Population Science News

Weekly News — November 26, 2018

EVENTS 
No Brown Bag this week. 
To view past brown bag presentations: http://www.vimeo.com/berkeleypopscience
For the fall 2018 brown bag schedule: https://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/popsci.html

Tuesday, November 27, 2018 from 12:40-2 PM. Margaret Handley will deliver a talk entitled “What matters when exploring fidelity in interventions using health IT to reduce health disparities in language-diverse populations?” Berkeley Way West, Room 1205. 

November 29th, 2018: Mini-Conference on Inequality in Life and Death. A half-day mini-conference, exploring social, economic, and policy dimensions of Inequality in Life and Death, featuring a keynote by Peter Orszag, and presentations from UC Berkeley faculty in Economics, Demography and Public Policy. Co-sponsored by CEDA together with the Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance, theInstitute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE), and the UC Berkeley Opportunity Lab (O-Lab). Registration is free. To learn more and register, visit https://inequality-policy.eventbrite.com
 

EVENTS 
No Brown Bag this week. 
To view past brown bag presentations: http://www.vimeo.com/berkeleypopscience
For the fall 2018 brown bag schedule: https://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/popsci.html

Tuesday, November 27, 2018 from 12:40-2 PM. Margaret Handley will deliver a talk entitled “What matters when exploring fidelity in interventions using health IT to reduce health disparities in language-diverse populations?” Berkeley Way West, Room 1205. 

November 29th, 2018: Mini-Conference on Inequality in Life and Death. A half-day mini-conference, exploring social, economic, and policy dimensions of Inequality in Life and Death, featuring a keynote by Peter Orszag, and presentations from UC Berkeley faculty in Economics, Demography and Public Policy. Co-sponsored by CEDA together with the Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance, theInstitute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE), and the UC Berkeley Opportunity Lab (O-Lab). Registration is free. To learn more and register, visit https://inequality-policy.eventbrite.com
 
Noon November 29th Claire Snell-Rood, PhD, Assistant Professor in CHS, will discuss the multi-level factors shaping the effectiveness of systems-level integrated drug treatment for rural patients drawing on recent interviews with providers and systems-level stakeholders in rural hubs and their spokes within California’s system. 5101 BWW

November 29, 2018, 2 – 3:30 p.m., “What Accounts for the Racial Gap in Time Allocation and Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital?” George-Levi Gayle, Washington University of St. Louis. Evans Hall, room 648.

Thursday, November 29, 2018 4-5:30 PM. “Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police and Punish the Poor” with Virginia Eubanks, SUNY Albany. Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall

Wednesday, November 28 | 6-7:30pm. Researching Segregation/Reporting Segregation: Panel Discussion and Book Launch. For more information and to RSVP visit here.
112 Wurster Hall

November 30, 2018, 12 – 1 p.m., “Are Local Minimum Wages Too High, and How Could We Even Know?” Carl Nadler, Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics. Evans Hall, room 648

Sunday, December 2nd, 2018 11 am – 2 pm The 2018 Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Networking Luncheon Honoring Professor Brenda Eskenazi Alumni House UC Berkeley Campus Hosted by the UC Berkeley Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Program $35 Regular, $25 students. To learn more and register, click here.
 
OFF CAMPUS EVENTS
Wednesday December 5, 6:30-8 PM. “Plagues and the Paradox of Progress” by Thomas Bollyky, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Economics, and Development and Director of the Global Health Program, Council on Foreign RelationsWorld Affairs Auditorium312 Sutter StreetSuite 200San Francisco, CA 94108. To learn more and register (fee) visit here. 
 
SAVE THE DATE 
2018 BITSS Annual Meeting on December 10 at the Brower Center (Tamalpais room) in Berkeley, CA. An initiative of the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA), BITSS works to strengthen the transparency, reproducibility, and credibility of social science research and evidence used for policy-making. Free to attend and open to the public, the Annual Meeting provides a forum for openly discussing the evolving needs and capacities of researchers and research stakeholders with regards to transparency and openness, as well as an opportunity to learn and discuss the development of innovative tools and methods for open and reproducible science. Find the agenda here. Please RSVP here. Contact Aleks Bogdanoski (abogdanoski@berkeley.edu) with any questions. 
 
Tuesday, December 4 I 5:30-7:00pm. Health Care Under the Knife: Moving Beyond Capitalism for Our Health” with Howard Waitzkin, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of New Mexico. Gifford Room, 221 Kroeber Hall

FUNDING
 The Steven H. Sandell Grants support junior and non-tenured scholars and Dissertation Fellowshipssupport Ph.D. candidates with A.B.D. status. The application deadline for both programs is January 31, 2019.

CALLS FOR PAPERS
2019 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting: Submission Site is Now Open. Members may submit papers to regular session topics, section paper sessions and roundtables, and open-refereed roundtables. Proposals are also being accepted for the visual media poster session, workshops, preconferences, courses, and symposia on sociology in practice settings and teaching and learning. Discussion topics for informal discussion roundtables may also be submitted at this time. Submitters are advised to review the Annual Meeting program policies on the 2019 Call for Submissionsweb page which includes links to all of the individual calls. Submitters will need their ASA ID and password to log in to the submission site. The submission deadline is January 9, 2019. Volunteer to be a Presider, Table Presider, or Discussant. Volunteers identify the topics in which they are interested, and session organizers will contact volunteers directly if they are looking for presiders or discussants. For more information on these roles and to volunteer, please visit the Volunteer Information pageRegistration is Open! Register now for the 2019 Annual Meeting to take advantage of the early registration rate discount. Registration prices will increase on July 11, 2019. Visit the Registration Information page for more information. Registration for tours, child care, courses, and preconferences will be added in May.

International Conference: Migration, from, to and within Europe: Economic and Social Opportunities and Costs. The University of Bologna is hosting a conference from June 19-21, 2019 that aims to improve the understanding of the effect that different forms of migration have had and will continue to exert on economic and social change in receiving countries. As concerns the economic opportunities provided by incoming migrants to their host countries throughout history, participants are requested to cover immigrants’ contribution to filling job vacancies, providing services to an ageing population, and reducing the pension gap. As to social opportunities, participants should emphasize the role played by education prospects in migratory projects, especially in favour of immigrant children.Deadline: February 25, 2019. More details and abstract submission here 

AWARDS
The American Association for Public Opinion Research is pleased to invite submissions for the 2019 Seymour Sudman Student Paper Competition, which honors the best student paper presented at the AAPOR annual conference. The award is given as a tribute to Seymour Sudman, in memory of his many contributions to survey methodology, his leadership in the AAPOR community and his teaching and mentoring of students. To be eligible for the award, students must submit a full paper for review by the Sudman Student Paper Award Committee. Membership in AAPOR is not required to participate in the competition, but applicants are expected to join at the time of the conference. The award committee will consider all papers that relate to the study of public opinion, whether they focus on theory, substantive findings, research methods, and/or statistical techniques used in such research. Students are limited to one submission each as the primary author. A single prize of $750 will be awarded to the winning paper at the conference and the author(s) of the paper will deliver it at the conference. For a winning paper with one author, AAPOR will reimburse the author’s expenses for airfare (up to $500), three nights at the conference hotel, and the conference registration fee. For a winning submission with multiple authors, AAPOR will pay only the above expenses for the primary author (or his/her designee, who must be a co-author) to present the paper. Up to two other papers may receive an Honorable Mention designation with each receiving a $100 cash prize. Authors must be current students (graduate or undergraduate) at the time of submission, or must have received their degree during the preceding academic year. The research must have been substantially completed while all authors were enrolled in a degree program. AAPOR will give preference to papers based on research not published or presented at the national conference of another organization. Students interested in having their papers considered for the 2019 Seymour Sudman Student Paper Competition must submit a full paper to the award committee by completing the application and submitting a full paper by January 18, 2019.
Note that full papers must:
* Be less than 6,500 words (not including the title page, abstract, tables, references and appendices);
* Include all information required by the AAPOR Code of Professional Ethics & Practices;
* Include a statement regarding whether the paper has been presented elsewhere, published, or accepted for publication at the time of submission;
* Include a statement from a faculty advisor attesting to the role that all authors played in conceptualizing the study and writing the paper.
To submit an application visit the award nomination and application page here. Download a copy of the Sudman Award poster for distribution to any students who may be interested.

TRAINING
Training Institute for Dissemination and Implementation Research in Cancer: applications close January 16, 2019 12pm ET. One of the most critical issues impeding improvements in the health of people across the cancer control continuum today is the enormous gap between what we know can optimize health and what gets implemented in everyday practice. The science of dissemination and implementation (D&I) seeks to address this gap by understanding how best to ensure that evidence-based strategies to improve health and prevent disease are effectively delivered in clinical and public health practice. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS) is hosting this training institute to provide participants with a thorough grounding in conducting D&I research with a specific focus on cancer, across the cancer control continuum. In 2019, the institute will utilize a combination of a 4-month online course (six modules with related assignments) between February 18 and June 28, 2019, and a 2-day in-person training to be held July 8 and 9, 2019, in Bethesda, MD. Faculty and guest lecturers will consist of leading experts in theory, implementation science in cancer, and evaluation approaches to D&I; creating partnerships and multilevel, transdisciplinary research teams; research design, methods, and analyses appropriate for D&I; and conducting research at different and multiple levels of intervention (e.g., clinical, community, policy). This training institute has been adapted from the broader Training Institute for Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (TIDIRH), organized by NIH and the VA over the past eight years. This training is designed for investigators at any career stage interested in conducting D&I research with a focus on the cancer control continuum. There is no cost associated with the training. Invited participants are required to cover related travel expenses to the Washington D.C. area for the in-person meeting. More answers to common questions can be found on the site FAQPlease see the Training Institute website for a full description, information on participant eligibility, and to apply.

GRADUATE STUDENTS
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships provide funding to students to encourage the study of less commonly taught foreign languages in combination with area and international studies. These fellowships are funded by grants from the U.S. Department of Education. The purpose of the FLAS program is to promote the training of students who intend to make their careers in college or university teaching, government service, or other employment where knowledge of foreign languages and cultures is essential. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. The FLAS fellowship competition for Summer 2019 awards and Academic Year 2019-20 awards is now open. The application deadline is Wednesday, January 30, 2019. See the Graduate Fellowships website for details.

D-LAB
D-Lab offers training in Data Science
 this fall for students as well as pedagogical training for instructors. Visit the D-lab website for more information. D-lab regularly offers workshops and training in courses, one-on-one consulting for faculty, grad students and undergraduates, and working groups of focuses topics. One-on-one consulting also available. For more information and registration, visithttp://dlab.berkeley.edu. You can now add D-Lab workshops to your bcalendar directly from D-Lab workshop description. 

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 (immigration_group@lists.berkeley.edu), which is where a good deal of immigration and migration announcements are posted, and not all of that material is posted on the PopSciences Weekly News.
 

 
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