KCHA’s Policy and Research Department is hiring an Intergovernmental Affairs Intern to support legislative work for the Association of Washington Housing Authorities (AWHA).  This is a great opportunity for a graduate or advanced undergraduate student to learn more about policy processes, etc. 

The Center for Health and Wellbeing (CHW), of The Woodrow Wilson School, at Princeton University invites outstanding researchers to apply for appointments as Visiting Research Scholars. The deadline to submit an application is December 15, 2018. For detailed information and application instructions, visit the CHW website at https://chw.princeton.edu/about/visiting-fellows-program.

The Soon Young Kim Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Korean Studies
at the Korea Institute, Harvard University
for Academic Year 2019-2020

The Korea Institute at Harvard University is accepting applications for the Soon Young Kim
Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Korean Studies for the 2019-20 academic year. This Fellowship is open
to scholars from all fields of study in Korean Studies. However, preference may be given to scholars working on the history of Korean business, the history of Korean science and technology, the history of Korean military or the environmental history of Korea.

The Fellowship Grant:  The fellowship will cover up to a 12-month period between August 1, 2019 and July 31, 2020, and will carry a stipend of $50,000 (with an understanding that the fellowship recipient shall purchase her/his own health insurance.) The recipient will have the option to purchase health insurance from Harvard’s affiliate insurance program should s/he choose. (http://hushp.harvard.edu/rates-plan-dates#Affiliate) The postdoctoral fellow will be provided shared office space and access to the libraries and resources of Harvard University, and will be invited to participate in the academic life of the Korea Institute and appropriate academic department/s.

The Fellow will be required to:

1. reside in the Cambridge/Boston area during the appointment and to work on revising his or her
   dissertation for publication.
2. participate actively in related activities of Harvard, the Korea Institute and the Korean Studies community.
3. (may) teach or collaborate on one, one-semester class for undergraduates.
4. give a public presentation at the Korea Colloquium or Kim Koo Forum seminar series.

Eligibility: Applicants must have received their Ph.D. degree within five years of the postdoctoral appointment year (i.e. in 2014 or later). The applicant who is offered a fellowship must have fully completed all requirements for the Ph.D. degree by July 1, 2019.

Application Deadline: Applications must be received via email by the Korea Institute by
Thursday, January 3, 2019, 5:00pm EST

Soon Young Kim Post-Doctoral Application details and process may be found on our website: http://korea.fas.harvard.edu/soon-young-kim-postdoctoral-fellowships

Integrating urban and transport planning, environment and health for healthier urban living

Register now to join more than 300 international participants at Urban Transitions 2018 to discuss multi-sectorial solutions to promote healthy urban development.

Use the quicklinks below to plan your attendance:

• Book your delegate place

• Download the full programme: Expert keynote lectures, 160 contributed talks plus poster sessions

• Find out more about our plenary speakers

• Book accommodation at the conference hotel

We look forward to your participation and to welcoming you to Sitges, Barcelona, 25-27 November 2018. Remember to book your place for the optional conference dinner and walking tours.

The Population Health Initiative, Urban@UW, the Graduate School and the Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship are hosting a networking event for graduate students and postdocs from all schools and colleges across the UW who are engaged in scholarship around climate change.

The event will feature lightning presentations from 6 students/postdocs on a specific area of climate research. Topics will include:

• Health effects of climate change
• Climate change and conservation
• Ethics of climate engineering
• Pollution and public policy

Following the presentations, participants will break up into small groups based on the topics that are presented to enable discussions, networking and knowledge exchange.

Students and postdocs from all departments are welcome. Light refreshments will be provided.

Attendance is free, but as space is limited, registration is required. Please register using the link below.

https://is.gd/climate_change

Speaker: Ian Kennedy

We use Structural Topic Models (STM) to investigate whether and how rental listings from the Seattle metropolitan are Craigslist page differ in association with neighborhood racial proportion. We find that White neighborhoods are associated with words like ‘restaurant’ and ‘charming,’ while Black neighborhoods are connected to security terms like ‘gated’ or transportation out of the neighborhood with terms like ‘light rail.’ Qualitative analysis shows that listings from white neighborhoods emphasize the connection to neighborhood history and cultural roots, while listings from non-white, especially Black, neighborhoods are sundered from their surroundings.

SocSEM!

For many decades, the UW Sociology Department sponsored biweekly area seminars that offered graduate students and faculty an opportunity to present and discuss research (often in progress).  In addition to improving the quality of our work, these seminars provided an important albeit informal setting for strengthening our bonds as a community, and as consequence, all across the country UW alums fondly recall Friday afternoons in the Dev Sem, the MACRO group, and IA.  In recent years these seminars withered, victims perhaps of a restructured graduate program, new centers on campus, busy schedules, and increasingly challenging commutes.

And yet, many of us lament the loss of regular opportunities to learn about each other’s work, to think about sociological problems outside our narrow interests, and to just spend time with others in the department.  Enter SocSem, a new biweekly seminar for the entire department.  We’ll gather mid-afternoon on Fridays for research presentations and lively discussion.  Following long-standing tradition, light refreshments will be provided.  Please mark your calendars, and plan to join us.

The Department of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara invites applications for a tenured or tenure-track faculty position at the level of Assistant Professor with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2019. The Department is looking for exceptional individuals with particular emphasis in the area of urban inequality and health disparities. Urban social inequalities are observed at the individual, relationship/network, community/neighborhood, and societal levels, and are embedded in life course dynamics. The successful candidate will have research and teaching expertise on the social and structural determinants and/or observable manifestations of urban inequality at any of these levels. Topics could include, but are not limited to, disparities in health, income, transportation, or residence relating to race/ethnicity, socio-economic status, gender, or other characteristics. We are particularly interested in researchers using innovative theory and quantitative methods that account for social and spatial context. Applicants with perspectives from public health, demography, sociology, or other related fields in addition to geography are encouraged to apply. The University is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community through research, teaching and service as appropriate to the position. Applications received by December 1, 2018 will be given priority consideration, but the position will remain open until filled.  To apply please visit https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/apply/JPF01334.

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 status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The 2018 annual conference will celebrate Global Washington’s tenth anniversary and will discuss what we want the world to look like ten years from now. From the refugee crisis to global health, food security to the future of work, we will explore the underlying root causes of poverty, disease, injustice, and inequality, as we seek to advance promising solutions that are working globally.

GlobalWA members are leading change all over the world, and if we work together, we believe a more connected Global Washington can usher in the best version of the future we all want to see. Join us!

Who:
Everyone

Where:

Bell Harbor International Conference Center
221 Alaskan Way, Pier 66
Seattle, WA 98121

When:
Thursday, December 6, 2018

9:30am – 5:00pm

Cost:
Members: $275 // Non-Members: $385

Email pratima@globalwa.org for member code

International Conference and Training Workshop on:
Household and Living Arrangement Projections for Informed Decision-Making
Beijing, China, 9-11 May 2019

Jointly organized by China Population and Development Research Center, Center for Healthy Aging and Development Study and Raissun Institute for Advanced Studies at National School of Development, Peking University, and Center for Households and Consumption Forecasting of Digit China Health

Significance: Households and living arrangements are pertinent in research and informed decision-making for sustainable development, because housing, energy-use (water, electricity and gas), food, furniture, vehicles, elderly care, children’s education, and other home-based services are typically consumed/purchased by households rather than individuals. The front line of this field is forecasting future trends in households and living arrangements, which is of great interest in research, policy making and market analyses, and is the focus of the “International Conference on Household and Living Arrangement Projections for Informed Decision-Making” (May 9-10, 2019) and the Training Workshop on ProFamy free software for household & living arrangement projections (May 11, 2019).

Topics to be Presented/Discussed at the Conference, May 9-10, 2019 include: (1) Past, present and future trends in households and living arrangements and their implications for sustainable development; (2) Methodologies for household and living arrangement projections; (3) Software and databases for household and living arrangement projections and applications; (4) Applications of household and living arrangement projections in socio-economic planning, socio-economic status analyses, policy analyses, children’s education, elderly care needs/costs and other home-based services, big data analyses, and market analyses of housing, home-based energy-use (such as water, electricity and gas), food, furniture, and vehicles, etc.; (5) Household and living arrangement projections at sub-national, county and small area levels; and (6) Other related topics.

ProFamy Training Workshop, May 11, 2019: The headship-rate method is still widely used, although it has been widely criticized by demographers for about three decades: it is not linked to demographic rates, projects only a few household types without size information, and deals with household “heads” (a vague and ill-defined concept) but excludes other household members. In contrast, the ProFamy extended cohort-component method uses conventional demographic data as input and projects detailed household types/sizes and living arrangements of all members of the population, including elderly, adults, and children, as well as detailed population size, age, and gender distributions. Published validation tests of household, living arrangement and population projections by comparing projected and census observations show that ProFamy method/software work well in applications for the United States, China and other countries at national, state/province and county levels. This training workshop includes lectures, tutorials, and guided exercises on how to use the new version of ProFamy free software (download from www.profamy.com.cn) with illustrative dataset for participants’ own countries applications. Please refer to attached “A Summary Note on Household and Living Arrangement Projections for Informed Decision-Making” as background materials for this international training workshop.

Logistics: Professor Yi Zeng serves as Chair of the Academic Committee for this conference and training workshop. Interested scholars, governmental officers, and business analysts are welcome to participate in the conference and/or training workshop. No registration fees will be charged and the conference will cover lodging and food costs in Beijing for registered participants. Participants will in general need to cover their own transportation costs. Developing countries’ researchers who plan to conduct household and living arrangement projections for their own countries and wish to learn the method/software from this conference/training workshop but have difficulty to obtain sufficient travel fund may send conference contacts a 2-page maximum research plan and CV to apply for partial financial support.

Contacts: send title of your presentation, academic titles and affiliations, etc. to Ms. Guoling Chen (glchen@nsd.pku.edu.cn, Tel. 86-1062753692; 15630626498) as soon as possible.