SAVE THE DATE
Monday, March 30, 2-3:30 PM. “The Causal Impact of Removing Children from Abusive and Neglectful Homes” Justine Hastings, Brown University. zoom. Contact camillen@berkeley.edu for information.
FUNDING
Innovations for Improving the Impact of Health Campaigns (Round 25). Grand Challenges Explorations. deadline: 22 APR 2020 – 11:30AM PDT. We are seeking innovative solutions that accelerate the improvement of coverage, reach, efficiency, and effectiveness of mass health campaigns that deliver health products or services in low-and middle-income countries, specifically through improved planning/microplanning and focus on unreached populations. Specifically, we are looking for innovations in approaches, practices, or tools that dramatically improve the planning/microplanning that will lead to improved effectiveness of campaigns. We are also looking for innovative tools and technologies to more effectively identify and reach the most vulnerable populations when countries are designing and implementing mass campaigns. For more information, visit HERE.
SAVE THE DATE
Monday, March 30, 2-3:30 PM. “The Causal Impact of Removing Children from Abusive and Neglectful Homes” Justine Hastings, Brown University. zoom. Contact camillen@berkeley.edu for information.
FUNDING
Innovations for Improving the Impact of Health Campaigns (Round 25). Grand Challenges Explorations. deadline: 22 APR 2020 – 11:30AM PDT. We are seeking innovative solutions that accelerate the improvement of coverage, reach, efficiency, and effectiveness of mass health campaigns that deliver health products or services in low-and middle-income countries, specifically through improved planning/microplanning and focus on unreached populations. Specifically, we are looking for innovations in approaches, practices, or tools that dramatically improve the planning/microplanning that will lead to improved effectiveness of campaigns. We are also looking for innovative tools and technologies to more effectively identify and reach the most vulnerable populations when countries are designing and implementing mass campaigns. For more information, visit HERE.
NSF Accepting Proposals on Coronavirus. In light of the emergence and spread of COVID-19 in the United States and abroad, the National Science Foundation (NSF) is accepting proposals to conduct non-medical, non-clinical-care research that can be used immediately to explore how to model and understand the spread of COVID-19, to inform and educate about the science of virus transmission and prevention, and to encourage the development of processes and actions to address this global challenge. Read the full letter.
New Funding Opportunity: Build & Broaden (B2). There is a new funding opportunity called Build & Broaden (B2) and they invite submission of conference proposals in FY 2020. Proposals should be designed to foster partnerships and build research collaborations among institutions that include at least one Minority-Serving Institution (MSI). MSIs include Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), Tribal Colleges or Universities (TCUs), and other institutions that enroll a substantial fraction of underrepresented minority students. The response to this DCL will inform future steps for B2 in FY 2021. The goal of this DCL is to encourage partnerships with and among MSIs in order to promote fundamental research, perspectives, and ideas in the SBE sciences. NSF’s hope is that this new initiative will build capacity at MSIs for SBE-related research and provide researchers with new ways to diversify and energize their research teams. NSF anticipates funding up to 10 conferences pursuant to this DCL, subject to the availability of funds and the quality of proposals received. Proposals may address any of the scientific areas supported by SBE. Proposals can come directly from HBCUs, HSIs, TCUs and other MSIs, or from any other NSF-eligible research entity. Proposers are strongly encouraged to plan to host and design conferences at the MSI campus identified in the proposal. Proposals in response to this DCL are due May 1, 2020. Visit https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2020/
New Funding Opportunity: General Social Survey (GSS) Competition. The General Social Survey (GSS) is a nationally representative interview survey of the United States adult population. In 1984, the GSS stimulated cross-national research by collaborating with Australia, Britain, and Germany to develop data collection programs modeled on the GSS. This program of comparative cross-national research, called the International Social Survey Program (ISSP), now includes 43 nations and enables researchers and analysts to place findings and trends from the United States within a comparative context. Several innovations have been initiated over the past 15 years, most of which warrant continuation. Beginning with the 2006 administration, the GSS “core” questions (items that appear regularly on surveys) were translated into Spanish and administered in either English or Spanish, as needed. The 2016 survey contained an Internet mode experiment to enable linkage to secondary data, since 2018 respondents have been asked for permission to link to selected administrative records. Post-stratification weights have been introduced for the 2020 survey. The Sociology Program in the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences expects to make one award for the next four-year funding cycle, fiscal years 2021-2024, to support the 2022 and 2024 GSS and the U.S. component of the ISSP survey. We anticipate an award in the range of $14 million and at most $16 million over four years to support two waves of data collection, dissemination activities, and outreach. The expected starting date is August 2021. Letter of Intent Deadline: June 1, 2020. Visit https://www.nsf.gov/funding/
Call for Proposals: Small Grants for Research Using Data from CDS and TAS. Submission deadline: 15 April 2020. 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.
PSID Data User Training Workshop, Application deadline: April 17, 2020. Workshop dates: June 15-19, 2020, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. This five-day workshop will orient participants to the content and structure of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, its special topics modules, and the PSID Child Development Supplement and PSID Transition into Adulthood Supplement. The workshop pairs instructional sessions led by experienced PSID researchers and staff with guided lab sessions in which users construct their own analytic data files. The workshop is open to predoctoral students, postdoctoral fellows, college and university faculty, and professional researchers. Students and postdoctoral fellows may request consideration for a stipend to help with travel and housing costs. Applications received by April 17 will be given priority for enrollment. Learn more about the workshop and apply to participate through the ICPSR Summer Program at https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/
Call for Papers: PSID User Conference 2020. Submission deadline: 1 June 2020. Conference dates: September 10-11, 2020, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 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 who 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.
National Institute of Justice Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Due April 15. The NIJ Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) program supports doctoral students engaged in research that advances NIJ’s mission. The goal of the GRF program is to increase the pool of scholars engaged in research that addresses the challenges of crime and justice in the United States, particularly at the state and local levels. https://nij.ojp.gov/funding/
CONFERENCES
PSID User Conference 2020. Submission deadline: 1 June 2020. Conference dates: September 10-11, 2020, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 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.
WEBINAR
The European Social Survey, University of London and NatCen Social Research methods seminar series is moving to a webinar format. This means many more of you can join us! Our next seminar is on 26 March at 18.00 (UK time) and is on ‘Growing Up in Digital Europe: developing the first Europe wide birth cohort’. The talk will be delivered by Gary Pollock from Manchester Metropolitan University. Please sign using the link below up and nearer the time we will send you details on how to join the webinar. https://www.city.ac.uk/events/
D-LAB
All D-Lab workshop instruction, events, and consultation are moving to online delivery for the rest of the semester, though subject to change. 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.
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JOBS
All jobs and postdoctoral fellowships are posted as we receive them on the Demography Department Jobs Listserv, http://lists.demog.berkeley.
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.