author of Five Ways of Doing Qualitative Analysis, will lead a free two-hour introductory workshop prior to the main symposium.

Sign in: 7:30-8 a.m.

Workshop: 8-10 a.m., led by Kathy Charmaz

Location: Betty Irene Moore Hall, room to be determined

Registration required – Space is limited

Main symposium begins promptly after workshop

Sign in: 10-10:30 a.m.

Symposium: 10:30 a.m.- 5:30 p.m.

Location: Education Building Room 2222

Registration required

Keynote Speakers

Click on a panelist’s name for more information.

Kathy Charmaz, PhD

Professor Emerita
Department of Sociology
California State University, Sonoma

Carroll Estes, PhD, FAAN

Professor Emerita
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
School of Nursing
University of California, San Francisco

Click for tentative program schedule

Household panel data provide valuable information about the extent of similarity in coresidents’ attitudes and behaviours. However, existing analysis approaches do not allow for the complex association structures that arise due to changes in household composition over time. We propose a flexible marginal modelling approach where the changing correlation structure between individuals is modelled directly and the parameters estimated using second-order generalized estimating equations (GEE2). A key component of our correlation model specification is the “superhousehold”, a form of social network in which pairs of observations from different individuals are connected (directly or indirectly) by coresidence. These superhouseholds partition observations into clusters with nonstandard and highly variable correlation structures. We thus conduct a simulation study to evaluate the accuracy and stability of GEE2 for these models. Our approach is then applied in an analysis of individuals’ attitudes towards gender roles using British Household Panel Survey data. We find strong evidence of between-individual correlation before, during and after coresidence, with large differences among spouses, parent-child, other family, and unrelated pairs. Our results suggest that these dependencies are due to a combination of non-random sorting and causal effects of coresidence.