OFF CAMPUS EVENTS
July 23, 2017. “NIA Workshop on Innovative Issues in Minority Aging Research”: Reversibility and Mutability Research: Approaches to Reducing Health Disparities, a NIA/Resource Centers on Minority Aging Research (RCMAR) Workshop. The RCMAR National Coordinating Center invites you to register for the RCMAR workshop on July 23, 2017. It is held as a preconference session at the 21st IAGG World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics meeting located at the Moscone West 747 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94103. The workshop provides a forum for junior and senior researchers to discuss the complex issues and potential benefits of reversibility research. The keynote speaker is Andrea Danese, MD, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and in the Medical Research Council (MRC) Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. Other presenters include national leaders in the field. Visithttp://www.rcmar.ucla.edu/content/rcmar-preconference for the workshop program and details, or go directly to IAGG’s Preconference Workshop webpage to register.
OFF CAMPUS EVENTS
July 23, 2017. “NIA Workshop on Innovative Issues in Minority Aging Research”: Reversibility and Mutability Research: Approaches to Reducing Health Disparities, a NIA/Resource Centers on Minority Aging Research (RCMAR) Workshop. The RCMAR National Coordinating Center invites you to register for the RCMAR workshop on July 23, 2017. It is held as a preconference session at the 21st IAGG World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics meeting located at the Moscone West 747 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94103. The workshop provides a forum for junior and senior researchers to discuss the complex issues and potential benefits of reversibility research. The keynote speaker is Andrea Danese, MD, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and in the Medical Research Council (MRC) Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. Other presenters include national leaders in the field. Visithttp://www.rcmar.ucla.edu/content/rcmar-preconference for the workshop program and details, or go directly to IAGG’s Preconference Workshop webpage to register.
CONFERENCES
10th Annual D&I Conference: The 10th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health, co-hosted by the NIH and AcademyHealth, will be held December 4-6, 2017 in Arlington, VA. This year’s theme, A Decade of Progress and the Path Forward, will reflect on the accomplishments of and challenges to the field, and will focus on opportunities ahead. Learn More
CALLS FOR PAPERS.
Call for Papers Special Section on “Promises, Perils, and Practicalities of Ambulatory Assessment for Capturing Adolescent Development” Journal of Research on Adolescence announces a call for high quality submissions for a special section dedicated exclusively to ambulatory assessment methods for studying adolescent development. This section is entitled: “Promises, Perils, and Practicalities of Ambulatory Assessment for Capturing Adolescent Development,” and is co-edited by Kathryn Modecki, Michael Russell, Rachel Goldberg, Samuel Ehrenreich, and Amy Bellmore. This special section addresses both opportunities and practical challenges associated with use of ambulatory assessment techniques—including ecological momentary assessment (EMA), experience sampling methodology (ESM), diaries, and wearable sensor monitoring—in research on adolescent development. Adolescents’ near-constant use of mobile technology provides unmatched opportunities for researchers to deploy novel forms of Ambulatory Assessment (AA) to better understand youths’ day-to-day lives. However, as enthusiasm for this method and its potential applications has grown, so have questions and concerns about how it can be most appropriately applied. Although a few general texts on ambulatory assessment exist, scholars have few standing resources to guide them as they encounter unanticipated (and perhaps unavoidable) obstacles while managing AA with adolescents in the field. The primary aim of this section is to serve as a durable resource for scientists working with AA in their own research on child and adolescent development. Our call is inclusive; we are particularly interested in featuring papers that discuss practical challenges and best practices for using these methods. This includes (but is not limited to) optimal sampling frequency and periodicity, statistical analysis techniques (especially those suited to capturing intra-individual variability and change), addressing missing data, AA methods for intervention, meta-analyses, ethical issues associated with AA, and opportunities for promoting youth engagement and responsiveness. We are open to traditional empirical papers based on AA studies as well, but these should explicitly discuss practical challenges and views on best practices. Importantly, all studies must address AA methods with adolescent samples (approximately 12-18 years old).
We encourage a broad range of submissions with potential to make novel and rigorous contributions to adolescent AA research. Submission details:
– Authors are invited to submit 1-page Expressions of Interest (EOIs) describing their intended manuscript, by August 15th, 2017. The EOI should state the proposed focus in relation to promises, perils, and practicalities of AA in relation to adolescent development, and where applicable, details regarding sample, type of AA data, and anticipated outcomes. These should be sent toEMASpecialSection@gmail.com
– Please note that papers will not be formally accepted/rejected on the basis of these abstracts. Instead, the editors will provide insight regarding whether the EOI might fit within the scope of the special section. This is only an optional step for feedback, and all manuscripts submitted before the final deadline will be considered on an equal basis.
– The deadline for submissions is December 15th, 2017 and full manuscripts should be submitted through the JRA submission portal.
– Submissions should follow the general guidelines for JRA manuscripts, outlined here.
– Authors should clearly state that their submission is intended for this special section in their cover letter.
Call for Papers Special Issue on Immigration and Crime: Edited by Robert M. Adelman, Charis Kubrin, Graham Ousey, Lesley Williams Reid Migration Letters invites contributions for a special issue on crime, law, and justice studies related to immigration. A renewed interest in immigration and crime has emerged with the election of Donald Trump as U.S. President and as European countries continue to deal with immigration, generally, and refugees, specifically. As a result, many nations are re-working their immigration policies often because of a supposed link between immigration and crime. This is despite the large body of research that has shown little support for the assumption that increases in immigration are associated with increases in crime. Thus, there is a renewed imperative for research that examines the association between immigration and sociolegal processes. In this special issue, we seek to bring together a set of articles that addresses how immigration affects, and is affected by, crime and the law. For example, topics could include the victimization of immigrants, human rights issues, the impact of public policies on immigrant families and communities as they relate to crime and the law, among many others. Papers from this rapidly growing area of scholarship can be based in any discipline and can deal with any aspect of immigration, crime, and the law. Empirical (quantitative, qualitative, or mixed), theoretical, and policy-oriented papers are welcome. Migration Letters is an international peer-reviewed journal publishing short accounts of research, reviews, debates, viewpoints, and case studies on migration. It also showcases scholarship and builds connections across the distinctive field of migration studies. All submissions are subject to double-blind peer review. Migration Letters invites papers from all disciplines including Anthropology, Demography, Economics, Forced Migration Studies, Geography, History, Psychology, Political Science, Law, Public Health, International Relations, and Sociology. The journal welcomes research that is anchored in a discipline while also engaging across disciplinary boundaries with other migration researchers. Contributions to this special issue should comply with the author guidelines and respect the word limits of the Journal. Papers submitted must be original scholarly pieces and follow the submission guidelines of the journal: http://www.tplondon.com/journal/index.php/ml/about/submissions.
Submission Deadline: 30 June 2017
Anticipated schedule Submission deadline: 30 June 2017 Notification: 30 August 2017 Final revisions: September – October 2017 Publication date: May 2018 The schedule may be subject to revisions. Please forward your queries and submissions directly to one of the Special Issue Editors: Robert M. Adelman, University at Buffalo, SUNY (adelman4@buffalo.edu) Charis Kubrin, University of California Irvine (ckubrin@uci.edu) Graham Ousey, College of William & Mary (gcouse@wm.edu) Lesley Williams Reid, University of Alabama (lwreid@ua.edu) Chief Editor: Ibrahim Sirkeci, Regent’s University London, UK (sirkecii@regents.ac.uk) Co-editors: Jeffrey H. Cohen, Ohio State University Elli Heikkila, Migration Institute of Finland Carla De Tona, Migration Letters
WORKSHOPS AND TRAINING
The BLS Consumer Expenditure Surveys (CE) Program is hosting its annual CE Survey Methods Symposium and Microdata Users’ Workshop in Washington, DC, this July 18-21. Registration is free.
The July 18 CE Survey Methods Symposium (see agenda here) is a full-day event featuring presentations from Federal, nonprofit, and private sector organizations on methodological developments and outcomes specifically related to CE’s ongoing redesign initiative, but of general interest to all methodologists. The topics include incentives, respondent record use, online diaries, and data quality.
· The July 19 – 21 CE Microdata Users’ Workshop (see agenda here) provides those interested in using CE data with hands-on training and access to CE microdata experts. The agenda includes internal and external presentations, as well as interactive practical training sessions. The structure of the three-day workshop provides an opportunity for attendees to engage with others who share an interest in learning more about using CE microdata. The registration form for both events is available here, and of course feel free to contact event staff for additional information.
NCI Professional Development Workshop: NCI will host a workshop on August 10-11, 2017, in Rockville, Maryland, to enhance professional development of the next generation of behavioral and social scientists in cancer prevention and control. Participation is free, but registration is required and will be limited. Attendees are responsible for their own travel expenses. More Info
The Training Institute for Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (TIDIRH): In 2017, the institute will utilize a combination of a 3-month online course (six webinar sessions with related assignments) between mid-August and mid-November, and a 2-day in-person training to be held November 30 and December 1, 2017, in North Bethesda, MD. Faculty and guest lecturers will consist of leading experts (practitioners and teachers) in theory, implementation, and evaluation approaches to D&I; creating partnerships and multilevel, transdisciplinary research teams; research design, methods, and analyses appropriate for D&I investigations; and conducting research at different and multiple levels of intervention (e.g., clinical, community, policy). The training is open to researchers with interests in studying D&I across health care, public health, and community settings. More Info
NIH Pathways to Prevention Workshop: Methods for Evaluating Natural Experiments in Obesity to better understand appropriate, high-quality natural experiment research designs in obesity prevention and control. The workshop will take place on December 5–6, 2017 on the NIH Campus in Bethesda, Maryland. The workshop will be free and open to the public, and attendees can join either in person or via NIH VideoCast. In-person attendance is strongly encouraged. Register Now
ON THE WEB
Big Data Science: Opportunities and Challenges to Address Minority Health and Health Disparities in the 21st Century. Zhang X, Pérez-Stable EJ, Bourne PE, Peprah E, Duru OK, Breen N, Berrigan D, Wood F, Jackson JS, Wong DWS, Denny J. Ethn Dis. 2017 Apr 20;27(2):95-106. doi: 10.18865/ed.27.2.95. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28439179
Poverty and Inequality: Mark Rank has created a new website and set of tools dealing with American poverty and inequality. The focal point of the website is a poverty risk calculator that estimates for the first time the likelihood that an individual will experience poverty at some point in the future. The idea is similar to the heart disease risk calculators that you can find on the Internet. In this case, the data is based on the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). There is also a discussion guide designed for various groups to further explore different issues around poverty and inequality. The link to the website is: https://confrontingpoverty.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, visithttp://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.