The air out there is cold, but we’re sure each of you have a warm heart that is producing exciting population research. We would love to hear about your work at the March 15 Lightning Talks and Poster Session! Please consider submitting a brief abstract for consideration. In the session, you can:
- Get awesome feedback from an interdisciplinary set of scholars
- Make new connections with researchers working in similar areas
- Practice your presentation skills, perhaps to help you prepare for PAA or another upcoming conference
- Use it for a class that requires a poster presentation
If any (or all) of these appeal to you, you may apply by completing a short form through the this link by Friday, February 1, 2019. CSDE will recognize the best poster with an award and prize. Posters will be assessed based on design, content, and presentation.
Seven applicants will be chosen to give a short (~2 minute) presentation and discuss their poster with students, faculty, and other researchers in the CSDE community. Students at any stage in the research process are welcome to apply.
The Poster Session will be on Friday, March 15, 12:30-1:30 PM in Room Green A, Research Commons, Allen Library South
We look forward to hearing about all the cool research that is ongoing! Please feel free to contact Yuan Hsiao (Sociology PhD Candidate) at yahsiao@uw.edu if you have any questions.
Join us for a panel discussion on the Health Risks of Climate Change:
What the Interactions between Climate and Socioeconomic Changes Could Mean for Population Health over Coming Decades
Kristie Ebi, Professor, Global Health & Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, UW
Future Drivers of Vulnerability, Particularly Demographic Change
Sam Sellers, Senior Fellow, CHanGE, Global Health, UW
A Local Public Health Perspective on Health Impacts of Climate Change
Jeffrey Duchin, Professor, Medicine, Allergy and Infectious Diseases & Epidemiology, UW
Nikki Eller recently published her master’s thesis in Health Education and Behavior. Her analysis of survey data from mothers of healthy newborns in Washington State examines the association between parental trust in their child’s health care provider and vaccine information sources. She finds, for instance, that mothers with less trust in their child’s health care provider used more and different sources, especially more informal sources, and were less likely to consider their child’s pediatrician as their main source of vaccine information compared with more trusting mothers. The authors conclude that future interventions seeking to reduce parental vaccine hesitancy should consider intervention components focused on building or improving parent trust in their child’s health care provider.
An early version of Eller’s research was presented during the Winter Quarter 2018 lightening talks and poster session. Nikki Eller’s poster won the best poster award (click here to read the story).
Nikki currently works at the Washington State Department of Health and has recently been promoted to Regional Evaluation Liaison, representing the Washington State Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP-Ed) evaluation team. Nikki will spend time traveling around the state and working with the groups implementing SNAP-Ed programming to do smaller-scale evaluations, and help them understand the picture at the state level.
CSDE Affiliate Nathalie Williams (Professor of International Studies & Sociology) and CSDE Trainee Christina Hughes (Sociology) co-authored an article in Demography that analyzes longitudinal data from Nepal to assess the influence of material aspirations on decisions to migrate and where to locate.
Using detailed continuous migration histories from the 2008–2012 Chitwan Valley Family Study, they estimate logistic and alternative-specific conditional logit models, and find strong evidence that material aspirations have large effects on overall rates of migration and affect destination-specific migration rates, particularly for relatively wealthy Western and Asian destinations. They also find an interaction effect between material aspirations and destination-specific expected earnings in influencing migration choices. It is the people with high aspirations who migrate to destinations with high earning potentials.
This talk is presented by the Qualitative Multi-Method Research Initiative (QUAL) Speaker Series with support from the Anne H.H. and Kenneth B. Pyle Assistant Professorship, Center for Korea Studies, Center for Global Studies, Comparative Religion Program, Isaac Alhadeff Professorship in Sephardic Studies, Jackson School Ph.D. Program, JSIS Japan Studies Program, Job and Gertrud Tamaki Professorship, Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Near and Middle Eastern Studies, School of Law, and South Asia Center.
CBE Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series Featuring Lance Freeman Wednesday, Jan 16, 6:30-7:30pm – UW Architecture Hall, Room 147
Lance Freeman, a professor in the Urban Planning program at Columbia GSAPP, conducts research on affordable housing, gentrification, ethnic and racial stratification in housing markets, and the relationship between the built environment and well being. As part of the Dean’s Distinguished Lecture series, he will be presenting on his newest book, A Haven and a Hell, the culmination of his research on issues related to neighborhood change, urban poverty, housing policy, urban sprawl and residential segregation. He examines how the ghetto shaped black America and black America shaped the ghetto, tracing the evolving role of predominantly black neighborhoods in northern cities from the late nineteenth century through the present day.
This event is free and a great opportunity to learn about homelessness research happening on another campus.
Click Here for more Info on Lance Freeman’s Upcoming Lecture
Friday, January 18, 2019 from 9:30am to 3:30pm
UW Leadership Without Borders
Register Here
Training Overview
The Undocu Ally Training highlights best practices to support undocumented students as well as the following topics:
-Narratives of undocumented students and their families.
-An overview of the history, policies, and current issues impacting this student population.
-Why and how to be an ally to undocumented students.
-Strategies and models to support undocumented students.
-Recommendations for how to personalize and adapt best practices.
CSSS 544: Event History Analysis (Winter 2019)
The desire to understand duration data is a major goal of research spanning many areas of social-scientific inquiry and application, from the demographer’s focus on lifespan, birth spacing, and cyclical migration; to the sociologist’s interest in recidivism and the rate of dispersal of contagions throughout social networks; to the healthcare researcher’s concern for time between exposure and infection, addiction relapse, and injury recovery; to the political scientist’s interest in the longevity of peacetime and partisan control of government; to the educator’s interest in drop-out rates and timing to completion of education programs; and so on. For graduate students in the University of Washington social science community who wish to master statistical concepts and methods particularly well-suited to describing, explaining, and predicting all manner of duration data, as well as how duration data are related to other variables of salient research interest, please consider enrolling in CSSS 544: Event History Analysis this (Winter 2019) quarter (http://www.csss.washington.edu/academics/time-schedule/2019,winter,CS&SS,544).
Plenty of spots are still open in the class. We meet Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:30a-12:20p, in Savery Hall 117. There are no course prerequisities, though students knowledgeable in R, probability theory, applied regression, maximum likelihood estimation, or Bayesian statistics will be especially well-prepared for the course content. If you are interested or desire further information, please contact the course instructor, William Brown (brownw@uw.edu).
You are invited to the Healthy Generations Hartford Center of Excellence Annual Lecture by LaShawnDa Pittman, PhD: “When You Say Grandmother You Still Say Mother: Black Grandmothering in the 21st Century.”
Please RSVP here.
The Race, Indigeneity, Gender, and Sexuality (RIGS) Studies Initiative presents the RIGS Dissertation Proposal Fellowship (DPF). The DPF encourages applications from students from underrepresented groups and whose research engages broadly with issues of inequality with an intensive week-long dissertation proposal workshop in March 2019. In addition, we will award a $1000 stipend/fellowship.
Our focus is to support graduate students, approximately in their second to fourth years of graduate study, who are in the middle of developing their dissertation proposals. In this inaugural year, we are looking for projects in the humanities, education, policy, and the social sciences, that are committed to addressing and engaging with some of the most pressing socio-economic issues and inequalities of our time.
The RIGS DPF workshop will run from March 18, 2019, through March 21, 2019, and active participation in this workshop is a requirement of the fellowship.