Faculty Scholarship Collaborative at DePaul University

I have compiled some resources on using NVivo. Briefly, some resources for working with NVivo can be found below. I have organized them according to when in the research process you're likely to need them. General Resources I haven't seen an updated "Getting Started Guide" for the newest version of Nvivo, but the older version (for Nvivo 11) is incredibly useful....

https://ssrcdepaul.wordpress.com/2020/12/06/resources-for-working-with-qualitative-data-in-nvivo/

Resources for Working with Qualitative Data in NVivo I have compiled some resources on using NVivo. Briefly, some resources for working with NVivo can be found below. I have organized them according to when in the research process you’re likely…

Faculty Scholarship Collaborative at DePaul University updated their business hours.

Name of Funder: American Council of Learned Societies Name of Grant: Collaborative Reading-Workshop Grants in China Studies Deadline: November 2, 2020 Website: About: A sample application can be found HERE. Awards up to $50,000. The American Council of Learned Societies invites applications for Collaborative Reading-Workshop Grants in China Studies. This program is supported by a generous grant from The Henry Luce Foundation. [ 1,550 more word ]

https://ssrcdepaul.wordpress.com/2020/10/12/winter-2020-grants-newsletter-2-humanities/

Winter 2020 Grants Newsletter #2: Humanities Name of Funder: American Council of Learned Societies Name of Grant: Collaborative Reading-Workshop Grants in China Studies Deadline: November 2, 2020 Website: About: A sample application can be fo…

Name of Funder: Sociological Initiatives Foundation Name of Grant: SIF Grants Deadline: LOI usually due in August, but this year they are due October 15. Full application due in November. Website: About: Amount: typically in $10,000-$20,000 range. The Sociological Initiatives Foundation (SIF) is dedicated to the belief that research and action are intrinsically inseparable. We invite concept proposals for projects that link an explicit research design to a concrete social action strategy. [ 714 more words ]

https://ssrcdepaul.wordpress.com/2020/10/12/fall-winter-2020-grants-newsletter-2-social-sciences/

Fall/Winter 2020 Grants Newsletter #2: Social Sciences Name of Funder: Sociological Initiatives Foundation Name of Grant: SIF Grants Deadline: LOI usually due in August, but this year they are due October 15.  Full application due in November.&nbs…

Faculty Scholarship Collaborative at DePaul University updated their website address.

Faculty Scholarship Collaborative at DePaul University updated their information in their About section.

LAS is screening the documentary film “Brightness of Noon: The Intersect of Faith, Immigration and Refugees,” on Wednesday, October 17, (with a reception prior at 6pm). This film is the first of a two-part documentary series that explores “the risks people of faith are will to take to protect the human rights of those fleeing violence, and the struggles and triumphs of undocumented immigrants and refugees as they resettle in the United States.”

Following the screening, a facilitated panel of DePaul faculty and students, along with writer and producer Debra Gonsher Vinik, will discuss important aspects of, and questions raised by, the film and conclude with an open Q&A session with the audience.

Check out the new online course in data visualization from SAGE. Register by October 7 with the promo code EARLYBIRD25 to save 25% on what promises to be very rich educational experience.

Introduction to Data Visualisation Introduction to the subject of data visualisation, the design workflow and principles, and undertake the first stage of the design workflow, ‘Formulating your brief’.

On Friday, Oct. 5, the DePaul Honors Speakers Series will host a live podcast featuring a recent DePaul graduate and the unique, ongoing project that grew out of his Sociology master’s thesis. “Chicago Drill Rap and Activism: Exile, Refuge, and Resistance” will bring Caullen Hudson back to campus to lead and record a podcast conversation about Chicago and the international refugee experience and to screen the latest episode in the project’s Chi DNA micro-documentary series.

They are the products of SoapBox Productions and Organizing, a film production and social activism non-profit organization that utilizes creative projects and multi-media platforms on behalf of social change. Chicago Drill ‘n Activism, Chi DNA, emerged from Hudson’s master’s thesis in sociology in which he explored the development of two forms of resistance occurring in Chicago: drill rap, Chicago’s once-underground brand of gansta rap, and resurging grassroots activism. Chi DNA uses film and other forms of media to capture the words and lives of those involved in the two movements.

This free, public event is being co-sponsored by the Faculty Scholarship Support Center and the Department of Sociology. It will be held from 3:00-4:30 in SAC 161, 2320 N. Kenmore Ave., on DePaul’s Lincoln Park Campus. For more information, contact [email protected]

The Faculty Scholarship Support Center is very proud to be a co-sponsor of DePaul’s commemoration this weekend recognizing the 50th anniversary of the Young Lords organization in Chicago. Three days of activities celebrating the anniversary will be held at DePaul’s McGrath Arena, 2323 N. Sheffield Ave., from Friday through Sunday, Sept. 21-23. In a symposium on Saturday, scholars and activists will explore the impact and legacy of the organization, dedicated to the interests of Puerto Rican self-determination, in a wide range of panel discussions, programs and tours. The event is free and open to the public.

To see the full, 3-day schedule, visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/young-lords-50th-anniversary-conference-tickets-47116254987

Young Lords 50th Anniversary Conference

FYI:

SAGE is offering a free online seminar on BIG DATA!

"This course is a great starting point for anyone interested in exploring big data analytics, social science and computational methods."

Introduction to Big Data for Social Scientist Introduction to Big Data for Social Scientists is a free one hour course that will demystify big data and explore how it is impacting social research.

Colleagues,

The Office of Academic Engagement at the Drug Policy Alliance is hosting a FREE webinar on data visualization. If you're interested in all things data viz, we encourage you to sign up and attend!

Details:

This webinar will cover principles of data presentation and slide design, with examples and a practical guide showing how to visualize data in an informative and aesthetically-pleasing manner. We have all seen beautiful graphs and slides, and terrible, confusing ones. In this webinar, we will help scientists (and anyone else who works with data) to ensure that they fall in the former category and not the latter!

Presenters: Holly Engstrom, Lucy De Souza, and Ellen Jopling of British Columbia Scientists for Evidence-Based Policies

When: September 24th at 2:00 PM Eastern /11:00 AM Pacific

This webinar is free, but you must register here to attend: https://bit.ly/2wGAPts

Dear Colleagues,
The Humanities Center is pleased to announce that the online application for our next round of fellows is now open.

While applications are not due until November, summer is a great time to start thinking about—or even completing—your application!

https://lascollege.depaul.edu/humanitiesfellowship/

Please see the information below and attached, and consider applying for a fellowship.

Humanities Fellowship

Very compelling article on the importance of NETWORKS to all forms of life, from insects to humans!

The most important connection in any network is the local – Deborah M Gordon | Aeon Essays Networks regulate everything from ant colonies and middle schools to epidemics and the internet. Here’s how they work

Qualitative researchers, take note. A new tool for transcribing audio-recorded interviews! This looks very promising indeed.

"This web app is a transcriber’s dream; it centralizes everything you need to get interviews into text form. Just upload the audio file (or if you’re taking an interview from YouTube, paste the link) onto the page, and start transcribing into the document underneath. You can then import your transcription to Google Drive or plain text. It saves your progress in your browser every few seconds and, perhaps most importantly, allows you to control the recording from your keyboard."

oTranscribe A free HTML5 app to take the pain out of transcribing interviews. Useful for journalists, academics and anyone else transcribing audio. And it's open source, too.

Remember that on Thursday at noon, Senior Research Methodologist Jessica Bishop-Royse is conducting a Stata workshop on importing datasets and file management. The workshop will take place in the conference room of the SSRC in Suite 3100 of 990 W. Fullerton Ave.

DePaul Geography Faculty Euan Hague's new book "Neoliberal Chicago" is out! The book has contributions from faculty in DePaul's Sociology, Political Science, Geography, International Studies and other programs.

It can be found on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Neoliberal-Chicago-Euan-Hague/dp/0252040597

Pre-order Price Guarantee. | Neoliberal Chicago The neoliberal philosophy of fiscal austerity aligned with reduced regulation has transformed Chicago. As pursued by mayor Rahm Emanuel and his predecessor Richard M. Daley, neoliberalism led officials to privatize everything from parking meters to schools, gut regulations and social services, an...

Fascinating report from MIT on the future of libraries.

MIT task force releases preliminary “Future of Libraries” report New library proposals meant to enhance “meaningful access to knowledge.”

Interesting piece about the growth of "shadow work" at Cornell University and the university's response to it. Maybe our own university could consider adopting a similarly critical approach.

Cornell launches effort to cut administrative red tape, starting with shadow work Cornell looks for ways to cut time professors spend on administrative requirements, as opposed to teaching and research.

In our first Mess Hall research presentation of this new school year, the Social Science Research Center welcomes DePaul faculty Robin Burke and John Shanahan to present an update on the digital humanities project, Reading Chicago Reading. They will discuss the tools and methods they’re using to create a model designed to help public libraries predict patrons’ reading behavior and enhance library services at noon Monday, October 3, in Conference Room #3142 in the 990 W. Fullerton Building.

Reading Chicago Reading brings together computing and literature faculty, social scientists and librarians in an examination of the Chicago Public Library’s One Book, One Chicago (OBOC) city-wide reading program in which DePaul is a partner. Using numerical data sets and text analysis, the project is integrating OBOC data concerning circulation statistics, the types of books selected, demographic information on CPL branch library neighborhoods, and the use of traditional and social media promotional activities to develop a predictive model. We hope you can join us to learn more about this project, which is funded through 2017 by a digital humanities start-up award from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Feel free to invite colleagues and others who may be interested.

High quality, affordable, and local series of workshops on applied research methods, qualitative and quantitative: "Methods for Change."

https://www.methodsforchange.org/

STEM + ART + SOCIOLOGY = fascinating "big data" driven gallery exhibit.

A Luminescent Installation Responds to Twitter Users’ Mood Swings ISTANBUL — The exhibition proposes two core questions: Is this type of city compatible with the needs of its inhabitants, and is this kind of anonymous and automated policing comparable to public a…

“What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities.” --Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt on Science “What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities.”

SSRC is co-sponsoring the upcoming Cuban film festival at DePaul. Come join us for an engaging evening.

Cuban Film Festival Acercando a una Mirada de Raza y Genero: Race & Gender in Cuban Cinema

A film festival with selections from “La Muestra Joven de Cine Cubano”

SSRC's Journal of Video Ethnography (JVE), the world's only peer-reviewed journal of ethnographic films and videos, has published its spring 2016 issue. This issue contains five films from five different countries. Visit JVE online and get your free subscription so that you (and/or your students) can watch these films and all of the other terrific films published to date.

Journal of Video Ethnography (JVE) Journal of Video Ethnography, a venture of DePaul University’s Social Science Research Center, is a peer reviewed journal that aims to advance the social scientific use of video or film as a method for exploring human society, systems, and cultures and as a medium for presenting the findings of thos...

Salma Ghanem (Dean of the College of Communication at DePaul) is coordinating a free Dedoose training session at DePaul later this month (Daley 1842, 14 East Jackson, May 23, 2016 from 1030 to noon). Graduate students and faculty who are interested in the training session should email her at SGHANEM at depaul dot edu.

For your viewing pleasure, here is the video of last month's event "DePaulywood Squares," sponsored by the DePaul Humanities Center. It's profoundly entertaining!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG6CCo8VaeY

“The DePaulywood Squares”— The DePaul Humanities Center The DePaul Humanities Center presented “The DePaulywood Squares” as part of its ongoing series, “The Scholar’s Game Night” on April 6, 2016 at DePaul Univers...

Interesting article on "big data."

Method without Methodology: Data and the Digital Humanities | e-flux

Check out the upcoming seminar at the Center for Community Health Equity this coming Monday, April 11 from 5 to 6 p.m.

"Emergency Department Utilization: A Qualitative Analysis of Illinois Medical Home Network Patients" by Crystal M. Glover, Ph.D.

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