Thursday, October 12
5:00-6:30 p.m.
HUB 250
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Are you interested in research, collaboration and travel opportunities in Japan?

Hundreds of fully-funded fellowships are available for all fields (social-science, humanities, STEM, multi-disciplinary) for research at any Japanese university or public research institution.

• Faculty fellowships at junior, mid-career and senior levels (short and long term)
• Pre-PhD students (summer and short-term fellowships)
• Postdocs (summer, short and long term fellowships)

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to learn about funding options directly from alumni and staff of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). Networking to follow the presentation. Free food and drinks will be provided.

The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), established in 1932, is the largest research-funding agency in Japan. For over 80 years the JSPS has worked to advance the sciences and build an international network of over 9,300 researchers. For more information, please visit www.jspsusa-sf.org.

The Department of Geography at the University of Oregon invites applications for two tenure-track positions at the ranks of Assistant and Associate Professor in the area of Data Science for Social Equity, to begin in fall 2018. We seek candidates who specialize in spatial data science, including (but not limited to) big data, spatial data visualization, spatial cyberinfrastructure, and/or geospatial technologies, and who advance research that makes positive impacts toward resolving urgent societal challenges.

Specifically, we seek scholars who harness data-driven science to analyze and advance social equity, apply research results to generate tangible products, applications, and/or other outcomes that address grand societal challenges, such as accessibility, health and wellbeing, food security, technology access and the digital divide, environmental problems, or other social and spatial disparities.

We are a diverse and growing department with strengths in biophysical geography, human geography, environmental studies, and spatial data science. Successful candidates will join the Spatial Computation, Cognition, and Complexity (S3C) Lab, and will develop a collaborative research program with faculty from the S3C Lab, Geography, and/or other units on campus. Scholars will recruit, teach, and mentor students in the new Spatial Data Science and Technology undergraduate major and Geography undergraduate and graduate majors.

Minimum Requirements: PhD in Geography or related field by time of appointment; evidence of (or potential for) a strong research program and publication record in the area of spatial data science for social equity; an established track record of (or potential for) excellence in teaching courses in spatial data science at the undergraduate and graduate levels; and experience in (or potential for) mentoring graduate students. Salary is competitive.

Candidates should apply online at academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/9772 by submitting a cover letter, curriculum vitae, a research and teaching statement, and contact details (name, affiliation, mailing address, email) of three references. Application materials must be submitted by November 1, 2017, or until the post has been filled.

Job Title: Graduate Research Assistant
Department Name: School of Social Work
Job Location: 4101 15th Ave NE
Pay Rate: $18
Employment Period: 2017-18 academic year
Hours Per Week: Up to 19 hours per week
Contact Supervisor: Leo N Egashira

The vision of the Indigenous Wellness Research Institute is to support the inherent rights of Indigenous peoples to achieve full and complete health and wellness by collaborating in decolonizing research and knowledge building and sharing.

Duties and Responsibilities

Under the supervision of the Principal Investigator, Research Scientist and Research Coordinator, Graduate Student Research Assistants will assist in:

• Conducting literature reviews
• Analyzing quantitative datasets
• Reading statistical outputs
• Locating databases and extracting data
• Developing data tables and summarizing them
• Creating infographics and presenting data in alternative forms
• Developing and updating research protocols
• Other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications

• Current graduate student in Statistics, Public Health, Nursing, Social Work, Psychology or I-School preferred; other educational qualifications considered
• Strong familiarity with statistics
• Experience in using programs such as SPSS, STATA, SAS, and R
• Translation and dissemination skills: Ability to describe & summarize data relevant to American Indian / Alaskan Native communities
• Interest or familiarity with American Indian / Alaska Native health issues.
• Outstanding attention to detail
• Ability to work independently.
• Ability to get along and work well with others.
• Flexibility in working in a time-driven, sometimes hectic environment

Educational Benefits

Graduate Research Assistants will experience first-hand the how to create the deliverables of social science and public health research, by assisting researchers in writing papers. Students will conduct literature searches for the latest science in the field; and students will work with newly-collected data, as well as research existing databases to develop statistical summaries that drive the narrative of a published paper.

How to Apply

Please send a cover letter addressing your quantitative strengths and your interest or experience in working with under-served communities, as well as your resume to:

Leo N Egashira
seattleo@uw.edu
206-616-6570

The call for nominations is open for the 2018 Marsha L. Landolt Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award.  Named for the late Graduate School Dean Marsha L. Landolt, the Graduate School has recognized excellent faculty mentors annually since 1999.

The Graduate School is especially interested in generating a diverse group of nominations, including nominations of faculty members who are women, or from underrepresented minority groups, or with disabilities.

The Graduate School, with assistance from the President’s Office, sponsors this annual award in order to recognize outstanding mentoring of graduate students by faculty. The relationship between a graduate student and a faculty advisor is one that can have a profound, lifelong influence on both parties.  At its best, this mentoring relationship inspires and gives confidence to the student while providing the faculty member with a valued colleague. The Marsha L. Landolt Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award allows us to honor those members of the faculty who exemplify excellence in graduate education.  A single award, accompanied by $5,000 in discretionary funds that may be used to support the awardee’s scholarly activities, will be given and presented at the annual Awards of Excellence Ceremony in June 2018 in conjunction with other University-wide awards.

Complete information on this year’s nomination procedures and guidelines are available here: http://grad.uw.edu/for-faculty-and-staff/landolt-distinguished-mentor-award/

Questions about the Landolt Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award or nomination procedures may be directed to graddean@uw.edu.  Complete nomination packets must be received by 5 pm PST, December 20, 2017.

On Wednesday October 11, 2017, the Medical Anthropology and Global Health Seminar Series is pleased to present:

“Engaging with Dementia: Friendship and Abandonment at the Margins of Social Personhood”

Janelle S. Taylor, Professor of Anthropology, University of Washington

Wednesday, October 11, 2017

3:30-4:50 PM

Kane Hall, Room 110

In this talk, Professor Taylor will draw on recent interview-based research to discuss some of the creative and experimental ways that individuals engaged in friendships with older adults who have dementia may respond to the moral challenges presented by this situation, in contexts where dementia renders fragile claims to personhood and a life that has value.

Janelle S. Taylor is Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Anthropology, University of Washington. Her research engages many topics in the field of medical anthropology, such as medical technology and clinical care practices, medical decision-making at the end of life, and questions of personhood and caregiving in relation to dementia. Her work has been published in journals, ranging from Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry, Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, American Anthropologist, to Medical Anthropology Quarterly. Together with other colleagues, Professor Taylor received a grant from the National Institute on Aging that supports research to assess if and how differences in health outcomes and usage of health care services among older adults with dementia may be impacted by the availability, or absence, of family to offer informal caregiving support.

Next speaker: Wednesday 18 October – Seth D. Messinger, Affiliate Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Washington

“From Tactical to Practical”: Translating Positive Health Outcomes from Military Treatment to Civilian Care

For more information about the MAGH speaker series, please contact coordinator: Marieke van Eijk (mariev2@uw.edu)

 

UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.

To support member states in implementing the 2030 Agenda, UN Women’s Flagship Programme Initiative, “Making Every Woman and Girl Count (MEWGC)” aims to affect a radical shift in the availability, accessibility and use of data and statistics on key aspects of gender equality and women’s empowerment. The regional component of the MEWGC Programme envisions a multi-year and multi-country programme of work with particular focus on implementing and supporting the regional and country activities in the region. This includes enhancing the linkages between normative and technical work on gender statistics at the regional and national levels in the three inter-related key areas of work:

• Building a supportive policy and institutional environment for the localization and effective monitoring of the SDGs;
• Increasing the quality, comparability and regularity of gender statistics to address national data gaps and meet reporting commitments under the SDGs; and
• Ensuring that gender statistics are accessible to users in governments, civil society, academia and the private sector, to strengthen adequate demand for their production.

Under the guidance and the direction of the  Deputy Regional Director as a primary supervisor and the Chief Statistician, Global Programme Manager of MEWGC in HQ as a secondary supervisor, the Statistics Specialist is responsible for managing and overseeing the implementation of Making Every Woman and Girl Count at the regional level, providing knowledge management and capacity development services, managing advocacy, partnership building and networking initiatives and contributing to monitoring and reporting.

This vacancy is for 2 positions: one in the UN Women Asia and Pacific Regional Office in Bangkok, Thailand and one in the UN Women Europe and Central Asia Regional Office in Istanbul, Turkey. Applicants should indicate their duty station reference, if any, in their on-line application.

Visit the following link to learn more and apply: https://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?cur_job_id=74914

General Description of Position
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Geography Department beginning August 2018 with focus on nature-society interactions and applications of complex systems thinking and geospatial computational methods.

Required Minimum Qualifications
PhD in Geography or closely-related discipline by the time of appointment.
Potential to develop a strong research program.
Excellence in teaching and advising is expected.

Preferred Qualifications
Different technical and cultural perspectives in solving problems appropriate to a land grant institution.

Screening on applications begins October 15, 2017 and will continue until filled.

For more information about the Geography Department, please visit http://www.k-state.edu/geography/.

Position Summary
The Department of Geography & the Environment at the University of Denver invites applications for an Assistant Professor tenure-track position with research and teaching interests in Geographic Information Science. We especially encourage applicants with research specialization in big data analytics and an ability to contribute new courses in advanced spatial analysis, WebGIS, or new applications in GIS. Research application domains from across the range of the geography discipline are welcome, including: cities, transportation, environmental dynamics, sustainability, and social-cultural geographies. This is a new position in support of our growing graduate and undergraduate programs, and the expanding opportunities for vibrant and cutting-edge research in GIScience. The start date is September 1, 2018.

Essential Functions
Teach introductory-level GIS and statistics courses in support of the undergraduate geography and environmental science programs.
Advise MA, MS, and PhD students and supervise undergraduate research projects.
Pursue external funding in support of an active research program.

Required Qualifications
PhD degree in Geography or closely-related field at time of appointment.
Evidence of developing an active research program with the potential for external funding through publications and conference presentations.
Evidence of knowledge of and/or experience with teaching methods to engage diverse populations.

Preferred Qualifications
Research specialization within big data analytics that concentrates on one or more of the following areas: cyber-infrastructure, distributed sensor networks, including environmental, social networks or spatial statistics.
Experience in teaching introductory university-level GIS, geography, or environmental science courses.

Special Instructions
Candidates must apply online through www.du.edu/jobs to be considered. Only applications submitted online will be accepted. Once within the job description online, please scroll to the bottom of the page to apply. For questions about the position, please contact Eric Boschmann at Eric.Boschmann@du.edu. Review of applications will begin on December 10, 2017. Position will remain open until filled.

Background
The Population Research Center (PRC) at Portland State University (PSU) seeks an experienced and dynamic population researcher to manage the Center’s Oregon Population Estimates Program (OPEP). Affiliated with the Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies (IMS) in the College of Urban and Public Affairs (CUPA), the PRC fulfills several Oregon statutory requirements through the Oregon Population Estimates program, the Oregon Population Forecast Program, and the Oregon Census State Data Center. Additionally, the PRC works with local and state government and nonprofit agencies to conduct demographic analyses that support public and private decision making, such as school enrollment forecasts, analysis of trends and issues related to aging and public health, housing needs, and small geography population estimates. Center research faculty engage in a variety of research projects that provide data analysis to decision makers throughout the Portland metropolitan region and across Oregon.

Key Responsibilities
• Plan, manage, and implement the research approach for the Oregon Population Estimates Program
• Communicate with government officials and community advocates to collect information pertinent to population estimates
• Create and maintain databases essential for the administration of the Oregon Population Estimates Program
• Develop models for population estimates (e.g. Cohort-Component and Housing Unit models) for large and small geographic areas
• Generate clear and concise reports, including text, graphics, and tables, describing the results of demographic analyses
• Present estimate methods and results occasional meetings• Supervise and mentor research assistants
• Work collaboratively with research programs at PSU
• Participate in the marketing, design, and execution of custom demographic studies and ongoing research efforts=

Minimum Qualifications and Skills
• Master’s degree in Demography, Sociology, Geography, Economics, or a related field and demonstrated proficiency with population estimation and forecast methodologies and research design
• At least three years of applied work experience in applied demography or other social science research demonstrating proficiency with population estimation methodologies and research design
• Solid experience with spreadsheets, databases, statistical analysis software, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
• Strong familiarity with Census data
• Excellent written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills
• An entrepreneurial and collaborative attitude, and experience managing complex, highly visible research projects requiring public outreach and input

Preferred Qualifications
A PhD in Demography, Sociology, Geography, Economics, or a related field will improve the candidate’s competitiveness. Knowledge and experience in statistical computing and geospatial computer programming software (e.g., R, Python, GeoDa) is also a plus.

To Apply
The position will remain open until filled. Apply using the following link: https://jobs.hrc.pdx.edu/postings/24442