Weekly News – January 15, 2018 - Population Sciences

EVENTS
Wednesday, January 17, 12-1:30 PM. “Deportation Discretion: Tiered Influence, Minority Threat, and ‘Secure Communities’ Deportations” with Juan Pedroza M.P.A, Stanford University. | 2232 Piedmont, Demography Seminar Room. Coffee tea and cookies are served.
Brown Bag talks are recorded and posted on the Berkeley Population Sciences vimeo channel, https://vimeo.com/berkeleypopscience.

SAVE THE DATE

January 26, 1 PM. “Hoarding the American Dream” Author talk with Richard Reeves. Banatao Auditorium. Register here.

February 13th from 12pm-1pm in 401 University Hall. Grant Writing Workshop: Specific Aims. presented by Erica Whitney, Associate Director of Strategy and Training, at the Berkeley Research Development Office (VCRO). The presentation will focus on tips for writing a successful Specific Aims section with examples of how to address different points and messages. We will have ample time for discussions and Q&A.

SAVE THE DATE

January 26, 1 PM. “Hoarding the American Dream” Author talk with Richard Reeves. Banatao Auditorium. Register here.

CALL FOR ABSRACTS/PAPERS
Call for Abstracts: American Public Health Association 2018 Annual Meeting & Expo Deadline: 2/24/2018.

Aging & Society: Eighth Interdisciplinary Conference, held 18–19 September 2018 at Toyo University in Tokyo, Japan. We invite proposals for paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters/exhibits, colloquia, innovation showcases, virtual posters, or virtual lightning talks. The conference features research addressing the annual themes and the 2018 Special Focus: “Aging, Health, Well-being and Care in a Time of Extreme Demographic Change.” To learn more, visit the conference website: http://agingandsociety.com/2018-conference.

CONFERENCES
2018 National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) Annual Conference – Long Call for Proposals Now Available. The long version of the 2018 NCFR Annual Conference call for proposals is now available. It includes information about the conference theme and goals, criteria for proposals, special instructions, and the individual calls for proposals for each of NCFR’s 10 sections, the affiliate councils, Students and New Professionals, and the TCRM Workshop. The online system for submitting conference proposals will open later in January 2018, and proposals will be due March 1, 2018. The 2018 conference will be Nov. 7–10 in San Diego. For full information, visit:https://www.ncfr.org/ncfr-2018/call-for-proposals.

Conference on Time Use Across the Lifecourse, June 19-20, 2018: Call for papers. Cosponsored by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD), Maryland Population Research Center (MPRC), and Maryland Time Use Lab (MTUL). Researchers are invited to submit abstracts for papers that address the collection or analysis of time use data on such topics as intergenerational caregiving and time transfers, policy and environmental influences on time use, time use and health, and time use and inequality. The deadline for submission is February 9, 2018. Authors will be notified by March 30, 2018. Abstracts may be submitted by email to:timeuse-2018@umd.edu.

WORKSHOPS
Eighteenth Annual Summer Institute on Randomized Behavioral Clinical Trials. OBSSR in collaboration with NHLBI will hold the Eighteenth Annual Summer Institute on Randomized Behavioral Clinical Trials on July 8-19, 2018, in Warrenton, Virginia. The purpose of the multi-day training is to provide a thorough grounding in the conduct of randomized clinical trials to researchers interested in developing competence in the planning, design, and execution of randomized clinical trials involving behavioral interventions. The deadline for submitting a completed application is February 2, 2018. For more information, visit: https://obssr.od.nih.gov/training/training-institutes/institute-on-randomized-clinical-trials/.

Tel Aviv Workshop on Inequality and Uncertainty in Length of Life. The workshop, sponsored by the European Consortium for Sociological Research and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel Aviv University, will be held in Tel Aviv, Israel on May 17, 2018. We invite scholars of all academic ranks, including doctoral and postdoctoral researchers, to participate and present their work on lifespan inequality as well as its implications for individual risk and uncertainty in length of life. Online applications should be received by February 5, 2018. For additional information please contact Isaac Sasson.

The Mind & Life Summer Research Institute, June 2-8, 2018. () will focus on the theme “Engaging Cultural Difference and Human Diversity.” They are seeking to attract as broad and diverse an applicant pool as possible before it closes on January 17 2018. Click here for the program and application deadline.

GRADUATE STUDENTS
The Robert Wood Johnson’s Health Policy Research Scholars is a national leadership development program for second-year doctoral students in any academic discipline who want to apply their research to help build healthier and more equitable communities. For full information about the program, visit: http://healthpolicyresearch-scholars.org/. Applications are due March 14, 2018.

Summer Dissertation Proposal Workshop: May 20-26, 2018, Howard University, Washington, DC. Howard University’s Center on Race and Wealth and the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison seek applications for the second annual Summer Dissertation Proposal Writing Workshop. This week-long workshop, held at Howard University in Washington, D.C., is aimed at pre-proposal doctoral students in the social sciences from underrepresented racial and ethnic populations who are studying topics related to poverty or inequality in the United States. The workshop is designed to help provide students the skills, knowledge, and resources needed to prepare a dissertation proposal. Funding is provided by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, as part of IRP’s National Poverty Research Center award. Applicants must be pre-dissertation proposal doctoral students from underrepresented racial or ethnic populations (Black, Hispanic, Native American) studying at U.S. universities.

Applications are due by January 31, 2018. For questions about the workshop or eligibility, contact Dr. Janet Griffin-Graves at jrgriffin-graves@howard.edu. dave.chancellor@wisc.edu.

IIS Dissertation Fellowships. Award Amount: Up to $15,000. Application Deadline: Monday, March 19, 2018. Eligibility: All UC Berkeley graduate students in good standing who will formally advance to candidacy by 08/15/2018.

John L. Simpson Memorial Research Fellowship — Supports research in comparative studies that analyzes similarities and differences among societies and states, with respect to social, cultural, political, and economic structures and policies.
Reinhard Bendix Memorial Fellowship — Given to students who show promise of advancing scholarship in the field of political and social theory as well as historic studies of society and politics.
Allan Sharlin Memorial Award — Given to students who show promise of advancing scholarship in the field of historical sociology, historical demography, or social history.
For more information and to apply, visit the IIS website: iis.berkeley.edu/funding-opportunities/graduate

SAMHSA Summer Internships: The SAMHSA Internship Program introduces students to the important role SAMHSA plays in ensuring a productive life in the community for everyone. Interns gain practical experience through projects, special assignments, or research that support federal, state, and community-based programs, policies, and best practices in the prevention and treatment of substance abuse and mental illness. The SAMHSA Internship Program allows students to use their specific skills and knowledge while experiencing the value of their education. Interns work 40 hours a week at SAMHSA’s headquarters in Rockville, MD, on meaningful projects, gaining real-life exposure to areas aligned with their course of study. Opportunities are open to masters and doctoral level students. Summer 2018 Session Application opens: September 5, 2017. Application deadline: February 16, 2018. Internship Dates: June 1 – August 10, 2018. Duration 10 weeks. For more information, please see: https://www.samhsa.gov/about-us/jobs-internships/internships.

FUNDING AND AWARDS
PIMSA: Research Program on Migration and Health. 2017 – 2018 cycle. LOI Due January 19, 2018. PIMSA is now accepting Letters of Intent (LOIs) for Research Awards and grants for graduate students related to migration and health topics. Please view the full announcement for application details and timelines. This cycle will be open to researchers and graduate students from any of the University of California campuses, University of Arizona, University of Texas at El Paso, and the University of Houston (graduate students only), working in collaboration with researchers from the National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT for its Spanish acronym) accredited institutions in all Mexican states and Universidad National Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), or from Mexico’s Secretariat of Health research institutions.

WEBINARS
US Census Bureau Webinars. As I’ve reported earlier, the US Census has pre-recorded webinars on a variety of topics. You can view them for your own learning, or see if you can assign them to a class. Topics include the Ancestry tool, mapping, Introduction to SIPP, and much, much more. https://www.census.gov/data/training-workshops/recorded-webinars.html.

DATA AND SOFTWARE
SPSS licenses are now available for 2018. Requests should be submitted using the 2018 SPSS License Request form.2018 marks the third year of the multi-year UC System-wide license agreement for IBM’s SPSS software. The System-wide agreement expanded access rights and lowered cost. UCB offers the SPSS Statistics Premium Bundle, which includes the Base model of SPSS along with 16 Statistics modules (including AMOS), at the same price as the 2015 license. License rights also extend to Administrative use and allow for use in a Virtualized Lab environment. Again this year, IS&T worked with select departments to centrally fund the SPSS license. Affiliates of these 7 groups will be eligible for licenses at no additional cost to the licensee*. It is important to indicate your affiliation with a “Sponsor” department, if applicable, when submitting a 2018 SPSS License Request. These groups are: School of Social Welfare; D-Lab; Campus Library; Berkeley Law; Berkeley Population Center; and Haas Business School. Affiliates of the Psychology Department are subject to licensing fees as part of the Department’s internal cost recovery model. SPSS licenses may be purchased by eligible associates from the other Colleges and Departments by providing a Chart of Accounts chartstring when submitting the 2018 SPSS License Request form. New Shared Use licenses for shared access computers cost $140 per license (1 computer per license). New Single User licenses, for the exclusive use of the licensee, may be purchased for $110 per license.

D-LAB
D-Lab Pre-Semester Workshops: 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.

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.

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.berkeley.edu), which is where a good deal of immigration and migration announcements are posted, and not all of that material is posted on the PopSciences Weekly News.