When: Friday, Oct 25, 2024 (12:30-1:30PM)

Where: 360 Parrington Hall and on Zoom (register here)

We are looking forward to hosting Ipsita Dey (Comparative History of Ideas, UW) on Friday, Oct. 25th  in Parrington Hall 360 and on Zoom. This seminar is co-sponsored by the Population Health Initiative. 

In this presentation, Ipsita Dey wil discuss her paper that engages theoretical frameworks in historical consciousness and geographic imaginaries, and introduces and situates the Fiji’s Sigatoka Valley as a “farmscape,” a site where colonial pasts, racial tensions, and climate anxieties are diversely (re)imagined through agriculture. She draws from ethnographic work on an agro-forestry biodiversity conservation initiative at the Sigatoka Sand Dunes National Park (SDDNP) to examine how plantation logics of land distribution and property-defined personhood shape how locals design and envision shared environmental futures. 

CSDE is pleased to welcome back some of our former T32 trainees and fellows as External Research Affiliates! Delaney Glass (Assistant Professor, University of Toronto) focuses on cultural and ecological contributions to the timing and pace of human growth, development, and puberty. Anwesha Pan (Assistant Professor, Utah State University) researches the association between environmental stressors (e.g., poverty, famine) and female reproductive health. Hanjie Wang’s (Postdoctoral Fellow, Boston University) current work focuses on the comparative analysis of electric vehicle policies in China, the U.S., and India, alongside the underlying politics of global EV trade and investment policies. Aasli Abdi Nur (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Oxford) researches the use of individual-level modeling approaches to study gender, fertility, and family dynamics across the life course, and epistemic inequalities in the production and dissemination of scientific knowledge and their impact on demographic research.

During election season, efforts to curb the spread of misinformation are especially salient – but they are always essential to the wellbeing of our democracy. At this critical moment, CSDE Affiliate Emma Spiro (UW Information School) was featured by the Seattle Times’ Save the Free Press Initiative in an article about her new role as Faculty Director of the Center for an Informed Public. Read the full story here.

New research from CSDE Affiliate Kemi Doll (Obstetrics & Gynecology) and co-authors finds that a common endometrial cancer screening procedure missed cases in almost 10% of Black female patients. The article, entitled “Endometrial Thickness as Diagnostic Triage for Endometrial Cancer Among Black Individuals” and recently quoted in a Health.com article, highlights the high probability of false negatives for Black women in a retrospective study and recommends tissue biopsy in an effort to reduce this rate.

CSDE Affiliates Elizabeth Pelletier (U.S. Census Bureau) and Scott Allard (Evans School) recently collaborated on a publication in Early Childhood Research Quarterly entitled “The spatial inequality of early care and education centers” that highlights spatial variation in the provision of various forms of childcare across the US. Using a national database with multiple measures of participation and availability of childcare resources, the article shows how the provision of public and private childcare options varies in urban and rural settings, and in counties with different levels of poverty. Read the full article here.

The UW Graduate Aging Group is an interdisciplinary, graduate student research cluster that aims to foster a community of scholars interested in aging research. United by understanding aging as a multidimensional phenomenon, the group engages with concepts, theories, and perspectives that enrich the narrative of aging and deepen our appreciation for its value and complexity. The group is primarily composed of graduate students, but is open to non-students as well, including post-docs and faculty.

Applications are currently open for graduate students to present their research and receive feedback at this event, and we would love to receive your submission! This is an excellent, low-stakes opportunity to practice your presentation skills, grow your network, and prepare for upcoming conferences.

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.

Text data has gained popularity over the last decade due to the increased data availability, the emergence of new methods, and the decreasing costs of computational resources. Based on the book Text As Data: A New Framework for Machine Learning and the Social Sciences, this workshop introduces the methods that could be used to select and represent text, conduct research discoveries, and build measurements out of text data.

On 10/23 from 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM PST, CDWG will host Dr. Michael Schultz for a research talk. Michael A. Schultz is quantitative sociologist and social demographer with expertise on work, poverty, and structural inequality. He specializes in telling stories with data to provide insight into how workers and households navigate opportunities and constraints to advance their careers and gain economic security. Michael’s research uses an intersectional and place-based approach to shed light on how social (e.g., gender, race, class) and economic positions (e.g., work, income) shape work, family, and mobility outcomes over the life course.

CSDE Affiliate Dafeng Xu (Evans School) will present at this week’s edition of the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences Seminar Series. On Wednesday, October 23 at 12:30pm, Xu will give a seminar titled: Ideological Segregation in a Politically Diverse Community: Evidence from China.

This seminar will be offered as a hybrid session, in-person in Savery Hall (409) or online (link here).

CSSS offers a limited number of grants for graduate and undergraduate students and postdoctoral researchers working with CSSS faculty affiliates to cover expenses associated with presenting research at conferences and attending workshops or courses. These grants are awarded on a competitive basis after review by the CSSS Executive Committee.

Taught by Cameron Riddell & James Powell (Don’t Use This Code) and organized as part of the NASA Transform to Open Science training initiative, this workshop is a wonderful and comprehensive introduction to Open Science principles and practices in data science and for quantitative research in general.

The target audience is graduate students in their first or second year, or those with little exposure to the principles and practices that enable open and reproducible science when analyzing data and writing code.

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.

Would 4 hours, 4 days, 4 weeks, or 4 months collaborating with a data scientist accelerate your research to the next level?

Then check out the eScience Institute’s new Data Science and AI Accelerator. We are looking for projects from any research area that would benefit from collaboration with our team of data scientists on data intensive and AI approaches, such as machine learning, scalable data management, statistical analysis, data visualization, open-source software development, and cloud and scalable computing. We support projects that vary greatly in terms of their methods, scope, maturity, and area of application.

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.

SAVE THE DATE: Cultivating Connections for Community Engagement: Fall Quarter Community of Practice

• When/Where: Friday November 15^th, 11am-12:30PM via Zoom (link)
• Who: Faculty and staff from Bothell, Seattle or Tacoma campus who are interested in community-engaged research and/or learning
• Why: To connect with faculty and staff from all 3 campuses who practice, support, or are interested in community engagement; to explore what’s happening across the UW in this space; and to generate ideas and share perspectives for building the university’s capacity for community-engaged scholarship, teaching and learning.

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:

• November 6 – Ask Me Anything

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

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:

• Use of CSDE services beyond the standard allotments for affiliates.

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), for 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