EVENTS
Monday, August 28, 2-3:30 PM. Save Our Senior Non-Citizens: The Extension of Old Age Assistance to Immigrants in the United States, 1935-1971, with Cybelle Fox. 402 Barrows Hall.
Monday, August 28, 2-3:30 PM: “Racial Bias in Bail Decisions” with Will Dobbie, Princeton University 648 Evans Hall
August 31 | 5-7 p.m. Global Health and the Future Role of the United States. With Dr. Mike Merson, Wolfgang Joklik Professor of Global Health, Duke University and Amie Batson, Chief Strategy Officer; Vice President, Strategy and Learning, PATH. Moderator: Lia Fernald, Professor, UC Berkeley School of Public Health. | David Brower Center, Goldman Theater, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
September 1 | 12-1 p.m. Labor Lunch Seminar: “Top Earnings Inequality and the Gender Pay Gap” with Nicole Fortin, The University of British Columbia. | 648 Evans Hall
EVENTS
Monday, August 28, 2-3:30 PM. Save Our Senior Non-Citizens: The Extension of Old Age Assistance to Immigrants in the United States, 1935-1971, with Cybelle Fox. 402 Barrows Hall.
Monday, August 28, 2-3:30 PM: “Racial Bias in Bail Decisions” with Will Dobbie, Princeton University 648 Evans Hall
August 31 | 5-7 p.m. Global Health and the Future Role of the United States. With Dr. Mike Merson, Wolfgang Joklik Professor of Global Health, Duke University and Amie Batson, Chief Strategy Officer; Vice President, Strategy and Learning, PATH. Moderator: Lia Fernald, Professor, UC Berkeley School of Public Health. | David Brower Center, Goldman Theater, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
September 1 | 12-1 p.m. Labor Lunch Seminar: “Top Earnings Inequality and the Gender Pay Gap” with Nicole Fortin, The University of British Columbia. | 648 Evans Hall
SAVE THE DATE
Thursday, September 7 | 6:30-8:30pm and Friday, September 8 | 8:30am-5:30pm. UC Berkeley Program for the Medical Humanities presents: “Medicine and Violence”. Join an interdisciplinary gathering of medical professionals and humanities and legal scholars to explore the various ways in which health care and violence interrelate. Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley. For room numbers, complete program, and free registration link, please visit the website. Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine. Townsend Center Geballe Room, Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley.
FELLOWSHIPS
UCGHI 2017-18 GloCal Health Fellowship (http://ucghi.universityofcalifornia.edu/fellowships/glocal-health-fellowship) The GloCal Health Fellowship Training Program has four principal components:
- Research Project- 12-months, at 1 of 20 international partner sites
- Mentorship – A strong, interdisciplinary mentored research experience
- Global Health Education – online or onsite courses
- Career Development to attain short-term goals & transition to the next stage
Fellowships, begin in July, and provide:- 12 consecutive months of stipend support
- Health insurance
- Modest research training costs (approximately $15,000)
- Travel costs to and from the international field site
- Support for online courses
- A weeklong orientation at the NIH in Washington, DC
National Science Foundation (NSF):
1. FAQs for Applicants to the Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
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2. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF) Program
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF) Program
Available Formats:
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CONFERENCES
The 2017 APDU Annual Conference September 13-14, 2017, in Arlington VA has something for everyone: federal workers, researchers, businesspeople, and so on. The conference is also designed to be valuable for both early-career professionals and senior leadership.
For ‘early career’ professional – someone with less than five years’ experience as a data scientist or data program manager – this program is valuable because it offers you a way to:
- Understand emerging trends and recent innovations in the creation and dissemination of public data
- Learn about data visualization techniques, new strategies for linking (public and private) administrative data with statistical survey data, and the latest efforts that use innovative linked data for research and evaluation
- Gain first adopter knowledge about new data sources, efforts to improve data access and quality, as well as challenges facing the federal statistical system
- Meet leaders in the federal statistical system and learn how they are responding to the needs of data users, producers, and intermediaries
- Find out about emerging data data tools and sources, research methods, business opportunities, and audiences for your research
As a data leader – someone who cares about our federal data system and manages a data enterprise either as an experienced user, a steward of a public data set, or as an intermediary that manages the storage and dissemination of multiple data sets – you need to stay on top of key trends in the profession. This program offers you an opportunity to:
- Interact with your colleagues among the leadership at federal, state and local agencies, foundations, businesses, research organizations, and universities
- Spread the word about your organization’s efforts!
- Get updates on news from the key data agencies and efforts to organize and support existing and emerging Administrative Data Research Facilities, collaboration among federal Chief Data Officers, planning for the 2020 Census, data dissemination efforts underway at all of the federal statistical agencies, and much more
- Gain insights from the authors of the Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking report – set to be released a week before the conference
- Learn more about efforts in Washington to support the federal data agencies, their missions, and their budgets so that you have the resources and data you need to do your job effectively
Every year, professionals of all types come to the APDU Conference and leave with more knowledge, insights, and connections – join us! Register today. #APDU2017.
Call for Participation at the 2017 Annual Conference of the Pacific Chapter of American Association for Public Opinion Research (PAPOR), December 14-15, 2017. Marines’ Memorial Club & Hotel, San Francisco, CA. The 2017 PAPOR annual conference welcomes paper, poster, and panel proposals on any topic related to public opinion research, theory, or methodology. We welcome participation from all sectors engaged in public opinion and public policy research including academia, government, private sector, and non-profit. In addition to presenting at the conference, authors will have the option to post accepted papers online at www.papor.org after the conference.
Proposal Submission Process: Submitted abstracts for papers and posters must be no longer than 300 words. Proposals should include complete contact information for each author and presenter including name, mailing address, telephone number, and e-mail address. All abstracts must be received no later than 5pm PDT on October 14, 2017. Please submit abstracts as electronic attachments via email to 2017 Conference Chair, Mira Norton at confchair@papor.org.
Student Paper Competition: Undergraduate and graduate student participation is highly encouraged. Email your paper by midnight (PDT) on October 14, 2017 to PAPOR Student Paper Chair, Mingnan Liu at studentpaper@papor.org. Please include your name, mailing address, telephone number, and e-mail address. Entries should not exceed 30 pages total. The first-place winner receives a cash award and some travel expenses and the first- and second-place winners receive a one-year complimentary PAPOR membership and a spot on the annual conference program.
Panel Discussants: If you are willing to serve as a discussant for one of the panels, please email a proposal detailing the suggested panel topic to confchair@papor.org. In addition, submissions should list the potential speakers, their areas of expertise, and tentative titles of presentations.
Sponsorhip: If you or your organization is interested in becoming a PAPOR sponsor, we have several different “levels” of sponsorship for you to consider. Sponsorship is a great way to publicize your organization and to support public opinion research. Please contact our Sponsorship Chair, Ginger Blazier, at sponsorship@papor.org for more information on how to become a PAPOR sponsor.
Please send your papers, posters, and/or panel proposals to me before October 15, 2017.
CALLS FOR PAPERS
Poverty and the Family – 2018 Salzburg Workshop in Philosophy and Poverty is calling for papers for its two-day workshop, May 17 – 18, 2018 at the University of Salzburg. Papers can be on any philosophical inquiry into the subject of poverty. Preference will be given to scholars at an early stage in their career and papers that relate to the workshop’s topic of “Poverty and the Family.” Anyone interested must submit a 750-word abstract by Dec. 15, 2017. Read more here: http://www.workshop-poverty-philosophy.org/.
Methodology of Longitudinal Surveys – Mol2 – Understanding Society. The organisers of the Second International Conference on the Methodology of Longitudinal Surveys invite submissions of contributed paper proposals. Contributed papers will be presented orally at the conference at the University of Essex, UK, 25-27 July 2018 and may be eligible for submission to a special journal issue. Contributed papers should address methodological issues that are specific to the context of longitudinal data collection. By this, we mean any type of quantitative survey that involves collecting information on multiple occasions from the same subjects. The contributed papers presented at the conference will complement the monograph papers that we have already selected following the earlier call for monograph proposals. We received a large number of high-quality proposals for monograph contributions are excited about the ones that we have accepted.
Abstracts of not more than 400 words should be uploaded to the conference web portal by 8 December 2017. Please ensure that the abstract states clearly the topic, how you will address it, and what data or methods you will use. Informal enquiries regarding possible submissions can be sent to the conference Chair, Peter Lynn, plynn@essex.ac.uk. Authors will be informed whether or not their submission has been accepted by 26 January 2018. The presenting author of a contributed paper is required to register for the conference by 1 June 2018. Further details about topics and other information about the conference can be found at: https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/mols2.
WORKSHOPS AND TRAINING
Webinar: Aug 30, 2017, 2-3 PM EDT. Introduction to the American Community Survey. Discover the detailed social, economic, and housing statistics that the American Community Survey (ACS) provides for every community every year. You will learn about basics of the yearly estimates and datasets produced from the ACS, resources available on our website, and how to access ACS data products through a variety of tools, with special emphasis on American FactFinder.
GRADUATE STUDENTS
In September 2003, Professor Irene Bloemraad (Sociology) established the IIW with funding from the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE). Now co-headed by Professor Bloemraad and Professor Cybelle Fox, the workshop welcomes research on migration, immigrants and their children, in the US and around the world, from diverse disciplinary and methodological approaches.
Work Discussed: During every workshop, we will discuss two papers no more than 25 pages in length (they can range from research proposals to articles in preparation for publication). One respondent will be in charge of providing detailed comments for each paper, and all workshop members can provide additional feedback. Papers are sent out the Monday before the workshop meets to allow all participants ample time to read through the work in progress. Light lunch is usually provided. Below is the schedule for the upcoming fall semester, so you can plan ahead for the workshop meetings. During this semester we will meet every other Monday from 12:00 to 1:30PM at 420 Barrows (the room with books). The specific dates are:
- September 11th
- September 25th
- October 9th
- October 23rd
- November 6th
- November 20th
- December 4th
Graduate students are encouraged to subscribe to the workshop as a one-unit class (Sociology 292) using CCN 20455 (see below for requirements).
Workshop Requirements
Units and requirements: You can come without officially enrolling, but you are encouraged to register for this 1 unit P/NP class through the Sociology department. In order to pass, you are required to either:
- come to most sessions, OR
- present a work in progress, OR
- act as a discussant for one of the papers.
Please circulate this email widely! If you have any questions, please e-mail Alicia Sheares at amsheares@berkeley.edu. Alicia will send out the first submission on Monday, September 4th. If you are not currently a part of the immigration workshop list serve and you plan to attend the first meeting, please e-mail Alicia directly so you can receive this submission.
D-LAB
D-lab sponsors workshops and training in courses, one-on-one consulting for faculty, grad students and undergraduates, and working groups of focuses topics. Upcoming workshops include R, Stata, qualitative methods, and social science methods. One-on-one consulting also available. For more information and registration, visit http://dlab.berkeley.edu.
JOBS
All jobs and postdoctoral fellowships are posted as we receive them on the Demography Department Jobs Listserv, http://lists.demog.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/jobs. This list advertises positions of all sorts relevant for social and behavioral scientists with advanced degrees.