[Jobs] Summer News - re-introducing the Popcenter and much much more.

Fri Aug 22 10:03:02 PDT 2014

Hi everybody,

We are gearing up for the fall 2014 semester, so it’s time to introduce or
reacquaint you with some of the Popcenter’s services for you.

The Demography Brown Bag seminar series. beginning September 3, Wednesday
at 12 noon, is shaping up to be a year of intriguing and innovative
research presentations by scholars from near and far.  Check out the
schedule at http://demog.berkeley.edu/announcements/brownbag.shtml.  Or
just pay attention to this Popcenter Weekly News where events of all sorts
are announced, along with grants, calls for papers, training, fellowships
and more.

This year the BacPop colloquia series will be a bit less frequent but move
to an expanded interdisciplinary panel format to discuss specific topic
areas. Two topics lined up thus far are (a) inequalities and mortality, and
(b) big data. Stay tuned for details.

Graduate students are welcome to subscribe, too, and there are often
announcements specifically for grad students (see below!).  And if they are
on the job market, be sure to let them know about the jobs listserv.  They
can sign up by following this link,
http://demog.berkeley.edu/announcements/brownbag.shtml, which can also be
found on the Popcenter home page, http://popcenter.berkeley.edu.

And speaking of the website, it contains a great deal of information about
Popcenter affiliates (so you can find out who might be doing similar
research), NIH grant applications, a newly revised document about writing
Human Subjects Protocols, and the Popcenter Pilot Grant Program (the first
round of 2014-2015 applications is due November 15).

Should you be interested in seeking external grant application, I am here
to help you put it together, work with grant analysts and SPO, read it
critically and in some cases, help you write required documents.  Don’t
hesitate to ask.

Events and other announcements follow. Have a great weekend.

Leora

*******

*EVENTS*

Thursday, August 28 | 2-3:30 p.m.  Labor Seminar:  Jesse Rothstein. 648
Evans Hall

* The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey Data Users' Workshop,
*September
12-13, 2014, Location:  California Center for Population Research, UCLA
Campus.  Upgrade your knowledge or learn to use the Los Angeles Family and
Neighborhood Survey (L.A.FANS) data for research. L.A. FANS is a tool to
study stratification and demography, determinants of educational and health
outcomes, neighborhood effects on children and adults, family dynamics,
unemployment, and urban and spatial structure. The workshop is free, but
registration is required.  Includes breakfast and lunch both days.    See
the attached flyers for more information. For registration and questions
contact: Rachel Veerman at rveerman at ucla.edu, with the subject line of
“L.A.FANS Data Workshop” before 9/1/2014.

*CALL FOR PROPOSALS*

*Conference on Behavioral Health Economics, November 14, 2014,* sponsored
by CEGA and BCRN, will be a one-day meeting will feature presentations and
discussions of 6-8 in-progress and completed papers at the intersection of
behavioral economics and health, and a keynote address from Anna Fruttero,
lead author of the World Bank's 2015 World Development Report, Mind and
Society.

*To submit a paper*: Submit your paper (or long abstract for works in
progress) at https://cega.submittable.com/submit/33417 by midnight Pacific
time on Sunday, October 5. Submissions should clearly indicate the
relevance of behavioral economics. Any health issues in any geographic
region will be considered.  *Registration *is required at
http://tinyurl.com/behealth2014.  Travel funds may be available for those
accepted to present papers (one author per paper). Students may attend if
they are nominated by a faculty member. Each faculty member can nominate a
student to attend by emailing e.turner at berkeley.edu, who can also be
contacted with questions.

*Pacific Sociological Association’s (PSA) Annual Meeting, April 1-4, 2015,
Long Beach, CA.*  Deadline October 15, 2014.  Contact Noel Packard at
packardn at prodigy.net, or visit the PSA website, www.pacificsoc.org.

*Pacific Association of Public Opinion Research Annual Conference, December
11-12, 2014 San Francisco.* Call for Participation, “Measuring Public
Opinion in an Expanding Opinion Landscape.”

The 2014 PAPOR annual conference welcomes paper, poster, and panel
proposals on any topic related to public opinion research, theory, or
methodology. The conference theme – Measuring Public Opinion in an
Expanding Opinion Landscape – will focus on measurement of public opinion
in new venues, using new technologies and methodologies, and how these can
compete or be integrated with more traditional venues, technologies, and
methods. We encourage papers that engage the conference theme but we will
also consider any public opinion papers unrelated to the theme. We welcome
participation from all sectors engaged in public opinion and public policy
research including academia, government, private sector, and
non-profit. *Proposal
Submission Process:* Submitted abstracts for papers and posters must be no
longer than 300 words. Proposals should include complete contact
information for each author and presenter including name, mailing address,
telephone number, and e-mail address. All abstracts must be received no
later than 5pm PDT on October 10, 2014. Please submit abstracts as
electronic attachments via email to 2014 Conference Chair, Benjamin L.
Messer at confchair at papor.org.

*GRANTS*

*NIMH Request for Information:*  NIMH seeks input on approaches to
fostering innovation and accelerating progress in the development and
testing of disparity-reduction strategies related to mental health service
provision, access, or outcomes in the U.S.  This request emerged from a
report, “Closing the Gaps: Reducing Disparities in Mental Health Treatment
through Engagement” http://tinyurl.com/ml8tpje.  Comments are invited from
any interested parties, and this is your opportunity to shape research that
aligns with your own interests.  Read the RFI at
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-MH-14-021.html.

*AHRQ R01 Grant Announced*, to support a discrete, specified health
services research project  Topics should relate to the AHRQ mission, that
is, to produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more
accessible, equitable and affordable, and to work with HHS and other
partners to make sure that the evidence is understood and used.  Specific
priority areas of focus are:

·         Improve health care quality by accelerating implementation of
Patient Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR)

·         Make health care safer

·         Increase accessibility by evaluating expansions of insurance
coverage

·         Improve health care affordability, efficiency and cost
transparency

Read the full announcement:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-14-291.html.

*The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy* is accepting applications for
grants for research in the social sciences. Applicants are encouraged to
submit their proposals no later than December 15, 2014, in order to permit
the Foundation to confirm that the proposal is complete and in the required
format. Awards for 2014 will be announced in June 2015. Deadline: January
31, 2015. For more information, visit www.horowitz-foundation.org.

*Sociological Initiatives Foundation *invites concept proposals for
projects that link an explicit research design to concrete social action
strategy areas of civic participation, community organizing, crime and law,
education, health, housing, immigration, labor organizing, and
language/literacy. Projects should also have clear social change goals. The
grant amount is from $10,000 to $20,000. Deadline: August 15, 2014.
Contact: Prentice Zinn at pzinn at gmafoundation.com. For more information,
visit
www.sifoundation.org/2014/04/foundation-announces-call-for-concept-applications-for-2013/.

*PRIZES*

*CROP prize for international studies in poverty.  *The Comparative
Research Programme on Poverty (CROP) is seeking original academic
manuscripts about poverty from all disciplines of the social sciences and
humanities. The organization especially welcomes submissions that
contribute to the eradication or prevention of poverty, and are in the
themes of poverty and human rights, gender disparity, policy innovation,
the Millennium Development Goals process, and global justice. Entries
should not have been previously published. Apply for the prize by Aug. 31.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.ncfr.org/news/apply-crop-prize-international-studies-poverty.

*ON THE WEB*

*Wisconsin Longitudinal Survey:  *Version 13.02 of the WLS is now available
for download from the website.  http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/wlsresearch/. This
release includes three new 2011 modules -  Linguistic Functioning,
Mortality Closeout, and Interviewer Observation and Characteristics. We
also added administrative data on Voting History to the Ancillary Data.
Other changes were made as well.  For more information please see Change
Notice #38,
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/wlsresearch/data/updates/change_notice/chnt_038.htm.

*American Community Survey 2013 Data Release.  *The 2013 ACS 1-year
estimates will be released on Thursday, September 18, 2014. The 2013 ACS
1-year estimates will be available for the nation, all states, the District
of Columbia, Puerto Rico, every congressional district, every metropolitan
area, and all counties and places with populations of 65,000 or more.  The
2011-2013 ACS 3-year estimates are scheduled for release on October 23,
2014. The statistics are derived from three years of data collection cover
all geographic areas with populations of 20,000 or more. The 2009-2013 ACS
5-year estimates are scheduled for release on December 4, 2014. The
statistics are derived from five years of data collection cover all
geographic areas regardless of size, down to the block group level.  The
Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files for each ACS release will be
posted one to two months after each public release.

If you have questions about this survey, please call Customer Services
Center at 1 (800) 923-8282.

*FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS*

*PAPOR Student Paper Competition: *The award for this competition is
presented at the PAPOR meeting mentioned above.  PAPOR seeks original
research analyzing survey data on public opinion of any sort, as well as
survey data about social or behavioral research.  It is open to graduate
and undergraduate students. Email your paper by midnight (PDT) on October
15, 2014 to PAPOR Student Paper Chair, Jessica Gollaher at
studentpaper at papor.org.  Please include your name, mailing address,
telephone number, and e-mail address. Entries should not exceed 30 pages
total. The first-place winner receives a cash award and some travel
expenses and the first- and second-place winners receive a one-year
complimentary PAPOR membership and a spot on the annual conference program.
Visit www.papora.org for more information.

*Project Management Institute (PMI) Doctoral Research Grant. * PMI supports
doctoral research in project, program and portfolio management.  Applications
are from part-time and full-time doctoral students at accredited colleges
and universities. The grant is awarded annually and the deadline is May 15,
2015. For more information, visit www.pmi.org/research or email them at
pmief at pmi.org.

*Dlab: R Boot Camp, *Saturday August 23, 8:15 AM-5 PM and Sunday August 24,
9 AM-4:30 PM. This is an intensive two-day instruction lab for those with
no or little background in R. For more information and registration, visit:
http://dlab.berkeley.edu/training/r-bootcamp-0.

*RANDOM TIP*

Make your PowerPoint handouts readable and still conserve paper.  Print
multiple slides on a page, but instead of using the Print ‘Handouts’ option
of printing 3, 4 or 6 tiny slides, use the options in Printer
Properties-Finishing-Four pages per sheet’ in landscape orientation and
then each slide will fill up one-quarter of the page.

-- 
Leora Lawton PhD
Executive Director
Berkeley Population Center
350K Barrows Hall
(of) 510-643-1270
(m) 510-928-7572
www.popcenter.berkeley.edu
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