The Population Young Author Prize is open to students or young researchers working in the field of population studies and will be awarded to the most outstanding original paper submitted to the competition jury.

Who is eligible to compete?

• Students enrolled in PhD or Master’s programs
• Young researchers who have defended their PhD thesis in the last seven years

What types of paper are eligible to compete?

• Papers written under the researcher’s own name
• Papers may also be co-authored by several young researchers.

What are the rules for submitting a paper?

• Compliance with the journal’s editorial rules
• Paper written in English or French
• Paper submitted before 15 November 2017
• Proof of enrolment in a Master’s or PhD program, or of PhD completion

What is the prize for the winner?

• Accelerated publication
• Immediate online open access to the newly published article
• 1,000 euros (to be shared if there are several young co-authors)
• One-year free subscription to Population 

The competition results will be announced on February 28, 2018.

To submit an article: http://www.journal-population.com/

Mention you are competing for the Young Author Prize when submitting your paper.

The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement is to support bi-phasic developmental, discovery-driven, or hypothesis-driven research focused on innovative strategies to detect HIV either within the first two weeks of infection or to monitor viral rebound after stopping or developing resistance to antiretroviral therapy. Applications should propose simple diagnostic tools that would be feasible for a self-testing platform to allow untrained individuals to detect HIV. Interdisciplinary collaborations that include biomedical, physical, and behavioral sciences are highly encouraged.

Visit the following link to learn more and apply: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-17-471.html

Cornell University Presidential Postdoctoral Fellows are high-profile postdoctoral research positions with significant independence and resources to attract some of the world’s best young scholars to interact deeply with faculty and students on Cornell’s Ithaca-based campuses.  Candidates from all areas of research and inquiry, who will be no more than two years past the award date of their doctoral degree at the time of the appointment, are eligible for this program. Successful candidates will have access to the full range of talent and considerable resources available at Cornell, and will be encouraged to interact broadly with the Cornell intellectual community, in addition to their postdoctoral research with a tenured faculty member (sponsor) and their research group. Cornell Presidential Postdoctoral Fellows will also receive lifetime membership in the Society of Cornell Fellows along with the participants in other named prestigious and competitively awarded Cornell postdoctoral fellowships.

Six Presidential Fellowships will be awarded each year beginning in the 2017-2018 academic year. Appointments will be for up to three years, dependent on positive annual evaluations and may include a teaching component where appropriate of no more than 25% averaged over the length of the appointment.  The stipend for appointments in the 2017-2018 academic year will be $68,000 plus full Cornell University employee fringe benefits. Each Fellow also will be provided $5,000 annually for discretionary research expenses including travel. Interested individuals can contact any tenured Cornell faculty member(s), i.e. associate or full professor, who, if agreeable to serve as the lead sponsor(s), will endorse and submit the candidate’s application. A tenure track assistant professor may serve as a secondary sponsor. Applications will be judged on the qualifications of the candidate, and the quality and originality of the proposed research and its potential impact.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE 
Interested individuals can contact any tenured Cornell faculty member(s) who, if agreeable to serve as the sponsor(s), will endorse and submit the candidate’s application.

APPLICATION MATERIALS
1.  Candidate CV, including publication list. 
2. One-two page description of proposed research that should include a clear statement of objectives and of the significance and expected impact of the proposed research if successful.
3. Two Letters of Recommendation, including one from the candidate’s PhD thesis advisor, to be sent directly to the lead faculty sponsor that provide detailed assessments of the candidate’s qualifications and potential for innovative, ground-breaking independent research.
4. Additional letter(s) of support from Cornell lead (and secondary if applicable) faculty sponsor(s) including a brief statement of any financial and logistical support of the proposed research that will be provided by the sponsor(s).

The lead faculty sponsor(s) should forward all materials as a single file (pdf format required) to: pres.pdfellows@cornell.edu

Deadline for all materials:  October 1, 2017

Diversity and Inclusion are a part of Cornell University’s heritage.  We are a recognized employer and educator valuing AA/EEO, Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.

If you have questions about this program, please contact:
Office of the Vice Provost for Research
222 Day Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853

Email: vp_research@cornell.edu

This is an invitation to present at the session “Missing the Sociopolitical Links: Food, Energy, and Water Security in Cities,” (8799) for the XIX International Sociological Association (ISA) World Congress of Sociology (July 15-21, 2018) to be held in Toronto, Canada.

Session Description

Urbanization and climate change, two major human forces unleashed by the industrial age are on a course that poses both unprecedented risks to food, energy and water (FEW) security, and compelling opportunities. Cities are both security hotspots, crucibles of innovations to enhance populations’ security.

Scholarship has underscored that FEW systems are so interconnected that actions in one frequently have impacts on the others. Thus, in order to reduce trade-offs and enhance synergies, proponents of a nexus framing of FEW-security encourage integrative approaches to analysis, planning and decision-making.  An emphasis on these integrative approaches has moved development and research communities to pursue an array of frameworks to uncover the analytical and normative dimensions of FEW-security.

Urban decision makers are grappling every day with the operational challenge of providing their populations with FEW, and protecting FEW availability and access against floods, droughts and other climate-hazards.  Therefore, innovative science and policy actions are needed to help them match their sustainability and resilience goals with reality, and that see this challenge as a sociopolitical and ethical one, and not only a technical one. This session invites presentations that engage with the following questions: how have social sciences engaged with the conceptualization of urban FEW-security, and what does it mean to have a city that is “FEW-secure”? Are methodologies adopted to measuring FEW-security a concern? How are political and ethical questions of equity, which any attempt to create FEW-security unavoidably raises, to be achieved? What are the sociopolitical challenges of achieving knowledge and policy integration?

Link for abstract submission:
https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2018/webprogrampreliminary/Symposium461.html

 

The  6^th International OXFORD SYMPOSIUM ON POPULATION, MIGRATION, AND CLIMATE CHANGE will be held on the 7th and 8^th of December 2017 at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, UK.

Attendees are welcome to either present a paper or participate as a panel member/observer.

The abstract submission deadline is 15 November. Abstracts are reviewed on a rolling basis and notifications are sent within ten days of submission.

The early registration deadline is 16 October and the regular registration deadline is 17 November.

Conference Oxford has hundreds of affordable bedrooms in Oxford colleges available, offering splendid views of college quadrangles and gardens.  Consult https://www.oxford-population-and-environment-symposium.com/venue-travel-lodging-visas/travel-and-lodging/ for lodging information.

• Keynote speaker – David Coleman, Emeritus Professor of Demography; Associate Fellow, Department of Social Policy, University of Oxford.
• We welcome papers that take an interdisciplinary view of the main themes of the conference: climate change, world population increase, human migration, and environmental sustainability.
• The Symposium seeks to cover a broad agenda that includes disciplines such as economics, education, environmental studies, agriculture, law, political science, religion, and social studies.
• Topics for presentation may reach beyond these areas; our website contains an extensive list of suggested topics.
• Participant abstracts will be published online in the conference proceedings.
• Submission of complete papers is optional. If interested you may send your manuscript by the 1^st of April 2018 to be peer-reviewed by external readers for possible publication in Symposium Books or sponsored academic journals.

Email  contact@oxford-population-and-environment-symposium.com if you have questions.

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Assistant Professor of Latina/o Studies with a focus on the U.S., Latinidad, and the Américas to link the Latina/o experience in the United States to Latin American and Caribbean countries of origin. Among the ways to make those links could be through consideration of transnational processes, diasporic networks, global economic developments, remittances, US and Latin American foreign policies, immigration policy (in both U.S. and in sending countries), long distance nationalism, border relations, cultural practice and change, hometown associations, or cross-border organizing. We are also interested in those who engage issues of race and racialization of Latino/as in the US, as well as critical race/ethnic studies approaches to Afro-Latino/as and Afro-Latinidad. We are particularly interested in interdisciplinary scholars with research experience grounded both in the United States and in Latin America or the Caribbean.  The successful candidate will be responsible for teaching, research, and service to the department, college, and university.

Requirements: PhD in Latin American Studies, anthropology, geography, history, comparative politics, languages, and literatures, or a closely related field, by date of appointment.

Consideration will be given to those with native or near-native fluency in Spanish; commitment to diverse curricula in the Department of Global and Intercultural Studies, potentially contributing to interdisciplinary teaching and research in the department’s multiple programs: American Studies; Asian and Asian American Studies; Black World Studies; International Studies; Latin American, Latino/a and Caribbean Studies; and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Submit cover letter and curriculum vitae to https://miamioh.hiretouch.com/job-details?jobID=4623.

For inquiries about the position, contact Jana Braziel at brazieje@miamioh.edu. Screening of applications will October 15, 2017 and will continue until the position is filled.