Not too much new this week but there is a Facebook Fellowship announcement that might be of interest to graduate students, so please distribute this information (see Opportunities, below).
Events and announcements follow.
Be well,
Leora
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EVENTS
We are hosting virtual and/or hybrid talks this semester. Assume virtual unless noted otherwise. All times are Pacific unless otherwise noted.
Wednesday, September 15, 12-1 p.m. Demography Brown bag. Joseph Lewnard. “All cause mortality during the nationwide lockdown and first two waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in Chennai, India” | Zoom Meeting ID: 998 5935 0488 Password: DEMOG_BB.
*The Population Sciences events calendar can be found here: https://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/popsci.html.
*View past talks on our Population Sciences channel. The Brown Bag talks have been organized into playlists: http://bit.ly/2kZvaME.
Tuesday, September 14, 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm PDT SPH Seminar: “Elections Matter: The Politics of Coronavirus in Canada and the United States.” With Daniel Béland, Director, McGill Institute for the Study of Canada. Register for zoom link:
OFF CAMPUS
Friday Sept 17 @ 12 noon PDT. Precarious Times, Professional Tensions: The Ethics of Migration Research and the Drive for Scientific Accountability” Prof. Irene Bloemraad. Please registerto receive the Zoom link for this virtual event, which is free and open to the public.
Friday, September 17, 2021, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Pacific. “Leveraging Behavioral Sciences for Dementia Care” – a discussion about how the tools of behavioral sciences can be leveraged for better dementia care. Julie Zissimopoulos, co-director of the aging and cognition program at the USC Schaeffer Center will moderate the discussion with Lisa Walke, chief of the division of geriatric medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine, and Joanna Lee Hart, assistant professor of medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine. The information link with registration link (at bottom) is: https://healthpolicy.usc.edu/events/leveraging-behavioral-sciences-for-dementia-care/
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Friday, October 1, 2021 at 9:00am to 12:00pm EST 16th Annual De Jong Lecture in Social Demography – Penn State. “Surviving Two Epidemics: Resilience and Health in the Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health (MLSFH) 1998-2021.” Location: State College, PA or virtual, TBD. Registration (required for attending and viewing the lecture online): redcap.ctsi.psu.edu/surveys/?s=L49FR9WEL8. Presented by Dr. Hans-Peter Kohler, Frederick J. Warren Professor of Sociology and Co-Director, Population Aging Research Center, University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Kohler will present an overview of how respondents in the MLSFH have been affected by HIV/AIDS and COVID-19, and how they have managed to “survive” through challenging times. Discussants include Dr. Sam Clark, Professor of Sociology at The Ohio State University, and Dr. Mary K. Shenk, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Demography, and Asian Studies at Penn State. The De Jong Lecture is free and open to everyone. The decision of whether to hold the Lecture in person will be made in September and all registrants will be notified. The De Jong Lecture will be livestreamed and a recording will be available for a limited time. More information to come.
Monday, October 25, 2021 at 9:00am EST to Tuesday, October 26, 2021 at 4:00pm EST. 29th Annual Symposium on Family Issues – Penn State: “Environmental Impacts on Families: Change, Challenge, and Adaptation.” Location: State College, PA or virtual, TBD. Registration (required for attending and viewing the lecture online): https://redcap.ctsi.psu.edu/surveys/?s=E8C4JXMH7H. The Symposium is open to everyone. The decision to hold an in-person or virtual symposium will be made in September and we will notify registrants. Current Penn State policy states that all individuals are required to wear masks inside all university buildings, regardless of vaccination status. The symposium will be livestreamed and recorded for viewing. More details to come. More info: https://pop.psu.edu/events/29th-annual-national-symposium-family-issues.
OPPORTUNITIES
The Facebook Fellowship is a global program designed to encourage and support promising doctoral students who are engaged in innovative and relevant research in areas related to computer science and engineering at an accredited university. The program is open to students in any year of their PhD study. We also encourage people of diverse backgrounds and experiences to apply, especially those from traditionally under-represented minority groups. Applications are evaluated based on the strength of the student’s research statement, publication record, and recommendation letters. The deadline is September 20. For more information visit: https://research.fb.com/fellowship/.
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. Be sure to check the D-lab calendar at the website, dlab.berkeley.edu.
RELATED LISTS
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 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.
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The POPSCIENCES listserv is an announcements list for affiliates of the Berkeley Population Center, the Center for the Economics and Demography of Aging, the Bixby Population Center and other interested parties. Archives are available by visiting the Group page (see below). Only the List Managers can post, but we accept submissions for possible publication. UC Berkeley faculty, staff and students should be able to subscribe via Google Groups. For any submissions, requests for subscribing or posts, questions, contact the list administrator, Leora Lawton, llawton@berkeley.edu.
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One of the resources supported by Population Sciences at Berkeley is the Full Count Census Project. Our campus has a license from IPUMS and the University of Minnesota to provide access to these rich data. While the data without names are available through IPUMS, we can provide access to the restricted data. These data can be linked to other data sources. For example, our NIA-funded CenSoc project links the 1940 Census data to the Social Security Death records. A number of professors and graduate students have received approval for the Full Count data for their projects. While we accept applications almost any time, there is a break between November 15-January 31 where we put applications on hold until the annual renewal agreement with IPUMS is finalized. Learn more about the Full Count project here and how to apply for these data visit: https://populationsciences.berkeley.edu/population-center/historical-full-count-census-project/.
Also, the next deadline for Berkeley Pilot grants is November 15. For more information, visit https://populationsciences.berkeley.edu/population-center/pilot-grants/.
Events and announcements follow.
Be well,
Leora
PS: I’ll be on vacation this month on the following days: Mon-Wed Sept 20-29, although checking email occasionally and responding to some issues.
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EVENTS
We are hosting virtual and/or hybrid talks this semester. Assume virtual unless noted otherwise. All times are Pacific unless otherwise noted.
No Demography Brown Bag this week due to a COVID-related cancellation.
*The Population Sciences events calendar can be found here: https://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/popsci.html.
*View past talks on our Population Sciences channel. The Brown Bag talks have been organized into playlists: http://bit.ly/2kZvaME.
Monday September 20, 2021, 2 – 3:30 p.m., Katherine Eriksson, UC Davis “Marriage and the Intergenerational Mobility of Women: Evidence from Massachusetts Marriage Certificates, 1850-1910” Evans 597.
OFF CAMPUS
Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021, 12:00 – 1:15 PM EST. Keletso Makofane, PhD, FXB Health & Human Rights Fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, will present “Networked resources, causal inference and health: Evidence from population-based studies in South Africa.” Please REGISTER,
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11:40-1:00 PM. Tuesday September 28, 2021: Leonard Rubenstein, JD, Johns Hopkins University, “Violence against Healthcare in Conflict and what can be done about it.” https://publichealth.berkeley.edu/event/violence-against-healthcare-in-conflict-and-what-can-be-done-about-it/. https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/97177006484
FUNDING
The Borchard Foundation Center on Law & Aging – Requests Proposals for 2022 Academic Research Grants. Legal, health sciences, social sciences, and gerontology scholars and professionals are invited to submit research proposals to The Borchard Foundation Center on Law & Aging. The objective of the Academic Research Grants Program is to further research and scholarship about new or improved public policies, laws, and/or programs that will enhance the quality of life for older adults, including those who are poor or otherwise isolated by language, culture, disability, lack of education, or other barriers. Up to four grants of a maximum of $20,000 each will be awarded. The Center expects grantees to meet the objectives of the grant program through individual or collaborative research projects that analyze and recommend changes in one or more important existing public policies, laws, and/or programs relating to older adults; or, anticipate the need for and recommend new public policies, laws, and/or programs necessitated by changes in the number and demographics of the country’s and the world’s elder populations, by advances in science and technology, by changes in the health care system, or by other developments. It is expected that the research product will be publishable in a first-rate academic journal. A detailed Request For Proposals and on-line application can be accessed on the Center’s website, www.borchardcla.org. Applications should be submitted no later than October 15, 2021. Selections will be made on or about December 15, 2021. Funded projects must begin no later than June 1, 2022 and be completed within 12 months. For more information, contact Mary Jane Ciccarello, Director, Borchard Foundation Center on Law & Aging, mjc@borchardcenter.org.
CITRIS Seed Funding Call for Proposals – Due by October 25, 2021. The CITRIS Seed Funding program issues short-term, targeted awards to further the institute’s research priorities for societal benefit, catalyze early results that can lead to significant funding and strengthen connections across UC campuses. Proposals are invited from principal investigators at UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Davis Health, UC Merced and UC Santa Cruz. Awardees embody the university’s public mission and the innovative spirit of California. Projects must address the following Grand Challenges in Information Technology:
* Climate Resilience
* Digital Health Innovation
* Next-Generation Technology Policy
* Automation and the Workforce
There will be an informational webinar on September 28th. More info here.
Amazon Science Research Awards. Awards are structured as unrestricted gifts to the principal investigator’s academic institution or organization. There are currently eight priority funding areas listed on their Call for Proposals page. The area of most relevance to population science is Data for Social Sustainability “The Sustainability Science and Innovation (SSI) team at Amazon advances sustainability through mapping, modelling, measuring, and developing insights into the environmental and social impacts of Amazon, both today and into the future. Our north star is to create science-based and data-informed decision tools that have the greatest long-term impact for Amazon and our customers.” Award Amount: Unrestricted (average grant up to $80K). Deadline: Proposals due October 8, 2021. https://www.amazon.science/research-awards/call-for-proposals.
WORKSHOPS
NIA’s IMPACT Collaboratory will hold the second annual Training Workshop on January 26-27, 2022 entitled Building Skills to Conduct Embedded Pragmatic Clinical Trials (ePCTs) among People Living with Dementia (PLWD) and their Care Partners. This virtual 1.5-day workshop will provide a foundation in practical aspects of designing and conducting ePCTs in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD) through a combination of activities including: panel discussions, small group sessions, and networking opportunities with experts in the field. Applications are due on October 8, 2021 – more detailed information and instructions on how to apply are below. Please feel free to pass this along to others who you think may be interested as well. More information, including a working agenda for the workshop, are on our website at impactcollaboratory.org/training-workshop. If you have any questions regarding this opportunity, please email IMPACTcollaboratory@hsl.harvard.edu.
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. Be sure to check the D-lab calendar at the website, dlab.berkeley.edu.
RELATED LISTS
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 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.–
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The POPSCIENCES listserv is an announcements list for affiliates of the Berkeley Population Center, the Center for the Economics and Demography of Aging, the Bixby Population Center and other interested parties. Archives are available by visiting the Group page (see below). Only the List Managers can post, but we accept submissions for possible publication. UC Berkeley faculty, staff and students should be able to subscribe via Google Groups. For any submissions, requests for subscribing or posts, questions, contact the list administrator, Leora Lawton, llawton@berkeley.edu.