Please join CSDE in celebrating the start of the 2024-2025 Academic Year and Fall Quarter on Friday (9/27) at 12:30pm (Location: Between Raitt Hall and Savery Hall)! Catch up with your colleagues, meet new affiliates, staff members, fellows, and trainees, and find out what is new and upcoming at CSDE. You’ll have a chance to pick up your own Autumn Qtr Seminar Series Poster (download link here) and enjoy food and refreshments.

For those of you who are new to CSDE, be sure to sign up for our calendar of events  and our weekly e-news.  The former includes our workshops and weekly seminar series and the latter includes a host of updates about CSDE affiliates’ accomplishments and opportunities for grants, conferences, publications, new research resources, etc.  Don’t forget to send your news to csde@uw.edu!

The autumn quarter seminar series is completely full and includes a wide range of presentations from UW colleagues and visitors.  The seminar is held @12:30pm in 360 Barrington Hall.  On October 4 CSDE hosts Dr. Leigh Senderowicz (University of Wisconsin - Madison) who will be speaking about re-orienting family planning measurements.  On October 11 Dr. Nora Kenworthy (UW Bothell) will take part in an author meets critics session about her new book Crowded Out: The True Costs of Crowdfunding Healthcare.  Dr. Erin McElroy (Geography) will also take part in an author meets critic session about her book Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times on October 18.  We will welcome new CSDE affiliate Dr. Ispista Day (Comparative History of Ideas) on October 25 for her talk about plantation legacies in Fiji.  On November 1 we will welcome new affiliate Dr. Audrey Dorelien (Sociology) who will present research on partisanship, health behaviors, and COVID-19 disease spread.  Dr. Hyojung Lee (Seoul National University) will join us on November 8 for a presentation on gentrification in small metropolitan places and suburbs.  Dr. Josh Wilde (Oxford University and Co-editor of Population and Development Review) will present their research on climate change and fertility on November 15.  Then, on November 22, Dr. Sasha Johfre (CSSS and Sociology) will present their research on conceptualizing age and predicting inequality.

There are several great workshops for developing your research toolkit coming up.  Check them out here: https://csde.washington.edu/training/demographic-training-resources/workshops/

Plus, there is a great list of speakers for the Computational Demography Working Group (Wednesdays at 9am).  Check them out here: https://csde.washington.edu/computational-demography-working-group-talks/

But, first, let’s celebrate the start of the new academic quarter on this Friday!

Where: Between Raitt Hall and Savery Hall

Date: Friday, Sept. 27th, 20234

Time: 12:30-1:30 PM

We are meeting at the usual 12:30 PM seminar time, but please note the special location for the reception: Outdoors between Raitt Hall and Savery Hall.

The month of September is Suicide Prevention Month. CSDE Affiliate Dr. Anthony L. Bui recently published the study, “Disaggregated Suicide Mortality Rates Among Asian American Youths and Young Adults by Ethnic Subgroup,” in JAMA Pediatrics, which was featured in a previous CSDE newsletter. This study was discussed in the KUOW NPR segment, “New Study Examines Increasing Suicide Rates in Asian American Youth,” where Dr. Bui was interviewed by NPR hosts Diana Opong and Brooklyn Jamerson-Flowers. In this interview, they discuss the reality of suicide rates among young Asian Americans and how understanding the background of those at risk, can help medical professionals develop culturally specific approaches to youth who need mental health care. Visit the link to listen to the entire interview and learn more about Dr. Bui’s study. 

CSDE Affiliate and Former T32 Fellow Delaney Glass (University of Toronto) recently published the article, “Coming of Age in War: Early Life Adversity, Age at Menarche, and Mental Health,” in Psychoneuroendocrinology with co-authors Meredith Reiches and Patrick Clarkin of University of Massachusetts – Boston. This study discusses what it is like for adolescents to grow up in armed conflict areas. The article discusses how war and forced migration can create complex health risks and possible delays in puberty. Read the study to learn more about how growing up in war zones/conflict heavy areas, can affect adolescent health.

Code has become an important part of scientists and researchers’ work. Code review is “a common practice in software engineering, which entails detailed and continual examination of additions and changes to a software code-base.” CSDE Affiliate Ariel Rokem provides ten simple rules for scientific code review that detail the process in an effective and enjoyable manner. These rules aim to introduce scientists to a broad range of backgrounds to code and suggest some best practices. Visit the article in PLOS Computational Biology to learn more about these rules and how to use them effectively in your code review. 

In the past few years, Seattle has been doing okay with digging out of the pandemic with the job market increasing and transit recovering, however, new state test results are showing that learning loss is something that Washington is still recovering from. According to the Seattle Times article, “New test scores show WA schools aren’t over COVID. They could be,” standardized test scores show that about 9% more students are testing below grade level than they did before the pandemic. The tests also found that only 50.3% of students are reading at or above their grade level. How does this get fixed? CSDE Affiliate Dan Goldhaber provided some insight on the matter. In a study that he co-authored this summer, he stated that, “federal spending on extra tutoring, summer school, and other catch-up efforts has helped.” However, to recover from the remaining learning losses, he estimates that schools need to spend between $9,000 and $13,000 in additional funds per student. Read the rest of the article to learn how COVID is still affecting Washington students and schools today.

CSDE Affiliate Crystal Hall and former CSDE Trainee and Evans PhD Student Will von Geldern recently received a research grant from the federal Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation in the Administration for Children and Families. This grant will go towards their project No Right to Counsel: Barriers to the Take-up of Legal Aid for Evicted Tenants. This grant from the Behavioral Interventions Scholars program will support Will’s dissertation research on the individual and structural barriers that low-income tenants face when trying to access eviction-related legal aid.

CSDE Affiliate Scott Allard is a visiting scholar with the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank and has been working with their Community Development Team. Dr. Allard recently published a blog post with Elizabeth Kneebone of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco titled, “The Shifting Landscape of Job Proximity: A Conversation with Visiting Scholar Scott Allard.” Kneebone sat down with Dr. Allard to discuss the poverty and employment issues in the U.S. and to discuss the research collaboration they are undertaking to examine the changing nature of job access for low-income workers and communities across the United States. Visit the link to read the entire interview.

Professor Audrey Dorélien has joined CSDE’s leadership team as the new Training Core PI! Dr. Dorélien is a new faculty member in the Sociology Department at UW and is a CSDE Research Affiliate as well. She previously taught at the University of Minnesota’s Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs for 10 years. Her research agenda strives to elucidate how human population dynamics and behavior intersect with environmental conditions to affect health. Her recent work analyzes the effects of early life exposures (especially seasonal factors) on child health in sub-Saharan Africa and the United States. Another current strand of research describes and analyzes contact patterns (age pattern of social contacts, and age-specific contact matrices showing whom interacts with whom) in the United States. The latter has important implications for the study and control of infectious diseases, such as influenza, measles, and COVID-19. She also has conducted research on spatial demography/ urbanization with a focus on implications for health and climate change vulnerability. Her research has appeared in Population Development Review, Demography, Journal of Urban Health, Population Health Metrics, Demographic Research, Biodemography and Social Biology, Journal of Hypertension, Journal of Affective Disorders, and PLoS ONE. Reach out to Dr. Dorélien for about our T32 fellowship and other opportunities for trainees. 

CSDE is happy to have Will von Geldern as our new Research Assistant for the 2024-2025 Academic Year. Will is a PhD student at the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance. He is also a former CSDE Trainee! His dissertation research focuses on the individual and structural barriers that low-income tenants face when trying to access eviction-related legal aid. He will now be taking over the CSDE newsletter for the academic year and will also be assisting during our CSDE Seminar Series! Please continue to send your news stories and research to csde@uw.edu. If you have any program related questions, reach out to our Program Coordinator, Maddie Farris, at csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu. If you have any computing questions, email csde_help@uw.edu. We are excited for Will to join the CSDE team this year!

Each quarter, CSDE offers 3-5 workshops on data sources, statistical and biomarker methodology, introductions to analysis programs, and more, all given by CSDE staff and faculty affiliates. These workshops can include hands-on training in novel methods and programming, lectures on innovative data sources, and discussions of important issues in research and data collection. Over the coming academic year, CSDE will offer a diverse and exciting set of workshops, some of which will be offered in a hybrid format and others remotely via Zoom. Students, faculty, and staff are all welcome to register for our workshops and we welcome registrants from outside the University of Washington for our remote workshops as well.

You can find our workshop website and register for our Autumn 2024 workshops in this link. We will be filling in our schedule for Winter & Spring workshops soon, so stay tuned!

Please reach out to CSDE, if you have additional workshops you would like to see offered in the future and we will do our best to accommodate those requests.

• Intro to R I: Objects & Programming
  • Date & Time: Tuesday, Oct. 1 @ 10:00AM–11:30AM
  • Location: Savery 121 & Zoom (Link provided upon registration.)
  • Instructor: June Yang

• Intro to R II: Working With Data
  • Date & Time: Tuesday, Oct. 8 @ 10:00AM–11:30AM
  • Location: Savery 121 & Zoom (Link provided upon registration.)
  • Instructor: Jessica Godwin

The French Institute of Mathematics for Planet Earth and the Social and Behavioral Data Science Centre of the University of Amsterdam will be hosting its second workshop on Bayesian Methods. This three-day workshop will take place at the University of Amsterdam, on October 16-18th of 2024. The event will gather statisticians, mathematicians and social scientists around the theme of Bayesian statistical methods for the social sciences. This area has been growing rapidly in the past decade, and the speakers will include some of the leading researchers in the area from around the world. Register by September 27th. Learn more here!

It is the second edition of the workshop. The first edition was held in Paris in October 2022 and was a great success.

The first day of the workshop, 16 October 2024, will consist of introductory tutorial sessions. Days 2 and 3 will consist of talks and posters on cutting-edge research in the area.

The Institute for Research and Education to Advance Community Health (IREACH) at Washington State University is pleased to announce a Request for Applications to participate in the Community Health and Aging in Native Groups of Elders (CHANGE) Resource Center in Minority Aging Research (RCMAR) Research Education Scholars Program.

The CHANGE RCMAR Scholars Program provides funding and mentored training for early stage investigators to conduct aging-related research in American Indian, Alaska Native, and/or Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander populations. Successful applicants will participate in an 18 month mentored training program that includes completion of a pilot study in Months 1-12 and development and mock review of a NIH-style funding application in Months 13-18.  More information about this opportunity is available at https://ireach.wsu.edu/change-rcmar

The UW Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences invites you to Innovations in Addressing Substance Use and Addiction: Improving the Lives of Individuals, Families and Communities in the Pacific Northwest on September 30 from 9 AM – 4 PM in the University of Washington’s HUB Ballroom.

Please join for this one-day event showcasing the department’s efforts to tackle our region’s challenges with addiction and substance use disorders. Attendees will interact with addiction researchers, educators and clinicians during a full day of events including featured speakers, interactive booths and an afternoon of roundtable workshops. Register below to attend as a guest or exhibitor.

Highlights will include

• Opening remarks from Department Chair Jürgen Unützer, MD, MPH
• Policymaker panel discussion
• Continental breakfast and a light lunch
• Interactive tables with clinicians, researchers, and educators
• Q&A with UW faculty
• Round table workshops to develop ideas and plan for the future

Register here

Each fall and spring, the UW’s Royalty Research Fund reviews proposals from UW researchers from across all three campuses.  The next deadline for applications is 5:00pm on September 30, 2024. However, your college or unit may have different internal deadlines.  If you are a CSDE affiliate, CSDE is happy to help with submitting and administering your RRF application.  Please submit a proposal planning form to CSDE to let us know you’d like our help with preparing the budget and submitting the grant. Additionally, if you would like to request matching funds or resources to accompany your RRF application, please let us know via CSDE’s matching support application form. For all these requests to CSDE for support, please provide us with as much lead time as possible. Several CSDE faculty have received RRF funding, so please don’t hesitate to reach out to Steven Goodreau for examples. Let CSDE know how we can help you prepare.

Notably, RRF funding priorities are to first, and foremost, advance new directions in research and to support faculty and researchers:

1. who are junior in rank.
2. where funding may provide unique opportunities to increase applicants’ competitiveness for subsequent funding.
3. in disciplines for which external funding opportunities are minimal.

For those interested, the College of Arts and Sciences is hosting a session to go over applying for RRF funding for anyone who may wish to apply or is in the midst of working on their application but is unsure of the benefits of applying or the specifics of the process. This session will take place over Zoom on Wednesday, September 11th, at 3:00 PM. The Zoom link is https://washington.zoom.us/j/99639607802

24th Annual International Graduate Student Conference
East-West Center
Honolulu, Hawaiʻi | February 13-16, 2025

Call for Abstracts
The East-West Center International Graduate Student Conference (IGSC) is accepting abstracts from current graduate students, as well as from young professionals and scholars, who have completed a graduate degree within the past three years. One of the largest student conferences focused on the Asia Pacific region, we are looking for submissions from all fields of study. This year's theme is Our Unique Planet:  Navigating Our Shared Future.

Abstract submissions

All abstract submissions must be made through the secure Submittable online platform. The deadline to submit abstracts is September 30th, 2024, 23:59 hrs (Hawaiʻi Standard Time). Please see the conference website for Frequently Asked Questions on abstract guidelines, conference registration, and other logistics. For any other questions not covered in Frequently Asked Questions, please send your inquiry to the IGSC team at igsc@eastwestcenter.org.

The Dissertation Fellowship seeks to encourage a new generation of scholars from a wide range of disciplines and professional fields to undertake research relevant to the improvement of education. These $27,500 fellowships support individuals whose dissertations show potential for bringing fresh and constructive perspectives to the history, theory, or practice of formal or informal education anywhere around the world. Fellows will attend professional development retreats and receive mentorship from NAEd members and other senior scholars in their field. This highly competitive program aims to identify the most talented emerging researchers conducting dissertation research related to education. The NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship will fund 35 promising scholars.

Attend a live webinar on September 11, 4:00 - 5:00 pm Eastern to learn more about this opportunity. Attendees have the opportunity to ask questions to NAEd staff and the Chair of the selection committee.

• Visit our website to learn more about this opportunity.
• Register for the dissertation webinar.

NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship 
Deadline to apply: October 3, 2024

In Fall 2024, CDWG is co-hosting weekly seminars with the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR). Researchers from both institutions will meet in hybrid to discuss novel data, methods, and applications of demographic and social science research. Example talks include The Structure of Opportunity and Wage Mobility by Dr. Michael Schultz, and Differentiating Emigration from Return Migration in Digital Trace Data: A case study of scholarly migration by Dr. Aliakbar Akbaritabar. Please refer to the Quarter Schedule for the full list of speakers.

Special issue of Canadian Studies in Population on “Demographic Change and Challenges in the Americas”

• Deadline for submissions: 15 October 2024 

This special issue of Canadian Studies in Population will spotlight key demographic concerns facing the Americas, including migration, mortality and morbidity, fertility, and family dynamics, and provide a forward-looking introduction that sets an agenda for a more integrated approach to understanding demographic change in the region. We seek papers that address demographic processes in the Americas, broadly defined, from Canada to Patagonia.

Please read the full Call for Papers online

The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) is seeking to appoint a full-time post-doctoral researcher to join the ERC-funded Research Group on Migration and Health Inequalities. The group, led by Silvia Loi, brings together experts from Demography, Quantitative Sociology, and Social Epidemiology to address the pressing scientific and societal question: Why do immigrants age in poorer health compared to non-immigrants? We are seeking a creative, self-driven, collaborative scholar with a strong quantitative background that can contribute to advancing one or more of these three research areas:

• quantify the gaps in healthy ageing trajectories between immigrants and non-immigrants by age, gender, socioeconomic status, and their interactions;
• identify the critical events and circumstances in immigrants’ lives that put them on a different healthy ageing trajectory from non-immigrants;
• study the impact of family composition and family ties in mitigating health inequalities by migration background.

The NIH is now accepting applications for the Extramural Loan Repayment Program (LRP)! Awardees can receive up to $100,000 in qualified educational debt repayment with a two-year award.

To learn more about eligibility requirements, application dates, and the benefits of receiving an LRP award, be sure to visit the LRP website, check out our overview video, and attend one of our upcoming events:

• September 4 – LRP Twitter Chat
• October 7 – LRP Technical Assistance Webinar
• November 6 – Ask Me Anything

Please note that the deadline to submit your Extramural LRP application is November 21, 2024

The Fulbright Association will be holding the World at a Crossroads 47th Annual Conference both in-person and online. October 25th-26th in Washington D.C. and November 8th-9th virtually.

CSDE External Affiliate David Swanson will be presenting the paper he co-authored with Rich Verdugo titled, “Population Aging in the Western Hemisphere: 2020 to 2050” in the virtual session on Friday, November 8th.

Session Title: Population Aging in the Western Hemisphere: 2020 to 2050 (SESS-4)

Session Date: Friday, ovember 8, 2024

Session Time: 2:15:00 PM - 3:00:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (EST)

Session Format: Presentation - Live Zoom Style

Focus Area: Security and Diplomacy

Visit the link to find out more about the event: Fulbright Conference | Annual Conference for Fulbright Alumni and Friends

The Postdoctoral Fellowship supports early-career scholars working in critical areas of educational scholarship. Fellows will receive $70,000 for one academic year of research, or $35,000 for each of two contiguous years, working half-time. Fellows attend professional development retreats and receive mentorship from NAEd members and other senior scholars in their field. Applicants must have had their PhD, EdD, or equivalent research degree conferred between January 1, 2019, and December 31, 2023, to be eligible to apply this year. This fellowship is non-residential, and applications from all disciplines are encouraged. The NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship will fund 25 early-career researchers.

Attend a live webinar on September 20, 1:00 - 2:00 pm Eastern to learn more about this opportunity. Attendees have the opportunity to ask questions to NAEd staff and the Chair of the selection committee.

• Visit our website to learn more about this opportunity.
• Register for the postdoctoral webinar.

NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship
Deadline to apply: November 7, 2024

The National Center for Special Education Research released a new Fiscal Year 2025 grant competition.

Special Education Dissertation Research Fellowship Program (84.324G)

This program seeks to broaden opportunities for emerging researchers to engage with IES and conduct high-quality research related to learners with or at risk for disabilities. NCSER will provide financial support for advanced doctoral students­—under the guidance of a sponsor at their university—to conduct research in understudied areas related to learners, their families, practitioners, and policymakers.

• Application packages will be available on August 29, 2024.
• Letters of intent (optional but encouraged) are due September 19, 2024.
• The application deadline is November 14, 2024.

More information about the IES research programs, application process, and deadlines are available on the IES Funding Opportunities web page.

Call for papers: Gender & Society Special Issue — Feminist Metascience, Feminist Open Science? Pain Points and Possibilities, due by Feb 1st, 2025.

Guest Editors: Christin L. Munsch (University of Connecticut) and Daisy Verduzco Reyes (UC-Merced)

All papers must make both a theoretical and empirical contribution.

Completed manuscripts, due February 1, 2025, should be submitted online to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gendsoc and should specify in the cover letter that the paper is to be considered for the special issue. Although it is not required, potential authors are encouraged to contact either of the guest editors with their ideas before submitting: Christin L. Munsch (christin.munsch@uconn.edu) or Daisy Verduzco Reyes (daisy.reyes@ucmerced.edu).

The full call is available at: https://gendersociety.wordpress.com/call-for-submissions-special-issue/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1rb2-4wM6oB_roCRRQSemdSluIgEPabVMZYRoQfCItS2b9d-oHhJBgESc_aem_ZxAzlvj1GTE0y1ZNfnsPVQ.

The Journal of Population and Sustainability (JP&S) welcomes submissions (research/review articles, commentaries, book reviews etc.) dealing with any aspect of environmental sustainability with a demographic dimension.

They are the only “diamond” open access publication in the field – meaning that we make no charges to authors or readers.

The JP&S’ scope extends well beyond human population growth and sustainability, and they welcome submissions examining issues such as the following:

• the relationships between wider population dynamics (such as migration, urbanization and local population decline) and environmental change.
• (un)sustainability considered in terms of the interconnections between demographic dynamics and wider factors such as: social values/norms; local/global social and economic inequality; environmental ethics/justice; political and economic power/systems; technological change etc.
• the effect of the expansion of the human enterprise on the populations and welfare of other species including livestock.

Please see their website to view the journal's full aims and objectives.

Population Research Planning Grants (PRPGs) are designed to provide in-kind support and/or funds of up to $25k* to support a wide array of activity types throughout the development of a research project. As part of our mission to complement rather than duplicate other campus opportunities such as the Population Health Initiative seed grants, we will consider funding things activities such as:

CSDE Matching Support includes in-kind or monetary support to accompany a submission to other on-campus funding mechanism, such as PHI, EarthLab, or Urban@UW. All projects must have a CSDE affiliate who is UW faculty and is listed as a PI or co-PI, with any number of other collaborators. Note that we require (PRPGs) or strongly suggest (matching funds) contacting either Development Core Director (Steven Goodreau) or CSDE Director (Sara Curran) to discuss possibilities for your specific proposal before submission.

As of 5/20/2024, NSF proposals that may impact the resources or interests of a federally recognized Tribal Nation will not be awarded by NSF without prior written approval from the official(s) designated by the relevant Tribal Nation(s).

Proposers must:

• Seek guidance from the potentially impacted Tribal Nation on activities that require review and prior approval from that Tribal Nation’s authorized designee.
• Submit a written request to the relevant Tribal Nation (based on their guidance), or approval to carry out the proposed activity that requires their review and approval.
• Complete the checkbox for “Potential Impacts on Tribal Nations” on the Cover Sheet. Note, lead organizations are responsible for this on collaborative proposals & proposals with subawards considered a single unified project.
• Upload one of the following into "Other supplementary documents" of Research.gov:
  • a copy of the written request to the relevant Tribal Nation to carry out any proposed activity/activities that may require prior approval from them
  • written confirmation from the Tribal Nation(s) that review and approval is not required
  • a copy of relevant Tribal Nation approval

This notice provides the research and research training community an overview of application and peer review changes impacting grant applications submitted for due dates on or after January 25, 2025, including:

• Simplified Review Framework for Most Research Project Grant Applications
• Revisions to the NIH Fellowship Application and Review Process
• Updates to Reference Letter Guidance
• Updates to NRSA Training Grant Applications
• Updated Application Forms (FORMS-I)
• Common Forms for Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending (Other) Support