When: Friday, Jan 17, 2025 (12:30-1:30PM)

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

1-on-1 meetings: 223 Raitt Hall (sign up here)

We are looking forward to hosting Irene Bloemraad from The University of British Columbia and Jennifer Van Hook from Penn State University on Friday, Jan. 17 in Parrington Hall 360 and on Zoom. This seminar is co-sponsored by the Population Health Initiative.

How do we nurture a creative, vibrant and skilled new generation of researchers? And how do we accomplish this while also plugging the “leaky” pipeline that sees a disproportionate number of women and people of color leave academia across the educational trajectory? We draw on our time organizing and running the Summer Institute for Migration Research Methods (2018-2024) to share our experiences. We found that centering migration research as the core topic of the Institute avoided disciplinary and methodological silos. The Institute was deeply interdisciplinary and capacious in valuing a range of data and methods. Having migration research as the focus allowed participants to build real breadth in their knowledge, and also stretch their creativity and create a sense of community. Participants learned skills, they practiced research design, they engaged in frank conversations about navigating research careers, and they found social support for their work and struggles. We will provide an overview of the Summer Institute and lessons learned.

Most research on neighborhood characteristics and crime analyzes changes over the course of years or even decades. Local social environments can shift daily, however, as residents and visitors move in and out for work, errands, recreation, or other reasons. In a recent study entitled “Within-Day Diversity Change, Neighborhood Social Cohesion, and Fear of Crime” published in Socius, CSDE Affiliate Chris Hess (Kennesaw State University) analyzed data from the Seattle Neighborhoods and Crime Survey and the Census Transportation Planning Products to explore how these daily shifts in neighborhood diversity influence people’s feelings of social connection and safety.

Analysis from CSDE Research Scientist June Yang will be featured at the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences Seminar Series on Wednesday, January 15th at 12:30pm. The presentation, entitled “Gender Divergence in the Values Around Cohabitation in China: A Tale of ‘Two Generations,'” will feature Yang’s analysis of text data from two online discussion questions on a popular Q & A website, Zhihu. Results show that cohabitation is not perceived as a value-neutral choice by the Zhihu users.

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.

Winter Workshops (select workshops to register):

• Survey Methods I: Online Survey Design & Administration with REDCap
  • Date & Time: Thursdays Jan 23 and 30 @ 10:00AM–12:00PM

• Interpreting Biomarker Results
  • Date & Time: Thursday, Jan 30 @ 2:30PM-3:30PM

• The Northwest Federal Statistical Research Data Center: Enabling Access to Confidential, Unpublished Data from the Federal Statistical System
  • Date & Time: Tuesday, Feb 4 @ 12:30PM-1:30PM

• Introduction to Using Generative LLM for Social Science Research
  • Date & Time: Tuesday, February 11 @ 10:00AM–11:30PM

• Survey Methods II: Statistical Analysis of Surveys in R
  • Date & Time: Thursday Feb 6 @ 10:00AM–12:00PM

On Wednesday, January 15th, the CSDE Computational Demography Working Group is excited to host Dr. Fanqi Zeng (Oxford University) for a talk entitled “The relationship between social order and crime in Nottingham, England.” This talk will review findings from a study of governance-type organised crime in the English city of Nottingham. The study investigates whether such a gang can govern communities by reducing ordinary crimes. The presentation will take place at 9am on Zoom (register here).

The RWJF Health Policy Research Scholars is a leadership development program for full-time doctoral students  from historically marginalized backgrounds who can connect how their background, identity, or lived experiences have positioned them to contribute to the goals of the program, including bringing unique and diverse perspectives to their research. In 2025, HPRS is selecting up to 40 doctoral students who are beginning their second year in fall 2025 in a full-time doctoral program and do not expect to graduate before spring/summer 2028.

The Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS) recently announced their call for abstract submissions for the 2025 Annual Meeting. The meeting theme will be “Community Engagement in Population Health Science” in recognition that solutions to health inequities and our greatest population health challenges aren’t found in the lab or a dataset, but rather within communities themselves. Learn more and submit your proposed abstract 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! Join the list here (Please note - this is for faculty only - we are strict about that. Sorry, all others!)

Secure your hotel reservation now for the Population Association of America (PAA) Conference from April 10-13, 2025 at the Washington, DC Marriott Marquis. Use the special links on the Hotel and Travel page to book at the discounted PAA rate. Registration will open soon!

The Population Health Initiative recently announced the availability of Tier 2 Pilot Grants. The purpose of this tier of grants is to support faculty and PI-eligible staff to develop preliminary data or proof-of-concept needed to pursue follow-on funding to scale one’s efforts. Awards of up to $65,000 each will be available to interdisciplinary research teams. Letters of intent are due January 13, 2025. Learn more about the opportunity and previously funded projects here.

The Workshop in Environmental Economics and/or Data Science (TWEEDS) recently announced their call for proposals. TWEEDS brings together scholars working on projects related to policy, economics, environmental sciences, and data science to discuss methodologies at the forefront of our fields. During the conference, workshop participants will hear from experts in data-science methods and tools—machine learning, remote sensing, natural language processing, cloud computing, geospatial data analysis—and applied environmental economics—including climate change, energy policy, environmental justice, transportation, and the interchange between air/water quality and health. Learn more and submit a proposal here.

The 50th Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop is currently accepting submissions related to this year’s theme, “The Next 50 Years: Charting a Course for the Hazards and Disaster Field.” The workshop also welcomes research that focuses on other pressing hazards or disaster topics. Please visit the online submission form to offer ideas for roundtables, concurrent sessions, trainings, TED-style talks, and more. You can also learn more about the workshop here.

Applications for the Office of Global Affairs’ Global Innovation Fund are now open. This grant opportunity is intended to develop cross-college and cross-continent research collaborations, with award opportunities from $3,000 to $20,000 available to support fellowships, research projects, study abroad/away and teaching. Learn more about the various opportunities here. Applications are due January 31, 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.

Empirical evidence shows that many migrants who are seemingly well “integrated” actually do not feel at home, report more discrimination and experience a weaker sense of belonging to their residence country than seemingly less integrated migrants. The literature on the integration paradox (IP) has expanded significantly in recent years, but it still falls short on longitudinal perspectives and empirical evidence on the underlying mechanisms and scope of countries and migrant groups studied. The International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) recently announced a research workshop at Utrecht University (Netherlands) on this subject.

This special issue explores the relationship between feminism, metascience, and open science, seemingly disparate areas of inquiry of contemporary significance. This special issue will be a forum for feminist scholars to explore these relationships.

The NSF’s Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program reissued its call for proposals. The call invites senior research proposals, early career development proposals, research coordination network proposals, conference and research community development activities, research experiences for undergraduates and graduates, and transdisciplinary research in environmental social science.

The Dissertation Research Grants program supports innovative and high-quality dissertation research that addresses questions relevant to any of RSF’s priority areas: Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context; Future of Work; Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration; Immigration and Immigrant Integration; and Social, Political, and Economic Inequality.

The eScience Institute’s Winter School offers the opportunity to gain literacy in topics such as Python, R, Jupyter, and reproducible environments. This is an in-person, 4-session series starting Thursday, February 6th. Learn more and apply here.

The UW Latino Center for Health recently announced their Small Grant Program, a $25,000 grant to fund research focused on Latinx health in Washington state. Applicants should include a partnership between a UW faculty investigator and a community-based organization that serves Latinx individuals, families, or communities.

Each grant award is up to $25,000 and does not include indirect costs. The deadline for submission is February 10, 2025. Funds will be awarded in May 2025 for up to a one-year project with a community partner.

The eScience Institute’s accelerator program is looking for projects from any field that would benefit from collaboration 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.  To be considered for spring quarter, submit a proposal by February 6th. Learn more and sign up for an info session on January 23rd here.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Food Insight Group, and Chef Ann Foundation recently announced a Request for Research Proposals entitled “Understanding the School Food Workforce Subgrants.” The group is looking for research projects that will increase understanding of the current state of the K-12 school food workforce in the United States and/or explore strategies to create a stable and respected workforce that can provide healthy meals to students while supporting resilient local and regional food systems.

With a seemingly endless range of possible models to analyze longitudinal data, how do you select the best one? This seminar from Statistical Horizons (taught by Kenneth A. Bollen) will address that question, providing you with practical tools to evaluate and select the most suitable longitudinal model. Learn more and access sample course materials here.

The Russell Sage Foundation (RSF) will accept letters of inquiry under the core programs for Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context and Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration. The foundation will also accept LOIs for the special initiatives Immigration and Immigrant Integration and Promoting Educational Attainment and Economic Mobility among Racially, Ethnically, and Economically Diverse Groups after the 2023 Supreme Court Decision to Ban Race-Conscious Admissions at Colleges and Universities.

The Russell Sage Foundation (RSF) and Arnold Ventures recently announced a collaborative call for causal research on the criminal justice system. Criminal justice policies and practices include the work of the police, courts, jails, prisons, probation and parole, and immigration detention. Proposals must include causal research designs that can reliably isolate the treatment effects of a policy, practice, or intervention such as difference-in-differences, regression discontinuity, instrumental variables, and randomized controlled trials.

However, members of SGM communities still face unique and significant disparities and barriers across domains such as physical, mental, and behavioral health; social and structural determinants of health; and healthcare access and quality. This includes higher SGM group-specific rates of and risks for some chronic health conditions (e.g., arthritis, asthma, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, certain forms of cancer, and HIV/AIDS), depression, anxiety, eating disorders, substance use, smoking, stigma, discrimination, bullying, using preventive health services less frequently, and negative experiences in healthcare settings.

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