The Family Translational Research Group (FTRG) at New York University (NYU) is looking for talented, hard-working people with a passion for understanding and preventing family maltreatment and improving the lives of military families to join our team at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, WA.

FTRG conducts research on topics ranging from defining maltreatment in ways that can be reliably used by field workers, to determining how the way couples handle conflict relate to violence, to examining the effects of family violence on children’s psychological and physical functioning, to furthering our understanding of risk and protective factors for child maltreatment and partner abuse. In addition to this basic research, FTRG is involved in large community-based prevention efforts (with both military and university communities) and in multi-level family prevention efforts. These studies use the full spectrum of research methods — from intensive observational tools to epidemiological surveys to intervention science. The FTRG is co-directed by Dr. Amy M. Smith Slep and Dr. Richard E. Heyman.

Researchers at the FTRG have (a) developed and refined definitions of partner and child maltreatment; (b) tested the agreement between master reviewers and installation committees; (c) assisted in the implementation of a new family maltreatment decision- making body; and (d) tested the dissemination of the decision process at 40 military installations worldwide.

For this next part of our research, we need full-time, military-site coordinators to: (1) complete initial training and intensive phone and video-based supervision, (2) collect data, (3) attend clinically-relevant meetings regarding maltreatment and intervention, and (4) meet with members of research team when they visit the installation.

Candidates for the Junior Research Scientist position must possess a master’s degree in psychology, social work, counseling or related field. License-eligible or licensed preferred. It is strongly preferred that applicants have experience with (1) family maltreatment — clinical or research, (2) supervision, (3) research — especially with relevance to family maltreatment, and/or prevention, and (4) military culture/military families. Fluency in computer applications (e.g., Microsoft Office), as well as video-based applications (e.g., Google Hangout, FaceTime) is required for training and supervision purposes.

To apply, please send your curriculum vitae with contact information for three references on the final page to Tracy Hillenbrand.

The iSchool Career Fair (ICF) is an opportunity to engage with employers interested in hiring a wide range of information technology and information science jobs and internships. Students will find job and internship opportunities in software development, application development, library science, taxonomy and information architecture, information technology consulting, user experience design, and much more. The fair is open to all UW students across campus who are seeking jobs and internships in the information science field.

Expectations of students attending:

• Come dressed up in business or business casual attire
• Bring multiple copies of your resume
• Bring your Husky Card
• Additional information on the fair and attending employers can be found from the link below.

Despite dramatic increases in prescription drug abuse, very little research has examined the role that provider characteristics and physician networks play in inappropriate prescribing. Recent work that has begun to address physician prescribing deviance is dominated by the perspective that the prescription drug epidemic is primarily driven by a few prolific deviant physicians in corrupt pill mills who are frequented by doctor-shopping patients. Marissa King and her team distinguish between prescribing deviance by omission and commission and examine factors associated with each. Physicians engaged in deviance by omission, which has received limited attention from researchers and policy makers, have a substantial effect on the total volume of benzodiazepines prescribed. Using a longitudinal patient-sharing network comprised of 660,428 physicians linked by 12.5 million patients, they find remarkable differences in the characteristics and networks of physicians engaged in deviance by omission and commission. Taking these differences into account will improve efforts to curb prescription drug misuse by allowing for more effective targeting of educational and policy efforts aimed at reducing inappropriate prescribing.

Kern Community College District in California seeks an instructor in Anthropology/Sociology. This is a full-time, 175-day position as a community college Anthropology and Sociology Instructor. Teaching faculty are responsible for providing a full professional week which includes but is not limited to Anthropology and Sociology courses, and may include those at the developmental, college, and transfer levels.

The Center for Applied Conflict Management at Kent State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Social Conflicts and Community Engagement beginning in August 2017. The successful applicant will have strong credentials in conflict management, including with theories and practices of conflict intervention used to constructively manage social, racial, economic and identity-related community conflicts and violence prevention. Examples include conflicts associated with: police/community relations; restorative justice; civil rights; the environment and climate change; economic inequalities; and social justice. The successful applicant will also demonstrate an ability to conduct and publish research commensurate with the expectations of a research institution and to teach courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels; salary is competitive and start-up support is available.

Applicants should have a PhD in Peace and Conflict Studies or cognate field at the time of hire (August 2017). Review of applications will begin February 20, 2017 and continue until the position is filled. Candidates should show promise of a quality research agenda and teaching success, and should submit a CV, a letter of interest, a writing sample, a teaching portfolio, a research plan, graduate transcripts, and three letters of reference.

Pasadena City College is hiring a full-time, tenure-track Sociology Instructor commencing with the 2017-2018 academic year. Position emphasis: Urban Sociology.

Responsibilities:

• Teach classes in a variety of areas in accordance with program and scheduling needs, including introductory sociology, urban sociology, ethnic studies, social problems, crime/delinquency and other introductory level courses.
• Participate in the evaluation, revision, and development of the curriculum.
• Participate with faculty in researching and writing program reviews.
• Participate with faculty to develop and assess student learning outcomes. Use the results to improve teaching and learning.
• Undertake the divisional and professional responsibilities of a regular faculty member.
• Participate in departmental and college governance activities through committee service and/or other appropriate activities