The Department of Geography at the University at Buffalo is seeking outstanding applicants for a tenure-track faculty position (Assistant Professor) in Geographic Information Sciences (GIScience). The department is seeking highly qualified candidates who demonstrate, or show promise of establishing, a strong analytical research program in GIScience, which may include such topics as spatial data science, spatiotemporal data analytics, deep learning, and remote sensing. A competitive startup package will be provided to the successful candidate.

The University at Buffalo (UB) is the largest and most comprehensive campus in the State University of New York (SUNY) system. The Department of Geography is a nationally-ranked unit noted for significant advances in Earth systems science, economic geography, geospatial analysis and modeling, GIScience, health geography, and remote sensing. The successful candidate will join a world-class group of educators and researchers that was recently designated a Center of Academic Excellence in Geospatial Sciences by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the United States Geological Survey. It is also home to the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, which provides leadership in GIScience research across multiple disciplines.

Applicants should have a PhD (or other doctorate degree) and a scholarly publication record. The successful candidate will be expected to successfully secure external funds for research and to participate in graduate and undergraduate teaching, consistent with the tenured ranks at AAU institutions.

To apply, electronically submit a curriculum vitae, description of current and future research interests (three pages maximum), copies of published work (no more than three), and contact information for three referees to: https://www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/13166. The position will remain open until filled, but preference will be given to applications received by March 15, 2018. Please consult our website for information about UB, our department, and our community.

The Department of Sociology and Anthropology in the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences invites applications and nominations for the position of Lecturer in Anthropology. This position is located on the Armstrong campus in Savannah, GA.

Position Description: Reporting to the department chair, the Lecturer requires a 4/4 teaching load with service obligations to include public outreach. This individual will teach lower-division core courses including four-field Introduction to Anthropology and Global Perspectives in Anthropology: Peoples of the World, as well as upper-division undergraduate courses, primarily within the field of Archaeology. The position is an academic 9 month, non-tenure track appointment, and the salary is competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Required Qualifications

• Earned PhD in Anthropology, or a closely related field with at least 18 graduate semester hours in Anthropology, OR an MA in
• Anthropology with at least three years of university teaching experience by July 1, 2018.
• Ability to teach four-field Introduction to Anthropology.
• Ability to teach a cultural anthropology oriented global perspectives core course.
• Ability to teach upper-division archaeology courses.
• Ability to conduct public outreach / public archaeology in and around Savannah, Georgia, through directorship and further development of the Digging Savannah program
• Must be authorized to work in the United States for the duration of employment without assistance from the institution.

Preferred Qualifications

• Archaeology focus in the United States Southeast Region.
• Experience directing students and volunteers in archaeology field and laboratory projects.
• Ability to teach one or more specialty topics in archaeology (e.g. public archaeology, shallow geophysics, lithic analysis, archaeobotany, geoarchaeology, urban archaeology, underwater archaeology, etc.).
• Experience developing online courses, or courses with substantial online components.
• Experience obtaining external funding.

Screening of applications begins March 8, 2018, and continues until the position is filled. The preferred position starting date is August 1, 2018. A complete application consists of a letter addressing the qualifications cited above; a curriculum vitae; and the names, addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses of at least three professional references. Other documentation may be requested. Only complete applications submitted electronically will be considered. Finalists will be required to submit to a background investigation. Applications and nominations should be sent to:

M. Jared Wood, Search Chair, Search 67569
Georgia Southern University
Electronic mail: mwood@georgiasouthern.edu
Telephone: 912-478-5789

The Department of Sociology invites applications for the post of Research Assistant Professor. Preference will be given to those who have strong research interest in migration studies.

Applicants should have (i) a PhD degree in sociology; (ii) good potential for scholarly publications and research; and (iii) proven ability of effective teaching.

Appointment will initially be made on contract basis for up to three years commencing August 2018, renewable subject to performance, funding and mutual agreement.

Further information about the Department is available at http://www.soc.cuhk.edu.hk/. For enquiries, please send to sociology@cuhk.edu.hk.

Application Procedure
Applicants should upload, together with their on-line applications, full CV, copies of academic credentials, research statement, details of courses taught and evaluation results (if available), teaching statement, and 3 reference letters.

The University only accepts and considers applications submitted online for the post above. For more information and to apply online, please visit http://career.cuhk.edu.hk.

Peking University and Princeton University
Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
Call for Applications 2018

Within the framework of their Memorandum of Understanding, Peking University and Princeton University have established a Postdoctoral Fellowship Program: Peking-Princeton Postdoctoral Program (PPPP), aiming at training highly-qualified, early-career postdoctoral researchers in studies of contemporary China so that they are positioned to become leaders in their respective academic fields.   Princeton University and Peking University invite applications for two postdoctoral research associates in studies of contemporary China for the 2018–19 academic year.

Each fellowship is expected to be awarded for up to two years: the first 12 consecutive months at Peking University with a visiting appointment at Princeton University and the next 12 consecutive months at Princeton University with a visiting appointment at Peking University, with renewal after the first year contingent on satisfactory performance.  Preferred start date is September 1, 2018. The position is open to early-career scholars who would be in residence and participate in the host organization’s activities, including student-faculty seminars, workshops, and public lectures.  The position is also open to any discipline, as long as the fellow conducts research on contemporary China. The candidate’s research must be supervised by a faculty member at each University and, as such, must receive the endorsement of a faculty member at each institution in order to apply.

Funding

For the stay at Peking University

During their stay at PKU, Postdoctoral Fellows will receive a monthly stipend of 15,000 RMB. They can receive an additional 3,500 RMB per month for self-organized accommodation or choose to live in a PKU postdoc flat. The fellows will further be eligible to apply for travel funding from external sources.  During the appointment at Peking, the postdoctoral researcher will hold a visiting appointment at Princeton.

For the stay at Princeton University

For the 12 months in residence at Princeton, each fellow will be appointed at the rank of Postdoctoral Research Associate or more senior with a monthly salary of 5,000 (60,000/year) US dollars which will be provided by Princeton, including a one-time relocation allowance of 2,000 US dollars. Further, each fellow will be eligible to apply for travel funding, have access to resources at the Paul and Marcia Wythes Center on Contemporary China, and be eligible for employee benefits provided by Princeton.  During the appointment at Princeton, the postdoctoral researcher will hold a visiting appointment at Peking University.

Eligibility and Evaluation Criteria

The fellowship is open to highly qualified researchers of all nationalities who received their PhD no more than three years prior to the start of the appointment. The program is open to both internal and external candidates. Applicants holding tenure or tenure-track faculty positions are not eligible to apply.

Selection is based on the academic excellence of the applicant, the quality of the proposed research project, compelling demonstration of the anticipated synergy of the appointed postdoc, and the commitment of the respective hosts at both universities. The research proposal should include information on how the project will benefit from the research environments of both institutions.

Requirements and Opportunities

1.  Successful applicants must provide a 10-page report on their research and experience in the Postdoctoral Fellowship after completion of the two-year program.
2.  Fellows are encouraged to publish together with their hosts at PKU and PU.

Applications

To apply for a postdoctoral position, please link to https://www.princeton.edu/acad-positions/position/5681 (link is external) (D-18-PII-00007). Simultaneously, you must submit a pdf application to PKU, as instructed below.  This position is subject to the Universities’ background check policy. All application documents must be prepared in English and include the following:

1. A research proposal and time plan (max. 10 pages in total, including tables/figures and references);
2. Concise Curriculum Vitae (max. 4 pages in total);
3. Two recommendation letters (including one from the applicant’s doctoral supervisor);
4. Two explicit endorsement letters by the potential supervisors, one at each university; and
5. One writing sample (not to exceed 10MB).

Incomplete submissions will not be considered.

Application deadline:  Application deadline: 3/1/18, 11:59 p.m. EST.

Submission to PKU

The complete application should be saved as one file in pdf format. Please email it to:  Mr. Fan Deshang, Postdoctoral Affairs Office, Peking University boguanban@pku.edu.cn.

The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) in Annapolis, MD invites proposals from highly qualified graduate students interested in conducting collaborative, socio-environmental synthesis research (i.e. “Graduate Pursuits”).

Graduate Pursuits are supported for a period of 18 months. Such support centers around 3–4 team meetings at SESYNC, but also includes a suite of services ranging from team facilitation to computational and cyber infrastructure resources to science communication.

SESYNC is particularly interested in Graduate Pursuit proposals that bring together diverse backgrounds and disciplines as well as diverse sources of data in novel, integrative ways. Graduate Pursuit proposals that are designed to be applicable or generalizableacross multiple locations and scales in addition to those with potential to contribute to decision-making and non-academic communities are also of special interest to SESYNC.

The full Request for Proposals can be found at the link below. Proposals are due May 15, 2018.

Linking Theory and Empirical Research
Berlin, July 16 – 26, 2018

We are delighted to announce the 8th Berlin Summer School in Social Sciences. The summer school aims at supporting young researchers by strengthening their ability in linking theory and empirical research. The two-week program creates an excellent basis for the development of their current research designs.

In the first week, we address the key methodological challenges of concept-building, causation/explanation, and micro-macro linkage that occur in almost all research efforts. We strive for a clarification of the epistemological foundations underlying methodological paradigms. In the second week, these methodological considerations are applied to central empirical fields of research in political science, sociology, and other related disciplines. In this second part of the program, participants are assigned to four thematic groups according to their own research topics. The thematic areas covered are: “External Governance, Interregionalism, and Domestic Change”, “Citizenship, Migration, and Identities”, “Social Struggle and Globalization”, and “Democracy at the Crossroads”.

The program is characterized by a varied format comprising lectures, workshops, seminars, and one-to-one consultations. During the summer school, participants will also have the opportunity to present and discuss their own work extensively. Participants will be provided with hands-on advice for their research designs.

The school brings together a faculty of renowned international and Berlin-based scholars. Among the confirmed international lecturers are Donatella della Porta (Scuola Normale Superiore), Steve Fleetwood (University of the West of England, Bristol), Macartan Humphreys (Columbia University/ WZB Berlin), Nikita Dhawan (University of Innsbruck), Staffan Lindberg (University of Gothenburg), and Hendrik Wagenaar (University of Sheffield).

The Berlin Summer School was co-funded by the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. Details on the location and tuition fees can be found on our webpage www.berlinsummerschool.de.

The international summer school is open to up to 60 PhD candidates, advanced master students, and young postdocs. The call for applications is currently open. Applications can be submitted online via the application form on the summer school webpage until March 31, 2018.

The decisions of the selection committee will be announced to the applicants in April. If you have any further questions, please contact the organizing team at summerschool.bgss@hu-berlin.de

Using the Panel Component of IPUMS CPS

June 4-6, 2018 at the Minnesota Population Center at the University of Minnesota

IPUMS CPS is accepting applications for its summer workshop, designed to familiarize researchers with the under-utilized panel component of the CPS. The workshop is targeted towards graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early-career faculty from social science disciplines.

The workshop will include:

• presentations from the research team that developed IPUMS CPS and experienced CPS researchers
• lab sessions with hands-on experience using CPS longitudinally
• small-group sessions to discuss CPS research ideas with others who have similar interests

Applications are due March 2, 2018.

Applicants should submit

• information about their professional backgrounds
• a short statement regarding their interest in using the panel component of CPS
• a letter of support form an advisor or senior colleague

Up to $1,000 in expenses for the workshop will be covered; eligible expenses include domestic air fares, local transportation costs, and hotel accommodations.

Apply to attend the 2018 IPUMS CPS Summer Data Workshop.

A printable flyer with information about the data workshop is also available.

Support for this workshop is provided by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute on Child Health and Human Development (R01HD067258).

POSITION DESCRIPTION
The California Department of Finance is seeking qualified candidates to fill a research position in applied demography. 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 is located in Sacramento.

The open position is within the state population estimates group, where the incumbent will participate in the production of state, county, and city population and housing projections. Responsibilities include data collection, modeling, and evaluation of results. The incumbent will design and conduct research projects with minimal supervision, contribute to ongoing research initiatives within the unit, and to keep up with relevant methodological innovations in population projections and in the measurement and modeling of mortality, fertility, and migration.

Experience with software packages for statistical analysis and data visualization are essential. Knowledge of population projection techniques or small area estimation methods is desirable. Individuals with strong analytical writing skills, attention to detail, and a passion for research are encouraged to apply.

DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS
– Postgraduate coursework or completed degree in demography, geography, sociology, economics, or a related field.
– Knowledge of demographic methods and their application.
– Ability to develop and use advanced statistical modeling techniques and appropriate software (e.g. Stata, SAS, R).
– At least two years’ experience in designing and conducting research projects.
– Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate complex issues to non-specialists through writing and speaking.
– Ability to exercise a high degree of initiative and independence of action.
– Ability to work on multiple projects and meet deadlines.
– Ability to develop and maintain effective cooperative working relationships.

The position will be vacant until filled. Applications will be screened as received and interviews will be scheduled on a flow basis.

WHO MAY APPLY
Current state employees at the Research Program Specialist II, those within transfer range, individuals who have list eligibility or eligible for a Training and Development assignment. Please indicate the basis of your eligibility (i.e. SROA, surplus, reemployment, reinstatement, transfer, or list eligible) in the Explanation box of the application. For more information on Minimum Qualifications, please visit the California Department of Human Resources (CalHR) website: http://www.calhr.ca.gov/state-hr-professionals/Pages/jobdescriptions.aspx

Follow link below to take the Research Program Specialist II Examination: https://www.calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/Exams/Bulletin.aspx

In order to be considered, you must provide the following:

– Current CV or resume
– Names and contact information of three references
– Writing sample (of any length). Coauthored writing samples should specify the nature of the candidate’s contribution.
– In addition, please provide a brief cover letter (one page) outlining why you are interested in this particular position and how your background, knowledge, skills, and abilities make you the ideal candidate for this position.

QUESTIONS ABOUT THE JOB: Ethan Sharygin (916) 323-4086 (916) 324-6547 TDD* E-mail: ethan.sharygin@dof.ca.gov

SEND APPLICATION TO: Department of Finance Human Resources Office Attn: Laura Ford 915 L Street, Suite 1235 Sacramento, CA 95814

The Graduate Funding Information Service (GFIS) has just launched a new version of our funding blog, which posts both UW-specific funding opportunities and external scholarships/fellowships of interest to graduate/professional students and postdoctoral researchers. This new blog features a menu that will allow users to easily narrow down funding opportunities by academic level, the type of support provided, and citizenship and other eligibility restrictions, as well as an updated appearance.

Check out the new blog here: http://blogs.uw.edu/gfis/