Noéll Bernard-Kingsle, Director of Academic Services at UW Earth & Space Sciences and Leah Panganiban are looking for faculty/postdocs/graduate students to visit General Studies 297, spring quarter. This course is set up to feature a faculty person from a number of STEM units each week to discuss both their research and their journey into their discipline and academia. They are hoping to partner with colleagues across units to identify research in STEM fields that is happening with a diversity lens. They are looking for faculty/postdocs/graduate students who conduct research on STEM and who could speak about one or more of the following:

• how diversity impacts their research
• how they tie these issues into their teaching
• why diversity  is important to STEM fields
• discuss their personal journey into academia
• how diversity impacts their research
• how they tie these issues into their teaching
• speak to why it is important to STEM fields
• discuss their personal journey into academia?

Please contact Noéll Bernard-Kingsley, M.Ed

The 2017 Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group Summer School on Socioeconomic Inequality in Chicago will provide a state-of-the-art overview on the study of inequality and human flourishing. Participants will learn about the integration between psychological and sociological insights into the foundations of human behavior and conventional economic models. Through rigorous lectures students will be trained on various tools needed to study the issue of inequality.  The summer school is open to graduate students from around the world. There is no fee to attend SSSI Chicago. Students will be provided lodging for the week as well as breakfast and lunch daily. Students are expected to cover travel costs to and from the Summer School and any additional expenses they may incur.

Applications for SSSI Chicago 2017 opened on February 1, 2017 and are due March 31, 2017. Please direct any questions to the HCEO Coordinator.

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Run jointly by the University of Bremen and Jacobs University Bremen, the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) is one of Germany’s leading schools of doctoral training in the social sciences, funded by the European Union (COFUND) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) in the Excellence Initiative of the German Government and Federal States. The ba­sis for teaching and research at BIGSSS under the umbrella theme of “Changing Patterns of Social and Political Integration” is its emphasis on social science methods. The BIGSSS Methods Center (MC) supports BIGSSS fellows in acquiring the methodological skills they need for the realization of sophisticated empirical research and their PhD projects in particular.

The Methods Center of BIGSSS invites interested candidates to apply for the next possible date as a

Postdoctoral Fellow at BIGSSS Methods Center (m/f)
(Full-time, initially limited until December 31^st, 2018)
Job ID JU-17-07

Your responsibilities:

In addition to his or her own research goals, the successful candidate will be responsible for teaching courses in methods of empirical social research at different levels of sophistication, with a specific focus on qualitative and/or mixed-methods approaches to social and behavioral science studies. He/she will support the Methods Center Coordinator in tasks related to the organization of BIGSSS methods courses, the provision of methods software tools, and the provision and storage of data used or obtained in doctoral research. In close cooperation with the BIGSSS Methods Center Coordinator, the Department of Psychology and Methods in the Focus Area Diversity at Jacobs University Bremen, and the Methods Center of the SOCIUM at University of Bremen, he/she will develop a service infrastructure of Methods and Data for social sciences research at Bremen.

Your qualifications:

• PhD degree in a social science discipline represented at BIGSSS;
• Teaching and research experience in the above-mentioned methods fields;
• Responsible, self-motivated, able to work independently and in teams;
• Fluency in English, the language of instruction and communication at BIGSSS; an excellent working knowledge of German is an asset;
• Successful candidates should be ideally available to begin immediately

Your application:

For further information regarding this position, please contact Prof. Klaus Boehnke, Vice Dean of the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS), at k.boehnke@jacobs-university.de.

Applications should include single PDF attachments containing a letter of motivation, copies of certificates and diplomas, curriculum vitae, a record of teaching, and the names and addresses of two referees.

Please send your application until March 9, 2017, stating the Job ID, your availability and your salary expectations as a pdf document via email to job-application@jacobs-university.de. The review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled.

Our ambition is to boost young careers, and thus, we are particularly interested in receiving applications from these researchers. Female scholars are particularly encouraged to apply for this position. We are looking for highly motivated, creative and communicative employees with a keen interest in working in an international and dynamic environment. Jacobs University is an equal opportunity employer.

Climate change, environmental degradation and resource pressures have created unprecedented challenges for societies worldwide, with Low- and Middle-income countries (LMICs) often the most affected.

The slow progress on responding to global environmental change and the need for global development has led to increasing emphasis, both in research and policy, on the need to go beyond the study and encouragement of incremental change.

There is a need for more fundamental transformations in the way societies interact with each other and with the natural environment. What’s needed is a comprehensive and concerted research initiative that can boost research on transformations to sustainability, and catalyse new kinds of solutions to environmental and social challenges.

The Belmont Forum, NORFACE and the ISSC together as the Transformations to Sustainability funders, are therefore launching the new funding programme ‘Transformations to Sustainability'(T2S).

The funding call includes a total pool of at least €13 million over a period of three years, for international projects led by the social sciences or humanities. Inter- and Trans- disciplinary approaches are strongly encouraged.

Biological Anthropologists will be on campus and delivering talks over the coming weeks. The following are currently scheduled:

Tamar Carter: 13-14 Feb.
Melissa Liebert: 16-17 Feb.

Tamar E. Carter has a Ph.D. (2015) in Genetics and Genomics, from U FL, Gainesville. She also has an MPH (epidemiology concentration) from Gainesville. Dr. Carter is currently a postdoctoral fellow at UNC, Charlotte in Bioinfomatics and Genomics. Her research interests are in human and malaria parasite genetic diversity. Her dissertation research in Haiti was an investigation of genetic adaptations (red blood cell abnormalities) that confer resistance to malaria. She also investigated the way humans have shaped, through malaria control, the genetic diversity of malaria parasites. Her postdoctoral work has taken her research into Ethiopian populations, where the dynamics of malaria transmission are more complex. Dr. Carter’s research involves laboratory-based genetic analyses as well as statistical and data-intensive methods in genetics.

Melissa A. Liebert has a Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology (2016) from the U. Oregon. She is now a postdoctoral scholar at the U. Oregon in the Anthropology department. Her research interests are stress and economic development in subsistence-based populations. Her dissertation research was a field and laboratory-based investigation of the effects of economic development on the health and well-being of Indigenous Shuar of Ecuador. Her work integrates not only field collection and laboratory analysis of stress biomarkers, but ethnographic data and demographic analysis. In addition to her work on the Shuar, she has been participating for over five years in the World Health Organization’s Study on global AGEing and Adult Health (SAGE) as a database manager and statistical analyst.

For more information, contact Patricia Kramer.

The Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Washington is now accepting applications for supplemental graduate fellowships for the 2017-2018 academic year. Any graduate student planning to be enrolled at the University of Washington for the 2017-2018 academic year is eligible to apply, as long as they can demonstrate a strong connection between their research and Jewish Studies topics. The amount per fellowship will be $3000. Multiple fellowships are available. Support may also be available for additional opportunities related to students’ research projects.

The goal of this fellowship is to build intellectual community as well as professional skills. Jewish Studies Graduate Fellows will participate in regular workshops on Jewish Studies and Public Scholarship. Students will have the opportunity to get valuable feedback and mentorship for their research projects via public presentations at Jewish Studies Faculty Seminars.

Graduate students from all departments and disciplines are encouraged to apply. Past participants have come from the departments of History, Comparative Religion, English, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Political Science, International Studies, Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Linguistics, French and Italian Studies, and Information Science.

The Honors College at the University of Arizona invites applications for a three-year renewable position in the core Honors Interdisciplinary faculty, and in particular to teach in the Honors College Health and Human Values minor. The minor is an intensive interdisciplinary program, intended to provide a knowledge and theory base in the social sciences and the humanities for high-ability students planning careers in the health professions.

Applicants must apply via our website located at https://uacareers.com/postings/16329 by submitting an online application, a current copy of your vita, the names of three references, and a cover letter describing how your training fits the goals of the minor. Discussion of teaching, and evidence of teaching effectiveness, will be especially important.

Qualifications:

Master’s degree or higher in Psychology, Social Work (MSW), School Counseling (CAS), or School Psychology AND/OR New York State licensure in one or more of the following areas: Licensed Master of Social Work (LMSW), Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Mental Health Counseling, Marriage and Family Therapy, Creative Arts Therapy, or Psychoanalysis.

For human services courses with an education emphasis – Master’s degree in discipline, license and certificate in discipline. Prior college teaching experience, knowledge of student learning outcomes, and familiarity with instructional technology and/or online teaching are preferred.

Please click below for more information.

The Sociology Department at Oberlin College invites applications for a full-time, non-continuing faculty position within the area of Political Sociology. Appointment will be for a term of one year beginning Fall 2017. Requirements include the PhD in hand or expected by first semester of academic year 2017. Ability to teach in the areas of environmental sociology, transnationalism, or economic sociology are beneficial, but not required. The incumbent will teach Introductory Sociology and upper level courses in the area of specialization. To be assured of consideration, submit a letter of application, a curriculum vitae, graduate academic transcripts, and at least three recent letters of reference* to https://jobs.oberlin.edu/ by February 22, 2017.

Abstract: Whether central banks should publish individually attributed voting records from monetary policy committee meetings is among the most contested areas of debate in monetary policymaking today. Though more and more banks are making this shift in the name of individual accountability and transparent policymaking, many central banks continue to shield their voting policymakers from such public scrutiny. In this paper, I argue that while unattributed vote outcomes are potentially beneficial as a communication mechanism to coordinate market expectations, publishing complete voting records undermines both the accountability of central banks and their ability to manage market expectations. Empirically, I leverage the implementation of a freedom of information law in Brazil which required the release of individually attributed central bank voting records. The evidence shows that not only has this policy change worsened the accuracy of market expectations, but it also reduced the ability of the central bank to influence market expectations with their official communications. This result has important implications for the ongoing debates over the merits of central bank transparency and provides a cautionary tale for the application of broad political reform efforts to monetary policy institutions.