EVENTS
Friday, January 24, 2020, 12-1:30pm. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, “Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership” 820 Barrows Hall.
Friday January 24, 8:30 am to 5:30 pm. Global Health Economics Colloquium: Medicare-for-All: How to Do It Right: If Medicare-for-All is adopted, how can we best design it to achieve universal coverage, high quality care, & affordability? A Panel Discussion with: Emmanuel Saez PhD, UC Berkeley, Jeffrey D. Sachs PhD, Columbia University (by video), David Himmelstein MD & Stephanie J. Woolhandler MD, U of New York, Hunter College; & Harvard, and Joseph Kutzin, Lead, Health Financing Team, WHO. International House. For more information, visit HERE. (fee event).
EVENTS
Friday, January 24, 2020, 12-1:30pm. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, “Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership” 820 Barrows Hall.
Friday January 24, 8:30 am to 5:30 pm. Global Health Economics Colloquium: Medicare-for-All: How to Do It Right: If Medicare-for-All is adopted, how can we best design it to achieve universal coverage, high quality care, & affordability? A Panel Discussion with: Emmanuel Saez PhD, UC Berkeley, Jeffrey D. Sachs PhD, Columbia University (by video), David Himmelstein MD & Stephanie J. Woolhandler MD, U of New York, Hunter College; & Harvard, and Joseph Kutzin, Lead, Health Financing Team, WHO. International House. For more information, visit HERE. (fee event).
SAVE THE DATE
Monday, January 27, 4-5:30 p.m. A Life Course Framework for Improving the Lives of Boys and Young Men of Color. Panel Discussion | 116 Haviland Hall.
Wednesday, January 29, 12-1:10 p.m. A Demography Brown Bag Talk: Title TBA. Tod Hamilton, Professor, Sociology, Princeton University. 2232 Piedmont, Seminar Room.
Thursday, January 30, 5:30-7 p.m. Policies to Respond to the Next Influenza Pandemic: The 14th Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Lecture in Health Policy. Tim Uyeki (MD, MPP, MPH), CDC. Alumni House, Toll/Bechtel Room.
March 19, 2020, 12pm, Matrix On Point: Taxation and the 1%. With Emmanuel Saez, and Danny Yagan. 820 Barrows Hall.
WORKSHOPS
Bayesian Methods in Formal Demography, June 8-13, 2020, UC Berkeley. This workshop, with guest instructor Carl Schmertmann of Florida State University, aims to provide a hands-on introduction to Bayesian modeling in demography, with applications to small area estimation, forecasting, and combining disparate data sources. We will use R, primarily with the Stan programming language. The workshop is designed for advanced graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, junior faculty, and others wanting to learn about new approaches to demographic modeling using Bayesian methods. No previous knowledge of Bayesian approaches is needed, but a good command of classical statistical methods will be useful. No previous knowledge of Stan or other Bayesian modeling languages is needed. We will assume some experience with R. Out-of-town registrants will be provided lodging. Travel support is pending. To learn more and register by March 2, 2020, visit: https://www.populationsciences
Summer Institute in Migration Research Methods – May 26-June 6, 2020. The UC Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative is delighted to host the 3rd annual Summer Institute in Migration Research Methods (SIMRM), to be held at the University of California, Berkeley campus from May 26-June 5, 2020. The Institute is organized and directed by Irene Bloemraad (UCB) and Jennifer Van Hook (Pennsylvania State University). It is made possible by funding from the U.S. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the Russell Sage Foundation. The 10-day workshop will train up to 28 graduate students, early-career researchers and beginning faculty in best-practices and in methodologies especially relevant to the study of immigration and migrant populations. The 2020 program will focus on: (1) conceptualizing, measuring and imputing legal status in migration studies; (2) studying immigration through social media and computational analysis; and (3) current frontiers in research on migration and health. The institute will also include sessions on research ethics and professionalization. Each day of the institute includes a mixture of instructional lectures and hands-on practical instruction or discussion and it reserves time for feedback on participants’ work. Application Deadline: Monday, February 10, 2020. | Apply here | Call for applications | More Information |.
27th Annual RAND Summer Institute: RAND is pleased to announce the 27th annual RAND Summer Institute (RSI), which will take place in Santa Monica, CA, July 6-9, 2020. The RSI consists of two conferences addressing critical issues facing our aging population: a Mini-Medical School for Social Scientists (July 6-7) and a Workshop on the Demography, Economics, Psychology, and Epidemiology of Aging (July 8-9). The primary aim of the RSI is to expose scholars interested in the study of aging to a wide range of research being conducted in fields beyond their own specialties. The Mini-Med School focuses on biomedical issues relating to aging and should be of interest to all non-medically trained scholars regardless of background. Topics will be drawn from the diverse fields of biomedicine, including biology, genetics, patient care, psychiatry, and other areas. Expert clinicians and researchers will provide participants with insight into the science of aging and a greater understanding of relevant medical issues. The Workshop on Aging is targeted to pre- and post-doctoral students and junior faculty, and to more senior researchers new to aging research. Topics will be drawn from research areas in the social sciences, including discussions of savings, retirement, disability, demography, psychology, and quality of life issues. In each session, leading experts will discuss the state of the literature, integrating results from their own research and supplementing these overviews with more detailed analyses of specific topics. We invite all interested researchers to apply to attend the 2020 RSI. Applicants may apply for fellowship support to pay for travel and accommodations. Both the Mini-Med School and the Workshop on Aging are described more fully at our web site: https://www.rand.org/well-bein
The First Annual UCSF Health Services Research Colloquium, Monday, May 11, 2020│Fisher Banquet Hall, Mission Bay Conference Center. “Accelerating our Impact on Health: Methods, Strategies, and Opportunities” Call for Abstracts (deadline Friday, February 14, 2020). Webpage with agenda and more information.
The ADRD Summer Data Immersion (SDI) program provides hands-on training in the use of publicly available data resources to address important research questions relevant to ADRD. The Michigan Center for Contextual Factors in Alzheimer’s Disease (MCCFAD) is an NIH/NIA-funded Alzheimer’s disease focused Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (AD-RCMAR) that seeks to address disparities in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) through research findings, mentorship, community links, and increased numbers of behavioral and social scientists from underrepresented backgrounds. The theme of the 2020 program will be “Family Care: Racial/Ethnic and Contextual Factors. During the 4-day program, data will be used from the National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS) and its linked National Study of Caregiving (NSOC). The SDI program advances a team science approach. It will include informational presentations about best practices for working with NHATS/NSOC data by a study Principal Investigator, as well as discussion on the topics of race/ethnicity, culture and family care. Interested individuals should complete the application and upload a CV/Biosketch
using the following link 2020 MCCFAD SDI Application. Completed applications with CV/Biosketch should be submitted by February 15, 2020. Please contact mccfad.isr@umich.edu with any questions. For more information, visit the program website: 2020 MCCFAD Summer Data Immersion Program
CONFERENCES
2020 NCFR Annual Conference, Nov. 11–14, 2020, St. Louis, Missouri. Please download and read through the full call for proposals below for details on conference presentation formats, criteria, topics, and more. The online system for submitting your conference proposals will open in late January 2020. The submission deadline is March 2, 2020, at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Standard Time.
2020 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting Updates: Final Call for 2020 Annual Meeting Submissions and Volunteers. The deadline for submissions for the 2020 ASA Annual Meeting is quickly approaching. The submission and volunteer deadline is January 29, 2020, at 11:59 p.m. (Eastern). Please review the Call for Submissions/Volunteers web page for important information. In addition to paper, Courses, Workshops, Preconferences, the Sociology in Practice Settings Symposium, and the Teaching and Learning in Sociology Symposium submissions, we are also looking for volunteers interested in serving as session Presider, Table Presider (for roundtable sessions), or session Discussant.
The 10th International Conference on Social Science Methodology of RC33 (“Logic and Methodology in Sociology”, of the International Sociological Association) will be held in Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus, on 8-11 September 2020. For more information, visit http://cyprusconferences.org/r
Time Use Data for Health and Well Being
Cosponsored by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD), Maryland Population Research Center (MPRC), Minnesota Population Center, and Maryland Time Use Lab (MTUL). The 2020 UMD Time Use Conference will give members of the growing interdisciplinary time use research community the opportunity to interact with one another and share ideas. Researchers are invited to submit abstracts for papers that address any question related to the collection or analysis of time use data. Papers that address the 2020 conference theme, intersecting influences of macroeconomic conditions and micro-level factors on time use and well-being across the life course, are particularly encouraged. Deadline for submissions is January 31. Read the full Call.
Aging & Social Change: Tenth Interdisciplinary Conference, held 24–25 September 2020 at UBC Robson Square in Vancouver, Canada. We invite proposals for paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters/exhibits, colloquia, focused discussions, innovation showcases, virtual posters, or virtual lightning talks. The conference features research addressing the annual themes and the 2020 Special Focus: “Aging Societies: Extended Working Lives and Discrimination Against Older Workers.” For more information, visit the conference WEBSITE.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Stress Measurement Network: Dissemination Request for HRS, “Cross-National Comparison of Psychological Stress: Utilizing Newly Available Data on Psychological Stress from Around the World.” The National Institute on Aging-funded Stress Measurement Network, in collaboration with Gateway to Global Aging Data (see g2aging.org), produced by the Program on Global Aging, Health & Policy, University of Southern California, has recently completed the harmonization of psychosocial stress variables across nine longitudinal studies on aging from around the world. To foster the utilization of this rich resource, the Stress Measurement Network will support five exemplar projects that examine cross-national relationships between stress and aging with mentorship from senior faculty, priority access to the harmonized data and the lead data programmer, statistical consulting, and a $2,500 honorarium. To learn more, see the attached file.
Call for Proposals: 2020-2021 Matrix Research Teams. Matrix invites proposals from faculty, students, and researchers for Matrix Research Teams for the 2020-2021 academic year. Matrix Research Teams are groups of scholars who gather regularly to explore or develop a novel question of significance in the social sciences, but that may also intersect meaningfully with disciplines in the humanities and sciences more broadly. Successful research teams integrate participants from several disciplines and diverse ranks (i.e. faculty and graduate students), address a compelling research question with real-world significance, and deploy or develop appropriate methodologies in creative ways. Project Teams receive funding in the amount of $5000. They run for two semesters, meeting at least once a month around a defined research problem. Project teams work toward producing a particular output, such as a proposal for external funding, a workshop or conference, or a joint publication. Prospecting Teams receive funding in the amount of $1500. They run for a single semester, typically meeting 5-6 times, and explore a new area or question of inquiry and assess whether it has potential for further investigation. Proposals due March 29, 2020. Learn more.
Funding Opportunity: Sciences Po Collaboration Grants. Social Science Matrix is again partnering with Sciences Po, a premier university based in Paris, France, to provide seed funding for collaborative partnerships between scholars from the two universities. Each institution has created a pool of funding for grants that will enable faculty members to work together on a cross-institutional basis. UC Berkeley faculty members are invited to submit applications for Matrix/Sciences Po Collaboration Grants, to be used to fund activities that will support this program’s goals. We anticipate awarding Seed Grants of up to $5,000 for each project, to support collaborations starting as early as July 2020. Eligible projects may vary in time frame and scope (though funds must be used by June 30, 2021); we encourage applicants to seek complementary funding if needed, for example from the France-Berkeley Fund. Proposals are due on Friday April 3, 2020 by 11:59pm PST. Learn more.
UC MEXUS-CONACYT Collaborative Research Grants: The University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States (UC MEXUS) and El Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT) are pleased to announce a call for proposals to provide seed funding to teams of UC and Mexican researchers with beginning projects in basic and applied collaborative research, instructional development, and public service and education projects that apply research to public issues. The primary objective of the program is to enable the establishment of new collaborative initiatives with the potential for creating permanent ties between UC campuses and Mexican institutions that will grow and continue with the support of other institutional and extramural funds. Projects funded are expected to lead to the development of major, long-term collaborations in academic fields; strengthening of academic and research institutions at UCs but focusing on non-major Mexican institutions, and the creation of public service opportunities.| Deadline: February 24, 2020 | More information |
Request for Proposals Cross-National Comparison of Psychological Stress: Utilizing Newly Available Data on Psychological Stress from Around the World. The National Institute on Aging-funded Stress Measurement Network, in collaboration with Gateway to Global Aging Data (see g2aging.org), produced by the Program on Global Aging, Health & Policy, University of Southern California, has recently completed the harmonization of psychosocial stress variables across nine longitudinal studies on aging from around the world. These newly harmonized psychosocial stress measures allow researchers to compare and contrast relationships between stress constructs (e.g., exposures, responses, buffers) with health and aging outcomes, within and across different geographic and cultural contexts. The data are free to the public as part of the Health and Retirement Study family of studies and include data from the US, Europe, Korea, Japan, China, Mexico, and Costa Rica. The stress types that have been harmonized across each wave of these studies are stressful life events, traumatic events, chronic stress, childhood adversity, discrimination, loneliness, social isolation, relationship strain, work stress, and neighborhood safety. To foster the utilization of this rich resource, the Stress Measurement Network will support five exemplar projects that examine cross-national relationships between stress and aging with mentorship from senior faculty, priority access to the harmonized data and the lead data programmer, statistical consulting, and a $2,500 honorarium. Proposal Guidelines: Proposals should address: (a) the relationships among stress, health, and aging; (b) the moderators and/or mechanisms linking stress and health. Additional criteria: (1) Use a minimum of three unique studies from the nine national datasets; (2) specify which stress variables in particular will be used; (3) describe in broad terms the lens that culture will be conceptualized in the project (e.g. moderator, covariate). Proposals should be a maximum of 1000 words (excluding references, figures, tables) will be accepted until February 28, 2020. For further information on the available stress variables, see the Stress Measurement User Manual here; details on various health and aging outcomes can be found on the Gateway to Global Aging website here. Eligibility: Applicants must be early career researchers (<10 years in faculty position). Graduate students and post-doctoral scholars may apply in collaboration with a mentor. Preference will be given to applicants with prior experience analyzing one of the datasets they are proposing to use. Interim Presentation: PIs on selected projects should be prepared to present initial analyses via videoconference on June 24, 2020 at the Annual Meeting of the Stress Measurement Network. Upon successful completion of this presentation, an honorarium of $2,500 will be provided. Contact: Proposals and questions should be directed to Dr. Alexandra Crosswell, Associate Director, Stress Measurement Network, Alexandra.Crosswell@ucsf.edu, with subject line: Harmonization project.
CALL FOR ARTICLES
NIH OBSSR Early Stage Investigator Paper Competition: The NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) Early Stage Investigator (ESI) Paper Competition awards recognize emerging scientists whose research reflect Dr. Matilda White Riley’s vision of research excellence in health-related behavioral and social sciences. Enter the ESI Paper Competition, submission deadline January 25, 2020. Enter here.
Community, Work & Family invites theoretical or empirical papers that seek to understand what helps protect or improve the well-being of workers focusing on mechanisms or determinants at multiple levels. Examples include (but are not limited to) the levels of the worker, their family and their community, the manager, the organization, the private or public sector, and public policies / the national welfare state. Submissions that examine the interplay between multiple levels will be prioritized. A wide range of aspects of workers’ wellbeing is welcomed across various national or international settings, including for instance health, work-family arrangements, work-life fit, and experiences of low-wage or precarious work. Deadline January 31. Learn more.
Call for Papers: The peer-reviewed Journal of Religion and Demography presents information on the state of religious statistics around the world in scholarly articles and sets of well-arranged tables. Disciplines represented in earlier issues include social science, demography, history, and geography. Each issue provides summaries of findings, sources, methods, and implications surrounding international religious demography. The target audience for the journal is anyone interested in demographic trends and developments with regard to religion. To learn more, visit: https://www.editorialmanager.c
GRADUATE STUDENTS
The Religion, Spirituality, and Democratic Renewal (RSDR) Fellowship of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) aims to bring knowledge of the place of religion and spirituality into scholarly and public conversations about renewing democracy in the United States. These fellowships offer research support over a period of up to 12 months to doctoral students who have advanced to candidacy and to postdoctoral researchers within five years of their PhD. We welcome proposals on all aspects and dimensions of religion and spirituality in its relation to democracy from across all fields in the social sciences, humanities, and theology. Applications are due March 16, 2020. For more information on the fellowship, eligibility, and the application process, visit the Program’s website.
NIH Career and Development Grants (F31, F32, K99, K01). If you are planning to apply for a fellowship or career development award, an ORCID iD.will be required. NIH wants everybody from graduate students to senior scientists to register for an ORCID account and link it to their eRA Commons personal profile (see this eRA video for a quick step-by-step). But for some grant applicants, it’s an absolute must. ORCID iDs are required for PD/PIs on individual fellowship and career development applications submitted for due dates on or after January 25, 2020. The eRA system will check the PD/PI eRA Commons IDs on all submitted fellowship and career development applications. If there isn’t a linked ORCID iD, an error will be generated preventing the application from moving forward to NIH for consideration. For more details, see the full Guide Notice or the Open Mike blog on this topic.
NIJ Research Assistantship Program (RAP) offers highly qualified doctoral students the opportunity to bring their expertise to NIJ to work across offices and program areas to obtain a practical and applied research experience. RAP is a research focused professional development opportunity for doctoral students. We welcome students from all academic disciplines to apply who wish to connect their research to the criminal justice field. This unique assistantship is an opportunity to learn and contribute to the breadth and depth of science research in which NIJ engages. NIJ provides funds to participating universities to pay salaries and other costs associated with research assistants who work on NIJ research activities. All required elements must now be submitted by January 25, 2020. Learn more and apply here:
DATA
IRS migration data can be found on the web. https://www.irs.gov/statistics
WEBINARS
Recruiting and Retaining Diverse Research Participants. February 11, 2020 11:00am – 12:30pm CT. Attend this webinar to learn culturally sensitive strategies you can use to successfully sample, recruit, and retain research participants from populations that are marginalized or underrepresented in research. Participants should come into the webinar with a basic understanding of sampling, recruiting, and retaining research participants. By attending this webinar, you’ll be able to: (a) understand strategies for sampling, recruiting, and retaining research participants; (b) identify unique challenges in sampling, recruiting, and retaining diverse populations; and (c) utilize culturally sensitive strategies for sampling, recruiting, and retaining diverse participants. $25 for NCFR student members / $45 for NCFR members and CFLEs / $85 for nonmembers. Register HERE.
ON THE WEB
Correlation Doesn’t Equal Causation: Folks with too much time on their hands created these charts for your entertainment and educational purposes: “15 Insane Things That Correlate With Each Other.” https://www.tylervigen.com/spu
“The future of online data collection in social surveys: Shared learning on the challenges, opportunities and best practice” a conference organized in June 2019 by the Office for National Statistics and the University of Southampton. The programme, talks and final report can be found here – https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/researc
Social Explorer, the award-winning data visualization and mapping tool with over 10 years of success in academia, provides easy-to-use location analysis tools for students and researchers. “Now anyone can create in-depth data maps using our cutting-edge technology. Many instructors integrate Social Explorer into their courses as a way to teach data literacy. We are currently offering instructors free access to Social Explorer. With this access, we offer online training sessions and excellent customer service. If you are interested in a free Social Explorer account, please click HERE to sign up. Once you sign up, we will set you up right away with a 6 month trial. Our goal is to offer Social Explorer through the campus library and have Social Explorer available to instructors and students at no charge. Social Explorer is the perfect complement to open educational resources.”
D-LAB
IT’s the beginning of the semester and as usual, D-Lab is offering short course intensives in R, Python and Stata to begin the semester. Sign up to get a solid introduction and use the method in your spring course. 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.ed
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.