Affiliate Clair Yang was quoted last week in a Forbes article regarding potential outcomes for China as its 19th Congress convenes, and President Xi Jinping is set to begin his second term. According to Yang, who is an Assistant Professor of International Studies at the Jackson School, there could be a “strengthening of censorship,” as well as implications for economic policy in light of the nation’s slowing economic growth. “In the short run, there is a possibility that we see China reverting to more conservative policies, trading economic vitality for stability,” she said. The full article is available below.
Unequal Mortality at Older Ages: Early Results from a New, Big Data Set
Josh Goldstein, Department of Demography, UC Berkeley
Josh will discuss early analysis of a newly created, very large public data set on old-age, individual mortality in the United States. By linking individual records from the 1940 census and Social Security Administration deaths, Josh and colleagues have built a new data set that allows the study of detailed covariates on a sample of millions of people. Josh will explain how the data set was created, some special methods needed to estimate mortality, and preliminary results on trends in educational, income, and racial disparities in mortality at ages 65+.
Post-doctoral Fellow in Historical Demography/Economic History
Lund University is inviting applications for a post-doc/early-stage researcher position in historical demography/economic history starting January 1, 2018 (or by agreement). The tenure is limited to two years, with a possibility of extension for an additional two years. The researcher will be employed at the Department of Economic History and be affiliated with the Center for Economic Demography at the Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM). He/she will work in the research program “The Rise and Fall of the Industrial City: Landskrona Population Study” together with other post docs and senior researchers, doing demographic analyses using longitudinal individual-level data for the period 1900-2010.
Candidates must have a PhD in a field related to historical demography (e.g. Economic History, History, Demography, Economics, Sociology, Geography), received no more than three years ago (unless the applicant has been on parental leave or leave due to illness). Applications will also be accepted from persons who have not yet completed their PhD, but this condition must be satisfied at the time of employment.
More details about the post and information on how to apply can be found at the following link: https://lu.mynetworkglobal.com/en/what:job/jobID:172411/
The closing date for receipt of applications is November 15, 2017. We are unable to accept any late applications.
Postdoctoral Fellowships – Center for Demographic Research
The Centre for demographic research (DEMO) de l’Université catholique de Louvain – Belgium informs you of the launch of the «FSR Post-doc 2018» call for postdoc fellowships by the Université catholique de Louvain. These fellowships – for a period of 24 months – are addressed to researchers who have not stayed or worked in Belgium for more than 12 months over the last 3 years, and with maximum 5 years of postdoctoral experience.
Candidates must also apply in parallel to the Mandates of the F.R.S.-FNRS: https://www.frs-fnrs.be/index.php/appel-reglements.
Information on this call and application forms are available at: https://uclouvain.be/fr/chercher/actualites/fsr-2018-pour-l-octroi-de-10-bourses-de-postdoctorat.html.
The application for a postdoctoral fellowship needs to be supported by the Research Centre in which the applicant intends to work. Interested candidates are invited to follow this procedure:
• By Monday, November 20, 2017: send a CV (first three pages of the application form) and a preliminary project (1-2 pages). This should be sent by email to thierry.eggerickx@uclouvain.be.
• Friday, December 8: shortlisted candidates will be informed by the research centre.
• December 8, 2017 to January 29, 2018: Preparation of the application, with the support of the research centre.
• January 29, 2018: deadline for submission of applications: crec-adre@uclouvain.be.
Research in the Centre for Demographic Research is organized around these broad themes:
• Methods of data collection and data analysis
• Historical demography
• Couples formation, fertility, gender, and well-being
• Ageing and intergenerational relations-
• Health and Mortality
• Migrations, urbanisation and spatial redistribution of population
• Population and environment.
Here are some examples of general themes that can be supported:
• Longterm urban, demographic and economic transitions: the role of internal and international migrations (P. Bocquier)
• Child mortality, migration and family composition in Africa: comparative longitudinal analysis (P. Bocquier)
• Socioeconomic inequalities and celibacy: international comparison of trends in marriage practices (P. Bocquier)
• International migration during the interwar period (T. Eggerickx)
• The migration of elderly (T. Eggerickx)
• Bayesian modelling of mortality trends (B. Masquelier)
• Mortality and causes of death in low and middle-income countries (B. Masquelier)
• Social and spatial inequalities in mortality in Belgium (T. Eggerickx, B. Masquelier)
• Microsimulation in demographic research (B. Masquelier)
• Family transformations in a gender perspective (E. Rizzi)
• Ageing and family ties (E. Rizzi)
• Life course events and well-being (E. Rizzi)
• International migration and integration in Belgium, with a focus on subSaharan African migrants (B. Schoumaker)
• Links between policies, legal framework and migration in Belgium (B. Schoumaker)
• Male fertility (B. Schoumaker)
• Fertility changes in subSaharan Africa (B. Schoumaker)
Publications and research projects of our Research Centre are described in our activity reports.
MAGH Speaker Series: “An Anthropology of Vehicle Residency in Seattle”
“An Anthropology of Vehicle Residency in Seattle”
Graham Pruss, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
3:30-4:50 PM
Kane Hall, Room 110
Abstract: Seattle has the third largest unhoused population in the US – almost half of these people, 42%, sleep in a car, truck, or RV. Despite the local prevalence of vehicle residency for over a decade, vehicle residencies are outside the scope of many advocacy or “anti-sweeps” protection efforts, and there are few programs to help stabilize this nuanced population. Moreover, many vehicle residents consider their vehicle a home, reject a “homeless” identity as well as related “homeless” services, and separate themselves from other “unsheltered” people who occupy public space. Graham Pruss, a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow at the UW Department of Anthropology, focuses on the increasing mobile survival behavior of vehicle residency from an ethnoarchaeological perspective. Mr. Pruss uses participant observation, spatial mapping, legal review, as well as ethnography to tell the story of vehicle residency in Seattle, and connect people who use nomadic survival behaviors to an ancient, cross-cultural history of sedentarist bias. Graham deconstructs mundane parking or zoning laws alongside social welfare policies, to show how the contemporary use of nomadic behaviors in a sedentary world subjects vehicle residents to the widespread criminalization of their primary survival strategy and their disaffiliation from social support.
Graham Pruss is the Executive Director of WeCount and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow at the University of Washington. Graham’s research focuses on vehicle residency, the largest category of Seattle’s unsheltered population (36% in 2016) as well as one of the fastest growing segments of house-lessness across the US. Mr. Pruss led the Vehicle Residency Research Program at Seattle University, and has helped connect over one thousand people with social services through his weekly volunteer community meals and employment as Seattle’s only ‘outreach specialist’ for vehicle residents. Graham’s passion for this work comes from his personal experiences with homelessness as a youth, dependence on state welfare and food programs as a teenage parent, as well as the support of publicly-funded services and educational opportunities that empowered personal development through his life.
Next speaker: November 1 – Daniel Hoffman, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington
“The Trouble with Circles: Monrovia’s Ebola Quarantine and the Future of Armed Humanitarianism”
For more information about the MAGH speaker series, please contact coordinator Marieke van Eijk (mariev2@uw.edu)
Student Web Developer
Position Description
Urban@UW, Urbanalytics and the Cascadia Urban Analytics Cooperative are interdisciplinary units at the University of Washington that facilitate urban research and data analytics to improve quality of life, public health and sustainability in cities. Research areas include housing and homelessness, regional transportation systems and environmental justice. The Taskar Center for Accessible Technology is an initiative in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering that is focused on translating novel research and technologies for use by populations with disabilities.
We are looking for a web designer to maintain, edit and trouble-shoot these websites with a variety of content types. The websites are designed in Expression Engine, Github, Jekyll and WordPress. In addition to maintenance, the Web Designer will re-design and migrate portions of the websites, providing technical expertise to carry out design specifications from several program managers. Assisting with content alignment, clear navigation and coordination between the websites may be required as well.
This position will work up to a maximum of 10 hours per week.
Responsibilities may include some or all of the following duties:
• Utilize website building and editing tools to edit the structure and content of the four noted websites.
• Provide website maintenance and updates on a routine and periodic basis.
• Create user-friendly documentation for future users to add and update content.
• Provide troubleshooting support for backend website issues and technical glitches in a timely manner as they arise.
• May provide work on additional websites that are connected to these initiatives.
Requirements:
• Proficient in building and maintaining websites using Github, Expression Engine, Jekyll, WordPress, HTML and CSS.
• Experience troubleshooting frontend and backend website issues.
• Experience developing documentation of technical processes, or demonstrated interest and aptitude in doing so (please submit relevant samples with your resume).
• Experience with full website design, including responsive design and image and video management.
• Understanding of the technical aspects of web design, including accessibility and search engine optimization best practices.
• Demonstrated ability using design and production software, specifically InDesign, Photoshop, and Sketch or other industry standard web design tools.
• Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills that include the ability to work comfortably and professionally with a diverse population.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and projects with minimal supervision.
• Must own a laptop and be comfortable working remotely.
Data Science Incubation Program
The UW eScience Institute is pleased to announce
the Data Science Incubation Program – Winter 2018
The goal of the Data Science Incubator is to enable new science by bringing together data scientists and domain scientists to work on focused, intensive, collaborative projects. Our team of data scientists provides expertise in state-of-the-art technology and methods in statistics and machine learning, data manipulation and analytics at all scales, cloud and cluster computing, software design and engineering, visualization, and other topics. We invite short proposals (1-2 pages) for one-quarter data-intensive research projects focusing on extracting insight from large, noisy, or heterogeneous datasets.
The program is open to any faculty, postdoc, staff, or student whose research can be significantly advanced by intensive collaboration with a data science expert. To apply, we require a short project proposal describing the science goals, the relevant datasets, and the expected technical challenges. The ideal proposal will clearly identify both the datasets involved and the questions to be answered, and will explain how the technical component of the project is critical to delivering exciting new findings.
Each project must include a project lead who is willing to physically co-locate with the incubator staff. We find that collaboration in a shared space is important for deeper technical engagement and provides opportunities for “cross-pollination” among multiple concurrent projects. The Incubator operates on Tuesdays and Thursdays out of the WRF Data Science Studio (6th floor of the Physics/Astronomy Tower). The project lead should plan to work in the Studio for several hours on these days.
Incubator projects are not “for-hire” software jobs — the project lead will work in collaboration with the data scientists and the broader eScience community. Each project lead will “own” their project (and its results) and be responsible for its successful completion, with the eScience team providing guidance on methods, technologies, and best practices as well as general software engineering.
For more information including how to apply, see our Incubator Program page.
Important Dates for the Winter 2018 Incubator:
October 26th: Information meeting. Location: WRF Data Science Studio. Time: 1pm.
November 10th: Applications due.
December 4th: Notification or proposal selections.
January 4th: Kickoff meeting. Location: WRF Data Science Studio.
If you have any questions about submitting a project for an Incubator, please consult one of our Data Scientists during their Office Hours for guidance: http://escience.washington.edu/office-hours
Assistant Professor of Medical Anthropology/Global Health
The University of Florida, Department of Anthropology invites applications for a tenure‐track position in medical anthropology at the rank of Assistant Professor. The department seeks a theoretically and methodologically rigorous scholar who can integrate multiple perspectives on health and illness across disciplinary and subdisciplinary boundaries. We value applied approaches and expect applicants to have an active program of empirical field research. A focus on Africa is preferred, but exceptional candidates with other regional foci will be considered.
Applicants should have a broad foundation in medical anthropology, contribute to the four‐field mission of the department, and be prepared to participate in global health initiatives across campus. The successful applicant will have an excellent record of externally funded research, peer‐reviewed publications reflective of an active research program, and demonstrated experience and enthusiasm for teaching and mentoring both undergraduate and graduate students. The appointment begins on August 16, 2018; a PhD in anthropology is required at the time of appointment.
Applications are due November 17th and must be submitted online at http://explore.jobs.ufl.edu/cw/en‐us/listing/ (search job 505053). They must include: (1) a cover letter detailing research and teaching interests and fit with the Department, (2) a complete curriculum vitae, and (3) the names, addresses (including email), and telephone numbers of three references familiar with the candidate’s work.
Assistant/Associate/Professor of Economics
The University of Michigan, Department of Economics solicits tenure track applications in any field. The Department expects to have multiple positions at all ranks subject to budgetary approval, and all positions are expected to begin September 1, 2018 for a University-Year appointment. Duties include: teaching and research in Economics with focus on area of expertise, advising students and providing service to the department and university.
PhD in Economics or related field required, with PhD expected by August 31, 2018 for junior applicants. Junior applicants must submit curriculum vitae, three reference letters, a statement of teaching philosophy, and a statement of current and future research plans, to the Departments most relevant job posting on EconJobMarket at https://www.econjobmarket.org. Senior applicants must submit curriculum vitae, a statement of teaching philosophy, and a statement of current and future research plans to econ.apply@umich.edu. Hard copies of materials are not required, but may be submitted to the Associate Chair for Recruiting at Department of Economics, University of Michigan, 611 Tappan Street, 238 Lorch Hall, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220.
Open Rank Professor in Data Science/Analytics
The Questrom School of Business at Boston University anticipates three openings for faculty with an established reputation as an empirical data scientist. The search includes both tenure track professors across the levels of assistant, associate, and full and also clinical associate or full professors on the non-tenure track. Pending Provost budgetary approval, the anticipated start date for these three faculty positions is July 1, 2018.
Successful candidates may have a disciplinary association with Marketing, Information Systems, Operations & Technology Management or Business Economics. Foundational training in these core business disciplines or in statistics, computer science, psychology or policy is welcome. A PhD in one of these areas is essential to signal a deep understanding of the power of analytics and experimentation using large data sets. Experience as a practicing data scientist working with companies is a plus for the Clinical track.
We seek outstanding candidates who would be comfortable in, stimulated by, and engaged with the vibrant cross-disciplinary community that is data science. Prospective candidates must have demonstrated the ability to produce original and innovative scholarly work of the highest possible quality with impact in the top academic journals. Special consideration will be given to applicants who have demonstrated intellectual and institutional leadership, successful mentoring of doctoral students (as relevant for tenure track), strong teaching at the graduate and undergraduate levels, and evidence of curricular leadership. Candidates will be expected to teach a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses in analytics and contribute to cross-disciplinary curriculum development activities. Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience.
Interested candidates are encouraged to send application details to mktjobs@bu.edu and include the following:
- A cover letter stating interest and qualification
- A curriculum vitae
- Three letters of recommendation
- Research and teaching statements
- Representative publications
- Statement of where you saw this notice (conference name, website, colleague, etc.)
Applications will be accepted until December 15, 2017 but will be reviewed on an ongoing basis as they arrive. We will begin interviewing in early September for a July 1, 2018 start.