UW News and the Office for Faculty Advancement want to help researchers share that knowledge worldwide by helping them learn how to write for general audiences and how to approach nonacademic publishing venues.

To that end, on April 6 and 7 we are hosting workshops on the Seattle campus for faculty, postdocs, graduate students and other UW-affiliated researchers interested in writing about their areas of expertise for mainstream audiences in the form of opinion and analysis pieces.

Our workshops will be led by editors from The Conversation, a news analysis website that publishes articles on timely issues written by academics who draw upon their expertise and research.  Assisting the editors will be our own staff writers and editors at UW News.  Last year, UW researchers across many academic disciplines published 30 analysis pieces and reached over half a million readers through The Conversation, which makes its published pieces available to other publishers for free, including The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Salon and many others.  In the workshops, editors from The Conversation will provide tips and strategies for translating academic research into articles and posts appropriate for newspapers, magazines, journals, online forums and so forth.

To help us streamline the process of adding people to the workshops, we are asking interested participants to fill out the short form below.  Tell us why you’re interested and what you hope to get out of the training.

Centre College invites applications for a tenure-track assistant or associate professor of Sociology beginning August 2017.  The Sociology program seeks a teacher-scholar who will enhance the living, learning, and teaching environment at Centre College with their lived experience, ideas, perspectives, and scholarship. Their contributions will push Centre students and Centre faculty to consider new ideas and viewpoints.  While the area of specialty is open, we encourage applications from candidates whose research considers race and ethnicity, justice, law, crime, urban sociology, economic sociology, migration, environmental sociology, or political sociology.  Ph. D. preferred; very advanced ABD will be considered.

The Critical Role of Graduate and Professional Students in Post-Election America

The election of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States has defined the current state of local, national, and global politics. In this moment, it is critical that we 1) reassess our roles as graduate and professional students within the university community, 2) insist upon our dedication to academic freedom, and 3) assert our commitments to equity as well as the safety of the most vulnerable members of our communities.

This conference invites graduate and professional students across all three campuses of the University of Washington to address the following questions: How do you position yourself and your work at the university in relation to the current geopolitical climate? Specifically, how does your work contribute to the university community, the preservation of academic freedom, the project of creating equitable societies, and/or the safety and wellbeing of people imperiled by current social and political formations?

To answer these questions, this conference emphasizes interdisciplinary conversation and intersectional approaches to academic and professional work. We encourage applicants to propose presentations, panels, or posters that address one or more of the themes in the link below.

Microsoft recognizes the value of diversity in computing. The Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant aims to increase the pipeline of diverse talent receiving advanced degrees in computing-related fields by providing a research funding opportunity for doctoral students from groups under-represented in computing (women, African-Americans/Blacks, Hispanics/Latinos, American Indians/Alaskan Natives, Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders, and/or people with disabilities).

Provisions of the award

• The 2017 Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant recipients will receive funding up to 20,000 USD for academic year 2017–18 to help them complete research as part of their doctoral thesis work.
• Microsoft will arrange and pay for travel and accommodations to grant recipients to attend a two-day Microsoft Research workshop in Redmond, Washington, in autumn 2017.
  • The workshop will provide grant recipients an opportunity to present their research, meet individually with Microsoft researchers in their research area and receive career coaching from Microsoft researchers.

Eligibility criteria

• PhD students must be enrolled at a university in the United States or Canada and doing dissertation work that relates to computing topics in which Microsoft Research has expertise (click on Research Areas at the top of the page for a full list).
• PhD students must be in their fourth year or beyond in a PhD program when they apply for this grant. The student must continue to be enrolled at the university in the autumn of 2017. Funding is for use only during their time in the PhD program; it cannot be used for support in a role past graduation, such as a postdoc or faculty position. The applicant will need to confirm their PhD program starting month and year, as well as their expected graduation month and year.
• Payment of the grant, as described above, will be made directly to the grant recipient’s university and dispersed according to the university’s policies.
• Applicants must attest that they self-identify with at least one group under-represented in computing. This includes: women, African-American/Black, Hispanic/Latino, American Indian/Alaskan Native, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, and/or people with disabilities.

Join the Center for Multicultural Education at UW for its 20th Book Talk, this time featuring Charles Hirschman! Hirschman is a CSDE Affiliate and UW Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, and his work analyzes educational disparities across gender, race, and immigration status. A book signing will follow the presentation.

RVSP by March 31 via email: centerme@uw.edu

The Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU) in collaboration with the Asian Demographic Research Institute (ADRI) is hosting the first Asian Summer School on how demographic trends and improving educational attainment impact on economic growth around the Asia region. This will also include discussions about the so-called first and second Demographic Dividends and on the role of human capital as a determinant of economic development. Leading international scholars from the US, Europe and Asia will give lectures providing overviews of the state of knowledge in these fields.

Participants in the summer school will typically be pre-docs or recent PhDs. Applications will be considered from around the world. The number of participants is limited to 20 and acceptance is highly competitive. A number of participants will receive bursaries for travel and living expenses in Shanghai (upon request). There is no tuition charge.

How to apply

• Students at the pre-doc level/recent PhDs are invited to apply with a motivation letter (max. 1 page) and their CV.
• Two persons should be named who can potentially serve as referees.
• There are 20 places on the course. The main selection criterion is the quality of the application.
• The list of participants will be announced by 6 May 2017.
• Please send your application to Samir KC kc@iiasa.ac.at or Yu Zhang zhang.yu.sh@qq.com
• A number of participants will receive bursaries for travel and living expenses in Shanghai (upon request).

Event details
Dates: 19-23 June 2017
Location: Asian Demographic Research Institute (ADRI), Shanghai University
Application deadline: 24 March 2017

Founded in 2006, the International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences examines the nature of disciplinary practices in the study of society and the interdisciplinary practices that arise in the context of “real world” applications of social research and theory. The conference also investigates what constitutes “science” in a social context and the connections between the social and other sciences. The focus of papers ranges from the finely grained and empirical (research practices and results exemplifying one or more disciplines) to wide-ranging multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives on knowledge and method.

For more information regarding the conferences and submission process, use the link below.

This five-day workshop will orient participants to the content and structure of the Core PSID interview, its special topics modules, and its supplemental studies. The workshop pairs morning instructional sessions led by experienced PSID researchers and staff with afternoon guided lab sessions in which users construct their own analytic data files.

A limited number of stipends are available to graduate students and junior researchers, with priority given to those who apply by 14 April 2017, to help with travel and lodging costs. All applications received by 14 April 2017 will be given priority for enrollment.

An introductory workshop for new and prospective users of the Child Development Supplement to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics will be conducted by project staff at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development (SRCD) in Austin, TX. PSID staff will also be available at SRCD exhibit booth #400 throughout the conference. For more information about the SRCD Biennial Meeting, visit the conference website.