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Increasingly demography or demographics has become recognized as a powerful tool in the arenas of social, business, and government
problem-solving and decision-making. Students interested in entering business, social policy, program evaluation, public administration,
and academics are aided by training in demographic approaches and techniques.
BGSU is unique because it provides students not only the technical expertise but also the theoretical tools they will need
to make sense of and interpret demographic data and trends. Unlike other graduate programs in Ohio, BGSU offers M.A. and Ph.D.
degrees with demography specializations as well as a master's degree in Applied Demography. In addition, undergraduate students
can concentrate their sociology degree in population studies. All Sociology students' training is enhanced by exposure to
demographic analytic approaches, participation in research projects, course work, and data access.
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2008 Faculty Training Award Recipients
Jorge Chavez, Sociology
Scott Graves, Intervention Services
Catherine Kenney, Sociology
Danielle Payne Kuhl, Sociology
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Offered Training Workshops
Faculty Training Award Information
OFF CAMPUS TRAINING
ECLS-K DATA USERS’ TRAINING SEMINAR
Applications due April 14, 2008
June 4-6, Washington, DC
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), Institute of Education Sciences, is sponsoring a three-day advanced studies
seminar on the use of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 (ECLS-K) database. See http://ies.ed.gov/whatsnew/conferences/?id=312.
Wisconsin Longitudinal Study Training
>WLS Training Workshop at PAA, April 16, 2008, 3:30-5:30pm, Sheraton New Orleans Hotel Bayside B 4th Floor. The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS) is hosting
a training workshop for anyone who wants to learn more about the WLS. We will talk about the history, contents, and future
of the study and provide some suggestions on how to get started using the data.
>2008 WLS Pilot Grant Program, Applications due May 27 - The Center for Demography of Health and Aging at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will award two to three pilot grants
to investigators using the WLS data for scholarly research. Selected recipients will receive $10,000 to support their research,
along with a residency at CDHA, where they will receive training and support in use of WLS data. More info: http://ssc.wisc.edu/wlsresearch/pilot/
ECLS/NHES DATA TRAINING SEMINAR AT PAA ANNUAL MEETING
April 16, 2008
NCES will be conducting a 1-day training seminar on its early childhood studies on Wednesday, April 16 at the 2008 Annual
Meeting of the Population Association of American (PAA) in New Orleans, LA. This seminar provides researchers with tools for
utilizing data from two programs at the Institute of Education Sciences' National Center for Education Statistics: the Early
Childhood Longitudinal Studies (ECLS) and the National Household Education Surveys (NHES). The seminar provides overviews
of the study designs and technical issues, highlights about data pertaining to children from birth through 8th grade, information
on how the surveys compliment each other, and computer demonstrations of software that assists users in preparing data for
analyses. The seminar is for graduate students, faculty, and researchers who have a solid understanding of statistics and
limited familiarity with the ECLS and NHES data. Researchers who have previously attended an overview seminar on these studies,
or who have attended an in-depth training on one of the studies and are not interested in the others, probably will not benefit
from this seminar. This seminar is free of charge; however, we ask that you register in advance because space is limited.
For more information or to register, please contact us at ecls@air.org.
More information on the content of the seminar and the registration procedures is available here.
ANNUAL WORKSHOP ON CRIME AND POPULATION DYNAMICS (formerly Criminology and Economics)
June 2-3, 2008
Near Baltimore, MD
This year's feature talk is by Kathy Edin on Crime and Fathering in the Inner City. The workshop registration fee is $200
which includes registration, hotel room for Monday night, and 2 meals each day of the conference. Visit the workshop website for more details. Sponsored by the Maryland Population Research Center.
The Transfer of Resources Across Generations: Family, Income, Human Capital and Children's Wellbeing
9-13 June 2008
Klosterhotel, Vadstena, Sweden
Sponsored by the European Science Foundation and Linköping University
Conference details and application information at this link.
Summer Institute on Randomized Clinical Trials Involving Behavioral Interventions - Applications due January 31, 2008
July 13 - 25, 2008
Airlie Conference Center, Virginia
Organized by NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (http://obssr.od.nih.gov)
General information and applications available at this link.
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