CALL FOR PROPOSALS The American Sociological Association: Research on Effects of Campus Carry. Since 2004, 10 states have passed laws allowing concealed handguns on college campuses in some form or another, and in 2014 alone 14 states submitted similar legislation. Such legislation can potentially have great impact on sociologists and their work. As such, ASA is accepting proposals for research to study the possible effects of guns in classrooms. Awards of up to $8,000 are available to ASA members who have PhDs. Deadline is July 31. For more information: http://www.asanet.org/career-center/grants-and-fellowships/campus-carry.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS The American Sociological Association: Research on Effects of Campus Carry. Since 2004, 10 states have passed laws allowing concealed handguns on college campuses in some form or another, and in 2014 alone 14 states submitted similar legislation. Such legislation can potentially have great impact on sociologists and their work. As such, ASA is accepting proposals for research to study the possible effects of guns in classrooms. Awards of up to $8,000 are available to ASA members who have PhDs. Deadline is July 31. For more information: http://www.asanet.org/career-center/grants-and-fellowships/campus-carry.
CALL FOR PAPERS:
O3S: Open Scholarship for the Social Sciences, October 26-27, 2017, University of Maryland, College Park. SocArXiv will host the inaugural O3S: Open Scholarship for the Social Sciences symposium on October 26 and 27, 2017 at University of Maryland, College Park. The symposium will (a) highlight research that uses the tools and methods of open scholarship; (b) bring together researchers who work on problems of open access, publishing, and open scholarship; and (c) facilitate exchange of ideas on the development of SocArXiv. There will be travel support for accepted papers. More information: https://socy.umd.edu/centers/o3s-call-papers. June 1 Deadline.
Call for Monograph Papers – Methodology of Longitudinal Surveys. The organisers of the Second International Conference on the Methodology of Longitudinal Surveys invite submissions of monograph paper proposals. Monograph papers will be presented orally at the conference at the University of Essex, UK, 25-27 July 2018 and will be prepared for publication as chapters in a book to be published by Wiley in their survey methodology series. Abstracts of not more than 400 words should be submitted to mols2@understandingsociety.ac.uk by 19 June 2017. Further details of the Call for Papers and the conference can be found at: https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/mols2. A call for contributed papers will follow in July 2017.
Call for Geospatial Analytics Papers. CEGA is soliciting abstracts for papers that use state-of-the-art geospatial analytics to address issues of poverty, sustainable development, urbanization, climate change, and economic growth in developing countries. Selected papers will be presented at a Geospatial Analytics symposium and workshop on September 6-7, 2017. Two-page abstracts are due July 1. Download the call for papers.
TRAINING AND WORKSHOPS
The 4th KOSTAT-UNFPA Summer Seminar on Population, Rep. of Korea, 23 July to 12 August 2017, Registration deadline: 23 June 2017. The Summer Seminar on Population provides a forum for discussions on population and a set of useful demographic tools to participants from across the globe. To this end, three consecutive individual workshops will take place with specific emphasis on “Aging and NTA”, “Demography with R”, and “Migration Analysis” during the 4th KOSTAT-UNFPA Summer Seminar on Population. For more information see the flyer.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The U.S. Labor Market During and After the Great Recession, in the Russell J. Foundation, Journal of Social Sciences, Volume 3, Issue 3, Edited by Arne L. Kalleberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Till M. von Wachter, University of California, Los Angeles. Features an article by Danny Schneider, “Non-marital and Teen Fertility and Contraception During the Great Recession” and another by Jesse Rothstein, “The Great Recession and Its Aftermath: What Role for Structural Changes?” View This Issue
ON THE WEB
The New York Times reported that a Swedish politician suggested a pro-fertility policy of subsidizing hour-long breaks from work for amorous activities. You can’t make this stuff up.
The BITSS team highly recommends this blog post by BITSS Catalyst Cynthia Kroeger, postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alabama’s Birmingham School of Public Health. In the post, Kroeger discusses major themes from the recent Sackler Colloquium, “Reproducibility of Research: Issues and Proposed Remedies,” and shares her personal reflections on the event.
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.
