The Demography Workshop
Michal Engelman, Assistant Professor of Sociology, presented, "Frailty in Transition: Vulnerability and Variation in Aging Populations," at the Demography Workshop on November 3, 2011.
Melissa Gilliam, Professor of Obstetrics/Gynecology at the University of Chicago Medical Center, presented, “The Postpartum Adolescent Birth Control Study: Contraception and Adolescent Rapid Repeat Pregnancy,” at the Demography Workshop on February 10, 2011.
The Demography Workshop is held on Thursdays between noon and 1:20 p.m. at NORC at the University of Chicago at 1155 East 60th Street in seminar room 232/233 on the second floor. Contact Katherine Morris at (773)256-6346 or morris-katherine@norc.org for more information. The Demography Workshop co-chairs for the 2011-2012 Academic Year are Kathleen Cagney, Jane Leber Herr, Damon Jones, and Amy Claessens. For the current workshop schedule, see the Center's Web Calendar>>
Since the 1984-85 academic year, the weekly Demography Workshop has played a unique and central role in integrating advanced graduate students into the intellectual life of the demography program of the Committee on Demographic Training (CDT), training graduate students in demographic studies, preparing them for the public presentations of their work which they will face at professional meetings and colloquia, and exposing them to the interdisciplinary intellectual exchange that is central to the practice of contemporary American demography. No other teaching activity at the University of Chicago provides students with intense, regular exposure to interdisciplinary debate about contemporary demographic research.
Annual Seminar on the Protection of Human Subject Research Participants (PHSRP): Research in School Settings
Each year, the Population Research Center (PRC), the Center on the Demography and Economics of Aging (CoA) and the NORC Institutional Review Board (IRB) co-host a seminar on the Protection of Human Subject Research Participants (PHSRP) during the spring Demography Workshop series. This annual workshop offers new insight on responsible research practices in the social sciences. The workshop is a requirement of the CoA specialized training program, which is funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) to support four predoctoral and two postdoctoral fellowships
This year's PHSRP seminar will focus on Research in School Settings. School-based research presents a host of challenges—whether examining academic achievement, violent behavior, or substance abuse at the individual, classroom, school, or neighborhood-level. After attending the seminar, faculty and students will have a greater understanding of the design and implementation of research projects in public and private school settings in addition to the theoretical and ethical implications of these settings. The PHSRP Seminar will: 1) provide a history of the protection of human subjects in social science research; 2) summarize the purpose and function of Institutional Review Boards; 3) discuss issues related to access, consent, and risk in school-based research; and 4) review school-based research projects at the University of Chicago.
The seminar will be moderated by Michael McNicholas, and panelists include Karen Grigorian, Sue Sporte, Amy Claessens, and Elizabeth McGhee Hassrick.
Archive
Links to archived papers, abstracts, and slides presented at the Demography Workshop are posted when available. For a listing of available papers and abstracts, see Papers and Abstracts >>