Fall Schedule 2018
September 5: Intro & Overview of the Graduate Training Program, Marcy Carlson; Michal Engelman; Jason Fletcher; John Mullahy; Jenna Nobles; and Jim Raymo (UW)
September 12: Workshop PAA Abstracts, Michal Engelman (UW)
September 26: Writing a Research Paper for Publication, Marcy Carlson; Jason Fletcher; and Jenna Nobles (UW)
October 3: Multi-generational Class Gradients in Housing Tenure Trajectories in Young Adulthood, Qian He (UW)
October 8: Genetics and Social Sciences: An Overview, Phillip Koellinger (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Economics)
October 17: Causal Inference with Big Data, Hyunseung Kang (UW)
October 24: Careers Outside Academia, Kiersten Strombotne (American Institute for Research) and Jesse Lewis Valentine (DVP-Praxis LTD)
October 31: Epigenetics: A Social Scientist’s Perspective, Colter Mitchell (Michigan)
November 7: Agent-Based Modeling with Netlogo (I)
November 14: Agent-Based Modeling with Netlogo (II), Jennifer Stenglein (Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources)
November 28: Structuring Arguments, Ryan Holley (UW)
December 5: New Rules for Human Subjects Research? What Happened to the Old Ones?, Susan Lederer (UW)
December 12: Practice Job Talk, Esteban Quiñones (UW)
Spring Schedule 2019
February 6: The Academic Job Market: What Do Hiring Committees Look For? Jason Fletcher and Christine Schwartz (UW)
February 13: Job Market Tips for International Students, Chaeyoon Lim and Alberto Palloni (UW)
February 20: Research Ethics Case Studies, Michal Engelman (UW)
February 27: Regression Diagnostics, Mark Banghart (UW)
March 6: Media Relations and Communications Strategies, Veronica Rueckert and Eric Hamilton (UW University Communications)
March 13: PAA practice talk
March 27: PAA practice talks
April 3: PAA practice talks
April 17: Introducing the UW Survey Center, Nora Cate Schaeffer (UW)
April 24: Embodying Landscapes of Violence: Impacts of Conflict- and Displacement-related Stressors on Women’s Health at the Thai-Burma Border, Stephanie Koning (UW)
May 1: Information Design and Presentation Best Practices, James R. Carey (UC-Davis)