CSDE is happy to have Will von Geldern as our new Research Assistant for the 2024-2025 Academic Year. Will is a PhD student at the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance. He is also a former CSDE Trainee! His dissertation research focuses on the individual and structural barriers that low-income tenants face when trying to access eviction-related legal aid. He will now be taking over the CSDE newsletter for the academic year and will also be assisting during our CSDE Seminar Series! Please continue to send your news stories and research to csde@uw.edu. If you have any program related questions, reach out to our Program Coordinator, Maddie Farris, at csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu. If you have any computing questions, email csde_help@uw.edu. We are excited for Will to join the CSDE team this year!
Welcome back to CSDE! Enjoy Lunch and Catch Up with Colleagues on Friday 9/27 @12:30pm!
Please join CSDE in celebrating the start of the 2024-2025 Academic Year and Fall Quarter on Friday (9/27) at 12:30pm (Location: Between Raitt Hall and Savery Hall)! Catch up with your colleagues, meet new affiliates, staff members, fellows, and trainees, and find out what is new and upcoming at CSDE. You’ll have a chance to pick up your own Autumn Qtr Seminar Series Poster (download link here) and enjoy food and refreshments.
For those of you who are new to CSDE, be sure to sign up for our calendar of events and our weekly e-news. The former includes our workshops and weekly seminar series and the latter includes a host of updates about CSDE affiliates’ accomplishments and opportunities for grants, conferences, publications, new research resources, etc. Don’t forget to send your news to csde@uw.edu!
The autumn quarter seminar series is completely full and includes a wide range of presentations from UW colleagues and visitors. The seminar is held @12:30pm in 360 Barrington Hall. On October 4 CSDE hosts Dr. Leigh Senderowicz (University of Wisconsin – Madison) who will be speaking about re-orienting family planning measurements. On October 11 Dr. Nora Kenworthy (UW Bothell) will take part in an author meets critics session about her new book Crowded Out: The True Costs of Crowdfunding Healthcare. Dr. Erin McElroy (Geography) will also take part in an author meets critic session about her book Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times on October 18. We will welcome new CSDE affiliate Dr. Ispista Day (Comparative History of Ideas) on October 25 for her talk about plantation legacies in Fiji. On November 1 we will welcome new affiliate Dr. Audrey Dorelien (Sociology) who will present research on partisanship, health behaviors, and COVID-19 disease spread. Dr. Hyojung Lee (Seoul National University) will join us on November 8 for a presentation on gentrification in small metropolitan places and suburbs. Dr. Josh Wilde (Oxford University and Co-editor of Population and Development Review) will present their research on climate change and fertility on November 15. Then, on November 22, Dr. Sasha Johfre (CSSS and Sociology) will present their research on conceptualizing age and predicting inequality.
There are several great workshops for developing your research toolkit coming up. Check them out here: https://csde.washington.edu/training/demographic-training-resources/workshops/
Plus, there is a great list of speakers for the Computational Demography Working Group (Wednesdays at 9am). Check them out here: https://csde.washington.edu/computational-demography-working-group-talks/
But, first, let’s celebrate the start of the new academic quarter on this Friday!
Where: Between Raitt Hall and Savery Hall
Date: Friday, Sept. 27th, 20234
Time: 12:30-1:30 PM
We are meeting at the usual 12:30 PM seminar time, but please note the special location for the reception: Outdoors between Raitt Hall and Savery Hall.
*New* CSDE Science Core – Upcoming Fall Workshops
Each quarter, CSDE offers 3-5 workshops on data sources, statistical and biomarker methodology, introductions to analysis programs, and more, all given by CSDE staff and faculty affiliates. These workshops can include hands-on training in novel methods and programming, lectures on innovative data sources, and discussions of important issues in research and data collection. Over the coming academic year, CSDE will offer a diverse and exciting set of workshops, some of which will be offered in a hybrid format and others remotely via Zoom. Students, faculty, and staff are all welcome to register for our workshops and we welcome registrants from outside the University of Washington for our remote workshops as well.
You can find our workshop website and register for our Autumn 2024 workshops in this link. We will be filling in our schedule for Winter & Spring workshops soon, so stay tuned!
Please reach out to CSDE, if you have additional workshops you would like to see offered in the future and we will do our best to accommodate those requests.
- Intro to R I: Objects & Programming
- Date & Time: Tuesday, Oct. 1 @ 10:00AM–11:30AM
- Location: Savery 121 & Zoom (Link provided upon registration.)
- Instructor: June Yang
- Intro to R II: Working With Data
- Date & Time: Tuesday, Oct. 8 @ 10:00AM–11:30AM
- Location: Savery 121 & Zoom (Link provided upon registration.)
- Instructor: Jessica Godwin
- Biomarkers in the Social Sciences
- Date & Time: Thursday, Oct 10 @ 12:30PM–1:30PM
- Location: Zoom (Link provided upon registration.)
- Instructor: Tiffany Pan
- Professional Development: Presenting Yourself as a Scholar
- Date & Time: Thursday, Oct 10 @ 2:30PM–3:30PM
- Location: Raitt 223 & Zoom (Link provided upon registration.)
- Instructor: Jessica Godwin
- Intro to R III: Data Visualization
- Date & Time: Tuesday, Oct. 15 @ 10:00AM–11:30PM
- Location: Savery 121 & Zoom (Link provided upon registration.)
- Instructor: Jessica Godwin
- Text As Data
- Date & Time: Tuesday, Oct. 22 @ 10:00PM–11:30PM
- Location: Savery 121 & Zoom (Link provided upon registration.)
- Instructor: June Yang
- Professional Development: Navigating the Job Market (Panel)
- Date & Time: Tuesday, Nov. 12 @ 2:30PM–3:30PM
- Location: Raitt 223 & Zoom (Link provided upon registration.)
- NASA Transform to Open Science Training
- Date & Time: Tues/Thurs, Nov. 5 & 7 @ 10:00AM–1:00PM
- Location: Remote
- Instructor: Cameron Riddell
UW Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Symposium – Innovations in Addressing Substance Use and Addiction: Improving the Lives of Individuals, Families, and Communities in the Pacific Northwest (9/30/24)
The UW Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences invites you to Innovations in Addressing Substance Use and Addiction: Improving the Lives of Individuals, Families and Communities in the Pacific Northwest on September 30 from 9 AM – 4 PM in the University of Washington’s HUB Ballroom.
Please join for this one-day event showcasing the department’s efforts to tackle our region’s challenges with addiction and substance use disorders. Attendees will interact with addiction researchers, educators and clinicians during a full day of events including featured speakers, interactive booths and an afternoon of roundtable workshops. Register below to attend as a guest or exhibitor.
Highlights will include
- Opening remarks from Department Chair Jürgen Unützer, MD, MPH
- Policymaker panel discussion
- Continental breakfast and a light lunch
- Interactive tables with clinicians, researchers, and educators
- Q&A with UW faculty
- Round table workshops to develop ideas and plan for the future
Register here
Assistant Professor of Human Geography – Displacement and Migration (9/24/24)
Bui Interviewed on KUOW NPR on his Published Study in JAMA Pediatrics
The month of September is Suicide Prevention Month. CSDE Affiliate Dr. Anthony L. Bui recently published the study, “Disaggregated Suicide Mortality Rates Among Asian American Youths and Young Adults by Ethnic Subgroup,” in JAMA Pediatrics, which was featured in a previous CSDE newsletter. This study was discussed in the KUOW NPR segment, “New Study Examines Increasing Suicide Rates in Asian American Youth,” where Dr. Bui was interviewed by NPR hosts Diana Opong and Brooklyn Jamerson-Flowers. In this interview, they discuss the reality of suicide rates among young Asian Americans and how understanding the background of those at risk, can help medical professionals develop culturally specific approaches to youth who need mental health care. Visit the link to listen to the entire interview and learn more about Dr. Bui’s study.
Workshop on Bayesian Methods in the Social Sciences (Register by 9/27/24)
The French Institute of Mathematics for Planet Earth and the Social and Behavioral Data Science Centre of the University of Amsterdam will be hosting its second workshop on Bayesian Methods. This three-day workshop will take place at the University of Amsterdam, on October 16-18th of 2024. The event will gather statisticians, mathematicians and social scientists around the theme of Bayesian statistical methods for the social sciences. This area has been growing rapidly in the past decade, and the speakers will include some of the leading researchers in the area from around the world. Register by September 27th. Learn more here!
It is the second edition of the workshop. The first edition was held in Paris in October 2022 and was a great success.
The first day of the workshop, 16 October 2024, will consist of introductory tutorial sessions. Days 2 and 3 will consist of talks and posters on cutting-edge research in the area.
Glass Publishes Article on Coming of Age in War in the Journal Psychoneuroendocrinology
CSDE Affiliate and Former T32 Fellow Delaney Glass (University of Toronto) recently published the article, “Coming of Age in War: Early Life Adversity, Age at Menarche, and Mental Health,” in Psychoneuroendocrinology with co-authors Meredith Reiches and Patrick Clarkin of University of Massachusetts – Boston. This study discusses what it is like for adolescents to grow up in armed conflict areas. The article discusses how war and forced migration can create complex health risks and possible delays in puberty. Read the study to learn more about how growing up in war zones/conflict heavy areas, can affect adolescent health.