Join the Woodlawn Study Team! We are excited to share the availability of a 2-year post-doctoral research associate at the University of Maryland School of Public Health. Led currently by Dr. Kerry Green, the Woodlawn Study is a longitudinal community cohort study that began as a school-based intervention in 1966. This rich longitudinal study spans over 50 years with the most recent interviews conducted with cohort members at age 62 in 2022-2024. More information about the study can be found at www.woodlawn.umd.edu.
Key responsibilities:
Analyze the existing Woodlawn datasets (age 6, age 16, age 32, age 42) to identify life course factors that impact the aging experience at 62
Write and publish articles in peer-reviewed journals
Present study findings at scientific meetings
Assist with the preparation of applications for external funding
Collaborate with the research team to build knowledge
Additional Benefits:
Work closely with the research team in a collaborative environment
Develop skills in quantitative data analysis
Opportunities for first-authored manuscripts
Mentorship in grant writing
Faculty status at the University of Maryland
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
PhD in Public Health or a related field by the start date
Interest in the aging process
Experience analyzing quantitative data, particularly longitudinal data and latent variable modeling
Passion for life course research, urban health, and underserved populations
PREFERENCES:
Familiarity with national aging datasets (e.g., Health and Retirement Study)
The Center for Research on Child and Family Wellbeing (CRCFW), directed by Dr. Kathryn Edin and part of the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, invites outstanding researchers to apply for appointments each academic year. CRCFW conducts research on children and young adults’ health, education, and economic wellbeing and on understanding disadvantaged communities. Our current initiatives include the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS), exploring the impact of several anti-violence programs in Chicago, understanding the regional concentration of disability receipt and its impact on community life, and the relationship between poverty and trauma.
The following appointment is available for the 2025 – 2026 academic year. The position requires in-person work at least 3 days a week. Applications will be accepted through February 28, 2025.
CRCFW is offering a highly competitive Postdoctoral Research Associate position to an individual with documented interest in the transition to young adulthood and experience working with the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS) or other, similar longitudinal survey data. Appointments are for one year with the possibility of renewal, pending satisfactory performance and continued funding, with negotiable starting dates for the next academic year.
QUALIFICATIONS: Postdocs are expected to have outstanding potential and be self-motivated, goal-oriented and capable of successfully communicating ideas to diverse audiences. They must also be able to build on existing strengths, bridge different fields, and be motivated to work with faculty and staff on complex projects. This position will support independent and collaborative research on the above topics. Preference will be given to candidates that have obtained their PhD within the last two years. While this listing is open to all social science disciplines, preference will be given to those with a PhD in quantitative demography or with formal demography training.
Postdocs will participate in all of the Center’s activities, including student-faculty seminars, workshops, and public lectures. The postdoc will be expected to spend about 75% of their time working on publications using data from the FFCWS and/or research with Dr. Edin and about 25% of their time assisting the FFCWS data team projects such as merging contextual and administrative data files to the survey data.
The Population Research Institute at The Pennsylvania State University anticipates an opening for a Postdoctoral Scholar in Social Environments and Population Health, starting on or around August 15, 2025, contingent on funding availability. The Postdoctoral Scholar will devote time to independent research, collaborations with faculty mentors, and mentored training and professionalization.
This position is funded for one year from the start date, with the possibility of renewal for an additional year, conditional on successful progress.
Applicants must have a Ph.D. in a social science field such as sociology, demography, family studies, anthropology, economics, public policy, or related fields using social science approaches (e.g., epidemiology) by the start date, and have training and research experience in demographic processes (fertility, mortality, migration, and family formation), especially as they are relevant to social environments and population health. Additionally, applicants must demonstrate interest and capacity for independent research, evidence or clear plans for an emerging publication record, have outstanding writing and communication skills, and be able to work effectively on a team.
The Population Research Institute at The Pennsylvania State University anticipates an opening for a Postdoctoral Scholar in Emerging Disparities in Population Health, starting on or around August 15, 2025, contingent on funding availability. The Postdoctoral Scholar will devote time to independent research, collaborations with faculty mentors, and mentored training and professionalization.
This position is funded for one year from the start date, with the possibility of renewal for an additional year, conditional on successful progress.
Applicants must have a Ph.D. in a social science field such as sociology, demography, gerontology, family studies, anthropology, economics, public policy, or related fields using social science approaches (e.g., epidemiology) by the start date, and have training and research experience in substantive demographic topics or demographic methods, especially as they are relevant to aging and population health disparities. Additionally, applicants must demonstrate interest and capacity for independent research, evidence or clear plans for an emerging publication record, have outstanding writing and communication skills, and be able to work effectively on a team.
Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research (IQMR) New Voices Initiative Call for Applications for IQMR 2025 (June 15-27, 2025) Application Due Date: January 31, 2025
Background and Motivation
The Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research (IQMR) is a two-week training program held each summer at Syracuse University. IQMR promotes the teaching and application of a diverse range of advanced qualitative research methods and their combination with complementary analytic techniques in political science and cognate disciplines. The Institute’s overall goals are to enable attendees to create and critique methodologically sophisticated qualitative and multi-method research, and to foster the continued growth of a collaborative community of scholars who develop, refine, teach, and employ qualitative research methods. Each summer IQMR participants choose from among approximately 20 modules led by more than 30 faculty. Over the last 22 years, more than 3,000 graduate students and junior faculty have been trained at IQMR.
The New Voices Initiative aims to identify, encourage, and support early career researchers (ECRs) interested in serving as IQMR instructors, growing the pool of scholars potentially available to teach at the Institute. More broadly, the Initiative seeks to increase the number and diversity of faculty who teach qualitative and multi-method research in the social sciences. The Institute is uniquely positioned to offer junior scholars who aspire to teach methods the experience they need to transition from using to teaching social science methods. Over time, increasing numbers of outstanding ECRs have joined IQMR as instructors. Building on that foundation, the Institute is particularly interested in receiving applications from ECRs in the social sciences who are members of groups that have historically been under-represented in academia, and can offer fresh insights and perspectives on the methods taught at IQMR.
Eligibility Requirements
To be eligible to participate in the New Voices Initiative, ECRs must:
Have received a doctoral degree in the social sciences between 2018 and June 2025 or, in exceptional circumstances, plan to complete their doctorate by June 2026;
Be based at a U.S. institution;
Have methodological expertise as demonstrated through publishing work focused on the development of qualitative methods, and/or teaching courses focused on qualitative methods, that would enable them to contribute to modules focused on the following:
Logic of qualitative methods (logic and set theory; regularity theory of causality)
Field methods (fieldwork design, survey research, archival research, focus groups, interviews, digital fieldwork)
Comparative historical analysis
Non-controlled comparison (case selection, logics of comparison)
Interpretive methods
Ethnographic methods
Process tracing
Bayesian inference
Causal diagrams for within-case analysis
Geographic Information Systems
Integrating qualitative and quantitative techniques
Integrating qualitative and experimental techniques
Text as data
Qualitative comparative analysis
Application Process
Eligible ECRs should complete and submit the Google Form linked below by January 31, 2025.
The selection committee will comprise the IQMR leadership team and one or more of the faculty who lead the modules in which applicants express an interest in teaching. They will review all eligible applications to identify the two applicants who could make the most significant contribution through, and benefit the most from, teaching at IQMR. Selection decisions will be made, and all applicants notified of the status of their application, by late February 2025.
Each Teaching Fellow will join the teaching team for a particular set of modules, and will be guided and mentored by those modules’ seasoned instructors. It is hoped that Teaching Fellows will begin or continue to publish on the conduct of qualitative and multi-method research, and/or to teach their own methods classes at their home institution.
Teaching Fellows are paid an honorarium, and their round trip economy class domestic air travel, lodging in Syracuse, NY, and a per diem for the duration of their stay are covered by the Institute. Fellows who teach at IQMR 2025 will be eligible to teach at IQMR in subsequent summers.
We seek scientists who understand complex health problems and health disparities as resulting from multiple interacting layers of influence that unfold over chronological, biological, and historical time. This exciting program at the University of Minnesota, housed in the Minnesota Population Center, features cross-training in the biology and etiology of disease as well as in the social sciences. The program includes engagement in independent and collaborative population health research, supervised by interdisciplinary teams of faculty, and intensive professional socialization. It is designed to integrate trainees from diverse disciplinary backgrounds and prepare them to have outstanding careers as population health scientists.
Interested candidates can read more about our program online.
Please direct all questions to Lindsey Fabian (fabian@umn.edu).
The SRCD Policy Fellowship immerses postdoctoral child development experts over one to two years in a U.S. federal agency, state agency, or congressional placement where they work full time on child and family policy. With over 30 years in operation, this program is a prestigious opportunity. Apply for the 2025-2026 cohort before January 6, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. ET.
El Colegio de México is a prestigious public higher education institution of excellence in research and teaching in the Social Sciences and Humanities. It has received numerous awards and recognitions, and has established itself as one of the most distinguished academic institutions in the Spanish-speaking world.
The rapid advancement of data science and computational sciences in recent decades has opened new opportunities to explore both traditional and emerging research questions. In response to this evolving landscape, El Colegio de México, through its Interdisciplinary Data Science Program (PICD), is launching a call for applications for a postdoctoral fellowship with three general objectives: first, to provide a space where a young researcher can apply data science and computational science to the fields of social sciences and humanities; second, to foster synergies among different centers and working groups in order to produce innovative research that leverages cutting-edge tools and technologies; and, third, to share and disseminate knowledge on the use and application of data science tools within the El Colegio community.
The postdoctoral fellowships at PICD are designed to build bridges between ongoing research at El Colegio and advanced computational methodologies. The fellowships’ goal is to explore the applicability of data collection, analysis, visualization, and storage tools in addressing key research questions in the social sciences and humanities.
Desired Profile We are looking for a candidate with a PhD degree, committed full-time at El Colegio de México in a two-year postdoctoral fellowship. The second year is subject to a positive academic performance evaluation. We will give priority to candidates intending to stay for the full two years in the appointment.
The main project is entitled ‘Quantification and correction of biases in mobility data from digital footprints”. The principal investigador is Dr. Miguel González-Leonardo from the Centre for Demographic, Urban and Environmental Studies within El Colegio de México, and Prof. Francisco Rowe and Dr. Carmen Cabrera Arnau from the Geographic Data Science Lab at the University of Livepool are co-investigators in the project. It focuses on developing applications of data science and computational science, with a particular emphasis on the analysis of mobility data derived from digital footprints. These data offer significant potential for studying human mobility patterns and their societal impact, if we can leverage their advantages of providing broad geographic coverage, high spatial and temporal resolution, and real time availability.
Although geolocated data from mobile phone applications have become common in studies of human mobility, they often have biases and cannot provide a representative picture of the full population. This project seeks to implement methods to quantify and correct these biases in mobility data obtained from digital footprints, using data science and advanced machine learning techniques.
To deliver this project and PICD activities, we are recruiting a postdoctoral researcher with experience in managing large datasets, preferably in R and with data on human mobility and migration derived from digital footprints. We are interested in candidates with strong knowledge in computational science, statistics and machine learning, preferably in Bayesian statistics, gravity models, and neural networks. Desirable experience is prior work in correcting biases from digital data. We will also consider academic publications.
In addition to the main project, the postdoctoral researcher is expected to integrate across different research lines and activities within El Colegio de México. The candidate will have the opportunity to propose original projects and contribute his expertise to teaching courses as a lecturer.
Non-Spanish-speaking candidates are encouraged to apply; however, they should be willing to take Spanish lessons and actively engage with the (mostly Spanish-speaking) academic community.
The Cornell Population Center (CPC) invites applicants for the Frank H.T. Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellowships. The position starts August 15, 2025 and will continue for 2 years, subject to a satisfactory first year evaluation. Selection is based on scholarly potential, ability to work in multi-disciplinary settings, and the support of a CPC faculty affiliate who will serve as mentor. Preference will be given to fellows with research interests in areas broadly related to the CPC’s four main areas: families & children; health behaviors & disparities; poverty & inequality; and immigration & diversity. Especially encouraged are applications from candidates whose research has significance for those countries on which the fellowship’s funder focuses – the United States, the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, Vietnam, South Africa, and Bermuda.
The Frank H. T. Rhodes Fellowships stand as a testament to the profound difference Frank Rhodes has made at Cornell by furthering scholarship and research in areas related to poverty alleviation, support for the elderly and disadvantaged children and youth, public health, and human rights. The postdoctoral program is designed to provide support through collaborations with faculty and to assist new scholars in launching their research programs. Postdoctoral Associates devote most of their time to independent research but are expected to be actively involved in CPC activities and events. CPC offers an exciting intellectual environment for postdoctoral training in demography, with over 200 affiliated faculty, graduate students, and postdocs. See http://www.cpc.cornell.edu/ for more information about CPC.
Applicants must have completed a Ph.D. in demography, economics, sociology, or another related social science discipline by August 15, 2025.
Application Information: Interested applicants should submit a 1) cover letter that identifies a supportive CPC faculty sponsor; 2) CV; 3) statement proposing both an individual research project and a description of how the candidate will engage in a collaborative project with a CPC faculty affiliate, 4) acknowledgment of support from a CPC faculty mentor (In lieu of a letter of recommendation, please send your mentor’s and email address to population@cornell.edu with the subject line: Postdoc Mentor, and we will send them a form to complete); 5) example of written work; 6) three letters of recommendation; and 6) a description of experience with, and/or approaches to (past, current, or future), fostering learning, research, service, and/or outreach in a diverse community—applicants may choose to submit a stand-alone statement or embed the information in other parts of their application materials.
Applications will be reviewed on December 01, 2024, and continue until a candidate is selected. For full consideration, please apply by November 30, 2024.
The Population Studies Center has a vibrant interdisciplinary group of postdoctoral fellows. Our fellows benefit from fruitful relationships with PSC faculty mentors and programming designed to provide training in population science perspectives and methods, exposure to interdisciplinary scholarship, and continued development of scholarly independence. Our postdoctoral fellows have been very productive in the program, have found excellent positions, and have built successful careers after their training at Michigan.
Our fellowships are supported by federal National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants awarded to the PSC from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the National Institute on Aging (NIA).
Our program accepts applications each fall (September-December), for fellowships beginning the following fall. Fellowships provide health insurance, stipends to support living expenses, and supplemental childcare support. Fellows devote most of their time to independent research. Positions offer exceptional opportunities for collaboration at the Institute for Social Research on major projects in the U.S. and overseas. The term of fellowship appointment will be for two years, contingent on continued funding. Stipend will be commensurate with experience, based on levels mandated by NIH.
NIH has stated that their ability to help ensure that the nation remains a global leader in scientific discovery and innovation is dependent upon a pool of highly talented scientists from diverse backgrounds who will further NIH’s mission. We encourage applications from US citizens and Permanent Residents who are training grant-eligible and who come from underrepresented backgrounds including African Americans, Hispanics or Latinos, American Indians or Alaskan Natives, Native Hawaiians or other Pacific Islanders, persons with a disability, or individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. For further information, please see NIH Notice Number: NOT-OD-20-031, “Notice of NIH’s Interest in Diversity.” Continue reading →
