Applications for RAND’s 2019 Summer Associate program are now accepted through December 4, 2018. US citizenship is not necessary for most positions. This fulltime research 12 week program ($13,500 salary) is oriented toward doctoral students who are within a year or two of completing their doctorates. Summer Associates are assigned to a research project and mentored by a senior research staff member. The opportunity be located in Santa Monica, CA, Washington, D.C., Pittsburgh, PA, or Boston, MA depending on the match with mentors. Current Summer Associate positions include: Sociology & Demography, Statistics, Policy Research and Economics.
If you are interested in a postdoctoral position, check out www.rand.org/jobs.html.
The Institute of Behavioral Science and the Institute for Behavioral Genetics have a developed an innovative training program at the intersection of Demography and Genetics research that is funded by a T32 training grant from NIA (T32AG052371). We are currently searching for a post-doctoral position that will begin September 1, 2019. The candidate will work with faculty in the IBS/IBG training program at the intersection of demographic and genetic research and will train in methods and substance in both areas. It is a one-year position at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
The candidate will participate in weekly research meetings, participate in graduate level training in demography and statistical genetics, attend and present at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America and the Behavior Genetics Association, and contribute to new and ongoing projects one or both research institutes. Candidates must have received, as of the beginning date of the appointment, a Ph.D., M.D. or comparable doctoral degree from an accredited domestic or foreign institution. Documentation by an authorized official of the degree-granting institution certifying all degree requirements have been met prior to the beginning date of training is acceptable. The University of Colorado is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, race, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or status as a protected veteran.
Please submit the following to Jessica LaRue (Jessica.LaRue@Colorado.EDU) as one complete .pdf file with your last name_first name.pdf as the name of the document (e.g., doe_john.pdf) :
- Cover letter: please provide a brief description of your research interests and training in genetics or demography or both.
- List of references (name and email is sufficient).
- CV
Review of application is ongoing until the position is filled. Thus, we encourage interested applicants to submit their materials as soon as possible.
The Society for Disability Studies (SDS) is pleased to announce the 2018 Irving K. Zola Award for Emerging Scholars in Disability Studies. Founded originally by the late Professor Zola’s colleagues at Brandeis University, this annual award recognizes excellence in research and writing that shares the values and commitment to disability studies exemplified by Irving K. Zola’s life and scholarship.
Timeline: All manuscripts must be submitted by November 15, 2018. The recipient of the award will be announced on or around December 30, 2018.
Please send: a cover letter about your work overall, the manuscript, and a CV. Application packets can be sent electronically to: rparrey@ewu.edu and to devva@disstudies.org with “ZOLA” in the subject line.
The UW RainWorks Team is an interdisciplinary team of students engaged in a national competition, the EPA RainWorks Challenge, in which we are addressing the environmental, social, and economical implications of stormwater runoff. Our objective is to critically analyze the site and connected systems, and from that develop a green infrastructure design and management plan which incorporates innovative systems, strategies, and technologies. The challenge deliverable includes a 2-minute video, 12-page narrative, and design presentation board; the deadline is December 14. Proposals are highly judged based on the level of critical and thorough thought put into the design and management plan, interdisciplinary collaboration, innovation, and feasibility. The final winners will receive a monetary award to catalyze the project.
We are looking at the parking lot next to the football stadium, E1, as the project site in its connection to the daylighted Ravenna Creek, and the larger connection to Lake Union. Some of the topics we have discussed include salmon viability, local tribes’ ownership and rights, campus masterplan connectivity, innovative filtration systems (to be potentially patented), phytoremediation, community engagement, social justice, space use and efficiency, organic and inorganic pollutants, educational opportunities, and funding sources and catalyzers.
We meet at 12:30 (people usually start gathering at 12) to 1:30 on Fridays in Gould Hall room 100.
Other information and past competition winners can be found here.
If interested, please contact Morgan Southall at morgans7@uw.edu.
Charles Lanfear
Neighborhood disorder is highly-correlated with crime rates, which has led to a significant controversy in the social sciences over the proper interpretation of the correlation. Does the correlation reflect a causal relationship, in which social and physical disorder increases the likelihood of norm-violations and crime, as broken windows theory suggests? Or does the correlation reflect a spurious relationship, in which the correlation disappears when the confounding variable, neighborhood collective efficacy, is controlled?
The answer to this question has important theoretical and policy implications. This project examines this controversy using mixed methods: field experiments embedded in neighborhoods that are diverse on measures from the U.S. Census and the Seattle Neighborhoods and Crime Survey
Debra Lochner Doyle and Katie Stoll
Learn about genetic service capacity in Washington State as well as emerging service delivery models and their implications for access, quality, and health outcomes.
The digital is intertwined with most aspects of social life today and bears consequences for researching the social regardless of whether it is the researcher’s central topic of study or not. While questions pertaining to the importance and effects of technological innovations in social science research date back to at least the late 1990s, the speed at which new technologies and their practices develop, demands regular updates. This international workshop seeks to address how the digital features in our conception of questions about the social world with a particular focus on migration studies.
Based on empirical research, we invite papers that rethink issues of methodology in the study of mobility and `the digital´. Papers should include an inquiry into one or more of the following questions:
- How does `the digital´ change the way we approach qualitative research, and do we need to adjust our methodological toolkit?
- How do we engage with `the digital´ ontologically and epistemologically?
- What are the ethical concerns and limitations in using digital methods, particularly when studying mobility?
- What information produced online can we as researchers make use of:
- What data can we, ethically, collect (i.e. problem of consent vs. informed consent)?
- How do we critically assess digital data?
We encourage paper proposals from various disciplines including, but not limited to, social and cultural anthropology, sociology, human geography, communication studies and the digital humanities by early and mid-career scholars.
As we aim to create a platform for in-depth discussion, selected papers will be grouped into one of three sessions, each led by an expert in the field. The questions below serve as a guide.
Session 1: Studying mobility through digital tools: with Paolo S.H. Favero
- What questions can digital research address and what answers can it deliver?
- What insight do we gain from bringing together the study of physical mobility and digital space/digital technologies?
Session 2 Migrant trajectories and experiences of (im)mobility: with Koen Leurs
- What can researching `the digital´ tell us about the social world of migrants? What can `the digital´ tell us about social phenomena pertaining to mobility?
- Are there `regimes of mobility´ within digital space? And if so, how do these intertwine with the material world? How do they inform one another?
Session 3 Challenges and limitations of digital research in the context of mobility studies: with Christine Hine
- What are the limitations and challenges in doing digital research and how can we address them? What are the limitations of the knowledge gained through digital research?
- What errors have we committed while conducting digital research and what have we learned from them?
Abstracts for papers (max. 300 words) and a short biographical note including your institutional affiliation and position, should be sent via e-mail as Word.doc to Dr Fiona Seiger at fiona-katharina.seiger@uantwerpen.be.
The Faculty Career Development Series consists of monthly lectures that are designed to provide early stage investigators with tools, a forum for discussion, and learning opportunities to help advance their careers.
Translational science research, like many other fields, struggles to find the most efficient processes for managing multiple people and projects. In this presentation, Tom Gallagher, MD and Jennifer Sprecher, the ITHS Director of Lean, will discuss the use of Lean methodology in leadership for creating a high performance research team. They will share the latest on how to improve Lean leadership skills and tools in three key areas: vision sharing, effective team communication, and continuous improvement.
BY THE END OF THIS EVENT, LEARNERS WILL BE ABLE TO:
1. Discuss the differences between a charter and a study protocol
2. Identify how a charter can support project success
3. Discuss the core skills involved in facilitating effective team communication, as the team’s leader
4. Discuss the qualities commonly found in high trust teams
5. Describe the continuous improvement needed to improve team function
Registration is limited to early stage investigators. Please sign up through the link below
Light lunch will be provided
This seminar will also be webcast for off-site participants, register to receive a link.
Racial residential segregation has been linked to adverse health outcomes, but prior studies have not examined the effect of neighborhood-level racial segregation on cardiometabolic risk (CMR), as well as whether associations differ by race/ethnicity. CSDE Affiliate Anjum Hajat, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at UW, examines this association in the recently co-authored paper “Neighborhood segregation and cardiometabolic risk: The multiethnic study of atherosclerosis”. Using data from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis to estimate associations of baseline neighborhood segregation with a composite measure of cardiometabolic risk, following up over 12 years with 5015 participants, and using linear mixed effects models to estimate race-stratified associations of own-group segregation, they concluded that associations of own-group racial residential segregation with cardiometabolic risk varied by race/ethnicity. After accounting for socioeconomic status, living in a more segregated neighborhood was associated with greater risk only among black participants.
A recent study co-authored by CSDE Affiliate Steven Goodreau, Professor of Anthropology at UW, examines how addressing gaps in HIV preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) can reduce racial disparities in HIV incidence in the United States. Using a network-based model of HIV transmission for younger black and white men who have sex with men in the Atlanta area, the authors evaluate how race-stratified transitions through the PrEP care continuum from initiation to adherence and retention could impact HIV incidence overall and disparities in incidence between races. They find that PrEP could simultaneously lower HIV incidence overall and reduce racial disparities despite current gaps in PrEP care. Yet, they note that interventions addressing these gaps will be needed to substantially decrease disparities.