EVENTS
No Demography Brown Bag this week.
To view past brown bag presentations: http://www.vimeo.com/
For the fall 2018 brown bag schedule: https://events.berkeley.edu/
Friday, October 26 | 12-1 p.m. “Asylum Policies and Labour Market Integration of Refugees” Luigi Minale, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 648 Evans Hall.
Friday October 26, 2018, 2:00-3:30 PM “A Fair Shot- Discussion of Life & Career Lessons, Incorporating Public Health and Leadership Principles” Dr. Michael Lu, MD, MS, MPH, Former Director of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Berkeley Way West Colloquium Room 1103. Registration required.
EVENTS
No Demography Brown Bag this week.
To view past brown bag presentations: http://www.vimeo.com/
For the fall 2018 brown bag schedule: https://events.berkeley.edu/
Friday, October 26 | 12-1 p.m. “Asylum Policies and Labour Market Integration of Refugees” Luigi Minale, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 648 Evans Hall.
Friday October 26, 2018, 2:00-3:30 PM “A Fair Shot- Discussion of Life & Career Lessons, Incorporating Public Health and Leadership Principles” Dr. Michael Lu, MD, MS, MPH, Former Director of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Berkeley Way West Colloquium Room 1103. Registration required.
SAVE THE DATE
Wednesday, October 31 | 12-1 p.m. “Early Life Environment and Later Life Cognition, Dementia Onset, and Neuropathology” Sarah Tom, Assistant Professor, Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. 2232 Piedmont, Seminar Room.
Thursday November 1, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm. “Race and Network in the Job Search Process” David Pedulla, Stanford University. IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Thursday, November 1, 2018, 6:00pm to 7:30pm. “Movie Night at the IGS Library: Immigration, Imprisonment & Deportation” IGS Library – 109 Moses Hall
Friday November 02, 2018, 12-1:30 PM. Hannes Schwandt – University of Zurich, “Diesel Emissions, Pollution, and Health Outcomes” 248 Giannini Hall
CALL FOR PAPERS
22nd Annual American Association of Behavioral and Social Sciences (AABSS) sponsored by the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) College of Liberal Arts. The conference will be held on February 25 – 26, 2019 at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada with a special conference room rate of $64 per night (plus tax & fees). The deadline for submitting a proposal is November 7th. All proposals will undergo juried review on a rolling basis, with prompt notifications of acceptance/rejection so that presenters can make early and economical travel arrangements. All presented papers are eligible for submission to the Journal of Behavioral and Social Sciences (www.jbssjournal.org) and all submitted papers will be peer-reviewed for potential publication. Visit the website for details atwww.AABSS.net.
International School and Conference on Network Science. Jan 2-5 Santiago, Chile. This Conference aims to bring together practitioners of network science from various backgrounds so that they may present their latest results and projects. Up to date information about this conference can be found at http://netscix.net/. IMPORTANT DATES: – Abstract submission: October 24, 2018; – Acceptance notification: November 4, 2018; – Early Registration: November 18, 2018; – School date: Jan 3, 2019; – Authors are invited to submit contributions in the form of an extended 2 page abstract to EasyChair (https://easychair.org/
Environmental migration: current realities, future prospects. Interested applicants should send abstracts of no more than 250 words to Maia Call at mcall@sesync.org and Robert McLeman atrmcleman@wlu.ca by Monday, October 22nd. Accepted applicants will be notified by Wednesday, October 25th. Scholarship on environmental migration has moved well beyond simple case studies and normative debates over terminology. Today, it features substantive theory and empirical approaches that draw upon a range of natural and social science disciplines. Geographers have been important leaders in environmental migration research over the last two decades, and continue to make cutting-edge contributions to the field. As countries and communities struggle to cope with climate change, migration will become an increasingly important feature of the adaptation landscape. This session will feature emerging and established scholars presenting their latest empirical and theoretical research on the topic, and seeks to generate active discussion of key emergent issues in the field. We welcome papers that examine: environmental impacts on migration; environmental implications of migration; role of vulnerability and adaptive capacity (e.g. gender, socioeconomic status) in shaping environmental migration; trapped populations of potential environmental migrants; and related topics. For more information, visit: https://aag.secure-abstracts.
FUNDING
NSF Supplemental Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU). If you have NSF-funded research, consider applying for a supplemental REU grant which gives undergrads (citizens or permanent residents) $8000/year for living expenses to be mentored in a research project. They particularly wish to support underrepresented minorities.
WEBINARS
The U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Thea Evans as she presents, “Visualizing Commuting Patterns using LODES Data.” Learn how to create a map of commuting patterns to, from, and within your state using LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES) data. Free. To register, visit: https://register.gotowebinar.
Webinar on the Annual Survey of Refugees Public Use Dataset. October 31, 2018 | 9 – 10AM PST. Join the Urban Institute and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for a webinar on an exciting new data source to understand refugee self-sufficiency and integration in the U.S. For the first time, the Office of Refugee Resettlement is making available to researchers a public use data file from the 2016 Annual Survey of Refugees (ASR). The ASR provides information on a nationally representative sample of refugees who were resettled in the U.S. between fiscal years 2011 and 2015. The data file and documentation are available now through the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). | More info and registration here:https://register.gotowebinar.
ON THE WEB
Federal Report Released on Health and Well-Being of U.S. Children and Youth – America’s Children in Brief: Key National Indicators of Well-Being. The Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, made up of 23 agencies, recently published its 21st annual report, America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-being, 2018. This year’s report highlights six measures on the status of at-risk children and youth: poverty and extreme poverty; health insurance continuity; homelessness; exposure to violence; prescription opioid misuse and use disorders; and residential placement of juveniles. Download it here: https://www.childstats.gov/
GRADUATE STUDENTS
The 53rd Annual Seymour Sudman Student Paper Competition Award 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.
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.
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.