EVENTS
As in-person events are on hold, be sure to check out virtual talks and webinars. All times are Pacific unless otherwise noted.
No Demography Brown Bag this week as we honor Veterans’ Day.
View past talks on our Population Sciences channel. The Brown Bag talks have been organized into playlists: http://bit.ly/2kZvaME.
Monday, November 9, 2-3:30 p.m. “Prison Labor: The Price of Prisons and the Lasting Effects of Incarceration” Belinda Archibong, Barnard College, Columbia University. Online. Write to jacob_weber@berkeley.edu for link.
Nov 9 | 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM, Eviction, Displacement, Unemployment, and COVID-19 Infection Risk: Measuring Neighborhood Level Housing Precarity During the Pandemic. In this week’s meeting, Tim Thomas will present some preliminary results of recent research performed with colleagues Cornelia Ilin, Alex Ramiller, Daniel Campbell, Shayan Ghosh, Josh Blumenstock, and Karen Chapple. Register for the zoom link: https://bids.berkeley.edu/
EVENTS
As in-person events are on hold, be sure to check out virtual talks and webinars. All times are Pacific unless otherwise noted.
No Demography Brown Bag this week as we honor Veterans’ Day.
View past talks on our Population Sciences channel. The Brown Bag talks have been organized into playlists: http://bit.ly/2kZvaME.
Monday, November 9, 2-3:30 p.m. “Prison Labor: The Price of Prisons and the Lasting Effects of Incarceration” Belinda Archibong, Barnard College, Columbia University. Online. Write to jacob_weber@berkeley.edu for link.
Nov 9 | 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM, Eviction, Displacement, Unemployment, and COVID-19 Infection Risk: Measuring Neighborhood Level Housing Precarity During the Pandemic. In this week’s meeting, Tim Thomas will present some preliminary results of recent research performed with colleagues Cornelia Ilin, Alex Ramiller, Daniel Campbell, Shayan Ghosh, Josh Blumenstock, and Karen Chapple. Register for the zoom link: https://bids.berkeley.edu/
SAVE THE DATE
Friday December 04, 2020, 12:10pm-1:30pm. Greenbooks and the Geography of Segregation in Public Accommodations. Trevon Logan / Ohio State University-Economics. Zoom – contact Alana.silver@berkeley.edu for the link.
OFF CAMPUS EVENTS
PAA Events: Please check PAA’s list of events sponsored by PAA and other institutions and organizations: https://www.
Thursday, November 19, 2:00pm ET. The Mortality Impact of COVID-19. Register now.
Tuesday, December 8, 12:00pm ET. PAA Presidential Address Topics: Where Are They Now? Register now.
Thursday, November 12, 2020, 12:00–1:00 p.m. EST ““…I’m afraid of White people”: Anti-Black racism, police violence and the health and well-being of Black sexual minority men,” presented by Dustin Duncan, ScD, associate professor of epidemiology, Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. Register here: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/
November, 16th Economic 12-1 p.m. EDT Monday, Perspectives on Wildfire: Preparation, Property, and Health with panelists: Matthew Wibbenmeyer, Fellow at Resources for the Future; Eric Zou, Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Oregon and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research; and Patty Champ, research economist with the U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station in Fort Collins CO. Register here: https://register.gotowebinar.
10 December 2020, 4:00 PM (Time in Korea, GMT +9). Drastic Population Change, a panel presentation sponsored by Seoul National University Population Dynamics & Social Policy WEBINAR. For more information about the program and how to register, visit HERE.
AGING FOCUS
Virtual Event: The Future of Aging, Nov 10-19. The aging baby boomer generation is often described as a ‘tsunami,’ with accompanying alarms about the capacity of Medicare and Social Security to contain the flood. But what about the strengths and potential contributions baby boomers bring into retirement? Join us for a series of lectures and conversations centered on how this newest generation of older adults is forever altering the aging experience. The symposium, November 10-19, is produced by the University of Washington Retirement Association in partnership with the University of Washington Alumni Association and the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology. Read more and register.
FUNDING
The NIA funded Interdisciplinary Network on Rural Population Health and Aging announces their call for pilot proposals request for applications. Investigators are invited to submit proposals that addresses key thematic priority areas related to U.S. rural population health and aging trends and disparities. Deadline to submit is January 8, 2021. Learn more: https://sites.psu.edu/inrpha/
The University of Texas Medical Branch RCMAR (UTMB) announce their call for pilot proposals request for applications. Applications are encouraged from faculty who are interested in conducting research on health of older minority adults. Three investigators will be selected based on the quality of proposed research; credentials of investigator; relatedness of proposed research to the Texas RCMAR mission and likelihood that proposed research would lead to subsequent NIA funded projects. The deadline to submit is January 15, 2021. Learn more: https://rcmar.org/utmb-2020-
NIH Pilot Projects Enhancing Utility and Usage of Common Fund Data Sets (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed). Several valuable and widely available data sets have been generated by multiple Common Fund programs. The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to announce the availability of funding to demonstrate and enhance the utility of selected Common Fund (https://commonfund.nih.gov/) data sets, including generating hypotheses and catalyzing discoveries. Award recipients are asked to provide feedback on the utility of the Common Fund data resources. See the full announcement here: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/
NSF: Dear Colleague Letter: Strengthening American Infrastructure (SAI). This initiative seeks to stimulate fundamental exploratory, potentially transformative research that strengthens America’s infrastructure. Effective infrastructure, whether it be physical, cyber, or social, provides a strong foundation for socioeconomic vitality and broad quality of life improvement. Strong, reliable, and effective infrastructure spurs private-sector innovation, grows the economy, creates jobs, makes public-sector service provision more efficient, strengthens communities, promotes equal opportunity, protects the natural environment, enhances national security, and fuels American leadership. To achieve these goals requires expertise from across the science and engineering disciplines. In particular, knowledge of human reasoning and decision making, governance, and social and cultural processes are essential to efforts to envision, build, and maintain an effective infrastructure that improves lives and society and builds on advances in technology and engineering. This Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) invites workshop and Early Concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) proposals that incorporate scientific insights about human behavior and social dynamics to better develop, design, build, rehabilitate, and maintain strong and effective American infrastructure. Read more HERE.
WEBINAR
Friday, November 13th, 9 am PST / 12 pm EST Surviving and Responding to the NIH Grant Review, Featuring: Joseph J. Gallo MD MPH. Register HERE.
CONFERENCES
The 9th Conference of the European Survey Research Association will take place online on every Friday in July (2, 9, 16, 23, and 30 July 2021). We are now inviting proposals in any area of survey methodology, or in substantive applications of survey research. We encourage proposals from researchers with a variety of backgrounds, including academic research, national statistics and market research. Researchers can submit: * closed sessions, containing up to 5 individual abstracts; * individual abstracts; * poster presentations; * demos. The organizing committee is also looking for volunteers to assist with reviewing, chairing and other roles. There is also an Early Career Award. Check the website for details: https://www.
2021 Applied Demography Conference Registration. We are excited about providing applied demographers with a unique opportunity to participate in a conference built to showcase their work, strengthen their personal network, and to bring the applied demography community together. Register to attend the virtual conference.
OPPORTUNITIES
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Research Fellow Program: The program’s main objective is to facilitate collaboration between academic scholars and government researchers in fields such as statistics, mathematics, economics, survey methodology, behavioral science, and other related fields. Research Fellows have unique opportunities to expand their work to address some of the difficult methodological problems and analytic challenges BLS faces. Applicants do not need to be U.S. Citizens, but they must be employed by a U.S. institution of higher learning or a non-profit institution (IRS code 501(c)(3) entity) and are expected to retain their position for the duration of the fellowship. U.S. Government employees are not eligible. There is more information available on our website at http://www.bls.gov/osmr/asa_
Mixed Methods Research Training Program– NIH sponsored – uses a state-of-the-art curriculum that includes interactive webinars, working with nationally recognized mixed methods mentors and consultants, and attending a virtual summer retreat. It is currently accepting applications for 2021 program scholars at http://www.jhsph.edu/
DATA
Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS) is an NSF-funded initiative. Investigators propose survey experiments to be fielded using a nationally representative Internet platform (NORC’s AmeriSpeak® Panel). See http://tessexperiments.org for more information. In an effort to enable early-stage scholars to field larger-scale studies than what TESS normally conducts, we are pleased to announce a Special Competition for Young Investigators. Winning projects will be allowed to field experiments that are about twice as large as a regular TESS study. While anyone can submit a proposal via the regular TESS mechanism, this Special Competition is limited to investigators who are either graduate students or no more than 3 years post-PhD (PhD must be received in 2017 or after). We will begin accepting proposals for the Special Competition on November 15, 2020, and the deadline is January 15, 2021. Full details are available at http://tessexperiments.org/
The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) data tool has been replaced by the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer (CDE). Effective Friday, November 6, 2020, the UCR data tool will no longer be available and visitors will be automatically forwarded to the CDE. Please update your bookmarks accordingly. The CDE is an interactive tool that presents charts and graphs that break down data in a variety of ways. The CDE also offers an Application Programming Interface (API) that allows developers to make interactive applications to share large amounts of data in meaningful ways. Users of the API will be able to access UCR data from 1979 to the current publication. UCR data can also be found in the Crime in the United States publications.
D-LAB
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.
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.