EVENTS
No Demography Brown Bag Seminars till the Fall. To view past brown bag presentations: http://www.vimeo.com/
FUNDING
Funding Opportunities in RSF Programs. The next letter of inquiry deadline is August 21, 2019, at 2 p.m. Eastern Time, for these programs and special initiatives: Future of Work, Behavioral Economics; Decision Making and Human Behavior in Context; Computational Social Science; and Immigration and Immigrant Integration. View all funding deadlines and application guidelines.
Leveraging Health IT to Address Minority Health and Health Disparities. PAR-19-093. https://grants.nih.gov/grants/
Transition to Aging Research Award for Predoctoral Students (F99/K00). NIA invites outstanding graduate students from a wide range of broad research areas including, but not limited to, statistics, neuroscience, physics, immunology, microbiology, informatics, data sciences, and engineering who are interested in receiving aging-related postdoctoral training to apply for this award. The purpose of the Transition to Aging Research Award for Predoctoral Students is to increase, retain, and diversify the pool of trainees in aging and geriatric research. This two-phase award will allow awardees to complete doctoral dissertation projects and provide a variety of training supports to facilitate smooth transition of doctoral graduates into competitive, aging-focused postdoctoral positions. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) does not allow applicants to propose to lead an independent clinical trial, but does allow applicants to propose research experience in a clinical trial led by a sponsor or co-sponsor. https://grants.nih.gov/grants/
EVENTS
No Demography Brown Bag Seminars till the Fall. To view past brown bag presentations: http://www.vimeo.com/
FUNDING
Funding Opportunities in RSF Programs. The next letter of inquiry deadline is August 21, 2019, at 2 p.m. Eastern Time, for these programs and special initiatives: Future of Work, Behavioral Economics; Decision Making and Human Behavior in Context; Computational Social Science; and Immigration and Immigrant Integration. View all funding deadlines and application guidelines.
Leveraging Health IT to Address Minority Health and Health Disparities. PAR-19-093. https://grants.nih.gov/grants/
Transition to Aging Research Award for Predoctoral Students (F99/K00). NIA invites outstanding graduate students from a wide range of broad research areas including, but not limited to, statistics, neuroscience, physics, immunology, microbiology, informatics, data sciences, and engineering who are interested in receiving aging-related postdoctoral training to apply for this award. The purpose of the Transition to Aging Research Award for Predoctoral Students is to increase, retain, and diversify the pool of trainees in aging and geriatric research. This two-phase award will allow awardees to complete doctoral dissertation projects and provide a variety of training supports to facilitate smooth transition of doctoral graduates into competitive, aging-focused postdoctoral positions. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) does not allow applicants to propose to lead an independent clinical trial, but does allow applicants to propose research experience in a clinical trial led by a sponsor or co-sponsor. https://grants.nih.gov/grants/
Podcast on Fellowship (F) grant applications: https://nexus.od.nih.gov/all/
CONFERENCES
NTA Africa Conference On Demographic Dividend and Development. The deadline for abstract submission is July 31, 2019. The NTA Africa conference is organized by the CREG in synergy with the Regional Office of the Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) in October. The conference website is https://conference.creg-
2019 IAPHS Conference, “Local, National, Global Impacts on Population Health” The Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS) – with co-sponsorship from UW’s CSDE – will have its annual meeting in Seattle, which will take place 10/1-10/4/2019 and bring together a wonderful community of population health scientists. Check out the program details and registration information.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Journal of Family Theory Review solicits articles for special issues. *Theoretical Innovations in Family Gerontology — Submissions due Sept. 1, 2019. *Ethnic Minority and Diverse Fathers — Submissions due Dec. 1, 2019. For more information, visit https://www.ncfr.org/jftr/
Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders (ADRD) health disparities. The USC Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging invites early career scholars to apply for an innovative training program, ADRD. Funded by the NIA, the program addresses the full range of biological, biomedical, behavioral, and health sciences supported by NIA/NIH. Designed for assistant professors and postdoctoral scholars who want to develop expertise in interdisciplinary, team-based ADRD research that addresses health disparities across racial, ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic dimensions especially for underrepresented older minorities. Call for Applications ends August 15, 2019. More information and application at https://roybal.usc.edu/ADRD-
Special Issue on research related to Migration and Housing Markets will feature research that sheds light on the intersection between housing markets and household or population mobility, two topics that are intrinsically linked. For example, the decision of whether and where to move is heavily influenced by housing market conditions—the levels of rents and house prices, the availability of the desired type and location of housing, and even the cost and availability of mortgage credit. At the same time, conditions in rental and housing markets are affected by the magnitudes of migrant flows into and out of the market. For more information, visit: https://www.journals.elsevier.
Measurement Error in Longitudinal Data – Call for book chapters. The editors invite book chapter proposals for the book Measurement Error in Longitudinal Data published by Oxford University Press.
After a successful workshop in Manchester and an agreement with Oxford University Press we are now inviting book chapters on the topic of measurement error in longitudinal data. The book aims to bring together state of the art knowledge regarding minimizing measurement error during data collection as well as its estimation and correction in different contexts. We are aiming for an interdisciplinary approach and we encourage colleagues from across a range of disciplines to submit an abstract. We especially encourage submissions from: survey research, statistics, psychology, education, health, economics, marketing, and data science. Abstracts should emphasize a measurement error topic relevant to longitudinal data. Possible topics may include (but are not limited to): Design of longitudinal data collection to minimize measurement error; Estimating measurement error using experimental designs; Statistical models for estimating measurement error; Ways of correcting for measurement error post-survey data collection; Impact of measurement error on substantive research and policy making; The use of adaptive designs to minimize measurement error; Measurement error in different settings (e.g., admin data, social media data, biological data); and Measurement error in online panel surveys. We especially welcome state of the art overviews, for example, Best practices for minimizing measurement error in longitudinal surveys; Overview on measurement error in administrative data; Overview on the use of SEM for correction of measurement error in estimates of change; Overview on methods for estimating measurement error in longitudinal data; Overview on the use of equivalence testing and DIF to understand measurement error in longitudinal data. If you are interested to be part of the edited volume please submit an abstract by the 9th of August 2019 to alexandru.cernat@manchester.
Call For Papers – Framing Challenges of Mental Health Care in Mexican-origin Older Adults in Mexico and the U.S. This year’s Aging in the Americas conference series will be held in Mexico City 9/30/19-10/2/19. Limited funding is available. Paper and poster proposals due by July 28. See http://sites.utexas.edu/ca
Third annual National Native Health Research Training Conference, September 23-25 2019, at the Pechanga Resort & Casino in Temecula, CA. The theme this year is the Tribal Health Research Agenda: Governance, Trust and Culture. The goal of the) Conference is to grow and sustain a Native health research community that honors tribal decision-making processes, builds trust through tribal community participation and is guided by tribal cultural knowledge and values. To learn more about the conference, register and submit presentation abstracts, visit www.nnhrti.org.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
“NIH Director calls for an end to all-male scientific speaker panels, and pledges not to participate in any in the future (https://www.nih.gov/about-
OPPORTUNITIES
Spend (a few days of) Summer at the Census. Recognized scholars may apply to spend a few days at the Census and give a presentation during the summer months through September. https://www.census.gov/
Jobs and Other Opportunities at the Census. While normally job postings are in our jobs listserv (see below) the URL has other kinds of research opportunities, too. https://www.census.gov/
DATA
Call for Questionnaire Ideas for the 2019 ANES Pilot Survey. The American National Election Studies (ANES) invites ideas for questionnaire content to be included in an upcoming pilot survey. The survey will collect data on a national sample in the weeks following the 2019 midterm elections. The purpose of the pilot survey is to test the measurement qualities and scientific value of questions for possible inclusion in the 2020 ANES Time Series Survey. By allowing tests of the effectiveness of new questions and formats well in advance of the next presidential election, the pilot survey is a critical resource for the ANES principal investigators as they make difficult decisions about questionnaire content and design. At this time, we invite you to help shape the 2019 pilot survey by sending us your ideas for questionnaire innovations. For more information, visit: https://electionstudies.org/
Data and Specimen Hub (DASH – https://dash.nichd.nih.gov/) enables researchers to store and access de-identified data from more than 120 studies funded by NICHD. DASH also allows researchers to request access to biospecimens from eight studies on HIV/AIDS, preterm labor and birth, and pregnancy. NICHD is committed to data sharing and plans to add data and biospecimens from additional studies.
WEBINAR
How to Apply for Funding at RSF: Grant Writing Webinar Recording. The foundation hosted a webinar on Tuesday, July 16, focused on how to write and submit a proposal for our programs. To view the recorded webinar and for more information on RSF’s grant making process, please visit our website to review our grant writing guidelines. Also on that web page is a 5-minute video on how to use our new grants management system.
Using the IPUMS International Tabulator for Fast Data Exploration. Jul 25, 2019 11:00 a.m. CT. This webinar will provide an introduction to the IPUMS International Tabulator—an online data analysis tool. The tabulator is a fast, powerful tool that enables registered data users to create tables, compare means or proportions, and even recode or compute variables. This overview will provide basic instruction and demonstration of the tabulator features using examples from the IPUMS International database. REGISTER HERE
AWARDS
The Population Young Author Prize is open to students or young researchers working in the field of population studies and will be awarded to the most outstanding original paper submitted to the competition jury. See http://www.journal-population.
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Negotiate academic job offers. Yes, you can—and should. New article just published in Science, written by UCLA CHIME/RCMAR Scientist Brandon Brown, MPH, PhD, who is now an Associate Professor at the University of California-Riverside. https://www.sciencemag.org/
RELATED LISTS
JOBS
All jobs and postdoctoral fellowships are posted as we receive them on the Demography Department Jobs Listserv,http://lists.demog.
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.
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.