The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) fellowship program provides opportunities for doctoral candidates to engage in full-time dissertation research abroad in modern foreign languages and area studies. The program is designed to deepen research knowledge and increase the study of modern foreign languages, cultural engagement, and area studies not generally included in U.S. curricula.

The FY 2024 program competition is now open. The deadline to apply is March 29, 2024. 

Full information is available through the program website

Metis Associates seeks Social Sciences Statisticians to support current and future clients’ rigorous research and evaluation needs. Clients include public school districts, higher education institutions, non-profit organizations, and other public-private entities. Qualifications are requested from doctoral-level statisticians in the behavioral or social sciences. Metis aims to identify a pool of qualified statisticians contracted on a project basis to assist with advanced statistical support, such as propensity score matching and/or other rigorous matching procedures, hierarchical linear modeling, logistic and linear regression modeling, and impact estimation.

See the job posting online at the Am Evaluation Ass'n

Northwestern University, Chicago, IL: As part of the TC CFAR, the full-time non-tenure-eligible HIV Quantitative Methodologist team scientist will provide quantitative methodology support for investigators who are conducting HIV research and are members of the TC CFAR.  The team scientist may also be able to work on other aspects of HIV quantitative research that advance sexual and gender minority health and can have interests and/or a focus in areas aligned with HIV, such as substance use, mental health, wellbeing, aging, women’s health, and other foci related to health issues affecting sexual and gender minority populations. 

See the job posting online from the Am Evaluation Ass'n

The Russell Sage Foundation, in collaboration with the Hewlett, Spencer, and William T. Grant Foundations, seeks to support innovative research on the aftermath of the 2023 Supreme Court decision striking down race-conscious college and university admissions policies. The initiative focuses on ways to promote educational attainment and economic mobility among racially, ethnically, and economically diverse groups following the court’s ruling that declared that use of race-conscious admissions policies violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment and was, therefore, unconstitutional.

Submission Deadline:  April 16, 2024

Full details on the RSF website

The University of Manchester and Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research are pleased to invite applications to a 3.5-year University of Manchester doctoral studentship in Social Statistics. The studentship is jointly funded by the Social Statistics Department, University of Manchester, UK, and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), Germany. The studentship will be part of the International Max Planck Research School for Population, Health and Data Science .

The application deadline is midnight (GMT) on 27th February 2024.

Full information is available on the MPIDR website.

Loyola University Maryland is searching for two visiting assistant professor positions for Fall 2024. Links to the complete descriptions are below.

Sociology Global Studies and Theory

Sociology Criminology

MN Associates is looking for one summer research and evaluation intern, an advanced Master's or PhD student/candidate in social science or STEM with exceptional quantitative skills, between May and September. This opportunity is fully remote and open to US citizens who are US-based.
East Coast-Midwest candidates are ideal.

Contact kavita@mnassociatesinc.com for complete information

The Gund Institute for Environment at the University of Vermont (UVM) is recruiting an exceptional postdoctoral researcher for the project titled “Starting with behavior" to understand links between pro-environmental behavior, values, and identity.

The position is for one year with funding for an additional year pending satisfactory progress. Annual salary is at least $56,484 plus benefits. Salary is based on experience. This is an in-person position, based at the UVM campus in Burlington, VT. Expected start date is September 1, 2024.

Applications are due at 11:59 PM EST on March 18, 2024.

Complete information is available at the UVM portal.

The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Maryland School of Public Health is looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a project entitled “Wildfires and Infant Health.” The postdoctoral fellow, supervised by Drs. Amir Sapkota and Michel Boudreaux, will perform statistical analysis linking exposure wildfire related air pollution (developed from satellite observations, ground monitors, and numeric modeling) with adverse birth outcomes including low birthweight, preterm birth, hospital service use, and mortality. 

Best Consideration Date: 02/29/2024

Complete information available online

Updated RFA with new deadline of February 26, 2024

The Network on Education, Biosocial Pathways, and Dementia across Diverse Populations (EdDem), funded by the National Institute on Aging, announces their 2024 request for pilot proposals that will advance science in the education-dementia relationship. EdDem is a research network that aims to advance scientific understanding of how education relates to dementia by exploring the socioeconomic, social, psychological, and biological mechanisms that shape resilience and risk and if these patterns differ by race, ethnicity, gender, or geography.

Complete information and application instructions are at the link above. You may also contact Jennifer Doiron (ebddp_network@umd.edu) for more information.