CSDE is offering a series of two, three-hour workshops on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) using esri’s ArcMap software. It assumes no prior experience with GIS, or ArcMap. The workshop will take place across two consecutive Wednesdays, beginning October 12, 2016. Sessions run from 1:00-4:00 PM in Savery 117.
Prerequisite: The workshop assumes no prior knowledge of GIS.
Healthy, wealthy, and wise? Exploring optimism bias in parent predictions about a child’s future health and socioeconomic expectations.
Optimism bias, the tendency to overestimate one’s chances of experiencing unlikely positive events relative to one’s peers, is present in parent predictions of their child’s long-term health outcomes, including their child’s risk for overweight or obesity and obesity-related co-morbidities in adulthood. We sought to understand whether parents are more optimistic about their child’s health outcomes relative to education, labor, and other socioeconomic outcomes. Discussion will focus on the potential impact of parent expectations on future child outcomes, including whether overestimation and over placement of child expectations can impact future child well-being.
Dr. Wright received her Bachelor’s in Polymer and Textile Chemistry from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2004 and completed her Ph.D. in Health Policy with a concentration in Decision Sciences at Harvard University in 2012. Dr. Wright is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Washington (UW) and an Investigator in the Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development at the Seattle Children’s Research Institute. Dr. Wright’s current research agenda aims to promote the adoption of interventions, programs, and strategies to treat and prevent childhood obesity. Her methodological interests include economic evaluations, simulation modeling, and risk communication techniques.
While America’s suburbs have long been painted as indicators of affluence and stability, times are changing: more inner-city residents are seeking reprieve from urban challenges in the suburbs. Many such migrants represent low-income and minority communities, and their migration isn’t necessarily improving their condition. CSDE Affiliate and UW Professor of Public Policy Scott Allard discussed some reasons for these rocky transitions. Read the full story below to learn more about these demographic shifts.
This November, Washingtonians will have several important decisions to make on election day. One such decision centers around raising the state’s minimum wage. CSDE Affiliate and UW Professor of Public Policy and Governance Jacob Vigdor, a member of the team tasked with researching the effects of Seattle’s experiments with minimum-wage hikes, was recently interviewed by KOMO News about the possible impact of this statewide expansion. Check out the footage below!
This talk will provide guidance and raise issues related to ethics and data transparency in conducting applied social science research. It will relate these themes to publishing this research in academic presses, focusing on emerging transparency and replicability guidelines for quantitative, experimental, and qualitative data sources.
James D. Long is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington and an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. He is a faculty affiliate at the University of Washington’s Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences (CSSS), Technology and Social Change Group (TASCHA), Near and Middle East Studies Program, and UC-Berkeley’s Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA).
James mixes quantitative, experimental, and qualitative field research methods, including household surveys, exit polls, field experiments, randomized control trials/impact evaluation, election forensics, and ethnography. His research has been funded by the US Agency for International Development, National Science Foundation, Qualcomm, UCSD, Democracy International, Development and Conflict Research, USIP, and Fulbright.
Join one of the 24 Institutes and Centers within the NIH that awards extramural grants! Extramural grants account for approximately 80 percent of NIH’s budget and are awarded to investigators at more than 2,500 universities, medical schools, and other research organizations around the world. As a Health Scientist Administrator (Program Officer), you will take on a challenging, rewarding role with a direct opportunity to advance the mission of the NIH through stimulating, planning, advising, directing, and evaluating program activities for a portfolio of research projects and programs.
As a Health Scientist Administrator (Program Officer) at the NIH, duties will include, but not be limited to:
Consult the full posting for more information.
The Department of Sociology, College of Arts and Sciences, Washington State University in Pullman, WA invites applications for a permanent full-time tenure-track 9-month academic appointment position as the William Julius Wilson Distinguished Professor. The rank will be at the advanced Associate or Professor level and begin on August 16, 2017.
Job duties: Conduct independent research leading to publication, secure external grant funding, teach undergraduate and graduate courses in sociology, and mentor undergraduate and graduate students. In addition, the occupant of the position will be expected to contribute to University and Departmental governance through service on appropriate committees, and to serve the university, profession, state, and national communities in ways appropriate to training and rank.
Job requirements: earned a doctoral degree in Sociology or closely related field, conduct research in inequality and health, have an excellent record of research, have a track-record and potential for continued extramural funding, demonstrated teaching ability and prepared to teach and mentor undergraduate and graduate students.
Applications: Submit: 1) A cover letter describing research, teaching, and grant history, 2) Curriculum Vitae, 3) three examples of scholarly work, and 4) evidence of teaching effectiveness, and 5) names and contact information for three references. The application materials must be submitted online at: www.wsujobs.com. Review of applications will begin November 15, 2016, and will continue until the position is filled. Questions regarding the position should be directed to Professor Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson, Chair of the Search Committee, 509-335-4595 or monicakj@wsu.edu.
As Seattle has experienced rapid population and economic growth, the city has gone through many changes that affect everyone and everything connected to it. Join UW Foster professor Jeff Shulman, who hosts the Seattle Growth Podcast, and a panel of community leaders in a discussion about how to address the growth-related challenges and opportunities that will shape Seattle’s future. Event co-sponsors include the Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship and Impact Hub Seattle.
Event reception includes appetizers and a cash bar. Admission is $30. A limited quantity of pre-sale tickets are available now at a discounted price of $10.
Demographic change is one of the major challenges European societies will face in upcoming decades. In order to support outstanding research on the causes and consequences of population developments in Europe, the Allianz SE, within the framework of the Berlin Demography Forum, and in collaboration with Population Europe, the network of Europe’s foremost demographic research institutes, invites nominations for the Allianz European Demographer Award.
The prize will honor outstanding research in the field of population studies on demographic change in Europe. The research should be at the frontier of anthropological, biological, economic, historical, mathematical, political, sociological, or statistical population studies, achieved by researchers in the early stage of their careers or those at a more advanced stage.
The prize will be given to candidates within two prize groups: A) for an outstanding PhD thesis, which was accepted within the period 2011-2016; B) for a more experienced researcher, who has obtained his or her Ph.D. within the period 2001-2006.
Candidates should have an outstanding scientific track record, showing great promise as population researchers. Candidates have to be nominated by a senior researcher. Nominations should include a short (maximum one page) explanatory statement by the nominator, as well as the candidate’s curriculum vitae, including a complete list of publications, and PDFs of two publications published or accepted for publication. Nominations will be treated as confidential.
The applications will be evaluated by a committee from Population Europe, chaired by Prof. Dr. Zsolt Spéder, Hungarian Demographic Research Institute, Budapest, and Prof. Dr. Francesco C. Billari, University of Oxford. The successful candidates will be invited to the awards ceremony, which will be held on occasion of the opening event of the Berlin Demography Forum on the 15th of February 2017, with eminent decision-makers and representatives from research, the economy, as well as political and societal organizations in attendance. The prize winner from group A will receive a certificate and 1,000 Euros, and the winner from prize group B will also receive a certificate and 2,000 Euros in prize money.
Please send your nomination, compiled into one PDF, by 4 November 2016 to allianzaward@population-europe.eu with subject “Allianz European Demographer Award”.
Advanced graduate students are invited to submit short reflective articles about their field research for the Fall 2016 issue of Sectors. Articles may address the implications of the research for the field of international development. Alternatively, pieces may reflect upon particular aspects of field research, such as the author’s positionality, the field site, or methodological choices and challenges. Below are some suggestions for questions that may guide your writing:
Interested section members should be in the field or recently returned from the field, either in the U.S. or abroad. Please follow the following guidelines:
Submissions may be edited for grammar, syntax, and spelling errors. The submission deadline is October 31st, 2016.
Please send to Sectors’ co-editors, Svetla Dimitrova and Kelly Birch Maginot, at SOCDEVSectors@gmail.com. The Fall 2016 edition of Sectors is scheduled for release in early December.