In a large partnership CSDE Affiliates Jane Simoni and Grace John-Stewart along with co-authors publish their newest article “Fertility Desire and Associations with Condomless Sex, Antiretroviral Adherence, and Transmission Potential in a Cohort of Kenyan Women Living with HIV in Sero-discordant Relationships: A Mixed Methods Study“, in Aids and Behavior. This study utilizes mixed methods to study a cohort of 148 Kenyan women in serodiscordant relationships. (read more)

In their most recent article “The National Transportation and Exposure Map“, CSDE Affiliate Edmund Seto describes the development and public availability of the National Transportation Noise Exposure Map. The goal of the authors was to estimate population exposures to various noise levels at the census tract level in the United States by utilizing a map created by overlaying the Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ National Transportation Map with 5-year block group population estimates from the American Community Survey, and aggregating exposed population estimates to the census tract level. (read more)

Check out CSDE Affiliate Lashawnda Pittman’s new book “Grandmothering While Black: A Twenty-First-Century Story of Love, Coercion, and Survival“! In this book Lashawnda explores the complex lives of Black grandmothers raising their grandchildren in skipped-generation households (consisting only of grandparents and grandchildren). She prioritizes the voices of Black grandmothers through in-depth interviews and ethnographic research at various sites—doctor’s visits, welfare offices, school and day care center appointments, caseworker meetings, and more. (read more)

CSDE Affiliate Erin Casey recently published an article in the Journal of American College Health entitled “Sexual assault and harassment victimization and post-assault help-seeking among undergraduate students: Comparing residential and nonresidential campuses“. Using data from a Web-based campus climate survey, this study explores sexual assault and sexual harassment victimization rates, victimization characteristics, and post-assault help-seeking across nonresidential and residential students in a campus system that contains both residential and nonresidential campuses. (read more)

CSDE Trainee Lauren Woycynzynski and colleagues at UCLA were recently highlighted in the New York Times for their newly released database on COVID-related prison deaths.  The data and the story in the New York Times observe how COVID-related deaths dramatically surged inside U.S. prisons. Thank you to Lauren and team for this invaluable research and data!  Earlier efforts on this project also benefited from CSDE Trainee Neal Marquez.  Kudos all around!

Register for the CSDE Workshop on Bayesian Statistics on March 2nd, 2023 from 10:00AM-12:00 PM! This workshop is going to be hosted by our very own CSDE Training Director Jessica Godwin and won’t be something you want to miss! (read more)

The Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences Seminar Series presents Frederick Shic, Associate Professor University of Washington/Seattle Children’s Research Institute, will give a seminar titled, “Opportunities in Everyday Technology Research for Children with Autism” on n Wednesday, March 1st at 12:30 pm. This seminar will be offered as a hybrid session. Below please find the abstract and information about joining in-person or on Zoom. (read more)

The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) have issued a Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) addressing Research on Gender Measurement (Administrative Supplement).  These administrative supplements will support research on the use of gender terminology (e.g., woman, man, nonbinary) for measuring current gender identity as part of the two-step method of data collection (sex assigned at birth and current gender identity) within the original scope of the parent grant. (read more)

The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) is issuing this Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-HD-23-001.html to invite applications to Identify mechanisms, causes, correlates, and modifiable risk factors underlying recent trends in mortality during adolescence and young adulthood.  (read more)

On February 14, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) held a webinar marking the release of a report on Advancing Antiracism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in STEMM Organizations. The report aims to identify structural barriers to participation in science, technology, engineering, math, and medicine (STEMM) by minoritized individuals and provides recommendations on how the scientific community can instigate meaningful changes to remove these barriers and instill principles of antiracism

CSDE is available to provide matching in-kind or monetary support to accompany a submission to other on-campus funding mechanism, such as Earthlab, Population Health Initiative, Royalty Research FUnd, or Urban@UW All projects inquiring about matching funds, must have a CSDE affiliate who is a UW faculty and will be listed as a PI or co-PI. Note that we strongly suggest contacting either Development Core Director (Steven Goodreau) or CSDE Director (Sara Curran) to discuss possibilities for your specific proposal before submission. (read more)

Population Research Planning Grants (PRPGs) are designed to provide in-kind support and/or funds of up to $25k* to support a wide array of activity types throughout the development of a research project. As part of our mission to complement, rather than duplicate, other campus opportunities, we will consider funding many more small and large types of activities that will lead to research products (publications, grants, data access sites and data documentation, code repositories, etc.). (read more)

Grants for Research in Gun Violence Prevention (due 3/1/23)

Grandmothers Against Gun Violence seeks to support emerging scholars in gun violence prevention and to solicit research proposals for projects within Washington State.  Awards range from $15k-$75k.

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Funding Opportunity @ Responsible Computing Challenge (Due 3/1/23)

The Mozilla Foundation has launched the Responsible Computing Challenge to advance the redesign of undergraduate curricula and pedagogy to support a next generation of technologists. The challenge awards range from $100k to $150k.

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Summer Institute in Migration Research Methods at UC Berkeley (Due 3/1/2023)

The 2023 Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Institute is hosting its fifth summer institute.  Next summer it will focus on interviewing for migration research.  Several UW faculty and students have participated over the years and it has proven to be an important and productive program.  Here is a link to the program details.

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U.S. Policy Communication Training Program (Due 3/5/2023)

The training program has two main components. The week-long workshop in Washington, D.C. in June 2023 focuses on the role of research on the policy process and techniques for effective communication of research findings to decisionmakers, media, and nontechnical audiences. During the 2023-2024 academic year, participants will apply the lessons learned during the workshop in their preparation of two policy communication materials (for example, policy briefs, blogs, or op-eds) based on their dissertations or related research topics.

The “Royalty” in RRF is the royalty and licensing fee income generated by the University’s technology transfer program. These funds are awarded as small grants to advance new directions in research, particularly: In disciplines for which external funding opportunities are minimal, and/or For faculty who are junior in rank, and/or In cases where funding may provide unique opportunities to increase applicants’ competitiveness for subsequent funding. (read more)

Join the National Academies Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM)  for Integrating the Human Sciences to Scale Societal Responses to Environmental Change: A Workshop to explore the potential for synthesizing the human sciences (e.g., social, behavioral, psychological, political, organizational) to develop critical societal capacities for and responses to climate change. The workshop will take place March 23-23th at 4:00 PM ET.

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Gathering Collaborative & King County Announce $25m Grant Program to Address Racism is a Public Health Crisis (Due 3/26/2023)

The Gathering Collaborative along with King County government invites community and business partners across the region to join in continuing the critical work to undo the harms of systemic racism, which was declared a public health crisis by King County in 2020. Envisioned jointly by community members and King County in August 2021 and launched in March 2022, The Gathering Collaborative is a group of trusted community members who are involved to uplift Black and Indigenous people and their communities – those who are most directly harmed by racism.

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Request for Information (RFI): Future Directions in Violence Against Women Research (Due 3/31/2023)

This Request for Information (RFI) is intended to gather public input on priority scientific directions in violence against women (VAW) research. This includes cisgender, transgender, and gender-diverse persons who identify as a woman or girl, as well as other individuals assigned female at birth but who may not identify as a woman or girl. Specifically, the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), the Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH), the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

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Apply for the 2023 ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods! They will be offering over 90 courses and lectures in research methods. Nearly all of which will be offered both in person and online live with recordings available. On campus housing is available for the 3-Week Sessions and Intersession! For more information, look here!

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*New*Workshop Alert! ICPSR Panel Study of Income Dynamics (6/12 – 6/19/2023)

This five-day workshop will orient participants to the content and structure of the core PSID interview, its special topics modules, and its supplemental studies, including the Child Development Supplement (CDS), the Transition into Adulthood Supplement (TAS), and the 2013 Rosters and Transfers Module. In addition we will discuss topics including the recently-released genomics data collected from children and primary caregivers in CDS as well as new data files which explain family relationships and demographic characteristics over time.

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Demography Events

• CSSS Seminar on “Opportunities in Everyday Technology Research for Children with Autism” (3/1/2023 @ 12:30 PM) 3/1/2023      Where:  409 Savery Hall, University of Washington
• Summer Institute in Migration Research Methods at UC Berkeley (Due 3/1/2023)     Where:  University of California, Berkeley
  (Deadline: 3/1/2023)
• Call for Panel Submissions for IAPHS Fall Conference (Due 3/6/2023) (Deadline: 3/6/2023)
• NASEM to Host Public Workshop on Integrating the Human Sciences to Scale Societal Responses to Environmental Change (3/23 – 3/24/2023)
• 2023 ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods (Beginning 06/19/2023)

Conferences & Calls for Papers

• Call for Panel Submissions for IAPHS Fall Conference (Due 3/6/2023) (Deadline: 3/6/2023)
• 20th Annual West Coast Nonprofit Data Conference! (4/21/2023) (Deadline: 4/21/2023)
• Society for Prevention Research Annual Meeting Washington, DC
• National Institute of Justice National Research Conference Arlington, VA
• American Association for Public Opinion Research Annual Conference Philadelphia, PA
• American Council of Learned Societies Annual Meeting Philadelphia, PA
• 2023 Social Science Advocacy Day Washington, DC
• American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting Chicago, IL
• Midwest Political Science Association Conference Chicago, IL
• Population Association of America Annual Meeting New Orleans, LA
• Southwestern Social Science Association Annual Meeting Fort Worth, TX
• Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting Minneapolis, MN
• Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting Salt Lake City, UT
• Workshop Alert! ICPSR Panel Study of Income Dynamics (6/12 – 6/19/2023) Ann Arbor, Michigan

Funding

• Grants for Research in Gun Violence Prevention (due 3/1/23) (Deadline: 3/1/2023)
• NSF: Experiential Learning for Emerging and Novel Technologies (ExLENT) (Deadline: 3/2/2023)
• NSF: Analytics for Equity Initiative: Solicitation for Phase 1 Proposals (Deadline: 3/3/2023)
• The Office of Research Invites Applicants to Apply for the Royalty Research Fund Program for Spring 2023 (Deadline: 3/6/2023)
• APPLICATION OPEN – Graduate School International Research Fellowships for 2023-2024 (Deadline: 3/8/2023)
• NSF: Expanding AI Innovation through Capacity Building and Partnerships (Deadline: 3/13/2023)
• *New* The American Council of Learned Societies Opens Fellowship Opportunities (Due 3/15/2023) (Deadline: 3/15/2023)
• *New* The American Council of Learned Societies Opens Fellowship Opportunities (Due 3/15/2023) (Deadline: 3/15/2023)
• *New* Gathering Collaborative & King County Announce $25m Grant Program to Address Racism is a Public Health Crisis (Deadline: 3/26/2023)
• NIJ: W.E.B. Du Bois Program of Research on Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Justice System (4/24/2023) (Deadline: 4/24/2023)
• NSF/TIP: Accelerating Research Translation (ART) (Closes: 5/9/2023) (Deadline: 5/9/2023)
• William T. Grant Foundation: William T. Grant Scholars Program (Closes: 7/5/2023) (Deadline: 7/5/2023)
• Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Development and Preliminary Testing of Health-related Behavioral Interventions (Deadline: 9/27/2024)
• CBE Research Restart Funding University of Washington (Open until filled)
• NSF Funding to Support Research Relating to Preventing and Predicting Future Pandemics (Open until filled)
• The NIH Common Fund’s Community Partnerships to Advance Science for Society (ComPASS) (Open until filled)
• CBE Research Restart Funding University of Washington (Open until filled)
• Request for Proposals! Grand Challenges Global Call-to-Action Initiative (Open until filled)

Employment

• Postdoctoral Position (net worth poverty and child well-being) – Duke University (Deadline: 3/1/2023)
• Faculty Position (Environmental Behavioral Sciences) – Stanford Stanford, California (Deadline: 3/1/2023)
• Postdoctoral Fellow – GenderSci Lab Harvard (Deadline: 3/1/2023)
• Lecturer in Economics (Deadline: 3/1/2023)
• Postdocoral Position – UT Austin (marriage, family, and sexual relationships) Texas, UT Austin (Deadline: 4/15/2023)
• Survey Statistician – U.S. Census Bureau Maryland (Deadline: 5/1/2023)
• Survey Statistician – U.S. Census Bureau U.S. Census Bureau (Deadline: 5/1/2023)
• Demographer – UJA Federation of New York (Open until filled)
• University of South Carolina Seeking Two Tenure Track Positions (Open until filled)
• Postdoc position at Harvard University Harvard University (Open until filled)
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Network Science (IUNI Fellow) Indiana University Bloomington (Open until filled)
• Position in Statistical Analysis Center for Criminal Justice Research State of Washington (Open until filled)
• Research positions for Education Research and Data Center State of Washington (Open until filled)
• Senior Research Analyst – State of Washington State of Washington (Open until filled)
• Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation seeking new Research position! University of Washington (Open until filled)
• The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) Seeks Researchers! University of Washington (Open until filled)
• Labor Economists at EEOC (Open until filled)
• Several Job Opportunities at The Labor Center and California Policy Lab University of California, Berkely (Open until filled)
• Researcher – Center for Health Information and Analysis Boston, MA (Open until filled)
• School of Public Health at Texas A&M seeks qualified candidates for Instructional Track Professor Positions Texas A&M University (Open until filled)
• Tenure Track Faculty Position, Health and Illness Rowan University- New Jersey, United States (Open until filled)
• Assistant Professor in Rural Sociology Puerto Rico (Open until filled)
• King County Housing Hiring Senior Program Evaluation Analyst King County, Washington (Open until filled)
• US Census Bureau International Program Center (IPIC) hiring multiple positions! (Open until filled)
• Postdoctoral Scholar- University of Texas, Austin University of Texas, Austin (Open until filled)
• Applied Statistician, Assistant Professor- Tenure track New York University (Open until filled)
• Assistant Professor – Visual Arts and Culture University of Washington, Tacoma (Open until filled)
• Assistant Professor – Gerontology University of Massachusetts Boston (Open until filled)
• Assistant or Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, University of Washington,Washington (Open until filled)
• Assistant Professor – Quantitative Social Science Dartmouth College, New Hampshire (Open until filled)
• Assistant/Associate Professor – Global Studies Arizone State University (Open until filled)
• Postdoctoral Scholar in Poverty and Social Policy Columbia University (Open until filled)
• Research Scientist Postions for University of Washington (UW) Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity (CERSE) (Open until filled)
• Postdoctoral Fellowship – Cardiovascular and Chronic Disease Prevention, Standford Stanford University (Open until filled)
• Assistant Professor of Anthropology: Archaeological Study of Climate Change University of Washington, Seattle Campus (Open until filled)
• Research Faculty Positions – Evicted in Oregon Portland State University (Open until filled)
• Postdoctoral Research Position- Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Princeton University (Open until filled)
• Research Scientist- Center for Behavioral and Preventative Medicine, Brown University Providence, Rhode Island (Open until filled)
• Assistant Professor of Public Health – Wayne State University Wayne State University (Open until filled)
• Health Policy and Organization Faculty Positions – University of Alabama at Birmingham University of Alabama at Birmingham (Open until filled)
• Epidemiology Professor – Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans (Open until filled)
• Faculty Positions in Health Science and Technology at GIFT – Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Open until filled)
• Director of PhD Program, Health Sciences – College of Health and Human Sciences – Northern Illinois University Northern Illinois University (Open until filled)
• Department Chair, Epidemiology and Biostatistics – University of Arizona University of Arizona (Open until filled)
• Edgar Berman Chair of the Department of International Health – John Hopkins University John Hopkins University (Open until filled)
• Chair, Associate/Full Professor, Tenure Track, Biostatistics or Epidemiology – Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Oklahoma Health Services Center (Open until filled)
• Department Chair/Head – Public Health Sciences – Clemson University Clemson University (Open until filled)
• Inaugural Divisional Dean, School of Public and Population Health – Boise State University Boise State University (Open until filled)
• Tenure Track Public Health and MPH Program Director – University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis St. Louis, MO (Open until filled)
• Program Manager, Psychology and Health Sciences – University of California Berkeley University of California Berkeley (Open until filled)
• Executive Director, Computational Precision Health – University of California Berkeley University of California, Berkely (Open until filled)
• Postdoctoral Scholar- Columbia University, Poverty and Social Policy (Open until filled)
• Postdoctoral Position – University of Maryland, School of Medicine (Open until filled)
• Postdoctoral Scholar- Columbia University, Poverty and Social Policy (Open until filled)
• Postdoctoral Position – University of Maryland, School of Medicine (Open until filled)
• Full Stack Engineer -University of Washington University of Washington (Open until filled)
• Health Informatics Analyst- State of Hawaii Health Analytics Office Hawaii (Open until filled)
• Postdoctoral Researcher (Centre for Demographic Studies) – Barcelona, Spain
• Research Assistant Position (50% FTE) – Evans School of Public Policy and Governance UW (open until filled)
• Post-Doctoral Associate – University of Colorado Boulder (Open until filled)
• Research Fellowship - University of Washington, Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology (Open until filled)