The William T. Grant Foundation is pleased to announce our fourth Request for Proposals (RFP) on Understanding the Acquisition, Interpretation, and Use of Research Evidence in Policy and Practice. This purpose of the RFP is to help us better understand how research evidence is acquired, interpreted, and used in policy and practice that affect youth. The next deadline for letters of inquiry is April 3, 2012.
We are delighted to invite you to attend a conference this April in Chicago.
The conference is co-sponsored by the Council on Contemporary Families (CCF; http://contemporaryfamilies.org/) and the University-Based Child and Family Policy Consortium (http://www.childpolicyuniversityconsortium.com/). The theme of the conference is "Crossing Boundaries: Public and Private Roles in Assuring Child Well-Being." More information and registration is available online (http://contemporaryfamilies.org/conference/2012-conference-program.html) but here are a few highlights: * This is a small, intimate conference, with numerous opportunities to network with other scholars who conduct policy-relevant research and to engage in thought-provoking dialogue about new research findings. * On Friday, there will be a series of plenary sessions, with engaging panelists and audience discussion on topics such as: disparities in maltreatment risk and system response and innovative approaches to prevention and intervention, as well as speakers such as: Jill Korbin, John Eckenrode, and John Fluke, to name just a few! * The first session focuses on Illinois' new differential response approach to child welfare, including speakers from DCFS and national experts. * A Friday evening reception at the Jane Addams Hull House museum features a keynote address by Dorothy Roberts of Northwestern University on "The Politics of Racial Disparities in Child Welfare." * On Saturday morning, Vivian Tseng, Vice President for Programs at the William T Grant Foundation will deliver a keynote address about the process through which research evidence informs policy and practice affecting youth. Several experts from CCF will also run workshops to help you build your skills in interacting with the media. * There are also opportunities for you to share your research in a refereed poster session (more info at http://www.contemporaryfamilies.org/conference/2012-conference-call-for-papers-poster-session.html). Poster submissions from a range of disciplines and on a variety of topics (including beyond the conference theme) are welcome. The conference will be Friday, April 27th and Saturday morning, April 28th at the Crowne Plaza Metro hotel in downtown Chicago (on the West edge of the Chicago downtown loop). For those of you who aren't familiar with Consortium, it is comprised of about two-dozen of the leading child and family policy centers and programs across the country. The Consortium fosters both research and engagement by sharing strategies for conducting policy-relevant research, facilitating scientific collaboration around child and family policy, and fostering effective translation between research, practice, and policy. For those of you who aren't familiar with CCF, they are a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to providing the press and public with the latest research and best-practice findings about American families. CCF's members include demographers, economists, family therapists, historians, political scientists, psychologists, social workers, sociologists, as well as other family social scientists and practitioners. Call for Papers for the Children and Childhood Network of the Social Science History Association2/1/2012
We invite you to participate in the 37th annual meeting of the Social Science History Association by submitting a paper or session proposal to the Children and Childhood Network of the SSHA. The conference will take place November 1-4, 2012 in Vancouver, British Columbia. For more information on the conference as well as the general call for proposals, please refer to the SSHA website: http://www.ssha.org. The deadline for full panel or individual paper proposals is March 1, 2012.
The association particularly emphasizes interdisciplinary and transnational research, and the annual meeting provides a very supportive environment in which to present new work. The theme of the 2012 conference is “Histories of Capitalism,” though papers related to the conference location of Vancouver or other aspects of social science history are also welcome. Please see a preliminary list below of session ideas generated at last year’s C & C network meeting. Complete panels must include at least 4 papers and presenters from more than one academic institution. Other formats, including roundtable discussions and book sessions, are also possible. Proposals can be submitted by means of a web conference management system athttp://conference.ssha.org. If you haven’t used the system previously you will need to create an account, which is a very simple process. Graduate students presenting at the conference may apply for a travel grant from the SSHA (http://www.ssha.org/grants). Let us know if you need any help making a submission or advice about a proposal. If you have any questions, please contact either of the Children and Childhood network co-chairs: Birgitte Søland: [email protected] Emily Bruce: [email protected] Possible panels suggested at the 2011 C&C network meeting: • youth, parents, and the market (contact Emily Bruce, [email protected]) • children’s social capital • indigeneity and youth • globalization of child labor • trafficking • surrogacy/reproductive technologies • child placement in histories of capitalism • disability, the medicalization of childhood • children and consumerism • international adoption • roundtable on pedagogy: teaching the history of childhood • queer childhoods The regular application deadline for Global Youth Connect’s Summer 2012 Human Rights Programs in Rwanda, Bosnia, and New York City is January 30th.
All of these programs (including the NYC program) are open to young leaders from around the USA and Canada. The age range for the NYC program is 16 - 30 years and for Rwanda and Bosnia the range is 18 - 35. Each program includes a human rights and/or conflict resolution workshop, volunteer service with grassroots organizations, and key site visits for learning and action -- such as the visit depicted in the picture above. People can apply to one or multiple programs. More information about the programs can be found at the Global Youth Connect program website: http://www.globalyouthconnect.org/participate.html OPEN POSITION
Barbara Emily Knudson Endowed Chair in Family Policy Studies, College of Public Health and Human Sciences, Oregon State University. The School of Social and Behavioral Health Sciences invites applications for this 9-month tenured position at the rank of Professor. Application deadline: February 1, 2012. Anticipated start date: September 16, 2012. Responsibilities and Qualifications (highlights): The Knudson Chair will continue a well-established, innovative and independent research program through application for and receipt of external funds and publications in top-tier, peer-reviewed journals; effectively teach undergraduate and graduate courses and mentor graduate students; and provide exceptional service to the college, OSU and the profession. As part of the research assignment, the Chair will provide leadership for multidisciplinary efforts in the Hallie Ford Center for Healthy Children & Families and will contribute to the development of a Master of Public Health in family and child/adolescent health. The Knudson Chair will help to lead and mentor faculty and build multidisciplinary teams to address critical issues surrounding family policy and the health outcomes of children, adolescents and/or youth. The candidate will have the academic background and expertise to meet expectations of Full Professor with indefinite tenure in the School of Social and Behavioral Health Sciences. An earned doctorate in human development and/or family sciences or in a public health discipline with a focus on family, child or adolescent health, or a related field is required. For a full description of responsibilities and qualifications, as well as application instructions, see: http://health.oregonstate.edu/knudson<http://health.oregonstate.edu/knudson> We are pleased to announce a new digital database of children and youth scholarship. We also seek recommendations regarding additional citations from section members.
Background: The database is hosted by Mendeley, a free service that you can access at: Mendeley Group: Sociology of Childhood. Although you do not have to be a member of Mendeley to view the annotated list of texts, membership allows you to utilize the service as a citation management tool. Moreover, groups like Mendeley can be used collaboratively, rendering this bibliography as a living document that can be edited and expanded over time. It is an effective management tool for retaining classic texts, promoting members' new publications, and ensuring that young scholars have a credible resource tool on the sociology of children and youth. I seek your assistance with the following: 1) Although I have established the bibliography with an extensive number of citations (note that editing the citations to check for data accuracy is currently underway), I seek recommendations from experienced section members regarding key texts in the sociology of children and youth. Please email me ([email protected]) the names of authors and publication titles that you believe should be included in this bibliography. I look forward to adding your suggestions. 2) I encourage you to bookmark or -- better yet -- join the Mendeley Sociology of Childhood group. As noted above, Mendeley is free and provides another valuable resource for academic work. If you run into any issues with the website, please contact me for assistance. Thanks again! I look forward to adding your suggested titles to the bibliography. Best, Matthew Rafalow Website Editor, Section on Children & Youth European Child Cohort Network and Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies International Conference
‘Childhood and beyond: tracing cohorts across the lifecourse ’ PARIS, France 29-31 October 2012 2012 will see the final conference of the ESF-funded European Child Cohort Network (EUCCONET), combined with the third conference of the Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (SLLS). It comprises keynote lectures, parallel groups and poster sessions. It will feature reports and research from the teams following the multi-purpose child cohort studies in EUCCONET. It also offers a broader forum for research on the whole lifecourse and longitudinal methodology. Keynote addresses will be offered by: Marie-Aline Charles, Director of the French child cohort ELFE, Jane Waldfogel , Professor of Social Work for the Prevention of Children's and Youth Problems , Columbia University, and Ian Deary, Professor of Differential Psychology, University of Edinburgh , Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology. The conference will take place in Paris, France, the most beautiful city in the world and home of the organization of the 2011-launched Growing Up in France Study (ELFE). The conference venue is the FIAP Jean Monnet, an international accommodation and conference centre located in a quiet area on the River Gauche, Paris 14, with easy access from airports, train stations and the city. Further details will be posted in mid January. Membership information can be found on the SLLS website: http://www.longstudies.longviewuk.com/pages/membership.shtml The Section on Children and Youth and the Section on Aging and the Life Course (SALC) are partnering this year for an exciting open session on “Children, Youth, and the Future of Aging” (see description below).
This session is formally listed under SALC’s offerings on the ASA program — and we don’t want you to miss it! We want your submissions! The deadline – JANUARY 11, 3 P.M. EST -- is almost here. Instructions can be found at:http://www.asanet.org/meetings/Call_for_Papers.cfm Children, Youth, and the Future of Aging. Social gerontologists have focused their attention on the implications of the Baby Boom for aging and old age. But in order for aging research and policy to become more anticipatory, we must turn our attention to younger cohorts. This session examines how childhood, youth, and young adulthood are changing, as well as the characteristics of the cohorts now in these periods (e.g., their resources, expectations, needs, experiences). How might these changes pose special challenges and opportunities for the future of aging? Session Organizers: Gunhild O. Hagestad, Norwegian Social Research and Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson, Washington State University Happy new year, Cheers, Rick Settersten Chair, ASA Section on Aging and the Life Course & Loretta Bass Chair, ASA Section on Children and Youth CHAIR:
Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson, Washington State University ([email protected]) CHAIR-ELECT: Dalton Conley, New York University ([email protected]) PAST CHAIR: Loretta Bass, University of Oklahoma ([email protected]) SECRETARY-TREASURER: Kelly Musick, Cornell University ([email protected]) COUNCIL: Ann Meier, Minnesota University ([email protected]) David Kinney, Central Michigan University ([email protected]) Pamela Anne Quiroz, University of Illinois, Chicago ([email protected]) Holly Heard, Rice University ([email protected]) Stefanie Mollborn, University of Colorado Boulder ([email protected]) Shannon Cavanagh, University of Texas ([email protected]) Dana Haynie, Ohio State University ([email protected]) STUDENT REPS: Jason Blind, Indiana University ([email protected]) Kristin Abner, University of Illinois at Chicago ([email protected]) PUBLICATIONS CHAIR: Janel Benson, Colgate University WEBSITE EDITOR: Matt Rafalow, University of California, Irvine ([email protected]) NEWSLETTER EDITORS: Meghan Mordi, Colorado State University ([email protected]) One other member to be named 2012-13 Committees 1. Nominations Committee Chair: David Kinney, Central Michigan University ([email protected]) Stefanie Mollborn, University of Colorado Boulder ([email protected]) Dana Haynie, Ohio State University ([email protected]) 2. Distinguished Career Award Chair: Ann Meier, Minnesota University ([email protected]) 3. Distinguished Career Service Award Chair: Pamela Anne Quiroz, University of Illinois, Chicago ([email protected]) 4. Graduate Student Paper Chair: Loretta Bass, University of Oklahoma ([email protected]) 5. Membership Committee Chair: Ingrid Castro, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts ([email protected]) 6. Program Committee Chair: Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson, Washington State University ([email protected]) The Department of Sociology at the University of Colorado Denver is seeking qualified applicants for the position of Department Chair. Applicants must have a Ph.D. in Sociology or a closely related discipline and should be eligible for appointment with tenure at the rank of Associate or Full Professor at CU Denver. Individuals should have an active research program, a distinguished scholarly record, evidence of high quality teaching, and administrative experience relevant to the Chair’s role. Applicants’ research program should be in an area complementary to the existing research strengths of the department (i.e., health and wellbeing, criminology, and the family) and there should be a history of extramural funding, preferably with currently active support. Applications must include: 1) a letter of introduction which addresses the position requirements and summarizes the qualifications of the applicant; 2) full curriculum vitae; 3) research statement, describing research interests; 4) teaching statement, describing courses taught and history of mentoring graduate and undergraduate students; 5) administrative statement, outlining previous leadership experience and accomplishments; and 6) the names, email addresses, postal addresses, and daytime phone numbers for four professional references. Review of applications begins 15 January 2012 and continues until filled. Please apply at www.jobsatcu.com (posting 815439). Questions should be directed to, John W. Wyckoff, Associate Dean, at[email protected]. UCD is dedicated to ensuring a safe and secure environment for our faculty, staff, and students. To achieve that goal, we conduct background investigations for all prospective employees. The University of Colorado is committed to diversity and equality in education and employment.
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