Wondering how to deliver effective and engaging presentations about complex research topics? Need a refresher on best practices in public speaking?
In the first half of this Career Development Series event from the Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS), you’ll learn practical tips for crafting an elevator pitch, connecting with your audience, and developing a stage presence. In the second half, you’ll have a chance to workshop your elevator pitch and public speaking with seasoned experts.
By the end of this event, you will know how to:
- Build your base: Manage anxiety, develop your stage presence, and adapt to unexpected situations.
- Know your audience: Earn the trust of your audience and improve the reception of your message.
- Tell your story: Distill information using accessible language and connect to your audiences through storytelling.
This event is sponsored by ITHS. Seating is limited — please register below if you plan to attend.
Eric Waithaka, former CSDE Fellow and UW Social Work graduate, accepted a faculty position at George Mason University. He’ll be starting this fall as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work. He’ll bring a wealth of experience to the role from his graduate studies, which focused on intergenerational social and economic mobility during young adults’ transition to adulthood, specifically the role of family capital (resources) on young adults’ life outcomes. More information is available here in his dissertation.
Congratulations, Eric, and good luck with your new position!
Karen Fredriksen-Goldsen, CSDE Affiliate and Professor of Sociology at UW, recently published a variety of findings in The Gerontologist about elderly LGBT individuals and the issues they deal with as they age. The study is the first national survey of its kind, and it sheds important light on the unique health disparities the LGBT population faces.
“These articles provide the opportunity to consider how social, historical, and environmental contexts influence the health and well-being of LGBT older adults as we more forward in age-related research, services, and policies–especially if we are to understand the realities of older adulthood across diverse and vulnerable communities,” Fredriksen-Goldsen said.
You can read more about the scope of these studies below.
Lifespan and Healthspan: Past, Present, Promise
It is likely that increases in life expectancy at older ages will continue but life expectancy at birth is unlikely to reach very high levels unless there is a fundamental change in our ability to delay the aging process. We have yet to experience much compression of morbidity as the age of onset of most health problems has not increased markedly. In recent decades, there have been some reductions in the prevalence of physical disability and dementia. At the same time, the prevalence of disease has increased markedly, in large part due to treatment which extends life for those with disease. Compressing morbidity or increasing the relative healthspan will require “delaying aging” or delaying the physiological change that results in disease and disability. Significant improvement in health and increases in life expectancy in the United States could be achieved with behavioral, life style and policy changes that reduce socioeconomic disparities and allow us to reach the levels of health and life expectancy achieved in peer societies.
Eileen Crimmins is the AARP Professor of Gerontology in the Davis School of Gerontology at the University of Southern California. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a University Professor at USC. She is currently the director of the USC/UCLA Center on Biodemography and Population Health, one of the Demography of Aging Centers supported by the U.S. National Institute on Aging.
To schedule a meeting with Dr. Crimmins, click here.
Jacob Vigdor, CSDE Affiliate and Professor of Public Policy and Governance at UW, recently examined immigration patterns in an opinion piece he penned for the Seattle Times. Vigdor’s article highlights the slowing of cross-border movement between the United States and Mexico, reasons for the decline, and the implications of these trends for the president’s proposed border wall. The full article is available below.
Abstract: We know some things about data visualization, and we don’t know others. But it turns out that many of the things we think we know, we actually don’t. Much of what we believe about charts and visualization is based less on evidence and well-constructed science than we like to believe. Are bar charts always the best choice? Are embellishments bad? Are pie charts really evil? Is animation always distracting? When might it work?
Instead of well-run experiments and real evidence, many supposed rules are based on opinion, aesthetic judgments, and incomplete or oversimplified studies. You wouldn’t exactly know that from the level of conviction with which these things are often stated. In this talk, I will show you that some of the things we just assume to be true are actually wrong, many we don’t know about, and some that are, in fact, correct. But more than that, I want to draw your attention to the fact that there are many things we don’t really know – and show you how important it is to ask, how do we know that?
Robert Kosara is a research scientist at Tableau Software. His focus is on the communication of data through visualization and visual storytelling. Before joining Tableau in 2012, Robert was Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Robert received his MSc and PhD degrees in Computer Science from Vienna University of Technology (Austria). His blog, eagereyes.org, is one of the most popular and respected resources on data visualization.
We would like to share with our graduate networks some professional development opportunities spearheaded by the Race and Equity Initiative and campus partners. The leadership workshops are free and offer multiple sessions. These spots fill quickly (What I Said and What I Meant: Improving Cross Cultural Communication has already been filled).
Workshops offered in Winter and Spring 2017:
- Equity 101
- Leading with a Racial Equity Lens for Structural Transformation
- What I Said and What I Meant: Improving Cross Cultural Communication (all sessions full)
- Seeing the Water: Whiteness in Daily Life
To learn more and to register, visit the following link: https://www.washington.edu/raceequity/resources/leadership-workshops/
We are pleased to let you know that submissions are now being accepted for the Special Issue on “Aging & Public Health: Opportunities and Challenges“, publishing in Journal of International Medical Research (JIMR). The Special Issue will be guest edited by Sandul Yasobant of Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar, India.
If this sounds like the right fit for your research, we would be delighted to receive your paper for review.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Aging and healthcare
- Geriatric healthcare system
- End of life care
- Global health and aging
- Gerontology and geriatrics
- Health system responsiveness for the elderly
- Palliative care for the elderly
- Aging and transition of non-communicable diseases
- Disease burden and lifestyle of the elderly
- Quality of life and aging
- Occupation and aging
- Functional health and disability in aging
- Social and psychological issues of the elderly
- Aging policy and global health
Manuscripts should be submitted by 5 May 2017 in order to be considered.
If you are interested in submitting your paper, please read through the manuscript submission guidelines. For more information on publishing open access, visit our open access FAQ page.
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions about this Special Issue.
We look forward to receiving your submission.
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.
Click here to apply.