Please join us at our winter pop-up cafe event focusing on advocacy for youth and young adults experiencing homelessness.

12:30 – Advocacy 101 Training with Nancy Amidei

1:00 – Advocacy Panel featuring:

Tim Harris, Director of Real Change News

Alison Eisinger, Executive Director of SKCCH (Seattle King County Coalition on Homelessness)

Krystal Koop, Partnership for Native Health

Also including:

– Re-Writing the Media Narrative on Homelessness

– DIY Advocacy Poster Making, with prizes for best posters!

– Free Lunch and Coffee!

ABSTRACT: Universities market their social science graduate programs as pathways into the exclusive arena of academia or high-paying policy or industry jobs. Yet these promises fail to trickle down to working-class students, further reinforcing the mythology of the American Dream. While there’s been much work done on the effects of socioeconomic status on undergraduates, this paper addresses the impacts of the compounding precarity it creates for those pursuing graduate studies.

Monday, February 11th

“Refractive Surveillance: Monitoring Customers to Manage Workers”
KAREN LEVY – Cornell University
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm, Q&A until 2:00 pm
School of Social Work, Room 305A

Junior and senior scholars in the social, economic, and behavioral sciences are invited to participate in the Foundation’s Visiting Scholars Program. The application due date is 27 June 2019 for the 2020-2021 academic year.

 

 

 

Postdoctoral Fellow for a Research Project on the Role of Occupational Segregation by Race/Ethnicity and Immigrant Status on Older Adult Health

Post-doctoral fellow for a new project on the role of occupational segregation by race/ethnicity and immigrant status and its effects on older adult health in the United States. The main focus is on the higher rate of functional limitations by age among the native-born and immigrant Latino/Hispanic population.

The availability of the position is contingent on research grant funding. If funding is available as expected, this position will begin in the summer or fall of 2019 and be for one year. It is renewable for a second year contingent on excellent job performance and continued funding.

Candidates are required to have a PhD or equivalent doctoral degree in demography, sociology or other social science field, public health, public policy, or statistics. All requirements for the degree must be completed before the position begins. Candidates must have strong statistical skills, hands-on experience with quantitative research, and excellent Stata and/or R programming skills and experience. Candidates must work well in a collaborative research environment and have good interpersonal skills. Excellent professional writing is also essential. Experience working with complex social survey data (e.g., HRS, PSID, NLSY, etc.) is strongly preferred.

This position can be held either at the Office of Population Research, Princeton University, or at the California Center for Population Research, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The successful applicant will collaborate with researchers at both institutions and also have some time for his/her own research.

To apply, applicants should submit a brief cover letter describing why they are interested in the position, a curriculum vitae, a writing sample, and two letters of recommendation. Submit all applications to Rachel Veerman, rveerman@ucla.edu.

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For the complete University of California nondiscrimination and affirmative action policy, see: UC Nondiscrimination & Affirmative Action Policy at: http://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4000376/NondiscrimAffirmAct

Rutgers University School of Social Work seeks a postdoctoral scholar to work on a collaborative, multi-year, multi-faceted project focused on understanding the role that fathers can play in improving the well-being of children and the role of social policies in promoting or inhibiting fathers’
involvement with their children in the United States and Latin America. The project, led by associate professor Lenna Nepomnyaschy and assistant professor Laura Cuesta, involves quantitative analyses of several large national and international datasets and the collection of state-level data on
employment, wage, criminal justice, and child support arrears policies in the United States, and country-level data on child support policies in Latin America.

The Centre for Demographic Research of the Université catholique de Louvain | UCLouvain (Belgium – www.uclouvain.be/demo) is recruiting a Postdoctoral researcher to work on the ARC-funded LIMA project.

“Personal Aspirations and Processes of Adaptation: How the Legal framework Impacts on Migrants’ Agency” 

Deadline for applications: 26 February 2019.

Job description

The postdoctoral researcher will work in collaboration with the lead researchers. He/she will participate in the following tasks:

• Contribution to multidisciplinary articles on migration and integration, with a focus on asylum seekers and refugees in Belgium.
• Analysis of large-scale longitudinal databases on migration, administrative status and employment (population register, crossroads bank for social security), and analysis of survey data on migration and integration.
• Participation in the design of a quantitative survey on migrants’ histories and aspirations.

Profile

• PhD in demography, quantitative sociology or related discipline.
• Strong quantitative skills and experience with individual longitudinal data.
• A good knowledge of STATA and/or R.
• Strong interest in international migration and integration research.
• Good writing skills.
• Good working knowledge of English and/or French.

Conditions

• Starting date: between March 2019 and May 2019.
• Duration: 12 months (possibility of extension, conditional on availability of funds).
• Net monthly allowance of 2,490 €.

Application

Applications will include a complete CV, a motivation letter and the names and addresses of two reference persons who can be contacted.Applications should be sent (by e-mail) before February 26, 2019 to

Bruno SCHOUMAKER – bruno.schoumaker@uclouvain.be

Centre de recherche en démographie – Université catholique de Louvain

The LIMA Project: “Personal Aspirations and Processes of Adaptation: How the Legal framework Impacts on Migrants’ Agency”

The LIMA project examines how legal frameworks – Belgian and European – correlate with third country national migrants’ agency. The scientific aim is twofold: understand how legal frameworks shape migrants’ professional, family and migratory trajectories and life projects; and analyse if, and which strategies migrants develop to bend the rules and circumvent obstacles, and/or use the opportunities offered by legal systems to fulfil their professional and family aspirations. This interdisciplinary project is conducted by researchers in migration law, demographers and sociologists.

 

 

The States and Societies Research Network invites you to submit panels, papers, and book session proposals for the SSHA annual conference. The conference will take place in Chicago on November 21-24, 2019. For more information on the conference as well as the general call for proposals, please see the SSHA website: https://ssha.org/. The deadline for full panel or individual paper proposals is February 16, 2019.  

The theme of the 2019 conference is “Data and its Discontents.”

We welcome proposals on this theme and on the broader research network’s continuing interests states, societies, and the political institutions and social movements that shape their relationship throughout history and around the globe.  In addition to single papers, we also welcome full panel proposals, which should include at least 1) four papers, a 2) discussant, and a 3) chair. Book panel (“Author meets Critics”) proposals are also warmly welcomed.

Submissions should include paper title, brief abstract, and contact information and can be submitted at http://ssha.org [scroll to the bottom and click “Submit to Our Annual Conference] Additional information about the 2019 conference can be found at https://ssha.org/files/2019%20SSHA%20CFP.pdf

If you have any questions, please contact any of the States & Society co-chairs: Shiri Noy at snoy@denison.edu, Edwin Ackerman at efackerm@maxwell.syr.edu, Mark Cohen at mark.cohen@cuhk.edu.hk, and Tim Gill at timgill1984@gmail.com