Weekly News – January 22, 2018 - Population Sciences

EVENTS
Wednesday, January 24, 12-1:10 PM. Drivers of infectious disease dynamics: Quantifying the impact of demography and climate: Ayesha Mahmud PhD.| 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.

Monday, January 22, 2-3:30 PM. “Data Driven: Truckers and the New Workplace Surveillance” with

Karen Levy, Assistant Professor of Information Science, Associated Faculty at Cornell Law School, Cornell University. | 820 Barrows Hall

Tuesday, January 23, 4-5:30 PM. “Metropolitan Migrations and Interwar Vietnamese Culture” Charles Keith, Associate Professor of History, Michigan State University. | 180 Doe Library.

Thursday, January 25 | 12-1 p.m. “Immigration of European Highly Skilled Workers to Germany: Intra-EU Brain Circulation or Brain Drain/Gain?” Céline Teney, University of Bremen, Germany | 201 Moses Hall

January 25 | 12-2 p.m. Data Science/Health IT Job Talk, Tim Althoff, PhD, Stanford: “Leveraging Digital Activity Traces For Public Health”| 198 University Hall

Friday, January 26, 1-3 PM. “Hoarding the American Dream” Author talk with Richard Reeves. Banatao Auditorium. Register here.

Monday, January 22, 2-3:30 PM. “Data Driven: Truckers and the New Workplace Surveillance” with

Karen Levy, Assistant Professor of Information Science, Associated Faculty at Cornell Law School, Cornell University. | 820 Barrows Hall

Tuesday, January 23, 4-5:30 PM. “Metropolitan Migrations and Interwar Vietnamese Culture” Charles Keith, Associate Professor of History, Michigan State University. | 180 Doe Library.

January 25 | 12-2 p.m. Data Science/Health IT Job Talk, Tim Althoff, PhD, Stanford: “Leveraging Digital Activity Traces For Public Health”| 198 University Hall

Friday, January 26, 1-3 PM. “Hoarding the American Dream” Author talk with Richard Reeves. Banatao Auditorium. Register here.

Tuesday, January 23, Stanford University Conference on population studies and research from the Danish National Patient Registry and resource for population based studies.The event is open to the public.http://med.stanford.edu/phs/events/aarhus-stanford-research-partnership-workshop.html

SAVE THE DATE

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.

FUNDING AND AWARDS
RSF Accepting Visiting Scholar Applications for 2019–2020 Academic Year. The foundation invites visiting scholar applications for the 2019-2020 academic year. The 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 United States while in residence at RSF. 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 Russell Sage Foundation trustees. Applications for the 2019-2020 academic year will be accepted until June 28, 2018. View further information on the program, including eligibility requirements and application guidelines.

Funding Opportunity: Small Grants Program on Improving Education and Reducing Inequality

RSF and the W.T. Grant Foundation invite research proposals to further our understanding of educational opportunity and success in the United States by analyzing data on academic achievement from the Stanford Education Data Archive (SEDA). We prefer studies that can identify the effects of policies, practices, and conditions on achievement inequality over descriptive or correlational studies, and are particularly interested in studies aimed at understanding how to reduce inequalities. The deadline for applications is March 1, 2018. Read more and apply.

10th annual IPUMS Research Awards competition. We are looking for papers that use innovative approaches, comparative analyses, and multiple IPUMS datasets. In short, we are looking for papers that use the data to its full potential. The IPUMS Spatial award, for work using NHGIS or IPUMS Terra, is new this year, joining awards for best papers using IPUMS USA or CPS, International or NAPP, and the National Health Interview Series data from IPUMS Health Surveys. Cash prizes will be awarded for best published work and best graduate student work (published or unpublished) in the four categories, for a total of 8 awards. Deadline for submission is March 1, 2018. For more information on eligibility and the submission process, visit the IPUMS Research Awards page.

CALL FOR ABSRACTS/PAPERS
Journal of the Economics of Aging, Special Issue Call for Papers: Conference on Cross-Country Analysis of Retirement, Health, and Well-being. Location: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Date: Oct 29 – 30, 2018. Submission Deadline: April 1, 2018; Notification of Acceptance: May 15, 2018; Completed Draft Paper Due: September 30, 2018. Organizers: Marco Angrisani & Jinkook Lee, University of Southern California, USC. Keynote Speaker: James Banks, University of Manchester & Institute for Fiscal Studies, London. Invited authors are expected to submit their paper for consideration for the Journal of the Economics of Ageing. A selection of these papers will be published in a special issue by December 2019. For more information, visit here: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/the-journal-of-the-economics-of-ageing/call-for-papers/conference-on-cross-country-analysis-of-retirement-health.

CONFERENCES
The Fifth Annual Global Health Economics Colloquium, now jointly sponsored by UCSF, Stanford, UC Berkeley, and the University of Washington, is delighted to announce that our program for Feb 9, 2018 will feature keynote addresses by two global thought leaders on population health and healthcare value: Dr Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo (Vice Dean for Population Health and Health Equity at UCSF) and Dr Ashish Jha (Director, Harvard Global Health Institute, and Senior Associate Dean at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health). Join us for a day of engaging presentations and thought-provoking conversations about the economics of health in vulnerable populations, at home and abroad.

Drawing upon examples from around the world, we will address questions like –

How do we quantify vulnerability in today’s world? How do we evaluate the economic value of interventions designed to improve the health of vulnerable populations? Universal Health Coverage is the mantra of our times – but is it really the best way to improve the health of the world’s poor? What insights can we draw from successful interventions to address diverse health and policy issues among vulnerable populations such the food insecurity, homelessness, and premature heart disease? See the Colloquium Program for full details – and register now at: https://ghecon2018.eventbrite.com.

Conference on Time Use Across the Lifecourse, June 19-20 2018, University of Maryland College Park. Researchers are invited to submit abstracts for papers that address the collection or analysis of time use data on topics ranging from intergenerational caregiving and time transfers, policy & environmental influences on time use, time use & health, time use & inequality. The deadline for submission is February 9, 2018. Authors will be notified by March 30, 2018. Abstracts should be submitted by email to: timeuse-2018@umd.edu Additional information about the conference can be found at Time Use Across the Lifecourse Conference.

WORKSHOPS
IPUMS CPS Summer Data Workshop. The workshop will familiarize researchers with the under-utilized panel component of the Current Population Survey (CPS). The CPS is an ongoing labor force survey in the U.S. Data are available annually back to 1962 with monthly data available since 1976. The 2018 IPUMS CPS Workshop is targeted toward graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and early-career faculty from social science disciplines. The workshop will include presentations from the research team that developed IPUMS CPS and other experienced CPS researchers, lab sessions that provide hands-on experience with using the CPS as a longitudinal dataset, and small-group sessions where participants will discuss their own CPS research ideas with others who have similar interests. Applications are due March 2, 2018. For more details, visit cps.ipums.org/workshops.

WEBINARS
ASA Professional Development Resource: “Grant Seeking from Private Foundations: What Investigators Should Know,” January 29, 3:00 p.m. EST. Seeking funding for social science research is an increasingly competitive process. In this webinar program officers from the Russell Sage Foundation, Spencer Foundation, and W.T. Grant Foundation will provide an overview of programs and priorities, new initiatives, the basics of grant-seeking from private foundations, and will discuss what investigators should consider when writing a grant application. Read the full description and register here.

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.