EVENTS
Wednesday December 4, 12-1 p.m. “Do Conditional Cash Transfers Improve Economic Outcomes in the Next Generation? Evidence from Mexico” Susan Parker, Professor of Public Policy, University of Maryland School of Public Policy. Demography Seminar Room, 2232 Piedmont Avenue.
View past talks on our Population Sciences channel. The Brown Bag talks have been organized into playlists: http://bit.ly/2kZvaME.
Wednesday, December 4, 5-6:30 p.m. Teaching, Learning and Creating Change with Data: The Census and American Cultures. A Panel Discussion with Professors Victoria Robinson, Irene Bloemraad and Joanna Reed, who will discuss how their American Cultures/Sociology courses use census data, combined with original data, to better understand the needs of Bay Area communities. Students will be sharing their findings, and curator-led tours of the Power and the People exhibit will be offered. Doe Library, Morrison Room. Refreshments will be served.
Thursday, December 6 | 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Responding to Challenging Times: Immigrant Well-being and Access to Services. Irene Bloemraad. | 109 Moses Hall.
EVENTS
Wednesday December 4, 12-1 p.m. “Do Conditional Cash Transfers Improve Economic Outcomes in the Next Generation? Evidence from Mexico” Susan Parker, Professor of Public Policy, University of Maryland School of Public Policy. Demography Seminar Room, 2232 Piedmont Avenue.
View past talks on our Population Sciences channel. The Brown Bag talks have been organized into playlists: http://bit.ly/2kZvaME.
Wednesday, December 4, 5-6:30 p.m. Teaching, Learning and Creating Change with Data: The Census and American Cultures. A Panel Discussion with Professors Victoria Robinson, Irene Bloemraad and Joanna Reed, who will discuss how their American Cultures/Sociology courses use census data, combined with original data, to better understand the needs of Bay Area communities. Students will be sharing their findings, and curator-led tours of the Power and the People exhibit will be offered. Doe Library, Morrison Room. Refreshments will be served.
Thursday, December 6 | 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Responding to Challenging Times: Immigrant Well-being and Access to Services. Irene Bloemraad. | 109 Moses Hall.
OFF CAMPUS
December 4, 2019, 12:00 PM-1:30 PM. “Uses and misuses of DNA methylation to explain health inequalities” Led by Dr. David Rehkopf, Associate Professor of Medicine, Primary Care and Population Health, Stanford University. UCSF Mission Hall, Room 1406. For more information including remote access: https://healthequity.ucsf.edu/
SAVE THE DATE
Wednesday, December 11, 5-7:30 PM. David Brower Center. John Weeks presents “The Future is a Foreign Country; We’ll Do Things Differently There” (Emeritus Geography and Director of the International Population Center, San Diego State U) and is joined by Hector Tomas “And Here We Stayed, And Here We Are: The Permanence of Latino Immigrant Emotionality in the U.S. Experience (UC Irvine, Journalism), with moderation by Irene Bloemraad (UC Berkeley, Sociology) and comments from Alex Aleinikoff University Professor, The New School Director, Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility and Andrea Westermann, Research Fellow and Head of Office, Pacific Regional Office of the German Historical Institute.
FUNDING
Research to Improve Native American Health (R21). Research can include: conducting secondary analysis of existing data, merge various sources of data to answer critical research questions, conduct pilot and feasibility studies and/or assess and validate measures that are being developed and/or adapted for use in NA communities. Next submission date is May 14, 2020. https://grants.nih.gov/grants/
Archiving and Documenting Child Health and Human Development Data Sets (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (PAR-20-064), Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to support the archiving and documentation of existing data sets within the scientific mission of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) in order to enable secondary analysis of these data by the scientific community. The highest priority is to archive original data collected with NICHD funding.
Request for Pilot Proposals – Network on Life Course Health Dynamics and Disparities in 21st Century America. Due Date: Friday, January 10, 2020 @ 5:00pm. The Network on Life Course Health Dynamics and Disparities in 21st Century America (NLCHDD), funded by the National Institute on Aging, invites interested researchers to submit pilot proposals that have the potential to better understand how health and mortality outcomes across the adult life course are shaped by US state contexts. For more information, visit: https://asi.syr.edu/the-
REQUEST FOR PROPOALS The new NIA-funded Interdisciplinary Network on Rural Population Health and Aging (INRPHA) invites investigators to submit proposals for pilot research that addresses key thematic priority areas (detailed below) related to U.S. rural population health and aging trends and disparities. Projects will begin June 1, 2020 and must be completed by May 31, 2021. For more information, download: https://csde.washington.edu/
CONFERENCES
Call for papers: The 10th Annual Methodology 2020 Workshops and the American Sociological Association Methods Section Mid-Year Meeting. The event will be held on the campus of the University of Arizona from March 20-22 at one of the most beautiful times of the year. Please note, it is possible to register and attend one or both session (i.e. The Arizona Methods Workshops or The Methodology Section Meeting). The workshop flier, registration information, and a call for papers can be found at https://sociology.arizona.edu/
The second international conference on Big Data Meets Survey Science (BigSurv20) is currently accepting abstracts and session proposals on the theme, “Continuing to Explore New Statistical Frontiers at the Intersection of Big Data and Survey Science.” The call for abstracts and session proposals closes on February 13, 2020. It will be held November 4-6, 2020, at Utrecht University, in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The conference offers an opportunity to address the ongoing paradigm shift in how researchers produce, analyze, and use statistics. The event is intended to foster communication, collaboration, and understanding between two groups: (1) computer and data scientists focusing on Big Data sources and analysis techniques, and (2) methodologists and social science researchers working with traditional sources of data collection and statistical analyses. By uniting efforts, we can identify and overcome academic divides and make unified “Big Survey Data” population inference a reality. Utrecht is located a convenient 25-minute train ride from Amsterdam airport, and has excellent train connections to the rest of Europe. For more information on the conference and submission of abstracts for consideration, visit https://www.bigsurv20.org/. Travel grants may be available for students.
CALL FOR ARTICLES
New Frontiers of Monetary Sanctions and Criminal Justice Debt Sociological Perspectives Call for Papers for 2020 Special Issue Guest Editor: Karin D. Martin (University of Washington) The early scholarship on monetary sanctions has reached a general consensus on several fronts. Monetary sanctions have been shown to exact sizable personal and social costs for people, often exceeding the bounds of proportionality in punishment. These sanctions are ubiquitous in American criminal justice. They occur at every jurisdictional level and can be originated by nearly any criminal justice entity therein, rendering the types and nature of monetary sanctions complex and idiosyncratic while simultaneously exacerbating and reifying disparities found throughout the criminal justice system. For more information, download: https://csde.washington.edu/
WORKSHOPS
Mixed Methods Research Training. Participants come to an in-person retreat to discuss their research project, have access to webinars and other resources, and are matched with mixed methods experts. Most travel costs are covered by the NIH-funded program. Applications due January 20, 2020. For more information and to apply see https://www.jhsph.edu/
The Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) will hold its eighth Annual Meeting on December 13, 2019, at the Wells Fargo Room, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. The event brings together stakeholders from academia, scholarly publishing, and policy to share knowledge and discuss the evolving movement toward research transparency and efforts to strengthen the standards of openness and integrity in the social sciences. Find the agenda here. The 2019 Annual Meeting will feature a keynote address by Elizabeth Marincola (African Academy of Sciences) on the AAS Open Research platform, a panel on the Pedagogy of Open Science, and presentations of selected meta-research from the Call for Papers on the following topics (a) Methods for Correcting Publication Bias and Specification Search; (b) Assessing the Effectiveness of Registries and Pre-Analysis Plans; (c) Developing and Assessing Open Science Policies and Interventions. The Annual Meeting is open to the public and free to attend. RSVP here to attend in person or follow the event live online at this link. Contact Aleksandar Bogdanoski (abogdanoski@berkeley.edu) with any questions.
ON THE WEB
2020 Census: Fact v Fiction: The FTC is partnering with the US Census Bureau to provide information about the real Census process versus scammers who might do dastardly things. Learn more here: https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/
D-LAB
Be sure to check their calendar by visiting the website, dlab.berkeley.edu. D-Lab offers training, individual consulting and data services for the UC Berkeley community – faculty to undergrads.
RELATED LISTS
JOBS
All jobs and postdoctoral fellowships are posted as we receive them on the Demography Department Jobs Listserv, http://lists.demog.berkeley.
MIGRATION MAILING LIST
Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative (BIMI.berkeley.edu) is a research center for the study of immigrants and immigration. BIMI has a mailing list which is where a good deal of immigration and migration announcements are posted, and only some of that material is posted on the PopSciences Weekly News. Sign up for it with this link
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH MAILING LIST
Tue$day Top Tip$ for SPH Research is a listserv with research funding opportunities and other information pertinent to public health researchers who are not necessarily population researchers. To subscribe, write to Dr. Lauren Goldstein, lhg@berkeley.edu.