CSDE fellow Michelle O’Brien participated in the 2016 Mekong Development Research Group workshop, facilitated by Kim Korinek (Univ. of Utah) and UW Sociology & CSDE alumna, Lina Svedin (Univ. of Utah), and Jennifer Turner (Wilson Center). The workshop focused on engaging with policy-makers and highlighted social science research from around the Mekong region. Michelle worked with research teams on many topics, from human trafficking in Myanmar to the problems facing aging ethnic minorities in China and Thailand. Michelle assisted in coaching groups on research design, translating research into policy memos, and presenting their research effectively.
Sara Curran is an advisor to the group, and several other UW CSDE alumni are also pictured and participated: Mark Van Landingham (Tulane University and CSDE postdoctoral alumni), Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan (Singapore Management University and UW CSDE doctoral alumna), and Le Thanh Sang (UW CSDE doctoral alumna and Director of Vietnam’s Southern Institute of Social Sciences).
The Project on Borders and Boundaries in World Politics has two openings for post-doctoral research fellows for one year, renewable, full-time appointments. Fellows will split their time between their own research and work with a team led by Professor Beth Simmons, Andrea Mitchell University Professor in Law, Political Science, and Business Ethics. The Project is concerned with boundaries between organized human communities, broadly understood. International borders, border regions and border crossings have multiple significance as designations of state authority, security buffers, expressions of social meaning and opportunities for economic integration. Border regions and activities speak to national and local encounters with neighbors and the rest of the world. This project is concerned with how humans demarcate the space between “us” and “them.” It contextualizes border architecture, infrastructure and institutions as expressions of various social, political and economic anxieties associated with globalization. This research team will concern itself with a broad range of questions relating to “bordering” in world politics. Applicants with an interest in territorial politics; migration and movement across borders; development in and across border regions; border crossing regimes, architectures and institutions; transnational migration; transnational crime, human trafficking and law enforcement across borders; and related issues are welcome to apply. Skills in empirical spatial analysis, GIS technologies, mapping technologies, experimental analyses, computerized textual and imaging analyses, and similar technologies are highly desirable, as are computer programming skills and experience using large computer databases and statistical software.
There are no mandatory reaching responsibilities. Postdoctoral fellows will be expected to give a presentation during the academic year in the Perry World House Seminar Series, engage with Perry World House’s Undergraduate Student Fellows, and attend regularly scheduled seminars. Perry World House will also introduce each postdoctoral fellow to related faculty and leaders of centers and institutes at the University of Pennsylvania.
Postdocs will be housed with the Global Innovation Program, which is the research arm of Perry World House, the University of Pennsylvania’s new university-wide hub for global engagement and interdisciplinary international research. Perry World House aspires to bring the University of Pennsylvania’s intellectual resources to bear on the urgent global challenges of the 21st century.
A critical question in the development of mobile health interventions is, when and in which contexts, is it most useful to push intervention content to the user. This question concerns time-varying dynamic moderation by the context on the effectiveness of in-the-moment interventions on user behavior. In this talk we discuss the micro-randomized trial design and associated data analyses for use in assessing moderation. We illustrate this approach with data from a micro-randomized mobile health trial.
Susan A. Murphy is the H.E. Robbins Distinguished University Professor of Statistics & Professor of Psychiatry and a Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research. Her research focuses on improving sequential, individualized, decision making in health, in particular on clinical trial design and data analysis to inform the development of mobile health interventions. She participates in a variety of mobile health collaborations including the “Mobile Sensor Data to Knowledge,” https://md2k.org/, Center for Complex Data to Knowledge in Drug Abuse and HIV Behavioral Science, https://methodology.psu.edu/node/657, and multiple R01’s involving the development of just-in-time adaptive interventions in mobile health. Susan is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, a Fellow of the College on Problems in Drug Dependence, a former editor of the Annals of Statistics, a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, the US National Academy of Medicine and a 2013 MacArthur Fellow.
The deadline to submit papers for the 2017 ASA Meetings is January 11th. The link to the ASA conference and submission system can be found below.
Additionally, the ASA International Migration Section sessions will take place on Saturday, August 12th. The sessions have been organized by Chair-Elect, David Fitzgerald. The session topics, as well as other information about the event, can be found at https://asamigrationsection.wordpress.com/2017-im-sessions-in-montreal/.
Email submissions to asa.int.mig@gmail.com.
Microsoft is offering a free, hands-on, cloud computing training course in partnership with the eScience Institute at the University of Washington. Whether it’s big data, big compute (HPC), machine learning with GPUs, or analyzing data streaming from devices for an IoT project, you can see how easy it is using Microsoft Azure to help you streamline and accelerate your data-driven science.
This course is for Faculty, researchers, and students using any language, framework, or platform. This includes Linux, Python, R, MATLAB, Java, Hadoop, STORM, SPARK, and Microsoft technologies such as C#, F#, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Azure SQL Database, and various Microsoft Azure services.
Title: Population Change, Economic Transformations, Environment and Rural Community Well Being
Conveners: Neil Argent, University of new England, Australia; David L. Brown, Cornell University, USA; Dudley Poston, Texas A&M University, USA.
Objectives: To examine the interrelationships between population change and local community well- being. A second objective is to examine the relationships between population change and changes in the natural environment.
Topic of the WG: This working group will examine the determinants and consequences of rural population change. The main focus will be on how changes in population size, structure, socio-demographic composition, and spatial distribution affect and are affected by community well-being as indicated by such factors as inequality, poverty, un- and underemployment, economic restructuring, etc. We also encourage scholars to submit papers focusing on population-environment interrelationships (by which we include changes in resource-based industries such as mining as well as climate change. Since we are interested in examining the interrelationships between population change and community, we propose to examine how community well-being and environmental change affects population dynamics, and vice versa. We are hoping that scholars from a wide range of nations will participate so that we can examine how population-society relationships might be affected by the nations in which they occur.
Format: The format will be standard paper sessions with discussants. Papers will have to be submitted at least two weeks prior to the conference so that the discussant has ample time to prepare helpful remarks. We may also organize a panel discussion of the impacts of population change, environmental change and rural society and economy.
Adrian Raftery—CSDE Affiliate, UW professor of statistics and sociology, and director of the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences—recently published research on probabilistic population projections with bayesPop, an R package. The program produces, among other things, a sample from the joint posterior predictive distribution of future age- and sex-specific population counts, fertility rates and mortality rates, as well as future numbers of births and deaths. Its methodology has been used across the globe, notably by the United Nations in crafting population projections. You can read more about Raftery’s work below.
Thanks for making our Fall CSDE Seminar Series a success! We hope you enjoyed some of the new seminar formats, including panel discussions and student poster sessions. We look forward to seeing you after the break.
First Seminar of Winter Quarter:
Friday, Jan 6, 2017 – Author Meets Critic : From High School to College: Gender, Immigrant Generation, and Race-Ethnicity
Featuring CSDE Affiliates Charles Hirschman and Mark Long
New Location:
Communications Building, Room 120
Additional Seminars Include:
- Alexandra (Sasha) Killewald, Department of Sociology, Harvard University
- Heather Hill, Evans School, UW
- Benjamin Cerf, Northwest Federal Statistical Research Data Center, US Census
- Eileen Crimmins, Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California
- Ichiro Kawachi, School of Public Health, Harvard University
- Kristina Olson, Department of Psychology, UW
- Demography Student Poster Session
Watch the Seminar Series page below for additional updates!
The Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology is pleased to announce that it recently joined the newly founded Interdisciplinary Association of Population Health Science (IAPHS) with an institutional membership. CSDE is very excited about the IAPHS, a new organization committed to fostering science and innovation to improve health. Check out their website to read about their goal to connect population health scientists across disciplines and sectors, advance the development of population health science, and promote its application.
With CSDE’s institutional membership, we are able to offer to some in our community of scholars four annual memberships and two free conference registrations for IAPHS’ annual conference in October 2017. If you are a member of the UW faculty and an early career scientist (pre-tenure) or are a UW PhD candidate with a strong research program in population health sciences or aspirations for one and you would like to join IAPHS for a year, please send an email to csde@uw.edu ASAP. In your email, please explain 1) whether you are a faculty member or a student, 2) why you want to be a member of the IAPHS this year, 3) your plan for participating in the IAPHS conference, and 4) how your research relates to the IAPHS mission. Attach your CV or biosketch along with your email. We will select four IAPHS members during the week of December 19, 2016 so that new members can enjoy a full year’s benefits.
The Center on Poverty and Social Policy at the Columbia University School of Social Work and the Columbia Population Research Center are recruiting two postdoctoral research scholars.
One postdoc will work with faculty and staff to conduct new analyses of national, state, and city trends in poverty using an improved measure of poverty based on the supplemental poverty measure (SPM) recently developed by the United States Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The other will support a project on the costs, benefits and distributional consequences of alternative policy packages to halve U.S. child poverty.
Job descriptions and application details can be found at the links below:
http://cupop.columbia.edu/career-opportunities/postdoctoral-research-scholar-child-poverty
http://cupop.columbia.edu/career-opportunities/postdoctoral-research-scholar-supplemental-poverty-measure
The deadline for applications is March 1, 2017.