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Breaking the Silence is a speaker series on domestic violence and sexual assault hosted by the UW Women’s Center and the Seattle Human Services Department (HSD). This first event will have have four panelists and one moderator addressing the issue of gender-based violence in immigrant and refugee communities.

Panelists:
• Carlin Yoophum, Domestic Violence Program Director – Refugee Women’s Alliance (ReWA)
• Farhiya Mohamed, Domestic Violence Advocate – Somali Family Safety Task Force
• Norma Guzman, Domestic Violence Program Manager – Consejo Counseling Services
• Senait Habte, Assistant Director – UW Women’s Center

Moderated by Lan Pham, HSD – Mayor’s Office on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault

Event Details

Date: Thursday, January 18th, 2018
Time: 3:30PM – 5:00PM

More details at: https://www.facebook.com/events/553458561661942/

Location

4001 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA 98195

Husky Union Building (HUB), 332
University of Washington

RSVP

The event is free, but please RSVP!

Call for Contributions: 

Research workshop on Demographic Research in the Digital Age
Denver (Colorado), United States, 25 April 2018, from 1 to 5 pm.
Organized by the IUSSP Scientific Panel on Big Data and Population Processes, as a side event at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the PAA.

Deadline for submissions: February 15, 2018

The IUSSP Panel on Big Data and Population Processes invites contributions from colleagues interested in Digital Demography. The Panel encourages submissions from researchers who wish to present their work, as well as the attendance of scholars and students interested in broadening their exposure to the topic.

Read the full call for contributions.

Organizing Committee: Emilio Zagheni, Francesco Billari, and Guy Abel

Keynote Speaker: Dennis Feehan: “Estimating Internet Adoption around the World using a Sample of Facebook Users.”

Dennis Feehan will also offer a mini-tutorial on “Getting started with network methods for estimation of demographic quantities.”

This workshop is intended to favor communication and exchange between researchers who study the implications of digital technologies for demographic behavior as well as the applications of new data from digital sources to understand population processes.

Topics that are relevant for the workshop include, but are not limited to:

• Population research with social media data
• Demographic features of online communities or services
• Sentiment analysis associated to demographic events like immigration
• Implications of social media and Internet for demographic behavior
• Nowcasting fertility, mortality or migration with online data
• Understanding population health with social media data
• Methods for extracting information from non-representative samples
• Applications of demographic methods to online populations
• Applications of data for online advertisers to demographic research

Submissions and Registration:

ALL participants who would like to attend the workshop session must register online, both those who would like to present and those who wish only to attend without presenting. There are a limited number of places, which will be allocated on a first come first served basis.

Please note that IUSSP will not be able to provide any travel support. There is no fee to attend the workshop, but participants are expected to cover the costs for travel and accommodations.

APPAM is now accepting proposals for the 2018 International Conference. The conference will be held on July 19 – 20, 2018 in Mexico City. Join us at the campus of the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). The LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and the Instituto Tecnólogico Autónomo de México (ITAM) are jointly organizing the 2018 conference.

APPAM invites researchers, analysts and policymakers to critically reflect on their experiences working on issues of public policy and urban development. Submissions may be submitted under one of these core policy areas and categories: http://www.appam.org/events/international-conferences/2018-appam-international-conference-policy-areas/.

Please submit your research here by February 7, 2018: https://appam.confex.com/appam/int18/cfp.cgi.

For more information, please visit here: http://www.appam.org/events/international-conferences/2018-appam-international-conference/.

 

The University of Washington Department of Global Health and the Center for AIDS and STD are accepting applications for the 26th Annual Principles of STD/HIV Research Course. The course will be held July 23 – August 2, 2018, at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, USA.

Please join us for 2 weeks of intensive cross-disciplinary training in STD and HIV research fundamentals. In this course, you will gain a practically-oriented overview of the latest in behavioral, clinical, epidemiologic, statistical, operational, and pathogenesis research in STD and HIV. This is a unique opportunity for graduate students, trainees, and early career STD/HIV researchers to learn from and network with expert faculty and colleagues from around the world through lectures, interactive learning sessions, social events, and field trips.

For detailed course information, online application, and payment information, please visit the Principles of STD/HIV Research Course website at the link below.

The City University of Hong Kong (CityU)has launched a worldwide search for talented faculty members in many areas of scholarship.  A senior delegation from CityU will visit Seattle and San Francisco in February 2018 to present the university’s vision for the future:

Date/Time	Venue
Seattle Reception 8 February 2018 (Thursday) 6:00-8:00pm	Fairmont Olympic Hotel 411 University Street, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
San Francisco Reception 9 February 2018 (Friday) 6:00-8:00pm	Fairmont San Francisco 950 Mason Street, San Francisco, CA 94108, USA

You are cordially invited to attend the above reception(s) as appropriate to you.  Details of the reception are given in the attachment.  Please register for the Seattle reception at: https://seattle-reception.eventbrite.com.

Please register for the San Francisco reception at: https://sanfrancisco-reception.eventbrite.com.

The reception will be a great opportunity for participants to learn about CityU and meet with our senior faculty.  We would be grateful if you could pass this invitation to any colleagues or faculty whom may be interested as well as to outstanding postdoctoral scholars whom are seeking a faculty position.

You may also visit our Human Resources Office website and submit an online application (if appropriate) with curriculum vitae at the same URL or by e-mail to hrrecruit@cityu.edu.hk.

For enquiries about the receptions, please email us at reception@cityu.edu.hk.

We look forward to seeing you at the reception!

The University of Washington eScience Institute, in collaboration with the Cascadia Urban Analytics Cooperative, is excited to announce the summer 2018 Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program. The program brings together Student Fellows with data and domain researchers to work on focused, collaborative projects for societal benefit.

Sixteen DSSG Student Fellows will be selected to work with academic researchers, data scientists, and public stakeholder groups such as government officials, academic researchers, non-profit organizations, and the general public, on data-intensive research projects.

Who: Graduate students and advanced (junior/senior) undergraduate students are invited to apply. Spring 2018 graduates are eligible for this program. Students who are not U.S. citizens or permanent residents are eligible to apply as long as their visa status allows them to work in the U.S. We cannot sponsor student visas for this program.

What: Each student will be part of a team working full-time on a research project that has concrete relevance and impact. Students are expected to work closely and collaboratively with team members onsite for the duration of the 10-week program. Projects will have an applied social good dimension and involve analysis and visualization of data from areas such as public health, sustainable urban planning, environmental protection, disaster response, crime prevention, education, transportation, governance, commerce, and social justice. Click for summaries of projects from the Summer 2015 and Summer 2016  and Summer 2017 DSSG programs.

Where: Most work will be conducted on the UW campus in the WRF Data Science Studio, but some field excursions in the City of Seattle or King County may also be involved.

When: This is a 10-week long, full-time program beginning June 11th and ending August 17th 2018.

Compensation: Students will be given a stipend of $6,500 for the 10 weeks.

Desired qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience in issues related to social good
• Research experience with quantitative or qualitative tools
• Strong academic record
• Previous programming experience

How to Apply: CLICK HERE FOR THE APPLICATION FORM. Please note: a copy of your CV and unofficial transcripts are required to complete the form.

Questions may be directed to exec-director@escience.washington.edu.

Application Deadline: February 12th at midnight Pacific Time

Interface Demography seeks a full-time junior research associate with interest in quantitative social science research to work on a challenging research project.

Project
Green and quiet Brussels? Analysis of social inequalities in the health-related outcomes of environmental characteristics in the Brussels Capital Region: a mixed method intersectionality approach

Project background
Urban areas are growing fast worldwide and there is an increasing concern about the relations between urbanization, environmental threats, the quality of living spaces and human health. A healthy living environment is a prerequisite for good health. Research in environmental epidemiology clearly illustrates a direct health impact of indoor and outdoor pollution. Living in healthy and green areas is associated with better self-assessed health, better mental health, lower risks of cardio-vascular and respiratory diseases and lower mortality from related causes. To date, there are few studies dealing with the association between the in- and outdoor living environment and health in Belgium, let alone in the Brussels Capital Region. The current project will disentangle the interrelations between (indoor and outdoor) environmental factors, social background factors and health in the Brussels Capital Region. It will investigate the impact of social stratifiers – socioeconomic position, migrant background, age and gender – on the association between environmental quality and health and mortality.

Aim of the project
The researcher is expected to conduct quantitative research on socio-economic inequalities in health-related outcomes (subjective health, all-cause and cause-specific mortality) related to indoor and outdoor environmental factors. The aim of the project is to map social inequalities in health-related outcomes of indoor and outdoor environmental exposures in detail via statistical, demographic and epidemiologic analyses using a census-linked follow-up study, starting at the beginning of the 2000s until the mid-2010s. The findings should result in the submission of a doctoral dissertation in the social sciences and in publications in scientific journals. The researcher will be part of a small research team on this topic situated within the Interface Demography research group, working in close collaboration with the Centre for Environment and Health (KU Leuven) with expertise in conducting epidemiological studies on the relationship between environmental exposures and health.

General information
The duration of the project is 2 years, with an additional 2 years after positive evaluation.

Profile

• Master of science (Master in Sociology, Master in Health Sciences, Master in Public Health or related and Master in Environmental Sciences or related)
• Passion for scientific research
• Sound knowledge of and/or experience with quantitative research methods and data analysis
• Ability to conduct research both independently and collaboratively
• Ability to learn new statistical techniques
• Demonstrate excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills (English)
• Willingness to prepare a PhD based on the research findings
• Commitment to high quality academic research

We offer

• Full-time appointment for 2+2 years (starting at the beginning of 2018) with a research grant
• High-quality guidance in an academic environment
• Challenging research with great societal and scientific relevance

Research group
Interface Demography is an excellent multidisciplinary research group within the Department of Sociology of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. The main aim of Interface Demography is gaining sound empirical and theoretical insights into demographic evolutions as well as into their interaction with societal challenges. One of the key areas of study is inequality in health and mortality.

Location Department of Economic, Social and Political Sciences and Solvay Business School Department of Sociology – Interface Demography 5 Pleinlaan, 1050 Brussels

How to apply?
E-mail a motivational letter and curriculum vitae before January 31, 2018 to:

Professor dr. Sylvie Gadeyne Vrije Universiteit Brussel Department of Economic, Social and Political Sciences and Solvay Business School Research group Sociology – Interface Demography 5 Pleinlaan, 1050 Brussels For further enquiries please contact Sylvie Gadeyne by e-mail (sylvie.gadeyne@vub.be) or phone (+32 2 6148129/+32 498 236043). Additional information on the research group Interface Demography can be found on: http://www.vub.ac.be/demography