EVENTS
Wednesday, Sept 12, 12-1:10 PM. “Unstable and Unpredictable Work Schedules in Retail: Effects on Wellbeing and What to Do About It.” with Danny Schneider. 2232 Piedmont Ave. Cookies and refreshments served.
To view past brown bag presentations: http://www.vimeo.com/
For the fall 2018 brown bag schedule: https://events.berkeley.edu/
Monday, Sept 10, 2-3:30 PM. Working for Respect: Community and Conflict at Walmart, Adam Reich. 402 Barrows Hall.
Wednesday, September 12 | 4-5:30 p.m. “The Effect of Age at Migration on Poverty among Immigrants: Differences by Country of Origin” Alisa C. Lewin, University of Haifa, Israel Institute Visiting Faculty, Stanford University Visiting Associate Professor. | 2538 Channing (Inst. for the Study of Societal Issues), Wildavsky Conference Room
EVENTS
Wednesday, Sept 12, 12-1:10 PM. “Unstable and Unpredictable Work Schedules in Retail: Effects on Wellbeing and What to Do About It.” with Danny Schneider. 2232 Piedmont Ave. Cookies and refreshments served.
To view past brown bag presentations: http://www.vimeo.com/
For the fall 2018 brown bag schedule: https://events.berkeley.edu/
Monday, Sept 10, 2-3:30 PM. Working for Respect: Community and Conflict at Walmart, Adam Reich. 402 Barrows Hall.
Wednesday, September 12 | 4-5:30 p.m. “The Effect of Age at Migration on Poverty among Immigrants: Differences by Country of Origin” Alisa C. Lewin, University of Haifa, Israel Institute Visiting Faculty, Stanford University Visiting Associate Professor. | 2538 Channing (Inst. for the Study of Societal Issues), Wildavsky Conference Room
Thursday September 13 | 12-1 p.m. Leveraging big data to assess health effects of changes in physical and social environments, and policy and program implementation. With Jennifer Ahern. 5101 Berkeley Way West Bldg.
Thursday, September 13 | 5-7 p.m. “Improving care and restoring dignity for the U.S. prison population.” Michele DiTomas, Chief Physician and Surgeon and Hospice Medical Director, California Department of Corrections Lecture | | 1102 Berkeley Way West.
Friday, September 14, 1-4 PM. Harnessing U.S. Health and Retirement Survey Data for Research in the Social Sciences: A Technical Workshop. This workshop will focus on harnessing the powerful HRS dataset to assess an array of compelling questions in the social sciences. The objective is to stimulate new research efforts by expanding awareness of the content and structure of the HRS, with an emphasis on inquiries made possible by the secure computing environment. Ryan Edwards, Research Associate, UC Berkeley Population Center. 2232 Piedmont, Seminar Room, Open to faculty and graduate students.
SAVE THE DATE
Wednesday, Sept 26, 4-5:30 PM. Demography Department Reception. In the Tea Room.
Tuesday, October 2, 4:10 – 5:00 PM. “The challenge of big data and data science for the social sciences” Henry Brady, Dean, Goldman School of Public Policy. BIDS, 190 Doe Library.
OPPORTUNITIES.
Sabbatical or Career Break Fellowship: 2019-2020 RWJF Health Policy Fellows Program, the nation’s most prestigious learning experience at the nexus of health, science, and policy. Since 1973, this non-partisan fellowship has offered exclusive, hands-on policy experience with the most influential congressional and executive offices in the nation. The program seeks outstanding mid-career health professionals, behavioral/social scientists, and others with an interest in health and health policy. Up to six awards of up to $165,000 each will be made in 2019. The fellowship requires a minimum commitment of 12 months in Washington, D.C.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Berkeley Statistical Consulting Service is now open for the Fall Semesters. This free consulting service is operated by the Department of Statistics every fall and spring semesters. Advanced graduate students, under faculty supervision, are available during specified hours to answer your questions about statistics and data analysis. We welcome members of the campus community to take advantage of this service at any stage of their research. To find out more about our service and our hours of operation, please visit our website at: http://statistics.berkeley.
Help the National Science Foundation think outside the box; enter the NSF 2026 Idea Machine competition! The National Science Foundation (NSF) announces the launch of the NSF 2026 Idea Machine, a prize competition to help set the U.S. agenda for fundamental research in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and STEM education. Participants can earn cash prizes and receive public recognition by suggesting the pressing research questions that need to be answered in the coming decade, the next set of “Big Ideas” for future investment by NSF. It’s an opportunity for researchers, the public and other interested stakeholders to contribute to NSF’s mission to support basic research and enable new discoveries that drive the U.S. economy, enhance national security and advance knowledge to sustain the country’s global leadership in science and engineering. Entries will be accepted through October 26, 2018. For more information, including entry instructions, eligibility, rules, and judging criteria, please visit the NSF 2026 Idea Machine website.
DATA
Pooled California Health Interview Survey data available for researchers.
Detailed public-use file variables for smaller race and ethnic groups (i.e., Native Hawaiians or Other Pacific Islanders), other socio-demographic characteristics, and health access and utilization collected during the 2015 and 2016 California Health Interview Survey will be available for free in a Special Use Research File (SURF) on Sept. 5. The two years of pooled data give researchers an even richer source for analysis.| Release date: September 5 | Request access to CHIS data here |
Google introduces new search engine for finding datasets: There are many thousands of data repositories on the web, providing access to millions of datasets; and local and national governments around the world publish their data as well. To enable easy access to this data, we launched Dataset Search, so that scientists, data journalists, data geeks, or anyone else can find the data required for their work and their stories, or simply to satisfy their intellectual curiosity. Official blog post announcement: https://www.blog.google/
WEBINARS
Visual Design in Surveys: Using Numbers, Symbols, and Graphics Effectively, September 18, 2018, Noon – 1:30 PM CDT. This webinar will focus on how to achieve more effective and functional designs and layouts for paper and web surveys. It will introduce visual design concepts drawn from the vision sciences. Throughout the talk, examples of how the visual design concepts can be applied to a questionnaire to make visual processing more efficient and effective will be given. The examples will cover visual design issues at both the individual question level and at the level of whole pages or screens. Instructor: Jolene D. Smyth is an Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Director, Bureau of Sociological Research, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAPOR Members: $59, Nonmembers: $79. Add the recording to your purchase for an additional $20. Register HERE.
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, visit http://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.