Graduate Enrollment Management Services (GEMS) is a division of the Graduate School that facilitates admissions and graduation at the graduate level. GEMS is hiring an hourly student assistant to provide critical administrative support to our team. This position will primarily include clerical duties such as processing incoming mail, filing, assisting with our departmental email, providing back-up telephone support, and special projects as assigned.

The assistant will report to the Administrative Program Specialist, but will provide support to the GEMS advisors and Director as needed.

Skills: Candidate must be detail oriented, reliable, and highly organized, and should have excellent oral and written communication skills. A strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, and UW administrative systems

University of Maryland 2018 Time Use Conference (UMD 2018 TUC) June 19-20, 2018. Cosponsored by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD), Maryland Population Research Center (MPRC), Minnesota Population Center, and Maryland Time Use Lab (MTUL). The UMD 2018 TUC will gather an interdisciplinary group of established and new time use scholars presenting innovative research on how time use and well-being vary across the life course, country (Global North and South), and gender, race-ethnicity, and social class. Registration is open to all individuals with an interest in how patterns of daily time use affect child, adult, and family well-being. Program information can be found here.

The Office of Population Science and Policy (OPSP) at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine (SIUSOM) invites applications for a Human and Community Development Researcher. We have a growing team of researchers with an outstanding record of research in children’s health disparities, social innovation, and community health. The diverse faculty in OPSP collaborate with departments across the medical and university campuses through teaching, mentoring and research projects.

 

Successful candidates will have: a M.D. or Ph.D. and/or post-doctoral training in human development, family studies, community development, social entrepreneurship, educational psychology and/or policy, social psychology, child development; a demonstrated emphasis and expertise in research with children, families or communities; excellent verbal and written communication skills; evidence of research capabilities demonstrated by publications in peer-reviewed specialty journals. Sensitive to the needs of underrepresented minority populations. We are particularly interested in candidates with experience in community based participatory research and its effect on improving the health of children, families and/or communities.

The School of Social, Political and Geographical Sciences, Loughborough University is seeking to appoint a Post-Doctoral Research Associate (PDRA) to work on a project entitled ‘Territorial Planning for Peace and Statebuilding in the Alto Cauca region of Colombia’. The project is ESRC/Colciencias funded, through the Newton RCUK-Colciencias Research Partnerships Call. It is a multidisciplinary collaboration between human geographers, political scientists, education and design specialists, based both in the UK and Colombia.

The PDRA will play a key role in the project, which will explore the process of territorial peacebuilding in three rural municipalities in the Alto Cauca region, one of the areas identified by the Colombian government as particularly affected by the armed conflict. Through engaging the active participation of long marginalized actors, including landless peasants, Afro-descendants and indigenous peoples, the project will bring the voices of these communities into the territorial peacebuilding process in an attempt to ensure that it is truly participatory and long lasting.

The post will be based at Loughborough University but will entail spending time in Colombia, including engaging in primary data collection and working closely with a wide range of stakeholders. The successful applicant will be an experienced researcher with a PhD in Geography, Political Sciences, Development Studies, Anthropology or another Social Sciences or Humanities discipline of relevance to the project.  The PDRA will be fluent in English and Spanish, and have experience of conducting qualitative research in challenging conditions. The PDRA’s main responsibilities will be to: conduct qualitative research, organise and manage project data, arrange events and meetings relating to the project, engage in project management, and contribute to the analysis and dissemination of the research.

The PDRA will work closely with PI Professor Katherine Gough (Department of Geography) as well as collaborate with the wider project team in Loughborough (CI Dr Giulia Piccolino, Department of Politics, History and International Relations, CI Dr Carolina Escobar-Tello, Design School, and a part-time project RA based in the Design School) and in Cali (led by PI Dr Irene Velez-Torres, Universidad del Valle).

Informal enquiries should be made by email to Professor Katherine Gough, Department of Geography, Loughborough University, k.v.gough@lboro.ac.uk

The Department of Sociology and Criminology invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position with specialties in migration, sociology of culture, or environmental sociology to begin in August 2019. There is a preference for candidates who take a comparative approach and whose work aligns with the department’s focus on inequality.

Villanova is a Catholic university sponsored by the Augustinian order. Diversity and inclusion have been and will continue to be an integral component of Villanova University’s mission. The University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and seeks candidates who understand, respect and can contribute to the University’s mission and values, especially in regard to community service and social justice.