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SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Summer Institute Course - December 2025- Health and Retirement Study (HRS) Workshop
DESCRIPTION:December 2025- Health and Retirement Study (HRS) Workshop\nDecember 8-10\, 2025\n10:00am-3:00pm EST\nLive Online via Zoom\n\nThe Health and Retirement Study (hrsonline.isr.umich.edu) Summer Workshop is intended to give participants an introduction to the study that will enable them to use the data for research. HRS is a large-scale longitudinal study with more than 20 years of data on the labor force participation and health transitions that individuals undergo toward the end of their work lives and in the years that follow.\n\nDisability Data in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) is a 3-day online (Zoom) workshop intended to give participants an overview of the disability data resources in the HRS. Content lectures delivered by HRS co-investigators and content area experts will cover a range of topics including:\n\n●        The various ways that disability\, disabling conditions\, health\, and functioning are measured in the HRS\;\n●        How measures of disability have changed as the survey has evolved\;\n●        How the HRS captures disability benefit receipt in the survey and through and linkage with data from the Social Security Administration\;\n●        How disability-related topics like employer accommodations\, assistive technology and personal assistance are measured in the survey.\n\nIn addition to presentations on these topics\, the workshop will feature labs focused on working with work disability measures in Section M and disability spell data in the RAND HRS.\n\nStudents will have the opportunity to present research ideas and receive feedback from the workshop faculty and other students.\n\nThe course is designed for those with experience using HRS data or for those who have taken the introductory HRS workshop. The data training portion assumes some familiarity with STATA.\n\nAmanda Sonnega is a Research Scientist in the Survey Research Center of the Institute for Social Research (ISR) at the University of Michigan (UM)\, where she directs communication\, outreach\, and education efforts for the Health and Retirement Study. She received her Ph.D. through the Department of Health\, Behavior & Society at the Johns Hopkins University and completed a post-doctoral fellowship within the ISR program in Social Environment and Health. She has lectured in the UM School of Public Health\, teaching Psychosocial Factors in Health-related Behavior. Her research focuses on life course trajectories of physical and mental health\; institutional and personal factors associated with vulnerability and resilience in aging individuals\; and work transitions and their broad effects on health and well-being.\n\nThe Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques provides rigorous and high quality graduate level training in all phases of survey research. The noncredit courses are open to all. The courses are live online via Zoom. Registration and payment are required. Course fees are based on the total number of hours assigned to each course\, the hours are listed on the course description. The 2025 schedule lists additional courses. If you have any questions regarding the application process\, please use the online contact form or email the Summer Institute at isr-summer@umich.edu .\n\nThe program teaches state-of-the-art practice and theory in the design\, implementation\, and analysis of surveys. The Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques has presented courses on the sample survey since the summer of 1948\, and has offered such courses every summer since. The Summer Institute uses the sample survey as the basic instrument for the scientific measurement of human activity. It presents sample survey methods in courses designed to meet the educational needs of those specializing in social and behavioral research such as professionals in business\, public health\, natural resources\, law\, medicine\, nursing\, social work\, and many other domains of study.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136088
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Data,Data Analysis,Data Collection,Data Linkage,Data Management,Data Science,Health,Health And Retirement Study,Health Data,Statistics,Survey Methodology,Survey Methods,Survey Research
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DTSTAMP:20251010T125633
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SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Drop-In Sessions on Panorama and Course Accessibility
DESCRIPTION:Drop in during ITS-Accessibility office hours to learn more about course accessibility and discover how to use Panorama to improve the accessibility of your Canvas course site. Panorama is a powerful tool within Canvas that allows instructors and instructional support staff to create\, scan\, and fix digital content for accessibility directly within the platform. Additionally\, Panorama enables students to automatically generate alternative formats of Canvas content and attached files\, supporting a range of learning needs and preferences. Office hours provide a flexible opportunity for you to ask questions\, receive practical guidance\, and explore strategies for making your Canvas courses more inclusive and accessible for everyone.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140537
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:accessibility,assistive technology,Canvas,Digital Accessibility,digital technology,Disability,Faculty
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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