EVENTS
[All events are subject to change.]
Wednesday, February 26, 12:00 to 1:15 pm: Demography Brown Bag. “ Three Centuries of Comparative Demographic Analysis of Ancient Social Networks” Adam Anderson, Postdoctoral Fellow & Lecturer, Digital Humanities, UC Berkeley. 2232 Piedmont, Seminar Room.” Demography Department Seminar Room, 2232 Piedmont Avenue. Cookies and beverages served.
View past talks on our Population Sciences channel. The Brown Bag talks have been organized into playlists: http://bit.ly/2kZvaME.
Tuesday, February 25, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. SPH Brown Bag: Using mobile-GIS Apps to Collect Survey and Water Quality Data. Charlotte Smith, 5101 Berkeley Way West.
EVENTS
[All events are subject to change.]
Wednesday, February 26, 12:00 to 1:15 pm: Demography Brown Bag. “ Three Centuries of Comparative Demographic Analysis of Ancient Social Networks” Adam Anderson, Postdoctoral Fellow & Lecturer, Digital Humanities, UC Berkeley. 2232 Piedmont, Seminar Room.” Demography Department Seminar Room, 2232 Piedmont Avenue. Cookies and beverages served.
View past talks on our Population Sciences channel. The Brown Bag talks have been organized into playlists: http://bit.ly/2kZvaME.
Tuesday, February 25, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. SPH Brown Bag: Using mobile-GIS Apps to Collect Survey and Water Quality Data. Charlotte Smith, 5101 Berkeley Way West.
Wednesday-Thursday February 26-27, 9am-1pm. “Pathways to scientific teaching” (A certificate-awarding course on learner-centered teaching). PTOP (Postdoc Teaching Opportunities Program) invite you to participate in an exciting professional development/pedagogy course titled “Pathways to Scientific Teaching”. The course involves two parts: two half-day pedagogy seminars (lunch provided), and an optional two-hour peer-feedback session. Participants who attend both seminars and peer-feedback session will earn a Certificate in Learner-centered teaching from the VSPA office (great for your CV!) The course will introduce scientific teaching, which integrates the research model into learner-centered teaching approaches. Participants will gain hands-on experience in developing course materials. Diane Ebert-May, a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Plant Biology at Michigan State University, will teach the course. Registration Info: Registration is limited to 40 attendees. Please register via: https://tinyurl.com/ua5d5rk.
Thursday, February 27 | 4-5:30 p.m. ‘It hurts us that our people must work for global capital’: The Symbolic Politics of Out-Migration in Socialist Yugoslavia. Ulf Brunnbauer, Academic director of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Chair of History of Southeast and Eastern Europe, University of Regensburg. | 270 Stephens Hall.
SAVE THE DATE
Monday, March 2, 4-5 PM. The 2020 Martin Meyerson Berkeley Faculty Research Lectures. David Card, Class of 1950 Professor of Economics, “Are We Under-investing in Education?” In the Chevron Auditorium at International House, 2299 Piedmont Ave.
March 19, 2020, 12pm, Matrix On Point: Taxation and the 1%. With Emmanuel Saez, and Danny Yagan. 820 Barrows Hall.
FUNDING
NIA funding supplements on bioethical issues in aging research – reissue of an administrative supplement program for existing NIH grants to support research on bioethical issues that will inform future policy directions. Applicants may propose to examine novel bioethical research issues or challenges by requesting up to $100,000 in direct costs to add a one-year, bioethics-focused component to supplement their parent grant, regardless of whether that grant originally focused on bioethics. For more information, visit HERE.
Russell Sage Foundation Funding Opportunities in RSF Programs and Special Initiatives: The next letter of inquiry deadline is May 21, 2020, for the Behavioral Economics; Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration; and Social, Political, and Economic Inequality programs, as well as for the special initiative on Immigration and Immigrant Integration. View all funding deadlines and application guidelines.
WORKSHOPS & SYMPOSIA
NIMHD to Celebrate 10th Anniversary with Scientific Symposium: The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is hosting a scientific symposium titled Innovations to Promote Health Equity in honor of the institute’s 10th anniversary. The symposium will highlight new discoveries in minority health and health disparities research and will feature four panels focused on the following issue areas:
*Integrative Biological and Behavioral Sciences
*Community Health and Population Sciences
*Clinical and Health Services Research
*Multidisciplinary Intramural Research at NIMHD
The symposium will take place at the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland on March 3, 2020 and will be webcast live on the NIH website. Registration for the event is free and open to the public. More information and a draft agenda for the symposium is available on the NIMHD website.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) is seeking broad input on important new directions for health-related behavioral and social sciences research (BSSR). Specifically, OBSSR requests your input on research directions that will support the achievement of the scientific priorities in the OBSSR Strategic Plan 2022-2026 (see current strategic plan) and that will advance or transform the broader health impact of BSSR. OBSSR is interested in focusing on research directions that are trans-disease and cross-cutting in nature and address critical gaps in the field. The role of OBSSR is to coordinate and promote BSSR research across the NIH and assist NIH Institutes and Centers in developing research and training resources to advance the field. OBSSR supports a broad range of BSSR disease, condition, population, and setting specific priorities across the NIH covering the spectrum from basic to implementation science research. OBSSR would like input on the most important or cutting-edge, trans-disease research directions that would accelerate progress in these three strategic priority areas (see RFI for more information):
*Synergy in Basic and Applied BSSR
*BSSR Resources, Methods, and Measures
*Adoption of Effective BSSR in Practice
To ensure consideration, responses must be submitted by midnight (EST) March 29, 2020 through OBSSR’s crowdsourcing IdeaScale website. Once your IdeaScale account is created and you are logged in, you can submit an idea, browse and respond to comments that have already been submitted, and vote for other ideas.
OPPORTUNITIES
PRB’s annual Policy Communication Fellows program – Deadline extended. This program is a valuable opportunity for doctoral students from developing countries who plan to work in population and related fields. The Policy Communication Fellows program provides participants with an understanding of how research can inform social policy, and a detailed knowledge of different approaches to communicating research findings to non-specialists. The program will begin with a weeklong summer institute, held in Malawi, during which participants learn about how research influences the policy process and how to communicate research effectively. During the 2019-2020 academic year, participants will prepare several policy-oriented written products and receive mentorship from policy communication experts. We are accepting applications from citizens of developing countries who are researching family planning and related topics for their dissertation. The program gives priority to applicants who are between the third and fifth year of their doctoral program. Candidates accepted into the Policy Fellows program will be provided with travel, lodging, and per diem for the summer institute. The program is funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and for this reason we can only accept candidates that come from developing countries where USAID provides population and family planning funding. The deadline for applications is February 28, 2019 (note the new date). More information about the program and application process can be found on our recruitment page. Additional questions about the program can be directed to my attention at: policyfellows2019@prb.org.
Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Fellowship Application Deadlines: RSF’s visiting scholar program, established over thirty years ago, is a unique opportunity for social scientists to pursue research projects that investigate essential questions on social, economic, and political life in the U.S. while in residence in New York City. The program fosters the exchange of ideas in a vibrant interdisciplinary environment and promotes collaborations between researchers. Applications are reviewed by outside experts; final selections are made by RSF trustees. Applications for the 2021-2022 academic year will be accepted until June 25, 2020. View further information on the program, including eligibility requirements and application guidelines.
BIDS Data Science Fellowships – Call for applications. Successful applicants will be offered two-year appointments at BIDS beginning in the 2020 Fall Semester. Applications are due on April 1, 2020. BIDS takes a broad view of data science, and we welcome applicants with diverse and varied research interests — including researchers in the humanities and the social sciences, the life and physical sciences, and statistics and computer science — who are interested in expanding the frontiers of discovery through robust cross-disciplinary collaborations. We especially welcome applicants who share BIDS’ commitment to (1) developing and sustaining research software for data science and producing research results that are accurate, reliable, and reproducible and (2) understanding the ethical, legal and societal issues in the scope of data science. To be eligible to apply, applicants must have a doctoral or postdoctoral appointment in an academic department at UC Berkeley, LBNL or UCSF. For more information, visit: https://bids.berkeley.edu/
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Edge for Scholars, a website and newsletter for graduate students and assistant professors, is here: https://edgeforscholars.org/.
IAPHS Travel Scholarships: The Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science to the 2020 IAPHS Conference, theme: “Policies, Places, and Profits: Manufacturers of Illness and Health,” September 30 – October 2, 2020, Minneapolis, Minnesota. For more information, visit: https://iaphs.org/conference/
DATA
UCNets, the UC Berkeley Social Networks Study (R01 AG041955, Claude Fischer PI) consists of three waves of data collection from 2015-2018 of six San Francisco Bay Area counties, two age cohorts – 21-30 years old, and 50-70 years old – and is now available by request. We are in the process of making it available on NACDA/ICPSR, which will happen later this spring. Please write to Leora Lawton, llawton@berkeley.edu for more information. In addition, please visit the project website, ucnets.berkeley.edu.
D-LAB
Tom Piazza is giving a workshop on sample weights Feb 27, 11-1 pm. Register here: https://dlab.berkeley.edu/
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.