On December 6th at 12:30pm get ready to appreciate new research from Isaac Sederbaum (Doctoral Candidate, Public Policy and Management), Mingze Li (Doctoral Student, Sociology), Sarah Kilpatrick (MS Student, Data Science) and Man-Lin Chen (Doctoral Student, Sociology). Learn more about their talks here.

These early career researchers will be presenting their research posters and lightning talks.  While you learn from them, you can also enjoy refreshments and conversation with the authors and audience.  We look forward to seeing you!

History is often best understood through analysis of individuals’ lived experiences. In a new article, LaShawnDa Pittman (American Ethnic Studies) and co-authors analyze the oral histories of 210 Black women to shed light on their experiences and strategies for resisting the “interlocking systems of oppression” of the Jim Crow Era (1881-1964). The article, entitled “Freedom Choices: How Black Mothers Living in Jim Crow Protected Their Children from Anti-Black Racism and Prepared Them for Success” was published in Genealogy. Read the article here.

Prior research on refugees’ health has found that they frequently report poor health, but systematic analysis of refugees’ health is still limited. To address this research gap, CSDE Trainee Larisa Ozeryansky recently co-authored an article which analyzes survey data who fled the war in Ukraine for Norway in 2022. The article, entitled “Trends in the health status of Ukrainian refugees in Norway according to month of arrival during 2022” and published in BMC Public Health, found that refugees who arrived later in the year reported poorer long-term health but less psychological distress than those who arrived earlier. Read the study here.

We invite early career faculty affiliates to join our new mailing list, csde_earlycareer.  Among other things, this is the way to find out info about our quarterly Early Career Affiliate happy hours, and you won't want to miss those! These will be a great way to meet up with other junior scholars in a fun and casual atmosphere over snacks and drinks. Who counts as early career, you ask? Typically we mean folks who are pre-promotion (i.e. assistant professor or equivalent), but we're not strict! Please note - this is for faculty only - we are strict about that. Sorry, all others!

Mark your calendars for NICHD’s Fellowship and Career Development Information Series! These virtual Q&A sessions describe funding mechanisms that support training and career development and allow participants to get answers from NICHD experts.

Future sessions in the series (all times Eastern):

• December 9, 1-2 p.m.: F99/K00 Individual Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Award
• March 13, 2025, 3-4 p.m.: K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award (Postdoctoral Fellow to Independent Researcher)

Past session:

• November 6, 3-4 p.m.: Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (PA-23-189)
  • Videocast link is available here.

The National Center for Education Research at IES released a new funding announcement for Research Training Programs in the Education Sciences (84.305B) for Fiscal Year 2025 (FY 2025). These research training programs seek to train and mentor students and researchers to encourage their entry into and success in education research careers. These investments are intended to improve the quality of education research and to build talent in the education sciences workforce. The four training programs are:

• Early Career Development and Mentoring Program for Education Research
• Pathways to the Education Sciences Training Program
• Predoctoral Interdisciplinary Research Training Program in the Education Sciences
• Methods Training for Education Researchers

For FY 2025,  The Early Career Development and Mentoring Program for Faculty at Minority Serving Institutions has been merged with Early Career Development and Mentoring Program for Education Research.

See Important Dates and Deadlines for FY 2025 Competitions for more information.

• All application packages are now available on Grants.gov
• Letters of intent (optional but encouraged) are due December 12, 2024
• The application deadline for 84.305B is March 7, 2025

The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) is inviting applications from qualified and highly-motivated students for a Summer Research Visit. The goal of the Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program is to enable discovery by bringing together data scientists and population scientists to work on focused, intensive and collaborative projects of broad societal relevance.

For a period of 3 months (June 2^nd – August 22^nd, 2025) participating students will work in small teams, with support from experienced mentors, towards a common research goal. For the summer of 2025, the focus of the program will be on three main research areas:

1)    “Climate Change and Mobility” mentored by Risto Conte Keivabu, Ebru Sanlitürk, and Monica Alexander (University of Toronto);

2)    “Machine Learning for Life Course Trajectories” mentored by Linda Vecgaile, Bruno Arpino (University of Padova) and Emilio Zagheni;

3)    “Mortality in War Settings” mentored by Yvette Young, Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, Enrique Acosta (Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics -CED) and Irena Chen.

Learn more about this opportunity here. Applications are due by January 8th, 2025.

Abstract submissions are now open for the 2025 Data-Intensive Research Conference. The 2025 conference theme is Understanding Health and Population Dynamics through Big Microdata. We seek submissions that use full count census data to examine health and population dynamics. We are particularly interested in projects that link persons, families, or communities across censuses or link full count data to other sources, including the creation of place-based measures or person-level linkages to external data.

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 the 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.

The IPUMS Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) recently announced a new data release. IPUMS now includes 2022 data released by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) earlier this year. This initial release updates over 1,100 variables from the Full Year Consolidated, Condition, Event, Prescribed Medicine, Appendix to the Event, and Pooled Variance files and adds variables about Long COVID. Learn more here.

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

Although each of these initiatives has specific goals, they are all meant to simplify, clarify, and/or promote greater fairness towards a level playing field for applicants throughout the application and review processes.