Jennifer Stuber, CSDE Affiliate and Associate Professor of Social Work at UW, recently went on air to discuss her suicide-prevention work with KUOW. With February 16 marking National Suicide Prevention Education Day, Stuber’s eager to speak about her legislative efforts in Washington state. She’s even earned the support of an unlikely ally: the NRA. Listen to the full story below to see how they’ve managed to work together.
Mike Esposito, Savannah Larimore, Madison Leia, and ManChui Leung Awarded Annual IAPHS Memberships
After reviewing applications, CSDE has awarded four Trainees with annual memberships to the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS)! All recipients are graduate students in the Department of Sociology at UW, but they encapsulate a wide range of research interests:
- Mike Esposito focuses on identifying if/how the ways in which social conditions (e.g., education; incarceration; marital status) operate as health inputs are contingent upon one’s social location (e.g., race, gender, age, and their intersections).
- Savannah Larimore conducts research examining the relationship between race, place, and health in the United States.
- Madison Leia uses longitudinal biomarker data to investigate health disparities, particularly the role of protective agents and possible interventions in the stress process.
- ManChui Leung works on developing an interdisciplinary approach to immigrant and gender health inequities that examines how social structural processes and social factors interplay to affect health. She has also received the CSDE Demographic Methods Graduate Certificate.
Congratulations to those selected! We hope your IAPHS membership serves you well in your studies.
We hope you all enjoyed yesterday’s Population Research Discovery Seminar with Ichiro Kawachi! As a reminder, there will be no seminar this Friday, 2/24.
Our next seminar—scheduled for Friday, 3/3—will feature a talk on the TransYouth Project from Kristina Olson of the UW’s Department of Psychology. You can read more about each talk in our Seminar Series below.
CSSS Seminar: Pairwise Difference Approach for Partially Linear Model
Abstract: Consider the standard partially linear model (PLM): Y_i=X_i^T\beta+g(W_i)+u_i. Here we assume (X_i,W_i.u_i)_{i=1}^n are i.i.d., X_i\in\mathbb{R}^p, W_i,u_i\in\mathbb{R} with p\gg n, g(\cdot) is an unknown nonlinear function, and s:=\|\beta\|_0 is much smaller than p. Our aim is to estimate \beta. For this, existing literature is focused on the least square estimators (LSEs), and the best theoretical results to date prove rate-optimality under the following four assumptions: (i) g\in\mathcal{G} for some known function class \mathcal{G} of finite entropy integral value; (ii) s^2\log p/n\to 0; (iii) u_1 is subgaussian; (iv) \max_{i,j} |X_{ij}|\leq M for some universal constant M. Though some of them could be proof artifacts, the other assumptions are related to long-standing problems in nonparametric statistics, and are arguably difficult to relax. In this talk, an alternative to LSE, Honore and Powell’s pairwise difference approach, is shown to attain rate-optimality with all four assumptions relaxed. Particularly, without sacrificing the rate, it proves to be able to automatically adapt to the choice of g function, and work even when g is piecewise Holder of discontinuity, a result new to both statistics and econometrics communities. In addition, we improve the scaling condition, allow X_1 subgaussian distributed, and only require \mathbb{E} u_1^2\leq M_u for some universal constant M_u. The improvement is viable based on newly developed U-proc
Instructor of Digital Technology and Cultures
The School of New and Continuing Studies at Seattle University invites applications for a full-time, non-tenure track instructor. The appointment, located in Seattle, Washington, is for three years with the possibility of renewal, beginning September 1, 2017. The interdisciplinary Digital Technology and Cultures B.A. will be offered in online and hybrid format for part-time, post-traditional students. The B.A. in Digital Technology and Cultures provides a program for adult learners that focuses on humanistic inquiry into digital culture. It also offers students the opportunity to develop the applied technology skills necessary to produce rhetorically sound and ethically informed media content that values diversity and justice.
The Instructor of Digital Technology and Cultures will be responsible for developing course content in online and hybrid formats; teaching; faculty advising; and service.
The ideal candidate will have experience teaching adult learners and designing and teaching online/hybrid classes that creatively integrate technology and digital pedagogy. A teaching/research interest in one or more of the following areas is preferred: digital cultural studies, computers and writing, digital/social media, digital rhetoric, multimodal composition, applied technology studies, history of text technologies.
Assistant Professor of Social Change and Social Movements
Ithaca College, located in Ithaca, NY, seeks candidates for a 3 year non-tenure eligible position to begin August 16, 2017. Position duties are: 75% devoted to teaching in the Department of Sociology (typically 3 classes per semester) in courses relating to Social Change and Social Movements; 25% devoted to research on social change to be conducted under the guidance of the director of the Honors Program. We seek outstanding candidates with a demonstrated commitment to supporting, empowering and retaining students from underrepresented groups. The ideal applicant will have a clear motivation to teach in a liberal arts environment. Interested individuals should apply at http://ithaca.peopleadmin.com/postings/9356.
Assistant Professor of Social Work
The University of Saint Joseph is seeking applications for a 9 month, full-time tenure-track faculty position in our highly regarded Master in Social Work (MSW) Program to begin in August, 2017. The CSWE-accredited MSW Program is housed in the Department of Social Work and Latino Community Practice in the School of Graduate and Professional Studies.
The MSW Program was established in 2014 and achieved full accreditation from the Council of Social Work Education in October, 2016. The MSW Program prepares social workers for community-based clinical practice in labor force shortage areas such as health and mental health; children and family services; and veterans’ services. The MSW Program features an innovative model of field education in which university-employed clinical preceptors supervise groups of students in select organizations. Applicants must be prepared to teach a variety of courses in the MSW program in Human Behavior in the Social Environment and Social Work Practice courses.
Health Policy Research Scholars
The goal of Health Policy Research Scholars is to create a large cadre of diverse doctoral students from a wide variety of research-focused disciplines—students whose research, connections, and leadership will inform and influence policy toward a Culture of Health. Specifically, we aim to recruit doctoral students from a variety of field/disciplines (e.g., urban planning, political science, economics, ethnography, education, social work, sociology) who are training to be researchers. For the 2017 cohort, the Health Policy Research Scholars program will enroll up to 50 scholars interested in learning to translate their research into health policy and who are from underrepresented populations and/or disadvantaged backgrounds. Examples of eligible individuals include, but are not limited to, first-generation college graduates, individuals from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, individuals from racial and ethnic groups underrepresented in doctoral programs, and individuals with disabilities. Scholars in this program —which is designed to enhance and enrich the doctoral program—will complete the Health Policy Research Scholars program concurrently with their doctoral program.
More information is available below.
Interdisciplinary Research Leaders
This call for applications seeks teams of researchers and community members who are committed to working together to produce community-relevant, action-oriented research to improve health and well-being. The applicant organization will be represented by the teams listed on its application.
The broad goal of the Interdisciplinary Research Leaders (IRL) program is to produce diverse interdisciplinary leaders who conduct and apply high-quality, community-engaged, action-oriented, equity-focused health research in order to drive improvements in the health of communities. Accordingly, the program will recruit and select applicants represented by teams of three people (“IRL team”): two mid-career researchers and one community member to become IRL program fellows. IRL teams will represent the grantee in this program and join together as a diverse cohort of fellows that will participate in a three-year program. During this time, fellows will receive: leadership training; the opportunity to learn and apply cutting-edge research methods; expert mentoring; networking opportunities; and fellowship and research funds, so that they may better effect change and become the next generation of leaders in population health and health equity research.
More information is available below.
Advocacy Research at the Commons – A Scholars’ Studio Event
The UW community is invited to attend this quarter’s free Scholars’ Studio event! 8 Graduate Students will present rapid-fire, TED talk style presentations on the theme of ADVOCACY. Scholars’ Studio events are co-sponsored by the UW Libraries Research Commons and Core Programs in the Graduate School.
Graduate Student presenters are from Communication, Social Work, Geography, Environmental & Forest Sciences, Law, Linguistics, and Education–with an opening presentation on the topic of digital scholarship from UW librarian. Lightning talks will be followed by a Q&A and reception.
OPENING PRESENTATION:
Advocacy as Digital Scholarship, Verletta Kern
Music Outreach Services & Digital Scholarship Librarian, UW Seattle
GRADUATE STUDENT PRESENTERS:
How Language Blurs Our Response to Sexual Violence, Carla Lopez-Wilkerson
Social Work, UW Tacoma
Digitizing and Queering the Historical LGBT Seattle Walking Tour, Julian Barr
Geography, UW Seattle
Diversifying Music Education, Giuliana Conti
Music, UW Seattle
Are Early Childhood and Family Support Programs Effective for Teenage Parents? A Meta-Analysis, Caroline F.D. Black
Education, UW Seattle
Advocating for Neglected Voices: Addressing Bias in Automatic Speech Recognition, Rachael Tatman
Linguistics, UW Seattle
From Tree to Biofuel, Chang Dou
Environmental and Forest Sciences, UW Seattle
Spreading the Bug: Promoting Community Level Advocacy in Africa, Francis Kairu
Law, UW Seattle
Performing Organization: How Personal Narratives Can Function in Recruitment to Grassroots Social Movement Organizations, Nathan TeGrotenhuis
Communication, UW Seattle