Spring 2012
Friday, January 27
Professional Development: Succeeding after Graduate School
Marcy Carlson, UW Sociology and CDE
Jim Raymo, UW Sociology and CDE
Friday, February 3
Perspectives in Demography: Overview of Survey Methodology
Nora Cate Schaeffer, UW Survey Center, UW Sociology and CDE
Friday, February 10
Perspectives in Demography: Some Guidelines for Writing Survey Questions
Jen Dykema, UW Survey Center
Nora Cate Schaeffer, UW Survey Center, UW Sociology and CDE
Friday, February 17
Perspectives in Demography: The View from a Survey Shop: Practical Lessons for
Collecting Data
John Stevenson, UW Survey Center
Friday, February 24
Next Generation Research: Exploring the Racial Wealth Gap: Consequences of Men’s
Family
Kim Turner, UW Sociology
Friday, March 2
Next Generation Research: “Bad jobs” for Marriage: (Changes in) Relationships
between Job Quality and Union Formation
So-Jung Lim, UW Sociology
Friday, March 9
No meeting
Friday, March 16
Professional Development: Designing Conference Posters
Nancy L. Karls, UW Writing Center
Friday, March 23
Perspectives in Demography: Demographic Decomposition
Christine Schwartz, UW Sociology and CDE
Friday, March 30
No meeting
Friday, April 6
No meeting (Spring Break)
Friday, April 13
Perspectives in Demography: Fixed and Random Effects Models
Jenna Nobels, UW Sociology and CDE
Friday, April 20
Perspectives in Demography: Prep session for Chao Fu’s DemSem presentation (This
seminar is cancelled due to a scheduling conflict.)
Jim Walker, UW Economics and CDE
Friday, April 27
Perspectives in Demography: PAA practice and Prep session for DiNardi’s DemSem
presentation
Jim Walker, UW Economics and CDE
Friday, May 4
No meeting (PAA)
Friday, May 11
Next Generation Research: Chronic Pain Trajectories
Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk, UW Sociology