Weekly News – July 31, 2017 - Population Sciences

FUNDING

Interdisciplinary Working Groups: IRLE just issued a call for proposals (see below) but know also that the Popcenter will similarly fund events with this purpose.

IRLE (Institute for Research on Labor and Employment) is accepting funding proposals from faculty, students, and campus researchers for interdisciplinary working groups to explore themes relating to labor and employment in 2017-18. The goal of this program is to foster scholarly dialogue across departments, promote collaborative research projects, and build a foundation for interdisciplinary conversations on important themes relating to labor and working life. Awards range from $500 – $1,000 for the academic year. Funds may be used for materials, meeting expenses, conference hosting, honoraria for speakers, and other research and education expenses. IRLE will also provide the following in-kind support to groups:

· Space (three meeting rooms, informal gathering space, and work spaces)

· Event support (publicity, logistics, planning)

· Grant application support

Our goal is to help sustain working groups for multiple years and support pursuit of additional funding for collaborative research and educational activities. Upon completion of an annual report detailing their first year, groups are eligible to apply for a second year of increased funding in 2018-19.

FUNDING

Interdisciplinary Working Groups: IRLE just issued a call for proposals (see below) but know also that the Popcenter will similarly fund events with this purpose.

· Space (three meeting rooms, informal gathering space, and work spaces)

· Event support (publicity, logistics, planning)

· Grant application support

Eligibility: Groups must have a primary coordinator, and must include more than one department or unit. We place high priority on projects that include both faculty and students and that demonstrate

strong interdisciplinary potential.

To apply: Complete an application form at https://goo.gl/LuLYsG with details about your proposed activities, who will be involved in the group, intellectual aims for the year, and a budget.

Deadline: We will begin reviewing proposals August 21 and initial awards will be announced by August 31. We will continue to review proposals on a rolling basis until funds are spent.

Questions? Contact Sara Hinkley, Associate Director of IRLE at hinkley@berkeley.edu

Please share widely: irle.berkeley.edu/funding-opportunities/2017-18-call-for-proposals/

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
Aging & Society: Seventh and Eighth Interdisciplinary Conferences, November 3-4, 2017at UC Berkeley. We invite proposals for paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters/exhibits, colloquia, virtual posters, or virtual lightning talks. Founded in 2011, Aging & Society: An Interdisciplinary Conference provides an international forum for the discussion of the processes of aging; the accompanying individual, family, community, national, and international impacts; and the social and cultural ramifications of aging on societies. For more information, visit the conference website.

The International Sociological Association announces the call for abstracts to over 1,000 sessions, organized by the Research Committees, Working, and Thematic Group, for the XIX World Conference of Sociology, to be held in Toronto (Canada), July 15-21, 2018. The theme is “Power, Violence and Justice: Reflections, Responses and Responsibilities.” If interested in presenting a paper, submit an abstract online before September 30, 2017. For more information, visit www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/world-congress/toronto-2018/

Call for Submissions: Journal of Family and Economic Issues: Special Issue on Student Loan Debt

This special issue aims to expand the knowledge and understanding of how student loans are influencing individual and family behavior and outcomes. Submissions that offer insight into family and economic issues surrounding student loan debt, using a wide range of research methods (conceptual or empirical, quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods), are welcomed. Deadline for submissions is Jan. 10, 2018.
Publication date for the special issue will be March 2019. read full announcement

FUNDING

National Science Foundation

Economics: Full Proposal Target Date: August 18, 2017. Program Guidelines: PD 98-1320. The Economics program supports research designed to improve the understanding of the processes and institutions of the U.S. economy and of the world system of which it is a part. This program also strengthens both empirical and theoretical economic analysis as well as the methods for rigorous research on economic behavior. It supports research in almost every area of economics. Read more at https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5437&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click

Sociology: Full Proposal Target Date: August 15, 2017. Regular Research Program Guidelines: PD 98-1331. The Sociology Program supports basic research on all forms of human social organization — societies, institutions, groups and demography — and processes of individual and institutional change. The Program encourages theoretically focused empirical investigations aimed at improving the explanation of fundamental social processes. Read more at:https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5369&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click

Decision, Risk and Management Sciences (DRMS): Full Proposal Target Date: August 18, 2017; August 18, Annually Thereafter. Program Guidelines: PD 98-1321. The Decision, Risk and Management Sciences program supports scientific research directed at increasing the understanding and effectiveness of decision making by individuals, groups, organizations, and society. Disciplinary and interdisciplinary research, doctoral dissertation research improvement grants (DDRIGs), and workshops are funded in the areas of judgment and decision making. Read more at: https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5423&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click

Russell Sage Foundation: Funding Opportunity: Immigration and Immigrant Integration. A Special Initiative on Immigration and Immigrant Integration seeks to support innovative research on the effects of race, citizenship, legal status and politics, political culture and public policy on outcomes for immigrants and for the native-born of different racial and ethnic groups and generations. We are especially interested in novel uses of under-utilized data and the development of new methods for analyzing these data. Proposals to conduct laboratory or field experiments, in-depth qualitative interviews, and ethnographies are also encouraged. The deadline for applications is August 21, 2017, at 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT. View more information on this initiative and detailed guidelines on how to apply.

WORKSHOPS AND TRAINING
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

AT THE MOVIES

Obit. Film – Documentary | August 11 | 8:30 p.m. | It’s no surprise that the small team of journalists on the obituaries desk at the New York Times are a thoughtful group and make for excellent subjects in this witty and illuminating documentary. Filmmaker Vanessa Gould conceived of the subject for Obit. after being interviewed by a staff writer at the Times following the death of a friend. Her film sheds light on how deaths are covered by the paper of record, and on the nature of writing and celebrating human achievement. “Teems with colorful anecdotes. . . . It effuses an obit writer’s intellectual curiosity and itch for a good story”(Soheil Rezayazdi, Filmmaker Magazine). Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. [LL: I call this ‘applied mortality’ studies.

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. Consider taking one of the pre-semester intense courses on R or another topic.

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.