EVENTS Wednesday, January 25, 12-1:10 PM. “The Intergeneration Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from the Golden Era of Upward Mobility” with Lowell Taylor, Carnegie Mellon University. 2232 Piedmont, Seminar Room. Cookies, coffee and tea served.
Brown Bag talks are recorded and posted on the Berkeley Population Sciences vimeo channel, https://vimeo.com/berkeleypopscience.
EVENTS
Wednesday, January 25, 12-1:10 PM. “The Intergeneration Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from the Golden Era of Upward Mobility” with Lowell Taylor, Carnegie Mellon University. 2232 Piedmont, Seminar Room. Cookies, coffee and tea served.
Brown Bag talks are recorded and posted on the Berkeley Population Sciences vimeo channel, https://vimeo.com/berkeleypopscience.
Tuesday, January 24 | 12:40-2 p.m. “Subprime Babies: The Foreclosure Crisis and Initial Health Endowments” with Janelle Downing, MS, PhD, Professor of Medicine in Residence, UCSF School of Medicine. | 714C University Hall
Wednesday January 25, 12-1:30 p.m. Spatialized ethno-racial inequality and labor market outcomes in Los Angeles” with Paul Ong, Professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare and Asian American Studies, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs: IRLE Spring 2017 Colloquium, IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94720
Thursday, January 26, 12:10-1:30 PM. Anu Gomez. Social Welfare Colloquium talk. Haviland Hall Commons.
OFF CAMPUS
Monday, January 30, 3-5 PM. Economic Security and Housing among Older Adults” with Steven Wallace, UCLA, followed by a panel discussion. RSVP by January 25, to crisna.castro@ucsf.edu.
Tuesday, March 21st, 2017 12-1 PM. “Health Policy in a Trump World” with Drew Altman, President/CEO, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies. Cole Hall, UCSF Parnassus. RSVP here: https://ucsf.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eRq6rmeYBoDEh3n.
CALL FOR PAPERS/ABSTRACTS
23rd International Sustainable Development Research Society Conference (ISDRS) 2017 Bogotá Abstracts submission deadline: January 31, 2017. We want to kindly remind you that the deadline to submit abstracts to the International Sustainable Development Research Society Conference (ISDRS 2017 Bogotá, Colombia) is January 31, 2017. You can submit your current research in any of the topics that will be addressed in the Conference (seethemes and tracks). Remember that the general theme of the conference is: inclusive sustainability, and that this is the very first time that the Conference will take place in Latin America. The ISDRS Conference is an ideal place to receive feedback and look for publishing options for your research. Please circulate this invitation among your social and academic networks. See: Themes and tracks See: Promotional video All info in:www.isdrsconference.org
CEDA: A reminder that the deadline for submitting proposals to pilot new research ideas is fast approaching — February 6th. The proposal is simple, turnaround is fast, and grants are normally in the $20,000 to $30,000 range. See the attached for more information.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
NIH: Francis Collins has been asked by the Trump administration to stay on as Director of NIH.
NIH: The Human Subjects Common Rule has been under revision for some time, and they have finally released the revised guidelines. I will provide a synopsis at a later date regarding portions particularly relevant for social science research, but you can look at it yourselves: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/01/19/2017-01058/federal-policy-for-protection-of-human-subjects.
FUNDING
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Intergenerational Mobility in the United States
RSF seeks applications for research projects that deepen our understanding of intergenerational mobility by using data from the Equality of Opportunity Project. We encourage proposals that provide new analyses of the mechanisms explaining geographic variation in economic mobility or the impacts of policies on economic mobility. The deadline for applications is March 1, 2017.
Read more and submit a proposal.
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, 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. PIMSA is administered jointly by theHealth Initiative of the Americas (HIA) and the California Program on Access to Care (CPAC) under the auspices of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health.
WORKSHOPS
SPH Grant Writing Workshop Series. Check the SPH calendar to find location.
Feb 14 12:30pm-1:30pm. Understanding NIH – Webinar with Rosemarie Hunziker, NIH
April 18 12:30pm-1:30pm. How to navigate NIH study sections and peer review process with Jennifer Ahern
May 9 12:30pm-1:30pm. Rigor and reproducibility: What does it mean for my proposal? with Jennifer Ahern
Professional Emailing Workshop Monday, Jan 23, 2-3 PM, given by Leah Carroll. Open to undergrads, grad students and visiting scholars. 1229 Dwinelle Hall.
SUMMER INSTITUTES
RSF Social Science Summer Institute for Journalists
RSF will hold its first Social Science Summer Institute for Journalists from July 12–July 14, 2017. The workshop, organized by Nicholas Lemann and Tali Woodward (Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism), will be held at the foundation. The institute will teach journalists how to locate the best available social science research on their topics quickly, how to identify and interact fruitfully with leading experts, and how to read academic publications for their journalistic relevance, among other topics. Applications will be accepted until March 31, 2017. Read more about the program and submit an application.
RSF Summer Institute in Social Science Genomics
From June 11–June 23, 2017, RSF will sponsor the second Summer Institute in Social Science Genomics, organized by Daniel Benjamin (University of Southern California) and David Cesarini (New York University), to be held at the Pepper Tree Inn in Santa Barbara, California. This institute will introduce graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and early career faculty in economics, sociology, psychology, statistics, genetics, and other disciplines to the methods and analysis of genomic data in social science research. Applications will be accepted until February 13, 2017. Read more about the program and submit an application.
RSF Summer Institute in Computational Social Science
From June 18–July 1, 2017, RSF will sponsor its first Summer Institute in Computational Social Science, organized by Christopher Bail (Duke University) and Matthew Salganik (Princeton University), to be held at Princeton University. The Institute will introduce graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and early career faculty in the social sciences and data sciences to computational social science, or the use of digital-age data sources and methods to conduct social research. The institute will address questions about access, privacy, and confidentiality that are raised by the emergence of these new data and methods and introduce participants to a network of scholars with similar interests across disciplines. Applications will be accepted until February 17, 2017. Read more about the program and submit an application.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
NIH and NSF now require all subaward insitutions to have a sponsor-compliant Conflict of Interest (COI) policy in place. Subawards will not be issued to subrecipients without a sponsor-compliant policy.
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Beyond Academia Conference, March 2-3, 2017, 8:00 to 6 PM, Clark Kerr Conference Center. Early Bird Registration is now open for the 5th annual Beyond Academia Conference!Register via Eventbrite for both conference days at a discounted price ($30) before it sells out! We are so excited to present another wonderful program at Beyond Academia 2017, including:
*Keynote addresses by Alexandra Zafiroglu (PhD in Cultural Anthropology) and Tanya Moore (PhD in Biostatistics)!
*20 panels showcasing PhDs that have transitioned into careers as diverse as data science, public policy and arts & culture!
*12 Professional development workshops to help you nail the job hunt process, acquire transferable skills and make your transition out of academia a success!
*A networking Lunch and Reception each day, to allow you to network and make important connections with attendees and invited speakers!
More info and schedule available at http://conf2017.beyondacademia.org/
D-LAB
Dlab sponsors workshops and training in courses, one-on-one consulting for faculty, grad students and undergraduates, and working groups of focuses topics. For more information and registration, visit http://dlab.berkeley.edu.
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.