The City University of Hong Kong (CityU)has launched a worldwide search for talented faculty members in many areas of scholarship.  A senior delegation from CityU will visit Seattle and San Francisco in February 2018 to present the university’s vision for the future:

Date/Time	Venue
Seattle Reception 8 February 2018 (Thursday) 6:00-8:00pm	Fairmont Olympic Hotel 411 University Street, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
San Francisco Reception 9 February 2018 (Friday) 6:00-8:00pm	Fairmont San Francisco 950 Mason Street, San Francisco, CA 94108, USA

You are cordially invited to attend the above reception(s) as appropriate to you.  Details of the reception are given in the attachment.  Please register for the Seattle reception at: https://seattle-reception.eventbrite.com.

Please register for the San Francisco reception at: https://sanfrancisco-reception.eventbrite.com.

The reception will be a great opportunity for participants to learn about CityU and meet with our senior faculty.  We would be grateful if you could pass this invitation to any colleagues or faculty whom may be interested as well as to outstanding postdoctoral scholars whom are seeking a faculty position.

You may also visit our Human Resources Office website and submit an online application (if appropriate) with curriculum vitae at the same URL or by e-mail to hrrecruit@cityu.edu.hk.

For enquiries about the receptions, please email us at reception@cityu.edu.hk.

We look forward to seeing you at the reception!

The University of Washington eScience Institute, in collaboration with the Cascadia Urban Analytics Cooperative, is excited to announce the summer 2018 Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program. The program brings together Student Fellows with data and domain researchers to work on focused, collaborative projects for societal benefit.

Sixteen DSSG Student Fellows will be selected to work with academic researchers, data scientists, and public stakeholder groups such as government officials, academic researchers, non-profit organizations, and the general public, on data-intensive research projects.

Who: Graduate students and advanced (junior/senior) undergraduate students are invited to apply. Spring 2018 graduates are eligible for this program. Students who are not U.S. citizens or permanent residents are eligible to apply as long as their visa status allows them to work in the U.S. We cannot sponsor student visas for this program.

What: Each student will be part of a team working full-time on a research project that has concrete relevance and impact. Students are expected to work closely and collaboratively with team members onsite for the duration of the 10-week program. Projects will have an applied social good dimension and involve analysis and visualization of data from areas such as public health, sustainable urban planning, environmental protection, disaster response, crime prevention, education, transportation, governance, commerce, and social justice. Click for summaries of projects from the Summer 2015 and Summer 2016  and Summer 2017 DSSG programs.

Where: Most work will be conducted on the UW campus in the WRF Data Science Studio, but some field excursions in the City of Seattle or King County may also be involved.

When: This is a 10-week long, full-time program beginning June 11th and ending August 17th 2018.

Compensation: Students will be given a stipend of $6,500 for the 10 weeks.

Desired qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience in issues related to social good
• Research experience with quantitative or qualitative tools
• Strong academic record
• Previous programming experience

How to Apply: CLICK HERE FOR THE APPLICATION FORM. Please note: a copy of your CV and unofficial transcripts are required to complete the form.

Questions may be directed to exec-director@escience.washington.edu.

Application Deadline: February 12th at midnight Pacific Time

Interface Demography seeks a full-time junior research associate with interest in quantitative social science research to work on a challenging research project.

Project
Green and quiet Brussels? Analysis of social inequalities in the health-related outcomes of environmental characteristics in the Brussels Capital Region: a mixed method intersectionality approach

Project background
Urban areas are growing fast worldwide and there is an increasing concern about the relations between urbanization, environmental threats, the quality of living spaces and human health. A healthy living environment is a prerequisite for good health. Research in environmental epidemiology clearly illustrates a direct health impact of indoor and outdoor pollution. Living in healthy and green areas is associated with better self-assessed health, better mental health, lower risks of cardio-vascular and respiratory diseases and lower mortality from related causes. To date, there are few studies dealing with the association between the in- and outdoor living environment and health in Belgium, let alone in the Brussels Capital Region. The current project will disentangle the interrelations between (indoor and outdoor) environmental factors, social background factors and health in the Brussels Capital Region. It will investigate the impact of social stratifiers – socioeconomic position, migrant background, age and gender – on the association between environmental quality and health and mortality.

Aim of the project
The researcher is expected to conduct quantitative research on socio-economic inequalities in health-related outcomes (subjective health, all-cause and cause-specific mortality) related to indoor and outdoor environmental factors. The aim of the project is to map social inequalities in health-related outcomes of indoor and outdoor environmental exposures in detail via statistical, demographic and epidemiologic analyses using a census-linked follow-up study, starting at the beginning of the 2000s until the mid-2010s. The findings should result in the submission of a doctoral dissertation in the social sciences and in publications in scientific journals. The researcher will be part of a small research team on this topic situated within the Interface Demography research group, working in close collaboration with the Centre for Environment and Health (KU Leuven) with expertise in conducting epidemiological studies on the relationship between environmental exposures and health.

General information
The duration of the project is 2 years, with an additional 2 years after positive evaluation.

Profile

• Master of science (Master in Sociology, Master in Health Sciences, Master in Public Health or related and Master in Environmental Sciences or related)
• Passion for scientific research
• Sound knowledge of and/or experience with quantitative research methods and data analysis
• Ability to conduct research both independently and collaboratively
• Ability to learn new statistical techniques
• Demonstrate excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills (English)
• Willingness to prepare a PhD based on the research findings
• Commitment to high quality academic research

We offer

• Full-time appointment for 2+2 years (starting at the beginning of 2018) with a research grant
• High-quality guidance in an academic environment
• Challenging research with great societal and scientific relevance

Research group
Interface Demography is an excellent multidisciplinary research group within the Department of Sociology of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. The main aim of Interface Demography is gaining sound empirical and theoretical insights into demographic evolutions as well as into their interaction with societal challenges. One of the key areas of study is inequality in health and mortality.

Location Department of Economic, Social and Political Sciences and Solvay Business School Department of Sociology – Interface Demography 5 Pleinlaan, 1050 Brussels

How to apply?
E-mail a motivational letter and curriculum vitae before January 31, 2018 to:

Professor dr. Sylvie Gadeyne Vrije Universiteit Brussel Department of Economic, Social and Political Sciences and Solvay Business School Research group Sociology – Interface Demography 5 Pleinlaan, 1050 Brussels For further enquiries please contact Sylvie Gadeyne by e-mail (sylvie.gadeyne@vub.be) or phone (+32 2 6148129/+32 498 236043). Additional information on the research group Interface Demography can be found on: http://www.vub.ac.be/demography

The WorldPop programme, based at the University of Southampton, is seeking to recruit two researchers to assist with spatial demographic analyses in a number of low-income countries around the world. We require enthusiastic statistical analysts to work on a range of research projects relating to high-resolution predictive mapping of population distributions and demographics based on household survey, census and bespoke survey data, along with high-resolution geospatial covariate data layers. The work will be foundational to a new collaborative programme entitled GRID3 (Geospatial Reference, Infrastructure and Demographic Data for Development) with partners at National Statistics Offices, the Flowminder Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, DFID, CIESIN and UNFPA, and will be used to guide projects ranging from population enumeration to delivery of health programs and alleviation of poverty. As well as joining the vibrant and well-connected WorldPop and Flowminder Foundation teams, you will have opportunities to lead high-impact publications.

The project work to be undertaken will include some or all of the following:

1. Developing spatial statistical approaches, including uncertainty quantification, for the production of high resolution gridded estimates of population counts and demographic characteristics in the absence of national census data across countries, through the integration of geospatial covariate layers and survey data
2. Contributing to the design of sampling strategies to obtain additional survey data
3. Responding to ad-hoc analysis and modelling requests from governments and agencies
4. Supporting national statistical offices in the analysis of existing census data or future census planning
5. Contributing to the development and delivery of workshops aimed at training outside staff (i.e. at national statistics offices, international agencies) in the methods developed

You will have a PhD *or equivalent professional qualifications and relevant industry experience in a statistical/computational/quantitative discipline strong experience in spatial statistical analysis and computer programming skills would be advantageous.. The project work will be highly interdisciplinary and as such there is some flexibility to accommodate expertise from a range of cognate disciplinary backgrounds (e.g. geography, demography, statistics, computer science, ecology, epidemiology etc).  A willingness to travel overseas occasionally is also required.

* Applications for Research Fellow positions will be considered from candidates who are working towards or nearing completion of a relevant PhD qualification.  The title of Research Fellow will be applied upon successful completion of the PhD.  Prior to the qualification being awarded the title of Senior Research Assistant will be given.

Informal enquiries may be made to Professor Andrew Tatem.

Application procedure:

You should submit your completed online application form at www.jobs.soton.ac.uk. The application deadline will be midnight on Thursday January 18, 2018. If you need any assistance, please call Charlene Tyson (Recruitment Team) on +44 (0) 23 8059 6803. Please quote reference 952617WR on all correspondence