University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: Training Seminar

Fall 2025

Sep 3: Intro to CDE, CDHA, and SSRS Sep 10: PAA Abstracts, Nick Mark Sep 17: Bayesian Modeling and Critique of Null Hypothesis Testing, David Kaplan Sep 24: Job Talk: Home Financing Responses to Wildfire Risk Information and Insurance Availability, Sarah Bass Oct 1: Ethically Researching Families, Tova Walsh Oct 8: Job Talk: Post-disaster migration in the United …

Spring 2025

Jan 22  Katherine Magnuson, Ethically Collecting Your Own Data Jan 29 CDE/CDHA Leadership, Goings on at NIH (15 minutes) Jeff Smith, Non-Sampling Variation Feb 5 Fabien Accominotti, Experiments for Demographers Feb 12 Steven Alvarado (Notre Dame), Working Ethically with Federally Restricted Longitudinal Data Feb 19 No Dem Training Feb 26 Ariel Azar (Purdue), Effective Time …

Fall 2024

Sept 4: No class today! Sept 11: “Writing PAA Abstracts.” Corina Mommaerts—UW-Madison Economics Sept 18: No class today! Sept 25: “CDE/CDHA: History of Conducting Ethical Research.” Katherine Curtis—UW-Madison Community & Environmental Sociology Oct 2: “Responsible Data Sharing and Interacting with Advisors.” Marcy Carlson—UW-Madison Sociology Oct 9: “Effective Networking.” Torsheika Maddox—UW-Madison Office of Diversity, Equity & …

Spring 2024

Jan 31 Chris Taber (UW-Madison Econ): Weighting Survey Data Feb 7 Nick Mark (UW-Madison Sociology): How Graduate Students Should Think about Grants and Fellowships Feb 14 Carol Ryff (UW-Madison Psychology): Getting Out of Disciplinary Silos to Address Urgent Societal Problems Feb 21 Tamkinat Rauf (UW-Madison Sociology): Open Science Feb 28 Isaac Sasson (Tel Aviv University …

Fall 2023

Sept 6 Casey Pellien, UW IRB: What Demographers Need to Know About the IRB Sept 13 No class Sept 20 Katherine Curtis, UW C&E Sociology: PAA Abstracts Workshop Sept 27 No class—Institute on Aging Colloquium Oct 4 Caitlin Lowery, IRP Fellow: Quasi-Experimental Methods Oct 11 Alex Mikulas, UW Sociology: Practice Job Talk Oct 18 No …

Spring 2023

Jan 25: “Data Management” – Jim Walker (UW Economics) Feb 1: No in person meeting. Individual research consultations. Feb 8: “Promoting Research and Media Tips” – Malia Jones (UW C&E Sociology) Feb 15: “The Academic Job Market” – Christine Schwartz (UW Sociology) Feb 22: “Inference for Just-Identified Instrumental Variables – Jack Porter (UW Economics) March 1: “How to Give a Great …

Fall 2022

September 7: Introductions September 14: PAA Abstract Panel Michal Engelman (UW Sociology), Corina Mommaerts (UW Economics) September 21: The Publication Process, Matt Wiswall (UW Economics) September 28: PAA Abstract Workshop, Max Besbris (UW Sociology) October 5: No Class – Yom Kippur October 12: Bayesian Model Selection and Model Uncertainty, David Kaplan (UW Educational Psychology) October 19: Asking Research …

Spring 2022

Spring 2022 Schedule January 26: Introductions February 2: Causal Decompositions of Group Disparities, Felix Elwert (UW) February 9: Coding: Best Practices, Jenna Nobles (UW) February 16, 10:30-noon:* Structural Racism and Quantitative Causal Inference, Nick Graetz (Princeton) and Courtney Boen (Penn), virtual only *Please note different time and format February 23: Principles of Design, UW Design Lab *March 1, …

Fall 2021

September 8: Introductions September 15: Art of the Abstract Jenna Nobles (UW Sociology) September 22: PAA Abstract Workshop Panel Felix Elwert (UW Sociology), Michal Engelman (UW Sociology), Corina Mommaerts (UW Economics) September 29: Publishing as Process Felix Elwert (UW Sociology) October 6: Asking Research Questions: What is Your Estimand? Ian Lundberg (UCLA Sociology), *Please note …

Spring 2021

January 27: Introduction Jordan Conwell, UW-Madison Sociology February 3: Academic Job Market: Networking and Negotiation Christine Schwartz, UW-Madison Sociology February 10: Introduction to Spatial Analysis Megan Bea, UW-School of Human Ecology February 17: How I Found My Dissertation Topic CDE/CDHA students February 24: Individual Research Consults Jordan Conwell, UW-Madison Sociology March 3: Mini Talks by CDE/CDHA/HDRS Postdocs Jordan Conwell, UW-Madison Sociology …