The Department of Social Work at California State University, Fullerton, invites applications for assistant professor. This is a 10-month full-time tenure-track position to begin Fall 2017. The Department of Social Work is recruiting one faculty member with expertise in aging and working with older adults. The appointee will teach a range of courses within the curriculum in the areas of practice/policy/research (e.g., advanced aging practice, aging policy, capstone research project courses, and electives). The individual who is hired will be expected to conduct and publish research, and seek external funding. Additional responsibilities will include participating in university, college, and department service committees. The appointee will be expected to teach in both the Fullerton and Irvine campus programs.

The DHS Program is seeking a data analyst for its analysis team. The DHS Program is USAID’s flagship program–and longest running project–to collect data on population and health indicators in low and middle income countries. The DHS Program has collected, analyzed, and disseminated representative data on population, HIV, malaria, and nutrition through more than 300 surveys in over 90 countries.

The Department of Government seeks to appoint a tenure-track professor in Political Economy. We are particularly interested in scholars working on the political economy of developing areas, but this is not a requirement. The appointment is expected to begin on July 1, 2017. The tenure-track professor will be responsible for teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Doctorate or terminal degree in Political Science, Economics, or related discipline required by the time the appointment begins. Demonstrated excellence in teaching is desired.

The Departments of Anthropology, Political Science, Sociology, and the Brian Lamb School of Communication in the College of Liberal Arts at Purdue University are conducting a cluster hire for two positions in quantitative methodologies and/or formal theory at the Assistant or Associate Professor ranks, with initial positions starting in the fall of 2017.

The successful candidates for these positions will be expected to contribute to the research and teaching programs of the departments in which they affiliate, and to collaborate with others within the cluster and across the university in interdisciplinary and extramurally funded research. Candidates will also be expected to contribute to an anticipated multi-college, shared graduate training platform, including a graduate certification program in advanced methodologies.

The Department of Geography at Texas A&M University invites applications for five tenure-track faculty positions.

Combinations of research expertise among these specialties are encouraged as well as the integration with geospatial technologies. Essential characteristics include publications commensurate with experience; demonstrated capability to secure external funding; ability to contribute to GIS research and teaching; and the ability to strengthen the graduate program in Geography through course offerings and mentoring students. Candidates should have the potential for creating synergies with existing Department strengths, must have a Ph.D. at the time of appointment, and a have strong commitment to excellence in research and teaching.

Two of the tenure-track faculty positions will be in physical geography at the Assistant or Associate Professor level. Research specializations should complement existing departmental strengths in biogeography, climatology, and/or geomorphology. Three of the positions will be in human geography at the Assistant Professor level. The department is reinvesting in its human geography program by hiring leading-edge scholars with research specializations in urban, health, economic, or human-environment geography.

The Population Studies and Training Center at Brown University is currently recruiting a two-year Postdoctoral Research Associate to start on or soon after September 2016. This position will be funded, in part, by a five-year research grant from the Eunice Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development.  In this research Brown’s PSTC team is collaborating closely with colleagues at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

Research at the PSTC (http://www.pstc.brown.edu), as illustrated by this project, is distinguished by its commitment to collaboration across disciplinary and institutional boundaries as well as its strong portfolio of research in developing country settings. The successful applicant for this postdoctoral position will be a key member of the “Migration, Urbanization, and Health” project team, working both at Brown and for substantial periods in the field in South Africa.  The tasks involve all phases of designing, fielding and analyzing a multi-wave longitudinal survey.  Potential applicants are encouraged to consult the PSTC website to learn more about the institutional environment and related research underway.

In addition to playing a central role in this ongoing research, the Associate will be expected to attend the weekly PSTC Colloquium when in residence, present research locally and at appropriate scholarly society annual meetings, and submit articles for publication. Postdocs have access to the considerable PSTC research infrastructure and also have the opportunity to benefit from workshops and mentoring on grant preparation, research skill development, and the responsible conduct of research.  Some opportunity will also be reserved for the Associate’s own independent research.

This is a two-year position with the second year contingent on satisfactory performance in the first year. Salary will be based on current NIH guidelines that depend on the experience/credentials of the appointee and will include health benefits.  Applications will be accepted beginning August 1, 2016, with earliest start date for the position September 1, 2016. New applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

The University of Washington Information School’s Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA) has an outstanding opportunity for a student to provide key support to TASCHA’s research communications activities.

The student in this position will play an integral role by working directly with TASCHA’s Communications Specialist, along with the leadership and researchers at TASCHA. The student will have an opportunity to learn more about TASCHA’s research and the areas the team works in, and (s)he will also be able to provide communications support to the TASCHA team. TASCHA’s Communications Specialist will work with the student to identify and nurture their interests and goals in working at TASCHA, while still getting the important support needed to communicate the organization’s work effectively.

SAFER (French Land-Use and Rural Settlements Corporation) would greatly appreciate receiving information from governmental officials, persons in academia, and persons serving in the non-profit sector, regarding strategies implemented or proposed which address the problem of incremental or piecemeal urbanization.  Municipalities in the more rural areas surrounding Paris are facing the all-too pervasive phenomenon known in France as “mitage,” by which agricultural and natural lands are endangered by the progressive increase of small pockets of illegal or unlawful land uses, including:

• Illegal dumping of waste into the natural environment in such places as rural paths, creeks, streams, fallow lands, and moors.
• The construction or expansion of dwellings and buildings built without permit, in violation of local ordinances, zoning and land use plans.
• The unregulated alteration of land, including forest clearing, fence installation, and infilling.
• Unauthorized settlements of trailers, bungalows and other make-shift housing.

SAFER may find it useful to compare how the problem of piecemeal urbanization has been addressed in the Seattle area, the Puget Sound region, the State of Washington, and/or the Pacific Northwest.  Please feel free to email solovylaw@earthlink.net to provide SAFER with information regarding local or regional methods of addressing piecemeal urbanization.

Vanderbilt University offers a 1-year residential fellowship for a scholar interested in participating in a broadly interdisciplinary seminar entitled, “Telling Stories: Modes, Media, and Meanings.” The fellowship pays a stipend of $50,000 and offers additional benefits. The seminar is co-directed by Vanderbilt University faculty members Laura Carpenter (sociology) and Catherine Molineux (history).

This is a broad call for scientifically-sound research and practice projects that will develop information, test strategies, and provide evidence that can be used by communities to enhance their resilience to the adverse impacts of climate change, severe weather, and major environmental disasters, such as oil spills, in ways that also improve well-being. Grants will support the development of research and practices that focus on the human dynamics of resilience, specifically, in projects that enhance community resilience and well-being by accounting for the influence of social, cultural, and health factors on a community’s capacity to adapt and thrive as part of efforts to mitigate and respond to the adverse impacts of climate change, severe weather, and major environmental disasters.