CED, invites applications for a full-time Researcher in Demography.

The successful candidate will have a PhD in Demography or a cognate discipline, will be expected to contribute significantly to the research output of the Centre. The candidate will have, relative to career stage, a track record in research, including high-impact scholarship and international publications, and proved funding ID.

Applications are sought from candidates with expertise in quantitative methods that align with the priority research areas of the Centre as detailed on the CED’s website (https://ced.uab.cat/en/research/areas/). We particularly invite applicants with expertise in the area of socio-economic inequalities and their relationship with demographic dynamics/outcomes. The appointee will be expected to engage in wider public and policy debates, and to foster collaboration with other external research bodies.

CED is an equal opportunities employer and invites applications from all suitably qualified candidates. CED also works to promote work/life balance and facilitates this through Centre
policy and practices.

October’s IAPHS Conference “Local, national, global impacts on population health” promises an exciting and diverse set of offerings:

– Posters featuring the latest in population health research, practice, theory, methods, and more;

– Oral presentations, comprised of investigator-driven panels as well as of individual abstracts, which address various topics of population health science, including practice, theory, methods, student training, or technological innovations.

Be a part of the action!

Please visit the Call for Submissions to find out how and submit your ideas by March 11, 2019.

PS: This year will again feature awards for the best posters!

Key dates:  

Submission Deadline:  March 11, 2019
Registration Opens:  April 1, 2019
Conference:  October 1-4, 2019

Conference Location:

Sheraton Seattle Hotel
1400 Sixth Avenue
Seattle, WA 98101

Conference Website:

https://iaphs.org/conference/

IAPHS Membership:

IAPHS members receive discounted rates to attend the conference. Join/Renew for the 2019 calendar year. Membership rates increase January 1^st, so join now at a discounted rate!

Santa Margherita di Pula (Sardinia), Italy, 10-21 June 2019

The Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) Computational Social Science summer school cordially invites junior researchers (advanced MA students or higher*) to apply for participation in the CSS summer school on data-driven modeling of migration to take place in Santa Margherita di Pula on Sardinia, Italy, from June 10-21, 2019.

Women are especially encouraged to apply!

The CSS summer school serves as a research incubator aiming at fostering the use of data-driven methods in the social sciences and developing a contribution to the research field of migration. During the summer school, you will work in one of eight teams of five people on a specific research project. Each team consists of three junior researchers and two senior experts/supervisors, with strong methodological expertise in CSS and the field of migration research. Each team will work through the whole research process with the aim to prepare a manuscript for scientific publication. Each project combines CSS methods with a research focus on migration. This involves data-driven modeling of migration and making use of simulation or prediction techniques. The projects may look, for example, into the consequences of migration and its relation to conflicts and social cohesion.

Learn more about the general summer school concept, the focus on migration and CSS methods of the 2019 school, as well as check out our expert team and the pre-defined projects they offer:
https://bigsss-css.jacobs-university.de/calls/call2019/

Venue and accommodation
The 2019 summer school will be in Santa Margherita di Pula on Sardinia, Italy from June 10-21, 2019. The summer school hotel will be announced soon.

All participants are offered accommodation in shared double rooms in the summer school hotel including half board (breakfast buffet and dinner).

Travel grant
Applicants may apply for a travel grant within the limits regulated by the Volkswagen foundation. If your application is successfull, you will get reimbursed for your travel expenses only after the summer school has ended and you have handed in all original receipts and tickets. Find a list with reimbursement caps here.

You are only eligible for the travel grant if your home institution does not cover your travel expenses.

If you apply for a travel grant, indicate this in the EasyChair application form and add a cover letter in which you explain your need of a travel grant briefly and give proof that your home instoitution does not cover your travel expenses.

Registration fee
The registration fee is of 250 Euro per participant. The fee can be waived for participants from low-income countries.

Application
Follow the link to apply: https://bigsss-css.jacobs-university.de/calls/application/ The deadline is February 17, 2019.

*Eligibility criteria
There are no strict eligibility criteria. We recommend applicants to have finished at least their undergraduate studies (BA degree). However, PhD students are the main target group. Scholars even further in their career (e.g. postdocs) are welcome to apply, too,

Call for Research Proposals:2nd Round of Fellowships on Family Planning, Fertility and Urban Development

Deadline to submit concept note: 15 April  2019
Deadline to submit full proposals: 1 July 2019

The International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) is pleased to announce the second call for policy-relevant research proposals from early career researchers to:

• contribute to the evidence base needed to better meet the family planning (FP) and related reproductive health (RH) needs of the most vulnerable in urban areas of countries of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, and

• increase the attention paid to FP, fertility and population growth in urban development policy initiatives at local, national and international levels.

The proposal must focus either on a single city, or represent comparative work on multiple urban areas, of any country of sub-Saharan Africa or South Asia. Eligibility will be limited to citizens of countries in sub-Saharan Africa or South Asia currently working in established institutions in those two regions (not necessarily the citizenship country), who have received a Ph.D. (or an MD with some public health or social science training and evidence of research skills) within the past ten years and who are currently affiliated with established institutions in either region.

For more information please see:

• article and videos on the project and the call for proposals
• full call for proposals posted on the website.

Enquiries: Any enquiries should be directed to UrbanFP@iussp.org by 15 June 2019, in order to receive a response prior to the deadline date. (Questions about the concept note phase are due by March 15.)

Research Experience for Undergraduates

Program: Mon May 20 – Fri July 26 2019

Contact: reu@cct.lsu.edu

The Center for Computation & Technology (CCT) hosts a ten week Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program where students work collaboratively on a wide variety of computational science projects.

Each student receives a stipend of $5,000, free housing in university dormitories, and up to $600 in travel expenses to and from Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Ten students will be selected.

Qualifications:

Undergraduate, community college student, or high school senior attending college in the fall, interested in a major that is within the computational sciences umbrella (leaves out few majors as it includes all sciences, mathematics, engineering, finance, statistics, etc.) with at least a 2.75 GPA, considering a career in research and/or graduate school in your major, being a US citizen or permanent resident, and graduating at least one semester after completion of the REU.

Important Dates:

February 15, 2019: Application deadline.

March 15, 2019: Notification of decision.

May 20, 2019 through July 26, 2019: Program dates.

The research activities of the CCT are organized into five Focus

Areas: Core Computing Sciences, Coast to Cosmos, Material World, Cultural Computing, and System Science and Engineering.

These are broad, and sometimes overlapping areas where faculty from diverse departments (Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, Civil Engineering, Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Petroleum Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computing Engineering, Music, Business, etc.) collaborate in multidisciplinary projects.

Our REU students learn how to use some of the nation’s largest supercomputers, may participate in the setup and management of large-scale simulations, and may take on an important role in the analysis and visualization of the simulation results.

For more information and to apply, visit: http://reu.cct.lsu.edu/

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The LSU Center for Computation & Technology, or CCT, is an innovative research environment, advancing computational sciences, technologies and the disciplines they touch.

Researchers at CCT use the advanced cyberinfrastructure – high-speed networks, high-performance computing, advanced data storage and analysis and hardware and software development – available on campus to enable research in many different fields.

By uniting researchers from diverse disciplines, ideas and expertise are disseminated across LSU departments to foster knowledge and invention.

For more information on the CCT, visit: http://cct.lsu.edu/

 

Members of the UW Research Community:

This is to announce the Spring 2019 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 4, by 5:00 PM.  Awards will be announced by June 15, 2019.

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 must 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 web site located at:

http://www.washington.edu/research/or/royalty-research-fund-rrf/

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, temporary, 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 that 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, 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 of 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).

The EarthLab Innovation Grants Program seeks to engage University of Washington faculty and employees with PI status in the co-definition of transdisciplinary research, scholarship, and creative activity related to our most pressing environmental challenges. We will invest in first-mile challenges – the envisioning, development or piloting of new projects. We encourage proposals from all disciplines at the University of Washington.

Through the Innovation Grants Program, EarthLab hopes to realize the following outcomes: 1) an increase in capacity across the UW for innovations in the application of transdisciplinary scholarship; 2) deepened engagement with diverse community partners (e.g. practitioners, policy makers, tribes and community groups outside of UW), and 3) funded research projects that address co-defined problems from multiple perspectives and that are designed to generate knowledge that is both usable and used.

A total of $175,000 is available in this pilot year, with award amounts between $5,000 and $50,000. There is one $50,000 grant that will be awarded jointly by EarthLab and the UW Population Health Initiative.

The deadline for EarthLab proposals is January 30, 2019, 11:59 pm PST.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at stasiar@uw.edu. For additional information and to review the RFP, please visit: https://earthlab.uw.edu/projects/grants/

Interested in studying a foreign language and learning about different cultures? The application is now open for FLAS Fellowships, which award $7,500-$33,000 to UW students studying foreign languages.  Applications are due January 31, 2019 at 5 PM PST.

(Available to current and incoming undergraduate, graduate and professional UW students who are U.S. citizens or U.S. permanent residents).

For more information, visit jsis.washington.edu/advise/funding/flas/

UPCOMING FLAS INFORMATION SESSIONS:

Tuesdays in January (8, 15, 22, 29), 3:30-4:30 PST Web Chats (see FLAS website above for access instructions)

Thursday, Jan 10, 2:30-3:30, Allen Library Auditorium, G81L

Wednesday, Jan 16, 3:30-4:30 Thomson Hall Room 317

Thursday, Jan 24, 1:30-2:30 Thomson Room 317

Questions? Contact Robyn Davis at rldavis@uw.edu