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Assistant Professor of Social Work

The Department of Social Work at Lewis University is accepting applications for an Assistant Professor of Social Work. This is a full-time, tenure track role, beginning in the 2018-2019 academic year. As a department, we are looking for colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion, social justice, and community engagement. We seek individuals who are committed to enhancing our growth in those areas.

Primary Responsibilities

Teach four classes per semester primarily in the undergraduate program. Assist in the development of the Social Work program accreditation reports. Engage in scholarship, academic advising, and services to the university and community.

Minimum Qualifications

Doctoral degree in Social Work. Master’s degree in social work from a CSWE-accredited school of social work. At least two years of full-time post-MSW employment in social work. Previous university/college teaching experience in social work at an accredited institution at the undergraduate and/or graduate level; experience at both levels is highly desirable. Clinical licensure in social work is required. A demonstrated commitment to diversity, inclusion, social justice, and community engagement. Potential for scholarly productivity or professional impact in a clearly defined area of professional practice. Applicants should also have an ability to use technology effectively in teaching and learning, the ability work collaboratively, evidence of scholarly activity.

Preferred Qualifications

Clinical work serving children and adolescents is preferred. Micro and/or macro practice experience is preferred.

How to Apply

For a full description and to be considered for this position, visit the link below.

Program Director – Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences

The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University stimulates cutting edge social science on important societal problems. A national and international resource founded in 1954, CASBS convenes collaborative teams of researchers and practitioners that cut across the disciplinary boundaries of the social and behavioral sciences (anthropology, economics, history, political science, psychology, and sociology) but also the humanities, education, linguistics, communications, and the biological, natural, health, and computer sciences. The Center has a distinguished history of fellowship support for individual scholars and research projects through its renowned single-year residency program and its convening of multi-year collaborative projects with dynamic teams that are both interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral. It attracts world-class academics, industry leaders, and policy makers and analysts from the public, nonprofit, and private sectors. CASBS is seeking a Program Director. As a member of the senior management team, the Program Director works closely with and reports to the Center Director.

This position is a two-year fixed term.

JOB PURPOSE
Work under the general direction of faculty and Center Director to develop, implement, and administer the vision, strategy, and goals of the assigned academic entity/program(s). Participate in entity/program strategy development, long-range planning, and partnership development.

CORE DUTIES*

  • Develop, implement, administer, and evaluate programs, including outreach to varied stakeholders by: conducting research activities within the program; analyzing data, creating reports, reviewing trends, and making program improvement recommendations. May develop or contribute to outreach strategy related to program communications, development, partnerships, and fundraising/funding. Participate in program strategy development, long-range planning and partnership development.
  • May teach and/or assist in the teaching and administration of courses. Create and/or advise in the development of curriculum. May advise students and/or coach/mentor clients. Organize educational and intellectual events and workshops for diverse audiences.
  • Write and/or edit complex content for proposals, research grants, peer-reviewed publications, and other program activities. Assist with grant writing and proposal development, including identifying and applying for event and program funding in consultation with development and other staff.
  • Contribute to and inform on strategic program/entity planning and related funding and financial sustainability. Identify opportunities and implement and administer scholarly programs and initiatives.
  • Coach and mentor program staff.

* – Other duties may also be assigned

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Education & ExperienceBachelor’s degree and three or more years of relevant experience or combination of education, training, and relevant experience. Advanced degree may be required for some programs. For jobs with financial responsibilities, experience managing a budget and developing financial plans.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

  • Ability to develop program partnerships and funding sources.
  • Excellent oral, written, and analytical skills, exhibiting fluency in area of specialization.
  • Ability to oversee and direct staff.
  • Basic knowledge of managing budgets and developing financial plans.

Preferred Education & Experience

  • Advanced degree in behavioral and social sciences.
  • A proven track record of grant-writing.
  • A self-starter, with the ability to work independently and as a member and leader of a team.
  • Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work and communicate effectively with a variety of academics, industry leaders, policy makers and analysts in connecting across behavioral and social science disciplines, and developing project ideas.
To be considered for this position please visit our web site and apply on line at the following link: stanfordcareers.stanford.edu

Postdoctoral Research Appointee – IUPUI Arts & Humanities Institute

Position Summary
The IUPUI Arts & Humanities Institute (IAHI) seeks a Postdoctoral Research Appointee who will be in residence at the IAHI from July 15, 2018 through June 14, 2020 (2 Year, Full-Time Appointment). This position is open to early career scholars studying the arts, social sciences, and humanities from a broad range of fields (e.g. urban anthropology, visual anthropology, cultural anthropology, human geography, public history, digital humanities), but whose research fundamentally integrates interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary methodologies and perspectives.
The IAHI Postdoctoral Research Program aims to create a legacy of scholars with rich experience in collaborative, interdisciplinary, and publicly engaged research across the arts, humanities, and social sciences. This program is designed to nurture the academic careers of early career scholars by providing opportunities to pursue innovative research while gaining mentoring from IAHI affiliates and faculty.

The Postdoctoral Research Appointee will be under the supervision of the IAHI Director and will be a key member of the IAHI research team. The Postdoctoral Research Appointee will:
• participate as a researcher in IAHI research projects under the supervision of the IAHI Director. These projects include the Rivers of the Anthropocene (rivers.iupui.edu) and the Cultural Ecologies Project (culturalecologies.org). Rivers of the Anthropocene project and its international research network of over 60 scholars has been active publishing, curating exhibitions, holding scholarly workshops, and developing community-based educational programming since its creation in 2012. The Cultural Ecologies Project—a multifaceted effort that includes, research, evaluation, public seminars, and a PhD program—asks the seemingly simple question, “How do cultural interventions transform cities?” This project works with community stakeholders to examine the impact of the arts and humanities across multiple scales—from the personal to the neighborhood to the city level.
• work alongside the IAHI Director to frame and engage the IAHI within national and international conversations relating to interdisciplinary scholarship in the arts and humanities through attendance at conferences and workshops.
• support the IAHI Director and research group in the design and development of research instruments, grants, peer-reviewed publications, and public programming. This includes working with the IAHI Director to identify, develop, and apply for major grants focused on developing the IAHI’s research projects and programs.
• engage in appropriate training and professional development opportunities as required by the IAHI Director.
• play an active role in the day-to-day activities of the Institute as required by the IAHI Director.

The Postdoctoral Research Appointee is expected to maintain their research profile and pursue an independent research project that they will move forward across the two years of the appointment. The approximate division between IAHI-related work and independent research will be 70/30.

Candidate Requirements
This position is ideal for early career scholars with a PhD in anthropology (all subfields welcome), history, public history, human geography, environmental studies, or field related to this research topic.
The ideal candidate will be:
• motivated to work in a highly collaborative research environment
• committed to innovative, interdisciplinary scholarship
• enthusiastic about engaging with diverse, community audiences

Further Information
Please address any questions relating to the position or application process to Dr. Jason Kelly at jaskelly@iupui.edu.

Application Process
We invite applications from qualified candidates at the beginning of their academic careers who do not yet hold tenure-track academic positions. Candidates are expected to have their PhD no later than June 2018. This position is open to U.S. and international applicants.
Applicants should submit by February 28, 2018:
• Cover letter (2 pages)
• CV
• Research statement (2 pages)
• Sample of writing (dissertation chapter, published article, links to online projects, etc.)
• Names and contacts for 3 references

Assistant/Associate Professor of Economics

Position Summary
The Culverhouse College of Commerce at the University of Alabama is seeking candidates for tenure-track Assistant/Associate Professor positions in Economics in the Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies. Primary duties include teaching economics at the graduate and undergraduate levels, engaging in a research program that results in articles in outstanding scholarly publications, and performing service as assigned by the Department, College, and University. The position will start August 16, 2018.Required Qualifications
A PhD in economics prior to August 2018.

Preferred Qualifications
The department will give preference to candidates with research and teaching experience in one of the two following areas. 1. Macroeconomics 2. Applied Microeconomics including the fields of Environmental, Experimental, Public, and Urban. Candidates that have received external funding to support their research are strongly preferred.

Applications
Review of applicants will begin immediately. Applications can be submitted through March 1, 2018. Candidates must apply online at https://facultyjobs.ua.edu. Candidates must attach a cover letter, curriculum vita (with names of three references), and at least one current unpublished research paper. All these materials must be included at time of application in order for the application to be accepted and considered complete. The candidate selected for this position will be required to submit a disclosure and consent form authorizing a background investigation. Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience and achievements.

Additional Position Information 
The economics program offers degrees at the undergraduate, Masters, and PhD levels. Our Masters programs include a full-time MBA, a STEM-pathway to the MBA, a weekend executive MBA program, and a one-year MA in Economics and MS in Finance. The department offers an excellent research environment including generous research and travel support, an active seminar series, and PhD graduate research assistants. The Culverhouse College of Commerce was established in 1919 and is accredited AACSB International. The College has state-of-the art facilities to support research and teaching, including multimedia classrooms and the Bruno Business Library. The College is also home to a world-class Business Analytics Lab, Statistics Consulting and Research Lab, and a newly-initiated experimental laboratory to support faculty research activities. Additional information is available at the College website: http://www.culverhouse.ua.edu.

Scientific Director, GRID3 Project

The WorldPop programme, based at the University of Southampton, in close collaboration with the Flowminder Foundation, is embarking on a significant new program to support low income countries and their statistical offices in the production of geospatial demographic data. Funded by DFID and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the GRID3 (Geospatial Reference, Infrastructure and Demographic Data for Development) programme includes partnership between WorldPop/Flowminder, UNFPA and CIESIN in developing novel approaches to data integration from satellite imagery, GIS data, surveys and census data for supporting governments in the production of data on population distributions and characteristics at high spatial resolution.

We are seeking to recruit a world-leading researcher to become the Scientific Director for the GRID3 program within WorldPop/Flowminder. You will provide scientific direction and oversight of the technical work undertaken, leading a team of 15+ researchers, and working in close collaboration with WorldPop/Flowminder Director, Professor Andrew Tatem. You will also be expected to contribute to the design of methods, reproducible code, strategies for data inclusion, processing pipeline, internal training and data dissemination. The program will focus initially on supporting ongoing and new analyses in up to five African countries, building on work undertaken recently in integrating satellite, survey and GIS data through statistical modelling to estimate population distributions, numbers and characteristics in the absence of national census data. You will lead engagement on technical matters with project partners and national governments in low income countries. The position represents an exciting and varied challenge, translating cutting-edge research into valuable data and insights to support governments in their operations and meeting development goals. As well as joining the vibrant and well-connected WorldPop and Flowminder Foundation teams, you will have opportunities to lead high-impact publications and develop their own research and funding portfolio.

You will have a strong track record in leading research groups, managing research projects, engaging with governments/international agencies in low income settings and producing high impact publications. The focus of the research work also means that experience in quantitative demographic methods, spatial statistical analysis, computer programming, Bayesian statistics, and GIS are a significant advantage.

You will have a PhD (or equivalent professional qualifications and experience) in a relevant discipline, or have relevant industry experience. The 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 to low income countries is also required.

You will work under the management of Professor Andrew Tatem at the University of Southampton, in offices in the centre of Southampton. The position is for a period of 21 months, with a strong likelihood of extensions to this subject to further funding.

Upon appointment, your University title will be Principal Research Fellow.

Informal inquiries 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 February 9, 2018. If you need any assistance, please call Charlene Tyson (Recruitment Team) on +44 (0) 23 8059 6803. Please quote reference 959218WR on all correspondence.

Research Assistant, MIGRADAPT Project

About The Hugo Observatory

The Hugo Observatory is a new research structure devoted to the study of the interactions between environmental changes and human migration. The Observatory is hosted at the SPHERES Research Unit of the Faculty of Sciences. It is a young and dynamic structure, involved in different international research projects and policy processes. It conducts both theoretical and empirical, field research and puts a high value on collective work.

About the MIGRADAPT Project

MIGRADAPT stands for ‘La migration au service de l’adaptation aux changements environnementaux. Analyse en Belgique’ and is a collaborative project funded by the Belgian Federal Scientific Policy (BELSPO). It associates the University of Liège (coordinator), the Free University of Brussels (ULB), the University of Antwerp and Royal Museum of Central Africa (MRAC). The project seeks to document the role played by migration for the adaptation to climate impacts and environmental degradation in the migrants’ communities of origin, with a specific on the transnational ties that exist between Belgium, Senegal, Morocco and DR Congo.

Position Advertised

The Hugo Observatory is seeking an outstanding candidate for a position of Research Assistant to assist with the development and management of the MIGRADAPT project. The successful candidate will be responsible for:

• Conducting interviews with migrants residing in Belgium;
• Assisting in the day-to-day management of the project;
• Drafting research reports based on the project’s results;
• Facilitating the interactions between researchers from the four project partners;
• Assisting in the preparation of a portal of databases on environmental migration;
• Disseminating the project’s results through conferences, seminars and social media;
• Supporting the overall development of the project and of the Observatory (assistance to the drafting of research proposals, liaison with partners, etc.)
• Assisting the team of the Observatory with administrative and communication tasks.

Requirements

The successful candidate must:

• Hold at least a Master’s Degree in social sciences (political science / sociology / anthropology /international relations preferred), with an interest for environmental issues;
• Demonstrate a keen interest for environmental issues and interdisciplinary work;
• Have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal;
• Be able to work independently and as part of a team, in a highly inter-disciplinary environment, under limited supervision;
• Be fluent in English and French, the command of Dutch being an asset;
• Be enthusiastic about the development of a new research project, and committed to its advancement.

In addition to these tasks, the candidate will be encouraged to develop his/her own research agenda.

Location and Type of Contract

The position is a 1-year contract, full-time, and will be based at the University of Liège. The successful candidate will make frequent travels within Belgium to conduct interviews. The successful candidate is expected to travel abroad occasionally for conferences and missions.

The position should be filled as soon as possible. The salary shall be commensurate with experience. The University of Liège is an equal opportunity employer.

How to Apply

Interested candidates should send a CV and cover letter by noon on January 31st, 2018. They should also indicate the names of two referees who can be contacted upon request. Interviews will be conducted on Tuesday February 6th, 2018, and only shortlisted candidates will receive a feedback on their application.

Applications should be sent by email to the project’s coordinator, F.Gemenne@ulg.ac.be, and copied to sara.vigil@uliege.be and caroline.zickgraf@ulg.ac.be.

PERN Cyberseminar: People and Pixels Revisited – 20 Years of Progress and New Tools for Population-Environment Research

Twenty years ago the National Research Council published the ground-breaking People and Pixels: Linking Remote Sensing and Social Science (NRC, 1998).  The volume focused on emerging research findings that linked population dynamics and human activities to changes in land use and land cover, revealing the many ways that human activities affect landscapes from the Latin America to Southeast Asia. Separate chapters also addressed health- and famine-related applications of remote sensing. Since that time, new research opportunities are opening because of the increasing array of social science data from both traditional (e.g. censuses, surveys) and new sources (e.g., mobile phone and social media data), the growing variety of satellite and aerial data sources (e.g., high resolution, VIIRS nightlights, radar, UAVs), and the access to computation cyberinfrastructure for the analysis of massive spatiotemporal datasets.

This cyberseminar aims to identify and review the primary research breakthroughs and future directions opened by this digital revolution. The “people and pixels” move in geography shed light on the concerns of sustainability, human livelihoods, land use planning, resource use, and conservation, and led to practical innovations in agricultural planning, hazard impact analysis, and drought monitoring. What will the next 20 years bring?

Key future directions for human-environment interactions that build on original People and Pixels research priorities include:

  1. Integration of RS and survey data: combining spatially expansive satellite imagery with nationally or regionally representative household surveys, and with censuses;
  2. Integration of RS and big data: use of data from portable digital devices to achieve new research objectives, such as population downscaling, and “poverty mapping.”
  3. Breakthroughs in RS-based product development: global analysis of co-located landscape processes over long periods of time using recently developed satellite-derived data products (e.g. global human settlements, forest change, and surface water data sets).
  4. Computational advances: advances in computation and GUI platforms for implementing machine learning, deep learning, pattern recognition, anomaly detection, large-scale unsupervised mapping/clustering, etc.
  5. Remote sensing as validation technique: confirming high impact hypotheses around disaster impacts, land grabbing, violent conflict, famine, and illicit economies through their interaction with landscapes.

In this Cyberseminar, we will assess where we’ve come since 1998, identify key extensions of the People and Pixels foundation, and their significance for the demographic aspects of local to global sustainability problems: disasters, famine, drought, war, poverty, climate change, and migration.

Call for Papers: 2018 Add Health Users Conference

Abstract submission is now open for the 2018 Add Health Users Conference, which will be held on July 23-24, 2018 at the National Institutes of Health’s Natcher Conference Center in Bethesda, MD.  The Call for Papers is available online and additional information about the conference can be found at the 2018 Add Health Users Conference page.  The conference page will be updated as new information is available.  Submissions must be received by 11:59PM EST on March 31, 2018.

The principal goal of the conference is to provide researchers who are working with data from Add Health an opportunity to share research goals, experiences, and results.  In addition to the paper sessions, the conference also features several methodology-focused presentations which are led by Add Health project investigators and staff.  These methodology-focused sessions convey information about best practices for using Add Health data.

Travel stipends will be available to presenters and awarded on the basis of scientific merit, with preference given to special emphasis areas and underrepresented topics. Eligibility information is included on the Abstract Submission Form.

Questions? Please email the conference organizers at addhealth_conference@unc.edu

Sponsored by Add Health at the Carolina Population Center,University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health &Human Development

Post-Doctoral Position in Network Epidemiology and HIV Prevention Research

The Department of Medicine and the Chicago Center for HIV Elimination announces a post-doctoral position at the University of Chicago, focusing on quantitative data sciences and HIV/STI prevention research.

The position is under the direct supervision of John Schneider MD, MPH, Aditya Khanna PhD, and in collaboration with other Center faculty (http://hivelimination.uchicago.edu/people/faculty) to support a skilled computational social/health scientist interested in developing a career in quantitative data analysis and computational health modeling.  The position includes opportunities for conducting and publishing original research, leadership roles on ongoing projects, grant writing, developing an independent area of research, and intellectual support in the form of didactic course work. The position will focus on analyzing quantitative data and publishing empirical papers from ongoing studies in the United States and other global research sites.

A central theme in our research is the integration of network data collection, visualization, analysis and simulation modeling with HIV/STI prevention as we utilize novel data sources.  These include online social media (e.g. Facebook), egocentrically collected sexual network information, and phylogenetic data. Combining network data sources for improving health outcomes is a novel area of computational social research, with many opportunities to develop independent career paths. Projects, data and community engagement are heavily concentrated among networks of men who have sex with men and transgender populations in South Chicago. Ongoing projects include cross-sectional surveys, large longitudinal cohort studies, venue-based surveys, Department of Public Health interventions, and multisite network-based interventions funded by several institutes of the National Institutes of Health (NIAID, NIMH, NICHD, NIDA).

Requirements for this position include completing of a doctoral degree by the start date with demonstrated computational skills (PhD in Statistics, Computational Social Science, Computational Epidemiology, Applied Mathematics, or related quantitative discipline), evidence of published scientific articles, and a strong interest in publishing network-based HIV/STI prevention research.  A requirement includes the ability to integrate work within a diverse set of academic and professional partners across the University including the Department of Sociology, National Opinion Research Center, Social Services Administration, Harris School of Public Policy, Pritzker School of Medicine, the Booth School of Business, and partner institutions nationally. This position offers a competitive stipend/salary, benefits, office space, access to internal sources of pilot project support, travel support to research conferences and access to internationally based University of Chicago Academic Centers, including the university centers in New Delhi and Shanghai. The University of Chicago also offers excellent career development opportunities for postdoctoral scientists, tailored to their specific future goals, including academia, government, and industry.

Interested candidates should email a current CV, 2 representative papers/publications, and names of at least two references to Dr. John Schneider, Departments of Medicine and Health Studies, University of Chicago.

Call for Proposals: Royalty Research Fund

CSDE is willing to provide a letter of support for any CSDE affiliate who plans a submission to the Royalty Research Fund grant program.  We would provide a promise of ‘in-kind’ matching support for those applications that are successfully funded under this mechanism.

If you are interested in a letter of support or a more detailed description of provided services, please send an email to: jmkemner@uw.edu and scurran@uw.edu.

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This is to announce the Spring 2018 round of the Royalty Research Fund (RRF) grant program. The RRF proposal submission and review process is electronic – all proposals are submitted using SAGE (System to Administer Grants Electronically). Proposals are due Monday, March 5, by 5:00 PM.  Awards will be announced by June 15, 2018.

Unlike agency-funded grants, RRF grants are not awarded to supplement or continue existing successful research programs.  The purpose of the RRF is to advance new directions in research, particularly:

  1. in disciplines for which external funding opportunities are minimal, and/or
  2. for faculty who are junior in rank, and/or
  3. in cases where funding may provide unique opportunities to increase applicants’ competitiveness for subsequent funding.

Proposals must demonstrate a high probability of generating important new creative activities or scholarly understandings, new scholarly materials or resources, significant data or information, or essential instrumentation resources that are likely to significantly advance the reputation of the university, lead to external funding, or lead to developing a new technology. Proposals from all disciplines are welcome, with well-justified budgets up to $40,000.

All proposals will be peer reviewed through one of the three RRF Review Committees. The evaluators are faculty colleagues and therefore will not necessarily be specialists in the applicant’s subfield. Thought should be given, therefore, to crafting the proposal so that a wider audience may understand it. Although technical field-specific information will be expected, the major features of the proposal should also be accessible to non-specialists.

The RRF application instructions, including specific directions for completing the eGC1, are currently available at the Office of Research website.

As a reminder, Deans, Directors, and Chairs should only approve RRF applications for faculty and professional staff with PI status who are eligible for the program. Faculty with acting, affiliate, or visiting appointments are not eligible. In addition, if a UW faculty member holds an eligible rank but is based at another institution (e.g. Seattle Children’s or Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center), all of his/her extramural grants must be run through the UW in order to be eligible for an RRF award.

Should you elect to apply, please note the following additional details:

  1. Carefully read and follow all instructions. Applications that do not adhere to program rules will be returned for immediate correction and resubmission if time permits; otherwise they will not be considered for funding.
  2. Find out how much lead time is required by each unit which needs to approve your proposal and monitor it throughout the approval process. (For example, the College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s office requires that proposals reach them via SAGE by 5:00 pm on the Thursday prior to the RRF deadline.) Applications not fully approved by the deadline will not be accepted – NO EXCEPTIONS.
  3. On the Details page of the eGC1, please make sure that you choose the Research Area that is most appropriate for your specific project. This will not necessarily match your official departmental affiliation, so you should review the membership of the three RRF committees (each of which covers two Research Areas) to confirm that you are making the best choice. Your proposal has a better chance of being successful if it is appropriately aligned with the expertise on the committee.
  4. Use the sample budget template on our website as a guide when preparing your proposal budget, making sure that a) you round all figures to whole dollars, b) you group items by object code, and c) you provide a subtotal for each object code.

Don’t hesitate to contact the RRF administrative staff if you have questions about the program; new applicants should contact Peter Wilsnack, doogieh@uw.edu, (685-9316) and existing awardees should contact Barbara Thompson, bthompso@uw.edu, (616-9089). Questions about SAGE and the eGC1 should be directed to oris@uw.edu, (685-8335).