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Deadline - 31 October 2012. On 5-7 March 2013 in Brussels, the New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics (NTTS) biannual international scientific conference on the impact of new technologies on statistical collection, production and dissemination systems will take place. The Scientific Committee (http://www.cros-portal.eu/page/scientific-committee) welcomes the submission of abstracts (http://www.cros-portal.eu/survey/submit-abstract-ntts-2013) within all areas (http://www.cros-portal.eu/page/conference-topics) of relevance to the conference. For further details on the conference, please consult the conference Web site at http://www.ntts2013.eu.
Date limite - le 30 décembre 2012. Les soumissions pour le numéro thématique de Langage et Société sur « Familles mixtes et pratiques plurilingues » sont dues le 30 décembre 2012. Le présent appel à contribution vise à susciter l’analyse du plurilinguisme dans les familles mixtes, soit en rendant compte de résultats inédits, soit en reprenant des analyses existantes pour traiter plus spécifiquement de la pratique et de la transmission de plusieurs langues dans un espace familial marqué par la mixité linguistique. Ce faisant, il s’agit de situer l’usage des langues dans leur contexte social et culturel, afin de s’intéresser également aux conditions sociales de possibilité du plurilinguisme dans la ou les sociétés considérées. Les auteurs doivent envoyer pour le 30 décembre 2012 au plus tard une proposition d’article de 3.000 signes, ainsi qu’une liste de 10 références bibliographiques au plus (voir notre site http://www.LetS.msh-paris.fr).
Cost-free Data Collection in an Immigrant Panel (MESS NL). This is an invitation for cost-free data collection in an immigrant panel. Universities, research schools, and individual academics are invited to submit research proposals for the immigrant panel of the MESS project. Proposals can be submitted both from the Netherlands and from abroad. They can be very brief, can be submitted throughout the year, and will be reviewed within three months (see http://www.lissdata.nl for guidelines). Approved proposals are carried out in the panel free of charge. The MESS project facilitates advanced data collection using the Internet, new measurement devices, and the latest technology. The project is carried out by CentERdata (Tilburg University, The Netherlands). The core element of the project is the LISS (Longitudinal Internet Studies for the Social sciences) panel: an Internet panel specifically intended for scientific research. The special immigrant panel is a new element of the MESS project. It is comprised of approximately 2,400 individuals, 1,700 of which are of non-Dutch origin. Both the LISS panel and the immigrant panel are based on probability samples from the population register (see http://www.lissdata.nl for more information on the sample and recruitment).
The online journal Survey Methods: Insights from the Field.
FORS and GESIS are collecting articles for the launch of their new online journal, Survey Methods: Insights from the Field. We hope that you will be interested in submitting a paper that would be published together with the official announcement of the journal in autumn this year. Survey Methods: Insights from the Field is an open access, online-only journal oriented towards the knowledge of fieldwork and practical experience. Submissions or questions about the journal can be sent by email to the executive editor, Caroline Vandenplas, at caroline.vandenplas@unil.ch
BMS-RC33 List “Calls” since Our Last Issue
Since the preceding issue of the BMS, detailed information was distributed by our BMS-RC33 list (bms-rc33@services.cnrs) concerning the following “Calls”:
Two fully-funded PhD Projects in Sociology, University of Amsterdam, http://www.english.uva.nl/vacancies/vacancies.cfm
ESS Round 7 Call for Question Module Design Teams, http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/
Full Professor of Cultural Sociology, University of Amsterdam, http://www.graduateschoolofsocialsciences.uva.nl
ECSR Conference Expressions of Interest, http://www.rug.nl/soc/onderzoek/ecsr/index
Chair of Sociology and Anthropology, Mount Royal University, Alberta, Canada, webapply@mtroyal.ca
Official Fellowships in Sociology, Nuffield College, Oxford, http://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/General/Job
Opportunity for EU researchers to work with European microdata, http://www.dwbproject.org/access/call.html
Sociology Doctoral Training Centre studentships, University of Surrey, http://southeastdtc.surrey.ac.uk/
Postgraduate Statistics Training Opportunities, Lancaster University, http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/department/postgraduate/applied
Postdoctoral Researcher in the Organizational Networks of Megachurches, Heidelberg University, http://www.soz.uni-heidelberg.de/projektdetails/835,65,0,0,1.html
European PhD in Socio-Economic and Statistical Studies, Humboldt University, http://www.europhd.org
Chair and a Lectureship in Statistics, Lancaster University, http://hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=A340
