EVENTS
January 18 | 3:10-4:30 p.m. Job Market Seminar: “Can You Move to Opportunity? Evidence from the Great Migration”, with Ellora Derenoncourt, Harvard Economics. | 648 Evans Hall
SAVE THE DATE
Wednesday January 23, 12-1 PM. “Decoding the Next Health Policy Agenda” with Drew Altman, PhD, founder of the Kaiser Family Foundation. Byers Auditorium, UCSF Mission Bay Campus, 600 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94158.
Wednesday January 23 | 12-1 p.m. “Does a Eurocentric Theory of the Demographic Transition apply to Africa?” Malcolm Potts and Alisha Graves. | 2232 Piedmont, Seminar Room.
Thursday January 24 | 5-7 p.m. “Reconstructing South Asian Population History using Genetic Data” Priya Moorjani, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology. Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room).
EVENTS
January 18 | 3:10-4:30 p.m. Job Market Seminar: “Can You Move to Opportunity? Evidence from the Great Migration”, with Ellora Derenoncourt, Harvard Economics. | 648 Evans Hall
SAVE THE DATE
Wednesday January 23, 12-1 PM. “Decoding the Next Health Policy Agenda” with Drew Altman, PhD, founder of the Kaiser Family Foundation. Byers Auditorium, UCSF Mission Bay Campus, 600 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94158.
Wednesday January 23 | 12-1 p.m. “Does a Eurocentric Theory of the Demographic Transition apply to Africa?” Malcolm Potts and Alisha Graves. | 2232 Piedmont, Seminar Room.
Thursday January 24 | 5-7 p.m. “Reconstructing South Asian Population History using Genetic Data” Priya Moorjani, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology. Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room).
CALL FOR PAPERS
10th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM’2019), Mining, Modeling and Learning from Social Media to be held on May 14-17, 2019, San Francisco, USA, co-located with TheWebConf 2019, ** Submission Deadline: Jan 24, 2019 (EXTENDED). The goal of this workshop is to use data mining, machine learning and AI approaches and algorithms on social media, big data, small data, sensor data and data from/on the web. Submissions: We solicit full research papers (4-8 pages), and short papers (1-4 pages) both in the ACM conference paper style. For topic areas sought, and other information, visit: https://msmworkshop.github.io/
Call for Papers: Special Issue – Population Statistics for the 21st Century Journal of Official Statistics (JOS) (Deadline: 9/30/2019).
FUNDING
Sandell Grant Program: Sandell Grants provide the opportunity for junior scholars or non-tenured scholars to pursue research on retirement or disability policy. The program is open to scholars in all disciplines. Up to three grants of $45,000 will be awarded for one-year projects. Proposal guidelines are available online. The submission deadline is January 31, 2019.
Dissertation Fellowship Program: Dissertation Fellowships support doctoral candidates studying retirement or disability policy. The program is open to scholars in all disciplines. Up to three fellowships of $28,000 will be awarded. Proposal guidelines are available online. The submission deadline is January 31, 2019.
The National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research (NCGVR), a private research effort backed by philanthropic donors (see previous coverage), has released its first request for proposals. NCGVR plans to fund research across seven broad topics: (1) characterizing firearm use, violence, and crime; (2) characterizing firearm suicide; (3) characterizing officer-involved shootings; (4) community law enforcement, and service systems interventions to reduce gun violence; (5) effects of gun regulation within and across state; (6) collection of data needed for understanding gun violence and evaluating programs and policies; and (7) collection of state-level prosecution and enforcement data. Interested researcher should submit a letter of interest by February 4, 2019. Selected researchers will be invited to submit full proposals. Full details can be found in the NCGVR request for proposals.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
NIH’s New Investigator R01 Resubmission Change: NIH is trying to get new and younger investigators to compete successfully for R01 grants and thus far efforts haven’t helped that much. It turns out NIs weren’t choose the ‘rush’ resubmission option. So NIH has announced some changes:
“Beginning in 2007 the NIH allowed New Investigators (NI) the option of submitting R01 A1 resubmission applications for consecutive review cycles (“next round resubmission”). Because it enabled NI to potentially resubmit applications more rapidly, the expectation was that the policy would accelerate funding for NI. However, this turned out to be incorrect. Utilization of the “next round resubmission” policy has been low since the beginning, and is declining: only 12% (2007-2011) and 8% (2012-2017) of eligible NIs use it. The average age of a first R01 award has not declined, nor has there been a significant change in time to award for eligible new investigators.
With the implementation of the Next Generation Researchers Initiative (NGRI; NOT-OD-17-101 ), NIH has prioritized funding of meritorious R01 applications, a strategy that is expected to reduce the number of resubmissions necessary to receive an award. NIH will continue to make a special accommodation for NI R01 applications, by retaining clustered review and preferential release of summary statements. However, the special NI deadline for next round resubmission of A1 R01 applications will be eliminated. Starting with R01 applications submitted for due dates on or after January 25, 2019:
*NI R01 applications will be reviewed on the same timeline as other applications submitted to the same FOA.
*NI R01 applications will be clustered together for review within a meeting.
*Summary statements for all NI R01 applications will be prioritized: to the extent possible, they will be released before summary statements for other applications reviewed in the same meeting.
*In general, summary statements will be available no later than 30 days before council.
*A1 resubmission of NI R01 applications will be accepted on the resubmission due date of any Program Announcement (PA, PAR, or PAS), both standard and special due dates, that accepts resubmission applications. See the NIH Resubmission Policy for requirements and instructions.”
WORKSHOPS
2019 UM Genomics for Social Scientists Workshop: Researchers from the University of Michigan invite you to apply to the 3rd annual Genomics for Social Scientists workshop, held Ann Arbor, MI June 17-21, 2019. The purpose of this NIA funded workshop is to familiarize researchers with genetic data and provide instruction on how to incorporate genetic information into social science analyses. This one-week genomic data workshop will focus on providing hands-on training for researchers working at the intersection of genetics and social science research, using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) as a model. Using tutorial versions of the HRS core survey data and HRS genetic data files, the workshop will instruct on several current methods of genomic analyses. Lectures will also discuss issues surrounding collection of samples, working with labs, ethics, and collaboration with biological experts. A key component of this workshop is the opportunity for interdisciplinary collaboration among attendees, with University of Michigan investigators, and invited course instructors. This course is designed to primarily benefit researchers who already have experience conducting statistical examinations of behavioral traits, but who may have little or no genetic or biological training. Investigators interested in a better understanding of genomic analysis as it applies to social and behavioral science research are encouraged to apply. For more information on how to apply, available travel stipends, and curriculum, please visit: https://hrs.isr.umich.edu/
GRADUATE STUDENTS
See Sandell grants, above.
D-LAB
D-Lab: 2 hour introduction to NIH grants at D-Lab, targeted to either advanced graduate students or early career researchers, to take place on Monday, January 28, from 2-4 PM in 356B Barrows Hall (D-Lab). Register at dlab.berkeley.edu. D-Lab regularly offers workshops and training in courses, one-on-one consulting for faculty, grad students and undergraduates, and working groups of focuses topics. One-on-one consulting also available. For more information and registration, visit http://dlab.berkeley.edu. You can now add D-Lab workshops to your bcalendar directly from D-Lab workshop description. They will have pre-semester intensives, so be sure to check out the calendar.
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 (immigration_group@lists.
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.