Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology

Research Scientist

The eScience Institute has an outstanding opportunity for a Research Scientist.

The mission of the eScience Institute at the University of Washington is to engage researchers across disciplines in developing and applying advanced computational methods and tools to real world problems. With funding granted by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2013, we have been significantly advancing our mission.

We are seeking to enhance our impact in computational social sciences, made possible due to additional funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Though the eScience research staff includes researchers from many fields, including physical, mathematical and biological sciences, the Research Scientist 4 will expand the footprint of our engagement in the social sciences. This position is part of an ongoing collaboration between the eScience Institute and the Gates Foundation, and expands the research that we can do through this collaboration. The position also relates closely to two other initiatives on campus: the inter-departmental Urban@UW initiative and the Cascadia Urban Analytics Cooperative.

This position will collaborate with colleagues who are both researchers at UW (professors, other professional staff, postdocs, and graduate and undergraduate students) and users (domain experts within .gov and NGO stakeholders). Because this effort is both a research project and a technology and training delivery project, its requirements can change rapidly. The successful candidate will need to adapt to different roles and responsibilities as requirements change, and act as a key point of contact for the project across different organizational units.

Visit the link below to learn more about the position and apply.

Sociotechnical Faculty

The University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies (iSchool) invites applications from sociotechnical scholars at all ranks. We seek exceptional candidates with high quality research and publication records in interdisciplinary fields that include or blend social and behavioral sciences, economics, law, and/or human-computer-interaction.

We are growing quickly, and so we seek to hire faculty members conducting a broad range of sociotechnical research. We are especially interested in the following specializations, but strong candidates in any area are encouraged to apply:

Privacy and security
Community engagement, such as open data, citizen or open science
Digital government, information and civic challenges, urban computing

We are also particularly interested in scholars who study phenomenon beyond the individual level (including, but not limited to group, organizational, national, and societal levels), who apply theory to sociotechnical research problems, and who complement and extend existing research being done in the iSchool. We welcome applications from scholars conducting research grounded in theory, rooted in empirical methods, and producing broadly applicable and transferable results that augment policy, knowledge, and practice.

Competitive applicants will possess an outstanding track record of scholarly achievement, a strong potential for developing a thriving collaborative and highly interdisciplinary research program, a firm commitment to graduate and undergraduate education, and a commitment to service in the iSchool.

Our College is committed to increasing the diversity of the campus community. Candidates who can contribute to the climate of inclusivity are encouraged to identify their experience in this area.

Interested applicants should apply at the link below.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Educational Studies & Social Science Research Methods

Trinity College, located in the capital city of Hartford, Connecticut, invites applications for a three-year visiting assistant professor in Educational Studies and Social Science Research Methods. This new position is designed to enhance undergraduate teaching and learning in qualitative and quantitative methods in the interdisciplinary Educational Studies Program and the Sociology Department, and the College at large.

The successful candidate will teach four courses per year: introductory Educ 200: Analyzing Schools, Socl 201: Research Methods in Social Science, a mid-level Sociology of Education seminar, and either the Educ 400: Senior Research Seminar or another elective. In addition, the candidate will provide support for social science teaching, learning, and research, as part of a larger team of professionals. Candidates must be ABD or hold a PhD in education, sociology, or a related field, with college-level teaching experience.

Visit the link below to learn more and apply. Review of applications will begin on January 2nd and continue until position is filled.

Epidemiologist

The CDC is accepting applications for a GS-13 epidemiologist in the Behavioral and Clinical Surveillance Branch in the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention. This position will close on December 5, 2017.

The overarching mission of the Behavioral and Clinical Surveillance Branch is to guide HIV prevention and care by identifying, monitoring, and reporting the drivers of the HIV epidemic. This position has two vacancies that will be situated in the Behavioral Surveillance Team and will support the National HIV Behavioral Surveillance (NHBS) system and other team projects. NHBS is CDC’s comprehensive system for conducting bio-behavioral surveillance among persons at highest risk for HIV infection in the United States. NHBS is implemented in metropolitan statistical areas with the highest disease burden. NHBS survey and testing activities are conducted in rotating annual cycles of surveillance among men who have sex with men, persons who inject drugs and heterosexuals at increased risk for HIV infection.

Desired qualifications include experience designing, overseeing, implementing, and conducting major scientific surveys/surveillance for HIV/AIDS or other infectious diseases and providing technical advice and assistance to national, state and local health agencies and other organizations. In addition to technical expertise, the position requires excellent oral and written communication skills, strong interpersonal skills, and preference for working in a team environment.

Professor of Middle Eastern Studies

New York University Abu Dhabi invites applications for an open rank faculty position in Middle Eastern studies for its Arab Crossroads program. We are searching for faculty in all disciplines (particularly Anthropology, Economics, Politics or Sociology) whose research and teaching focuses on the contemporary society and politics of the Gulf and the Middle East. We expect successful candidates to commence their appointment September 1, 2018, subject to final budget approval.

The position will be in the Arab Crossroads Program, as a joint appointment across the divisions of Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences. Please visit the NYU Abu Dhabi Arab Crossroads program website for a description of its innovative curriculum: http://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/academics/academic-divisions/multidisciplinary-programs/acs.html

The Arab Crossroads Program forms part of a large, interdisciplinary network of teaching and research in the areas of Middle Eastern Studies and the Islamic World within the division of Arts and Humanities at NYUAD. This network includes the Library of Arabic Literature, Library of Arabic Literature fellowships, Arabic Literature Online, the Humanities Research Fellowships in Gulf and Middle Eastern Studies, Arabic Language Program, Akkasah Center for Photography, Dhakira Center for Heritage Studies in the UAE, Tharawat Family Business Histories in the UAE, as well as a wide range of teaching and research in this area in other programs including Art and Art History, Film, History, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Theater (Arts and Humanities), and Economics, Political Science, Social Research and Public Policy (Social Sciences).

The review of applications will begin in December, and will continue on a rolling basis until the position is filled. Shortlisted candidates will be invited for campus visits to NYU Abu Dhabi in 2018. The excellent terms of employment are competitive and include generous start-up and on-going research funds, as well as housing subsidies and educational subsidies for children.

To ensure full consideration by the search committee, applicants must submit their curriculum vitae, statements of research and teaching interests, two course outlines and two representative writing samples. To complete the online process, applicants will be prompted to enter the names and email addresses of at least three referees. Each referee will be contacted to upload his or her reference letter. Senior candidates are not required to submit references at this time. If you have any questions, please e-mail philip.kennedy@nyu.edu

Social Research and Public Policy Professor

New York University Abu Dhabi invites applications from senior scholars – at the rank of associate and full professors – and exceptional early career scholars to join its program in Social Research and Public Policy (SRPP). We will consider applicants with active and cutting-edge research agendas in all areas of theoretically informed social research, but will pay special attention to scholars with interests in the sociology of development, the Global South, as well as in race and/or gender. Candidates are expected to be outstanding scholars with exceptional productivity in their fields, and to act as inspirational teachers and mentors to undergraduate students. Successful candidates are expected to begin their appointment September 1, 2019, subject to final budgetary approval. Applications from scholars with backgrounds and experiences different to those represented in the program and/or women are especially encouraged.

NYU Abu Dhabi is quickly establishing itself as an interdisciplinary hub of innovative social inquiry with a global perspective. The SRPP program is at the center of this activity. To learn more about the division of social science, please visit: http://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/academics/academic-divisions/social-science.html. For a description of SRPP’s innovative curriculum, please see: http://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/academics/academic-divisions/social-science/undergraduate-programs/social-research-and-public-policy.html

Application Instructions

Review of applications will begin in December, and will continue until the positions are filled. Applicants must submit their cover letter, curriculum vitae, statements of research and teaching interests, and representative publications. To complete the online process, applicants will be prompted to enter the names and email addresses of at least three referees. Each referee will be contacted to upload their reference letter. Senior candidates are not required to submit references at this time. If you have any questions, please email nyuad.socialscience@nyu.edu.

Simpson Center Workshop: Subaltern Lifeworlds in Urban and Rural Informal Economies in India

For a Poetics of Subaltern Life-Worlds: New Research, New Imaginaries of Informal Economies in Contemporary India

December 1-2, 2017

More than ninety percent of India’s workforce finds uncertain livelihoods through informal work: agricultural labor, construction, street vending, transportation, waste picking, sex work, and domestic labor, to name but a few. While the employment challenge—10 million jobs a year—that confronts countries like India is humbling, the existing scholarship in fields like labor studies, urban geography, rural sociology, and feminist studies has been resolutely economistic. With few exceptions, it has had little to say about the experiences, life-making activities (poïesis), and desires of the men and women, many from historically subordinated caste groups, who toil in India’s cities even as they remain enmeshed with ongoing lives in their villages.

This workshop brings together researchers in the US and India who are breaking new ground in how to think about the contours of informal economies in India and beyond. We call for a radically new intellectual approach to the life-worlds of denizens of informal economies: specifically, a humanistic approach that does not take for granted commonly employed dualisms such as formal and informal, urban and rural, and production and reproduction.

1. Interiority of selfhood
2. Habitations of time and space
3. Entanglements of production and reproduction
4. Mutual imprint of the country and the city

The workshop includes comparative analyses of informality in the US, South Korea, and China. It concludes with a session on public scholarship and technologies of communication to communicate our research to concerned communities effectively. We plan to publish public-minded online essays after the workshop.

Schedule, speaker bios, and more information at the link below.

Software and Data Carpentry Workshops at eScience Institute

Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry are sibling non-profit volunteer organizations whose members teach researchers how to use computing tools and tools for management, analysis and visualization of data.

On January 8th-11th we will hold four half-day (9 AM – noon each day) Software and Data Carpentry workshops at the eScience Data Science Studio. The Software Carpentry workshop is focused on software tools to make researchers more effective, allowing them to automate research tasks, automatically track their research over time, and use programming in Python to accelerate their research, and make it more reproducible. The Data Carpentry workshop focuses on programming in R, on data processing, as well as data visualization and data management.

These are two parallel tracks, and participants can only participate in one or the other.

For details, and to register for one of the upcoming workshops, please refer to the following web-page: https://uwescience.github.io/2018-01-08-uw/

Please email Ariel Rokem (arokem@uw.edu) with any questions about the workshop.

BIGSSS-LIVES Winter School on Life Course

The National Centres of Competence in Research (NCCR) LIVES – Overcoming Vulnerability: life course perspectives – and the Bremen International Graduate School in Social Sciences (BIGSSS) are pleased to announce the opportunity for Ph.D. students and young researchers to participate in the LIVES Winter School on Life Course. The course will take place in Bremen from 12 to 18 March 2018.

The LIVES Course Winter School is a one-week intensive program on life course research. Two interdisciplinary workshops (drawing from sociology, social psychology, life-span psychology, social demography, social policy) will take place in small groups of 6 to 8 students. Three to four experts will lead each two different research workshops, with the aim of preparing collaborative articles through a process of learning by doing. The 2018 workshops are:

Social networks, social participation and life transitions: a life course perspective with Eric Widmer (Geneva University), Karin Wall (University of Lisbon), Rita Gouveia (University of Lisbon) and Marie Baeriswyl (Geneva University)
How do values and political orientations develop across the life-span? with Klaus Boehnke (Jacobs University), Regina Arant (Jacobs University), Maria Pavlova (University of Vechta) and Clemens Lechner (GESIS, Mannheim)

Application deadline: December 29, 2017

Ali Rowhani-Rahbar Discusses Planning for Gun Violence

Affiliate Ali Rowhani-Rahbar, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, co-authored a recent Crosscut article that addresses planning for gun violence in light of recent shootings across the nation. Within the past two months alone, there have been shootings in Las Vegas, San Antonio, and now Red Bluff, California. According to the authors, “We have become so inured to gun violence that we plan around it instead of planning to stop it.” One such effort to plan around gun violence is Stop the Bleed, a national campaign aimed at providing education and equipment that will enable individuals to stop fatal bleeding. The authors underscore the importance of the initiative’s efforts to empower individuals to take potentially life-saving action in the event of gun violence. “This is not a call to live in fear, but a call to live with awareness,” they said. “We are not helpless in the face of gun violence, and bleeding control is a step to reducing its harm.” The full article is available below.