Announcement items

This resource is great for getting started with exploring the FFCWS variables. Sort FFCWS variables by topic, wave, respondent, focal person, scales, survey, source, and/or variable type. This re-release includes new and improved data files for all FFCWS data from baseline through Year 15, along with improved accompanying documentation. Year 15 Weights are now also available.

For more information see the Metadata Explorer 

Binghamton University is calling for fellows that are expected to conduct original research appropriate to the department wherein they will be appointed, to publish scholarly work as a result of this effort, and to teach or co-teach one or more courses per year as the instructor of record. Fellows will receive formal mentoring in research and teaching, as well as receive constructive feedback throughout the appointment in an effort to improve their candidacy for a tenure track appointment. 

Deadline: Open until filled

For more information see the announcement 

The Journal of Official Statistics is calling for papers to their Special Issue: Population statistics for the 21st century. The aim of the special issue is to present cutting-edge innovations in the methodology and applications relevant for official population statistics, in order to help the users of statistical products better address the challenges of the 21st century.

Deadline for submission: September 30, 2019

For more information see the announcement flyer 

The 9th Conference on Emerging Adulthood will be held at the Intercontinental Toronto Centre Hotel, Canada on October 10, 2019 - October 12, 2019. 

Registration is Open. 

For more information visit the conference website 

The Office of Population Research at Princeton University and the California Center for Population Research at the
University of California, Los Angeles are seeking one post-doctoral researcher for a new project on the role of occupational segregation by race/ethnicity and immigrant status and its effects on older adult health in the United States. The main focus is on the higher rate of functional limitations by age among the native-born and immigrant Latino/Hispanic population. Candidates should apply only to one of the two universities (where they would prefer to be located). 

Deadline: Position open until filled 

For more information see the UCLA announcement 

For more information see the Princeton announcement 

The 45th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association will take place November 21-24, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois. 

For more information visit the SSHA website. 

Genus welcomes submissions for the thematic series: “Changes in the sexual behavior of young people”. This thematic series will assess recent changes in the sexual behavior of young people, and is particularly interested in contributions that address the topic from a life course perspective, or that consider gender dynamics, at-risk behaviors, contraception, sexually transmitted diseases, sexual satisfaction, sexual harassment, sexuality and peers, sexuality and parenting and age norms, non-heterosexual orientation and behaviors, or methods to collect and verify data on youth sexual behavior, both in developed and developing countries.

Deadline: September 30, 2019

For more information see the announcement 

The Department of Urban Studies at the CUNY School of Labor seeks a junior level (Assistant Professor) or a senior level (Associate or Full Professor) for tenure-track faculty position in Urban Economics and/or Urban Demography.

Position open until filled 

For more information see the announcement 

The European Association for Population Studies (EAPS) is a unique, international and interdisciplinary forum for population studies with a special focus on Europe. EAPS is an independent scientific association of individual members and affiliated institutions, founded in 1983. EAPS is calling for papers for their upcoming conference in 2020. 

Deadline: November 1, 2019

For more information see the announcement 

The U.S. Census Bureau is releasing the STIC series leading into the 2020 round of censuses. Notes in the series complement the U.N. Principles and Recommendations on Population and Housing Censuses by describing key topics in more detail. Sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the STIC series is designed to assist staff in national statistical offices address many of the most pressing issues in the 2020 round.

For more information please visit the website 

The University of California San Francisco's Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics is seeking an individual to conduct policy research to examine the effects of neighborhood socioeconomic deprivation on health. The fellow will also work with the principal investigator on other related projects, leveraging natural experiments to study the effects of social policies on health.The Neighborhood-Health Policy Research project involves analyzing large Danish register data to examine the effects of neighborhood deprivation on dementia and its vascular risk factors among a cohort of immigrants to Denmark.

Deadline: Open until filled 

For more information see the announcement

Two Research Scholarships are available for PhD candidates interested in completing research on family and demographic research for the Academic Year 2020 intake (August 2020 onwards). Selected students may be based in any of the Departments/Programmes at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore.

Deadline: November 1, 2019

For more information see the announcement 

The Horowitz Foundation is now accepting applications for 2019 grants. These grants are among the largests offered to PhD students in social policy application on either a global or local level. 

Deadline: December 1, 2019

For more information see the announcement 

This seminar is organized by the IUSSP Scientific Panel on Historical Demography and will be held at the British Institute in Eastern Africa, in Nairobi, Kenya. Submissions are open on historical or long-term, interdisciplinary, perspectives on demographic change in Africa. The aims of the seminar are to review the state of the field of African population history, to consider the role of the past for understanding the present, and to facilitate partnerships and future comparative work on African historical demography.

Deadline for submission of abstracts: September 30, 2019

Seminar will take place in Nairobi, Kenya, 2-3 April 2020

For more information see the announcement 

The Department of Sociology and School of Social Work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison seeks to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor with research and teaching interests in the societal aspects of sexual violence. Job duties for faculty positions include research, teaching, and service. 

Deadline: October 1, 2019

For more information see the announcement 

A letter from France Córdova, Director of the National Science Foundation, lays out a new policy in the wake of revelations of funded research being co-opted by a foreign power.

"Our science and engineering enterprise . . . is put at risk when other governments endeavor to benefit from the global research ecosystem without upholding the values of openness, transparency, and reciprocal collaboration. . . .

"[W]e are issuing a policy making it clear that NSF personnel and IPAs detailed to NSF cannot participate in foreign government talent recruitment programs. There is a risk that participation in foreign government talent recruitment programs by NSF personnel and IPAs will compromise the ethical principles that bind us. Moreover, such participation poses significant risks of inappropriate foreign influence on NSF policies, programs, and priorities, including the integrity of NSF's merit review process—risks we simply cannot accept."

See the complete letter

The United Nations Foundation is seeking an intern to begin in Fall 2020 to assist with developing content for a number of platforms, including social media.

Deadline : Ongoing

For information see the UNF announcement

The United Nations Foundation is seeking an intern to begin in Fall 2020. The GPSDD makes connections and brokers partnerships to address the problems of gaps in data production, poor data use, access, quality, and works with stakeholders to fully harness the new opportunities of the data revolution in the service of sustainable development.

Deadline : Ongoing

For information see the UNF announcement

The Department of Quantitative Theory and Methods (QTM) at Emory University anticipates hiring three quantitative social scientists with expertise in statistics, data science, mathematical modeling, and/or analytical theory. The positions are tenure-track at the level of Assistant Professor or, for the extraordinary file, tenured at the Associate Professor level. Teaching load is competitive.

Deadline : Review starts September 3, 2019 (Applications received up to 30 days after review begins will receive full consideration.)

For more information, see the announcement

Editor: Nobert Schneider, Federal Institute for Population Research, 65185 Wiesbaden, Germany Managing Editor (2019):
Philip Rees, School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK

Send a Proposal (~800 words) for a Special Issue to CPoS@bib.bund.de, for the attention of the Managing Editor. The proposal should include: (1) the title of the Special Issue, (2) a summary of the Special Issue topic, (3) reasons why the topic is important and timely, (4) the value added by a Special Issue, (5) a list of title and potential authors of 4 to 6 papers per Special Issue and (6) what the Editorial Overview paper will contain.

Deadline : September 30, 2019

For details refer to the CPoS announcement 

This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) from the National Institute on Minority Health Disparities seeks to support research that examines how health information technology adoption impacts minority health and health disparity populations in access to care, quality of care, patient engagement, and health outcomes.

Deadline : Standard R01 application dates apply; next deadline October 28, 2019

For information, see the announcement

This special issue will feature research that sheds light on the intersection between housing markets and household or population mobility, two topics that are intrinsically linked. For example, the decision of whether and where to move is heavily influenced by housing market conditions—the levels of rents and house prices, the availability of the desired type and location of housing, and even the cost and availability of mortgage credit. At the same time, conditions in rental and housing markets are affected by the magnitudes of migrant flows into and out of the market.

Deadline : Before January 15, 2020 (early submissions will be considered promptly)

For information see the announcement

The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) invites R01 applications for its US Children with Perinatal HIV who were Born Internationally project to stimulate research on an area of emerging public health significance and improve understanding of the natural history, epidemiology, diagnosis and management of HIV and co-morbid conditions among US children who were born internationally and acquired HIV from their mothers.

Deadline : November 14, 2019

For more information see the announcement 

The conference is jointly organised by the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Nanjing University (China) and the Department of Geography, Environment and Population, School of Social Sciences, at the University of Adelaide (Australia), and will take place in Nanjing, China between Oct 13-15, 2019.

This conference, as part of the research project “Transnationalism and diaspora: Enhancing demography’s contribution to migration and development”, funded by the Australian Research Council under its Discovery program, aims to: (1) advance demographic understandings of population, migration and the implications of migration for development; (2) increase knowledge of the scale, characteristics and significance of diasporas in the Asia-Pacific; and (3) assess policies concerning diaspora and explore new directions.

Deadline for submission: September 1 2019. Successful submissions will be notified by 8 September 2019.

Seminar will take place in Nanjing, China, 13-15 October 2019

For more information see the announcement

Genus welcomes submissions for the thematic series: “Changes in the sexual behavior of young people”.

This thematic series will assess recent changes in the sexual behavior of young people particularly from a life course perspective, or that consider gender dynamics, at-risk behaviors, contraception, sexually transmitted diseases, sexual satisfaction, sexual harassment, sexuality and peers, sexuality and parenting and age norms, non-heterosexual orientation and behaviors, or methods to collect and verify data on youth sexual behavior, both in developed and developing countries.

This call is also open to submissions that go beyond the previously listed themes as long as they address recent changes in the sexual behavior of young people and the methodologies used to study various facets of this phenomenon.

Submission deadline: 30 November 2019

For more information see the announcement

The Human Planet Initiative of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) is working to harness new data sources, technologies and analytic approaches to address key needs for improved understanding and modeling and for better tools for decision making in support of sustainable development.

The second Human Planet Forum provides a unique venue for expert groups working on key topics include: monitoring and prediction of urbanization, population movement, rural development, and related changes in the Human Planet.

Duration: September 30 2019 9:00 AM to October 2 2019 5:00 PM

Forum will take place at Lamont Campus, Columbia University, 61 Route 9W, Palisades NY, USA

For more information see the announcement

Ohio State University Department of Sociology, within the College of Arts and Sciences, seeks two postdoctoral researcher to join their team. 

The postdoctoral researcher will join a multi-institution team working to create and improve statistical and computational methods to characterize the burden of disease globally. The project focuses on improving and implementing the verbal autopsy method for ascertaining cause of death when traditional autopsy is not feasible.  This work is funded by the National Institutes of Health and Bloomberg Philanthropies.

Posting closes September 29, 2019

For more information see the OSU announcement 1 & 2

This cyberseminar will focus on the fitness-for-use aspect of various gridded population and settlement products and their suitability for different application areas in population-environment studies. We will explore issues of uncertainty, endogeneity, temporal-explicitness, and spatial conformity in these data products along with scale and projection considerations. The seminar also provides examples of applications of gridded population and settlement products in population-environment research. 

Cyberseminar duration: Octobor 14 2019 to October 19 2019

For more information see the announcement

The position would be in either the department of Demography, Sociology or Kinesiology.

The position would focus on applying predictive analytics techniques or AI techniques to demographic and health data. The area of specialization is pretty open, with a preference for someone with strong analytics skills or experience with artificial intelligence.

Position open until filled.

For more information see the UTSA announcement