The Research Centre for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (CLLS) will be hosting the 15th Meeting of theEuropean Network for the Sociological and Demographic Study of Divorce. The conference will take place in Antwerp, Belgium on 5th-7th October.
The conference organizers invite papers on the causes, procedures and consequences of union dissolution. We encourage research from sociological, psychological, economic, demographic, legal and other perspectives on these topics. Both theoretical and empirical papers are welcome. The format of the conference will be similar to previous meetings with regular paper sessions and plenty of time for discussion.
The conference will start on the morning of the 5th, and ends on the afternoon of the 7th. The conference venue is located in the heart of Antwerp, close to public transport and hotels. There is no conference fee. Participants will cover their own travel and lodging expenses.
Please submit your abstract (300 words) via the conference website by 1st May. Abstracts will be evaluated, and notifications sent out by the end of May. Full papers should be uploaded at least three weeks before the meeting.
- Instructor: Ann Gleason
- 3 credits, standard grading
- Online
This course explores the characteristics of users of health sciences information; health professionals, researchers, consumers and patients; environments (academic health sciences centers, hospitals, clinics, and public libraries); evaluation of information resources in health care; types and uses of health information management systems; policy issues, professional standards, education, and certification. Offered jointly with BIME 570.
Donald Chi, CSDE Affiliate and Associate Professor of Dentistry at UW, recently wrote an editorial for the Washington Post discussing the importance of dental care in overall population health. Chi outlines the medical importance of regular, thorough dental check-ins and treatments and makes a strong case for their continued coverage in proposed healthcare plans. You can read the full article below.
CSDE Affiliate and UW Professor of Sociology Charles Hirschman joined other researchers and officials in studying how immigration impacts the US economy. The resulting National Academy of Sciences report, The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration, sheds light on the gap between perceived and actual costs of immigrants. The panel’s work has spread throughout media channels in the wake of recent political debates over immigration reform–the New York Times weighs in on the findings with this opinion piece, while UW itself is spotlighting its researchers’ contributions to the panel here. You can read the full study below.
Come meet CSDE’s Graduate Students and learn about their cutting-edge research and latest demographic insights. The newest members of UW’s population science community are eager to connect their work across disciplines and to translate their findings for basic and applied research impact. Scheduled presenters are listed below. You can view posters from our last session here.
Tiffany Pan – Anthropology
Does being breastfed in infancy influence women’s risk of preeclampsia?
Jagori Saha – Economics
Banking and Marriage Markets: Evidence from India’s Branch Licensing Policy
Lee Fiorio – Geography
Using Twitter Data to Estimate the Relationships between Short-term Mobility and Long-term Migration
Jessica Godwin – Statistics
Space-Time Estimation of Under-five Mortality Rates
Charles Lanfear – Sociology
Life-course Transitions
Chris Cambron, CSDE Trainee and UW student in Social Work, and Katarina Guttmannova, CSDE Affiliate and UW Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, have published research on contexts in cannabis law throughout the US. The work examines the relationship between policy change and cannabis use, paying particular attention to Washington state because of its early adoption. Using this data, the two hope to conduct future research to estimate the impact of cannabis policies. You can read the full study below.
Hilary Wething, CSDE Trainee and PhD student in the UW Evans School, and Heather Hill, CSDE Affiliate and UW Associate Professor of Public Policy, were recently profiled by the UW as part of a campaign to spotlight significant policy work. The multimedia showcase discusses the contributions Wething and Hill made to UW’s minimum-wage study, a research endeavor focused on identifying the impact of Seattle’s latest minimum-wage increase. You can watch Wething’s work unfold below in the full story.
Spalding University School of Social Work seeks a diverse applicant pool for a Tenure Track Faculty position.
This is a 9-month faculty position (compensation prorated over 12 months) with responsibility for teaching in our MSW and BSSW programs. Teaching areas include multicultural practice, social justice, diversity and other content based on experience and expertise.
Faculty members teach 24 credit hours per academic year. Most courses are hybrid in format, and include face to face, and online learning. Other faculty responsibilities include student advising, culminating project consultation, School and University committee assignments, professional scholarship activities, and community service.
The Research Coordinator at Johns Hopkins University will oversee the implementation of three grants including support of the MESH Program. One key indicator obtained from surveillance should be the size of the population that can be used for estimating coverage. Often surveillance implements several different methods for estimating population size. Interpretation of these estimates is problematic for programs. Programs need a denominator for coverage estimates that is useful and linked to their programs. They will assess the usefulness of size estimates obtained from surveillance for use as denominators for programs and assess a way forward. They will compare size estimates obtained from program data and from various size estimation methods. In undertaking the comparisons, they will broaden the work to not only being about static size estimates – an estimate about size at one point in time – to explore measures of the dynamics of key population group membership including the demography of membership – age-specific flows into and out of these groups– which would provide size estimates as well as additional information about turnover in the groups.
The School of World Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University invites applications for a tenure eligible position in International Studies at the rank of Assistant Professor. The School of World Studies is a dynamic multidisciplinary nexus, combining programs in Anthropology, Foreign Languages, International Studies and Religious Studies. We seek a candidate with an interest in and demonstrable potential to teach courses in Theories of International Social Justice, Theories of Globalization, and Cultural Studies; a clear research agenda; and an ability to incorporate critical theoretical approaches in scholarship and teaching. More information is available below.