Weekly News - March 27, 2017 - Population Sciences

CONFERENCES and WORKSHOPS
“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 Westin St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco. 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, an 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. This workshop is eligible for 4 CPH credits from the National Board of Public Health Examiners. Visit http://www.rcmar.ucla.edu/content/rcmar-preconference for the workshop program and details, or go directly to IAGG’s Preconference Workshop webpage to register. Please forward the attached announcement (Precon 2017) to others who may be interested.

UCLA Global Refugee Crisis Conference: A conference bringing together leaders from around the country to discuss one of the most pressing problems of the 21st Century: the global refugee crisis. Friday, April 07, 2017, 9:00 AM – 5:30 PM

California Room, Faculty Center, 480 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA 90095. For more information, click http://www.international.ucla.edu/euro/event/12493.

How to Build the Best Workplace for Health and Well-Being conference on May 4, 2017 on the University of California, Berkeley campus, We will provide a workbook summarizing the information provided in the conference and a decision-process guide integrating this knowledge into a coherent building project strategy. We encourage you to REGISTER NOW for this event: http://healthyworkplaces.berkeley.edu/conference/may-4-2017. This one-day conference is particularly relevant to facilities executives, corporate real estate executives, architects, designers, human resources executives, healthcare professionals, and management consultants. See the conference flyer here for more information.

ANNOUNCEMENTS
There is a list for immigration issues from which I repost some, but not all, of their announcements on the Weekly News if I think they are generally of interest to population researchers. If you are interested in immigration, then I encourage you to sign up for that list so as to avail yourself to a fuller set of possibilities by subscribing in Google Groups “immigration_group@lists.berkeley.edu“.

CALL FOR PAPERS/ABSTRACTS
Mathematical Population Studies on theme issue on “Spatial and Mathematical Demography” (abstracts due May 1, 2017). Stephen A. Matthews, Professor of Sociology, Anthropology & Demography (Courtesy Geography) at Penn State, seeks high-quality manuscripts for submission for a theme issue on “spatial and mathematical demography” to be published in the journal Mathematical Population Studies (Taylor and Francis Science Publishers, SSCI). He is especially interested in submissions that leverage geospatial and contextual data to investigate substantive demographic questions, integrate theory, measurement and careful data analysis, use new and innovative methods, and harness large-scale demographic data sets or use emergent data. Submissions focusing on econometric analysis, small area estimation, Bayesian spatial and hierarchical modeling, spatio-temporal analysis and spatial simulation are strongly encouraged. He encourages all those interested in submitting an abstract to consult the Mathematical Population Studies websitehttp://www.tandfonline.com/toc/gmps20/current for general information on the journal and to examine back issues and published papers.
If you are interested in your work being considered for the special issue please submit a 2-4 page abstract to Stephen A. Matthews at matthews@psu.edu by May 1, 2017. Each abstract will be reviewed by Matthews in consultation with Noël Bonneuil, Editor-in-Chief (Institut national d’études démographiques (INED) and École des hautes études en sciences sociales (ÉHESS), Paris, France). Selected authors will be invited to submit complete manuscripts by August 31, 2017. All pre-selected manuscripts will be peer reviewed in accordance with standard practice at the journal. Any manuscripts receiving a positive review will be required to conform to the “Instructions for Author” guidelines available at the journal website.

Special Issue of Migration Studies: Trump, Brexit, and the turbulent politics of migration, Deadline: 1 September 2017. Migration Studies invites original contributions addressing the rise of populism and anti-immigration sentiment in Western liberal democracies and its impacts on migration and migrants. We welcome contributions that cast light on a rapidly changing political landscape where long held assumptions on the value of international cooperation, human rights, tolerance, and multiculturalism are being challenged both ideologically and on the ground by a new emerging political and social consensus. Concrete and smart walls are being proposed and built in many countries allegedly to stop unauthorised human mobility; unprecedented financial and human resources are directed to public and private contractors to secure and police external borders; public service providers and private individuals (landlords, neighbours, employers) are summoned to carry out internal border policing against migrants and visible minorities. Manuscripts should be submitted through the journal’s online submission system after reading the general guidelines for authors. All manuscripts submitted in this way will be peer-reviewed as stand-alone papers and, if judged suitable for publication, will be published in the journal. If you wish your manuscript to be considered for this special issue, please indicate this on the online Submission Form. We anticipate a large number of submissions on this theme, a selection of which will be considered for publication in a Special Issue, with a provisional publication target of 2018. In order to be considered for inclusion in the Special Issue, articles should be submitted online by 1 September 2017. For queries related to the Special Issue, please email: n.sigona@bham.ac.uk.

TRAINING
SPH-sponsored grant-writing workshop: April 18, 12:30pm-1:30pm (440 University Hall – Note new location). How to navigate NIH study sections and peer review process with Jennifer Ahern, Associate Dean of Research, SPH.

FUNDING
NICHD: Human-Animal Interaction (R03, R21, R01). This FOA invites grant applications for research to examine 1) the impact of HAI on typical and atypical child development and health; 2) the evaluation of animal-assisted intervention for children and adults with disabilities or in need of rehabilitative services; 3) the effects of animals on public health, including cost effectiveness of involving animals in reducing and preventing disease. https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-17-229.html (R21 – see links within for R03, R01). [nb: Lately I’ve been researching pets, so if pets is your thing, too, we should talk.]

RWJF: New Connections: Increasing Diversity of RWJF Programming. New Connections is a career development program for early career researchers, providing support to grantees and other individuals who are part of a network of eligible researchers. Through grantmaking, mentorship, career development and networking, New Connections enhances the research capacity of its grantees and network members. The researchers in this program come from multiple disciplines (health, social sciences, business, urban planning, architecture and engineering); work to build the case for a Culture of Health with strong qualitative and quantitative research skills; and produce and translate timely research results. Grants of up to $50,000 each will be awarded through this program, a total of up to 20 grants will be awarded. Of the 20 grants awarded in this funding round, up to two grants will be designated for New Connections-Policies for Action awards. Grants will be 12 months in duration. For more information, visit HERE.

D-LAB
Dlab is closed for Spring Break. But after the break there’s Introduction to Qualtrics, graphs with Stata, and much more. 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.

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.