Assistant Professor in Human Geography
This is an exciting opportunity to appoint outstanding individuals to three Assistant Professorships in Human Geography whose work will complement and extend the current work in any one (or more) of our research clusters (Economy and Culture; Geographies of Life; Politics – State – Space; Urban Worlds). We are looking for first-rate scholars in their field and we encourage work that develops a range of theoretical, conceptual and/or methodological approaches. Work with relevance to the topics of the Global Challenges identified by RCUK would be an advantage and we anticipate that one post will offer expertise in Geographic Information Systems.
Successful candidates will have a PhD in a relevant field, and demonstrate a track record of, or potential for, internationally excellent and world class agenda setting publications and securing external funding. They will show a commitment to delivering excellent teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, the highest quality supervision to research postgraduates, and will be expected to contribute to undergraduate and masters-level teaching. In addition to their research, the successful candidates will perform departmental administrative tasks commensurate with their grade and contribute to our wider human geography teaching programme.
The closing date for applications is October 27, 2017. Successful applicants will, ideally, be in post by September 1, 2018. Please direct informal enquiries to Professor Cheryl McEwan (cheryl.mcewan@durham.ac.uk).
Assistant Professor of Migration Studies
New College of Florida invites applications for a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor focusing on Migration Studies. This position is open with regard to field of PhD, and the appointment will be in that field with the opportunity of a joint appointment in another field or interdisciplinary program.
Candidates should have a PhD in a relevant discipline, teaching experience, a career interest in liberal arts education, and a vibrant research agenda. The person filling this line will be expected to teach courses on migration and build and coordinate interdisciplinary initiatives related to this subject, as well as contribute to the curriculum in the field of appointment. Experience using and teaching GIS and a willingness to guide students in developing GIS research skills is highly valued. The candidate must have completed the PhD by the start of employment in August 2018.
Candidates should apply on-line and upload the following: a cover letter; c.v.; statements regarding teaching philosophy, the candidate’s contributions or approaches to supporting an inclusive culture and learning environment, and research interests; syllabi; teaching evaluations; one writing sample (article or chapter length); and unofficial graduate transcript(s). In addition, please ask at least three references to send signed letters on letterhead electronically to MigrationSearch@ncf.edu or in hard copy to: Migration Search, Division of Social Sciences, New College of Florida, 5800 Bay Shore Rd, Sarasota, FL 34243.
Postdoctoral Associate – Cornell Population Center
The Cornell Population Center (CPC) invites applicants for the Frank H.T. Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellowships. The start date for the position will be August 16, 2018 and it will be funded for 2 years, subject to a satisfactory first year evaluation. Selection will be based on scholarly potential, ability to work in multi-disciplinary settings, and the support of a CPC faculty affiliate at Cornell who will serve as mentor, working closely with the Postdoctoral Associate. Preference will be given to fellows with research interests in areas broadly related to the CPC’s four main foci: families & children; health behaviors & disparities; poverty & inequality; and immigration & diversity. Especially encouraged are applications from candidates whose research has significance for those countries on which the fellowship’s funder focuses – the United States, the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, Vietnam, South Africa, and Bermuda.
Postdoctoral Associates will have access to university resources and receive an annual salary of $63,000 plus benefits and a research/travel account. Applicants must have completed a PhD in Demography, Economics, Sociology, or another related social science discipline by August 16, 2018. Screening of applications begins December 8, 2017, and will continue until the position is filled.
Applications must include: (a) letter of application, (b) curriculum vita, (c) a statement proposing both an individual research project and how the candidate will engage with a CPC faculty affiliate’s on-going research, (d) examples of written work, (e) a letter from a CPC faculty affiliate agreeing to mentor the candidate, and (f) three letters of recommendation. These materials must be submitted online via Academic Jobs Online, https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/10058. For questions, please contact Meg Cole (mc129@cornell.edu).
NCCIH Lecture: Dr. Alan Leshner on Communicating Science to the Public
The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) presents:
Communicating Science to the Public: Follow the Science
Alan I. Leshner, PhD, Chief Executive Officer Emeritus at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, will speak about the need for engaging with the public about science and some of the lessons he’s learned, especially in communicating about controversial or contentious areas.
Thursday, October 19, 2017
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET
Lipsett Auditorium, Bldg. 10, NIH main campus
This lecture is open to the public and will be available via NIH Videocast (https://videocast.nih.gov/) and Facebook Live. There is no registration required.
Lecture Summary
Public understanding of science benefits both the public and the scientific enterprise. However, communicating science to the public is an acquired, not innate, skill, and it is particularly difficult and complex in domains like complementary and integrative health. Fortunately, there is a growing body of scientific evidence about what works and does not that can be used to increase the effectiveness of science communication efforts.
In his talk, Dr. Leshner will discuss the need to communicate science to the public and why it is difficult, share effective (and ineffective) approaches for engaging the public around science and provide insight into the research base for science communication and the nature of unanswered questions.
About Dr. Leshner
Alan I. Leshner is Chief Executive Officer Emeritus, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and former Executive Publisher of the Science family of journals. Before joining AAAS, Dr. Leshner was Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health. He also served as Deputy Director and Acting Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, and in several roles at the National Science Foundation.
Before joining the government, Dr. Leshner was Professor of Psychology at Bucknell University. Dr. Leshner is an elected fellow of AAAS, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Public Administration, and many others. He is a member and served on the governing Council of the National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. He served two terms on the National Science Board, appointed first by President George W. Bush and then reappointed by President Barack Obama.
Dr. Leshner received PhD and MS degrees in physiological psychology from Rutgers University and an AB in psychology from Franklin and Marshall College. He has been awarded seven honorary Doctor of Science degrees.
Accommodations
Sign Language interpreters will be provided. Individuals with disabilities who need reasonable accommodations to participate in this event should contact Afomeya Agonafer at Afomeya.Agonafer@nih.gov or 301-435-6826 or via the Federal Relay at 1-800-877-8339.
This lecture is part of the NCCIH Integrative Medicine Research Lecture Series – https://nccih.nih.gov/IMLS.
Urban Disparity and Opportunity Research Fellow
The Kinder Institute for Urban Research is a multi-disciplinary “think-and-do tank” housed on the Rice University campus in central Houston, focusing on urban issues in Houston, the American Sun Belt, and around the world.
Under the supervision of the Director of Research Management, the UDO Research Fellow will be primarily responsible for conducting research and producing work products for the Urban Disparity and Opportunity program ( UDO ). The program studies the existence and causes of unequal opportunities for different social statuses within a society. Areas of research within the program include studies on inequality issues based on characteristics such as gender, race, and ethnicity, location in income and wealth, employment, social mobility, education, health, and community-engaged research. The UDO Research Fellow will conduct assigned tasks and produce final work products within project’s specified timeline and requirement. The UDO Research Fellow will assist the program director in shaping the overall research agenda, methods and dissemination of research, and collaborating with the communications team.
In the course of research, the UDO Research Fellow may be asked to join the program director for meetings with partner organizations and government representatives. In addition, the UDO Research Fellow will work with the research team at the Kinder Institute to prepare data sets and documentation following the standard data management practice.
This position is funded by a research grant; the appointment is expected to continue for a period no more than 24 months.
Neukom Fellows Program
The Neukom Institute for Computational Science at Dartmouth College is pleased to announce the Neukom Postdoctoral Fellows competition for positions starting September 1, 2018.
Neukom Fellows are interdisciplinary positions for recent PhDs, DMAs, or MFAs whose research interests or practice cuts across traditional disciplinary boundaries, and has some computational component, whether it be a framing concept for intellectual exploration or an explicit part of the work that is pursued. The successful candidate should have a history of collaborative work across disciplines, but still show evidence of independence and initiative.
The Fellowships are two- to three-year appointments, with the third year extension considered upon request after a review early in the second year. Neukom Fellows will be mentored by faculty in two departments at Dartmouth College, take up residence in one department, and will teach one seminar course each year on a subject of their interest. Beyond that there are no additional duties. Neukom Fellow stipends are $60,000 for 2018-2019. Additional funds are available for equipment, travel, and research materials.
For information and application details: Application process page.
Application Deadline: November 15, 2017
Questions? Email Christine Alberga or call 603 646 8737
From Tactical to Practical: Translating Positive Heath Outcomes from Military Treatment to Civilian Care
“From Tactical to Practical”: Translating Positive Health Outcomes from Military Treatment to Civilian Care
Seth D. Messinger, Department of Rehabilitation, Uniform Services University of the Health Sciences; Affiliate Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Washington
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
3:30-4:50 PM, Kane Hall – Room 110
Abstract: One of the features that distinguish military orthopedic health care from its civilian counterparts is the resource base and open lengths of stay that military service-members and their dependents can rely upon when they are ill or injured. A key question that should occupy program administrators and policy makers is how to find ways to bring the positive health outcomes generated in military health care to civilian care settings both in the United States and elsewhere. The care provided by the US Armed Forces Amputee Patient Care Program is often presented by a parade of images of patients using their prosthetic devices to run, climb, scuba dive and other intensively physical activities. These images showcase the significant financial investments that military health care programs make in biotechnology devices. However, our research has found that three features of the program’s design continue to live on in the experiences of former patients who credit their current successes in life to: the enduring relationships they forged with key clinical providers; the routine access to their whole treatment team, and recovering alongside peers. What this presentation aims to demonstrate is that health outcomes that are often represented as an illustration of potential post-human futures are possible with careful attention to human centered design of health care programs.
Dr. Seth D. Messinger is a research scientist and faculty member in the Department of Rehabilitation at the Uniform Services University of the Health Sciences as well as an affiliate faculty member of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington. His research interests are grounded in understanding the afterlives of extremity trauma among former Walter Reed National Military Medical Center patients who sustained extremity trauma combat casualties during deployments to Afghanistan or Iraq. More narrowly he directs two projects on community life for former patients with these injuries and oversees the qualitative research of projects in evaluating a program designed to assist patients and former patients with sexual health and intimacy challenges after injury or illness, and in evaluating a program designed to provide PTSD care through training service animals. Outside of Walter Reed research, Dr Messinger is working with the FDA on a feasibility study about risk and reward of next generation prosthetic arm technology with sensory feedback capability. He is also collaborating on two new projects including one that seeks to understand the maternal health and parenting challenges for women with orthopedic and extremity trauma, and another that will look at the burden on children of living in families with traumatically injured parents. Messinger’s work has appeared in Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Disability and Rehabilitation, Military Medicine, and the Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine.
Next speaker: 25 October – Graham Pruss, PhD Candidate Department of Anthropology, University of Washington
“An Anthropology of Vehicle Residency in Seattle”
For more information about the MAGH lecture series, please contact coordinator Marieke van Eijk (mariev2@uw.edu)
Conflict, Violence, and Ethnicity: Pakhtunwali in the Conflict of Swat, Pakistan
Sociology Speaker Series
Conflict, Violence, and Ethnicity: Pakhtunwali in the Conflict of Swat, Pakistan
Syed Wasif Azim, University of Peshawar
Tuesday, October 24
12:00-1:30 PM, Savery 409
Conflict and violence, programed and on a high level can shatter lives and crush peculiar cultures of different groups. It also generates waves of ethnic profiling and hatred along with stereotypes of people considered as ‘violent’ and ‘security threats’.
This talk investigates the impacts of conflict and violence for ethnicity and ethnic identity in Swat, Pakhtun region of Pakistan. Theoretically, it attempts to break the ‘primodialism’ within ‘constructivism’ by proposing that the impacts of conflict and violence (any type) for ethnicity and ethnic identity are complex, contextual and multidimensional. Pakhtun ‘culture’ (Pakhtunwali) and ascribed aspects of Pakhtun ethnic identity will be discussed, based on over 80 open ended interviews, discussions and observations in the conflict-ridden region of Swat Pakistan.
Syed Wasif Azim is a Visiting Research scholar in the South Asia Center at the UW through a fellowship funded by Higher Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan. He is a graduate student in the Department of Political Science, University of Peshawar, Pakistan. His PhD is also funded by the indigenous scholar¬ship of HEC Pakistan. His broader research area is the Pakhtun society of Pakistan. His focus includes ethnicity, conflict and sense of belonging in the region.