We are looking forward to hosting Michael Schultz from the University of Washington on Friday, February 6th in Parrington Hall 360 and on Zoom. This seminar is co-sponsored by the Population Health Initiative and the Evans School of Public Policy & Governance

A person’s work life is a major feature of the middle of the life course. A sociological approach focuses on how wages and other job rewards are tied to workers obtaining discrete positions. Consequently, the movement of workers between jobs and the work contexts of those jobs are primary explanations for inequality over the life course. The large number of possible transitions between jobs presents theoretical and methodological challenges. In this talk, I draw on several of my recent and ongoing research projects that use the 500 Census occupations to identify structural positions in the labor market and analyze occupational and wage mobility over the life course. Occupations are a meso-level unit of analysis that facilitates studying institutional job ladders, career continuity/discontinuity across job transitions, and changes in the availability and access to jobs associated with opportunity.

In a recent article in the Journal of Family Violence, CSDE External Affiliate Anne Conway (Univesity of Tennessee) was part of a team that explored how intimate partner violence (IPV) shelter policies and practices influence autonomy and well-being among survivors who are parenting young children in the shelter. Using semi-structured interviews with 14 survivors from shelters across the United States, they examined the ways in which shelter rules, staff, and childcare provisions, shape the lived experiences of survivors. Findings indicate that while shelter rules are designed to ensure safety and structure, they often conflict with survivors’ desires for agency and control over their parenting. Many participants reported feeling disempowered by rigid policies. However, survivors also highlighted moments where the rules provided a sense of structure and safety in which they could bond with their children.

With support from the Social Sciences Research Council (SSRC) and funding from NICHD, CSDE has launched a six month program to forge and strengthen partnerships between public-serving organizations in Washington and UW researchers. The initiative begins with a call for applications from public-serving organizations in Washington due February 15.  Please visit our landing page to learn more.  If you are a UW research who has connections to public-serving organizations, , please let us know by filling out this form. 

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 course of the academic year, CSDE will offer a diverse and exciting set of workshops, some of which will be offered in person and others remotely via Zoom.

• The Northwest Federal Statistical Research Data Center: Enabling Access to Confidential, Unpublished Data from Federal Agencies
  
  • Date: Wednesday, Feb 4 @ 11:30PM-12:30PM
  • Instructors: Sofia Ayala & Carlos Becerra
• Text as Data and LLM applications
  
  • Date & Time:  Tuesday, Feb 10 @ 10:00AM–11:30PM
  • Instructors: June Yang
• Probabilistic Population Projections I: Theory
  
  • Date & Time: Tuesday, Feb 24 @ 9:00AM–10:30AM
  • Instructor: Hana Ševčíková

The NIH will be accepting applications under the new multi-component award structure. Please see PA 26-002 “NIH Collaborative International Research Project (Parent PF5 Clinical Trial Optional)” for more details.

A research team from the University of Washington’s Sociology Department, in collaboration with Sound Transit, is conducting a study to examine the experiences of commuters with disabilities related to hearing, vision, and mobility. Data collected will be used to evaluate and improve a questionnaire. The team seeks participants who: (1) are 18 years of age or older; (2) reside in the Puget Sound area; (3) have an accessibility need related to hearing, vision, and/or mobility; and (4) use Sound Transit public transportation services at least once weekly. As a token of appreciation, all participants will receive e-gift cards worth $100. Interviews will take place in early February.  Express interest here.

Nature and Health community dinners welcome anyone with a curiosity about expanding access to green space to support health and well-being, environmental and health equity, people-nature reciprocity, and climate change resilience. Students, professionals, and community members from many different disciplines come together to explore new ideas, discuss policies and programs, and strengthen partnerships in the field of nature and health. The February 10 dinner at Fremont Brewing’s Urban Beer Garden features a speed talk from CSDE Affiliate Rachel Berney, associate professor in the UW College of Built Environments and director of Urban@UW. Register by February 3.

UW students, apply now to participate CSDE’s Winter 2026 Lightning Talks and Poster Session! This session is a unique opportunity to make new connections with faculty and students working in your area, and to improve your presentation and poster-making skills in advance of larger conferences. To apply, submit a brief abstract and information about yourself and your collaborators on the project by February 4.

PAA looks forward to seeing you May 6-9 in St. Louis, Missouri!

All accepted presenters will be required to pre-register for the conference by February 4, 2026 to secure spot on the program. The program and schedule will not be available until mid-February. Registration is now open for you to secure your spot at PAA 2026. See all details and register here.

PAA is looking for volunteers to be chairs and discussants for some additional PAA sessions at the 2026 annual meeting. Selections will be made on a first come, first serve basis. Sign up here.

The virtual Center on Aging, Health, and Environment (CACHE) is hosting a webinar, titled “Climate Hazard Center’s rainfall (CHIRPS) and temperature (CHIRTS) datasets: Everything you want to know about these valuable resources” delivered by Dr. Shraddhanand Shukla (UCSB). Join CACHE on February 5, at 2 pm PT. Register in advance to join! Once you register, you will receive a confirmation email containing the password required to join the seminar.

What are some of the key risks and challenges facing migration researchers in our current political climate? How do we protect our interlocutors and ourselves? Join the panelists for a discussion on methodology and ethics in contemporary migration research.

When: Friday, February 6 at 2 PM EST / 11 AM PST

Speakers: Nilda Flores-Gonzalez (Arizona State University); Heba Gowayed (CUNY Hunter College/Graduate Center); Ariela Schachter (Washington University in St. Louis)

Register here

The INVEST Conference 2026 is accepting abstract submissions through February 9, 2026. The conference theme is “Building equal societies: from scientific findings to societal transformation”. INVEST 2026 will take place May 8-9, 2026 in Turku, Finland.

The INVEST Conference is an interdisciplinary meeting point for researchers who are committed to understanding and reducing social inequalities. We warmly invite researchers from all career stages to submit their work and join us in Turku next spring. 

Join applied demographers virtually February 10-12, 2026 for the PAA Applied Demography Conference.  This conference provides applied demographers with a unique opportunity to participate in a conference designed to showcase applied demography, strengthen professional networks, and bring the applied demography community together.  The program includes three half-days of virtual sessions and presentations. View the program and schedule.

The International Committee On New Integrated Climate Change Assessment Scenarios (ICONICS)  invites you to join a webinar on February 12, 2026, Launching the Scenario Evolution Process. This webinar will introduce the Scenario Evolution Process (SEP) and provide information on how to engage with the development of the next generation of community scenarios.  The webinar will be recorded for those unable to attend and posted to the ICONICS website. An additional Q&A session will also be held the first week of March.

We are now accepting applications for the NIH Behavioral and Social Sciences Early Career Workshop. This opportunity provides early stage investigators with training on how to transform their research ideas into competitive NIH grant applications. The workshop includes strategies for developing strong NIH proposals, navigating the peer review process, and building a professional network to support a successful research career. The application submission deadline is February 13, 2026, at 11:59 p.m.

Organization: Templeton World Charity Foundation

Award amount: $5-20 million overall

Sponsor deadline: 02/13/2026

Description:  The Templeton World Charity Foundation is looking for ideas to form the basis of future funding priorities aligned with the Foundation’s purpose. Ideas should be bold and innovative, with the potential to deepen or expand our understanding of ultimate reality and what it means to be human. We seek ideas for rigorous research programs that can impact how we each see the world and our place within it. (read more)

The LIVES Centre (the Swiss Centre of expertise in life course research) is launching the ‘Good Life’ Data Challenge, a large-scale collaboration using the Swiss Household Panel (SHP) to address a key question: What predicts the feeling of having lived a happy, meaningful, and interesting (psychologically rich) life thus far? The call can be found here.  The deadline for submissions is February 15, 2026.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is requesting public input on its proposal to establish harmonized and transparent policy requirements for protecting human participant research data. Specifically, NIH proposes to: (1) establish policy requirements for which data should be controlled-access under NIH data sharing policies, and (2)  revise the NIH Genomic Data Sharing Policy to simplify and harmonize requirements.

The full proposal can be found here. Stakeholders are invited to provide feedback on the policy proposals as described in the request for information.

Organization: UW Civic Health Initiative

Award amount: $2,000-$25,000

Sponsor deadline: 02/06/2026

Description:  The University of Washington Civic Health Initiative has released a funding call for three different categories of small grants. These grant programs are designed to foster new collaborations and innovations that strengthen civic health and democratic institutions nationwide. Innovations proposed for funding to these grant programs must align with one or more of the areas of focus for the Initiative’s work. (read more)

The Office of Research invites applications for the next round of the Royalty Research Fund (RRF) grant program. Proposals are due to RRF by Monday, March 2, at 5:00 PM. Departments and Colleges/Schools may have earlier deadlines, so all applicants are advised to check with their program’s administrative staff. Awards will be announced by June 15, 2026. Visit the RRF website for application instructions.

Submit your work for the 2026 Annual IAPHS Conference in Portland, OR!

Theme: Reimagining Population Health Science to Build Trust and Influence​
​Dates: September 29 – October 2, 2026
​Submission Window: December 2, 2025 – March 10, 2026

IAPHS is currently seeking abstract reviewers and is accepting Student Travel Scholarship applications until March 8. 

Award amount: $200,000

Sponsor deadline: 03/11/2026

Program description: The Russell Sage Foundation’s (RSF) program on Social, Political, and Economic Inequality supports innovative research on the factors that contribute to social, political, and economic inequalities in the U.S., and the extent to which those inequalities affect social, political, psychological, and economic outcomes such as educational and labor market access and opportunities, social and economic mobility within and across generations, and civic participation and representation.  (read more)

The Population Council invites applications for Editors, Population & Development Review (PDR). Individual applications as well as applications for Co-Editor teams that pair senior scholars working with mid-career scholars are welcomed by March 16, 2026. Two Editors will be appointed for a three-year term, beginning January 1, 2027. The term can be extended to five years total at the discretion of the Council.,

Organization: William T. Grant Scholars Program 2026 (Limited Submission Opportunity)

Award amount:  Each Scholar receives exactly $425,000 over five years, including up to 7.5% indirect costs. Awards begin July 1 of the award year and are made to the applicant’s institution.

UW internal deadline: 03/18/2026

Description: The William T. Grant Scholars Program supports career development for promising early-career researchers. The program funds five-year research and mentoring plans that significantly expand researchers’ expertise in new disciplines, methods, and content areas. (read more)

Award amount: $100,000

Sponsor deadline: 04/01/2026

Program description: The Russell Sage Foundation (RSF), in collaboration with the Criminal Justice program at Arnold Ventures (AV) is pleased to announce its first annual grants competition for early-career scholars. Our goal is to cultivate a pipeline of researchers conducting causal research on the criminal justice system. Criminal justice policies and practices include the work of 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. (read more)

The Vienna Yearbook of Population Research welcomes submissions for a Special Issue on “Demographic perspectives on migration”. Submit your manuscript until May 15, 2026.

The editors invite contributions expanding the state-of-the-art knowledge and methodological approaches across a broad range of migration topics, including trends and spatial patterns, innovative data and methods, socio-economic inequalities, drivers of mobility and immobility, climate-related and crisis-driven migration, and links between migration and family or health outcomes.

Societal Impacts interviewed their four Associate Editors to share more about their research background and motivations to join the journal’s editorial team.  Societal Impacts is an open access, peer-reviewed journal, which publishes brief articles that describe the societal impacts of research projects. The journal serves as a platform for papers demonstrating steps towards resolving major challenges, like climate change and inequality, and delivering on global initiatives, such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Dewey Data is a research platform that provides access to third-party datasets across a variety of data categories including foot traffic, construction permits, healthcare, workforce, consumer behavior, and transportation.

Several new data sets have been added to the platform in the last few months. TenderAlpha features global government procurement data from over a dozen countries dating back to 2010. Veridion Core Company Profiles features comprehensive coverage of private companies and SMEs,

Organization: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Technology Program

Award amount: Undisclosed; Most projects funded between 50K to 600K

Sponsor deadline: Rolling deadline.

Description: The Foundation’s Technology grantmaking aims to leverage advances in technology to benefit the research community. This includes three sub programs: (1) Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology; (2) Open Source in Science; and (3) Scientific Collaboration.  The RFP can be found here. Interested grantseekers should email a letter of inquiry of no more than two pages to technology@sloan.org. (read more)

The Center for Social Science Computation and Research (CSSCR) is offering seven workshops during Winter 2026 Quarter, open to all members of the UW community, whether student, faculty or staff.  See a full list with workshop descriptions and registration links here. 

CSSS provides free statistical consulting to current UW faculty, staff, and students working on social science problems.  They offer guidance at any stage of a project — from study design and planning through the selection and interpretation of statistical models. During Winter 2026 quarter, CSSS has two consulting options: scheduled appointments and drop-in sessions. See further details on the CSSS website.