Weekly News - March 11, 2020 - Population Sciences

EVENTS
[All events are subject to change, especially given the coronavirus situation.]
Assume events have been cancelled. I have not searched for remote events but expect to see more of these in the near future.

View past talks on our Population Sciences channel. The Brown Bag talks have been organized into playlists: http://bit.ly/2kZvaME.

FUNDING
RSF-Gates Foundation Pipeline Grants Awarded to Emerging. Information about how to apply for the second round of the Pipeline Grants Competition will be posted on the RSF web site by early September 2020. Proposals will be due Monday, November 30, 2020. Scholars. Read more about the Pipeline Grants Competition here.

RSF Behavioral Economics; Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration; and Social, Political, and Economic Inequality programs, and the special initiative on Immigration and Immigrant Integration. Letters of inquiry are due May 21, 2020.

View past talks on our Population Sciences channel. The Brown Bag talks have been organized into playlists: http://bit.ly/2kZvaME.

WORKSHOPS & SYMPOSIA
The fifth, week-long Social Networks and Health workshop from May 11 – 15, 2020. Registration cost for the weeklong workshop is $150, which covers breakfast & lunch during the event. Registration link for SN&H20 will go live at noon (12p) Eastern on Monday March 9. Space is limited and registration is first-come, first-serve. So if you are interested in attending please register promptly at https://events.duke.edu/snh-2020. The Social Networks and Health workshop covers topics in social network analysis related to studying health behaviors, including: Data collection; Ego network analysis; Diffusion and peer influence; Communities in networks; Respondent-driven sampling; Network visualizations; Statistical Models for networks (ERGM, AMEN, SOAM) and Agent-based modeling. The workshop will also contain a substantial lab component, which will give attendees an opportunity to learn how to use the R statistical computing language to analyze networks. For those with no prior R experience, we will hold a prep session the evening of Sunday May 10th to help you install the necessary packages and test your system. If this applies to you, please plan to arrive by 6p Sunday evening. For details of the schedule see: https://dnac.ssri.duke.edu/social-networks-health-scholars-training-program-2020.php. Registration fees will be refunded should we have to cancel due to ongoing Covid-19 concerns, but we cannot be responsible for any other travel, booking or hotel fees associated with canceling the event. If you’ve any questions, please feel free to reach out: jmoody77@soc.duke.edu

Call for Proposals: Small Grants for Research Using Data from CDS and TAS. PSID announces a small grant competition that will fund 8 to 12 grants in the range of $8,000–$12,000 each to conduct research with data from the PSID Child Development Supplement (CDS) and/or the PSID Transition into Adulthood Supplement (TAS). Funded projects will generate papers that will be presented, along with other invited posters and presentations, at the 2021 PSID User Conference, tentatively scheduled for 16–17 September 2021. The goals of this competition are to encourage scholars to use CDS or TAS data to generate scientific and policy-relevant findings and to facilitate future research and collaborations including proposal submissions to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Call for papers: psid.org/CallForProposals. Submissions: psid.org/SmallGrant. Submission deadline: 15 April 2020

CONFERENCES
The Pacific Sociological Association has canceled its conference later this month in Portland Oregon.

CALLS FOR PAPERS
Call for Papers: PSID User Conference 2020, 10-11 September 2020. This conference will provide new and experienced researchers with a forum to present preliminary results and to obtain comments and feedback from experienced PSID data users and PSID study staff. Submissions are welcome on any topic, from researchers in any field, that use data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics or its supplements. A total of 20 to 25 papers will be accepted for the conference, either for presentation or as posters. Call for papers: psid.org/CallForPapers. Submissions: psid.org/Conference. Submission deadline: 1 June 2020.

GRADUATE STUDENTS
The Prof. Rahamimoff Travel Grants Program for PhD Students. The program supports short trips of PhD students from the U.S. to Israel and from Israel to the U.S., which will advance their research. The program does not support participation/presentation in a conference or workshop. May 7^th 2020, is the deadline for submissions to apply. Previously failed applicants may possibly resubmit, but only after receiving approval from the BSF office, which will evaluate their chances based on criteria such as progress they have made, improved invitation letter, improved visit plan, etc. Description of the program and submission forms can be found here. In the most recent round the success rate was 29%.

WEBINARS
NICHD and OBSSR Violence Prevention: virtual presentation by Rebecca Cunningham, M.D., Emergency Medicine Professor and Director of the Injury Prevention Center at the University of Michigan, on Tuesday, March 17, from 2:00 to 3:00 pm ET. This presentation will provide an overview of violence prevention among Emergency Department patients including the CDC best practice program, SafERteens. Participants will understand the longitudinal outcomes of Emergency Department youth in regard to substance use and violence including how to utilize the SAFETY score to predict risk for firearm injury. Dr. Cunningham will also review the history of firearm injury prevention research and the capacity building of the NICHD-funded FACTS grant. Register: The webinar is free and open to the public: https://obssr.od.nih.gov/behavioral-health-and-injury-prevention-the-emergency-department-as-a-window-to-community-and-population-health/.

How to Apply for Funding at RSF: Grant Writing Webinar. The foundation will host a webinar on Tuesday, April 21, 2020, at 2:00 p.m. ET, focused on how to write and submit a proposal for our programs. We encourage all new and previous applicants to participate. Click here to register for the Grant Writing Seminar on April 21.

D-LAB
All D-Lab workshop instruction, events, and consultation are moving to online delivery through at least March 30. The D-Lab Collaboratory and Convening Room will be closed to the public during this time. We will assess and share decisions at a later date about how and when we will return to in-person delivery. Be sure to check the D-lab calendar at the website, dlab.berkeley.edu. D-Lab offers training, individual consulting and data services for the UC Berkeley community – faculty to undergrads.

RELATED LISTS
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 which is where a good deal of immigration and migration announcements are posted, and only some of that material is posted on the PopSciences Weekly News. Sign up for it with this link

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.