We are looking forward to hosting Rachel E. Moran (Senior Research Scientist at the Center for an Informed Public & Affiliate Assistant Professor at the Information School, University of Washington) on Friday, Nov. 13th in Parrington Hall 360 and on Zoom. This seminar is co-sponsored by the Population Health Initiative.

Despite their importance, Trust and Safety (T&S) teams experienced significant downsizing between 2022 and 2025, including mass layoffs at major technology companies. Our prior research documented this contraction and identified a parallel expansion in the development and deployment of AI-enabled T&S tools designed to detect, manage, and reduce the spread of harmful and illegal content online. This project examines the shift toward AI through in-depth interviews with T&S professionals who build and use AI systems for online safety. 

CSDE Affiliate Theresa Rocha Beardall (Sociology) was named a William T. Grant Scholar, one of seven researchers selected nationwide this year. The award supports promising early-career researchers as they expand their expertise into new disciplines, methods, or content areas, and provides $425,000 over five years. Dr. Rocha Beardall’s research bridges race, law, inequality, policing, child welfare, indigeneity, and tribal sovereignty. With the award, she will reconstruct the histories of Native children affected by federal Indian boarding schools in Washington State by locating, digitizing, and linking records scattered across archives, with UW student researchers helping to retrieve and catalog the materials.
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The UW Population Health Initiative has opened a new funding call for its Accelerator grants program, which supports ambitious, interdisciplinary projects with the potential to produce transformative advances in population health. Unlike traditional pilot programs, which focus on proof-of-concept work or scaling existing efforts, Accelerator grants are designed to catalyze high-impact opportunities that build on UW-distinctive strengths. Proposals may carry more uncertainty than a typical pilot, but applicants must demonstrate a credible plan and a clear pathway to meaningful population health impact.

The Global Innovation Fund supports research that launches new projects, builds international networks, and lays the groundwork for future large-scale initiatives.

Seed Grants: Up to $5,000 for projects limited in scope or just beginning. This can be an opportunity for faculty who wish to add a global dimension to their research for the first time. Open to any discipline and geographic focus.  

Development Grants: Up to $15,000 for projects that have already established significant impact.

It can feel like whiplash. One day, the youth around you tell you they think the world is burning and they have no future; the next day, you face decision makers who question whether climate anxiety is even a problem.

It’s overwhelming and isolating. But you are not alone.

Join CSDE Affiliate Jessica Acolin, PhD, a licensed mental health counselor and UW affiliate faculty member, to see new statewide data on teen climate distress across California, Oregon, and Washington. Hear about a new regional collaborative aimed at advancing knowledge and solutions to support youth climate resilience. Most importantly, learn how you can get involved and shape the direction of this work.

IPUMS is offering three data training events this month. On November 10 (9:00 AM and 7:00 PM CT), the IPUMS International webinar “Practical Use of IPUMS Census Microdata: From Online Data Analysis to Mapping” will show how to use the Survey Documentation and Analysis (SDA) tool to generate statistical tables from IPUMS International, then use those results as inputs for GIS software to visualize geographic patterns and trends across places and time.

IPUMS has announced a series of data updates across its projects. IPUMS NHGIS has released a new version of its GIS boundary files for 1970 census blocks, with wide-ranging improvements to the block definitions for 10 metro areas, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, and San Francisco. IPUMS DHS and IHGIS now offer variables and crosswalks that link IHGIS census tables to IPUMS DHS records for geographic units finer than the second administrative level, though downloading them requires GPS authorization from the DHS Program.

The countdown to the sixth UN World Data Forum has begun! Registration is now open for the biggest global gathering of data and statistics leaders, policymakers, innovators, researchers and development partners, taking place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from 9–12 November 2026.

Panel—A Conversation with Queerdem* Europe

Tuesday, November 10, 2026 at 9am ET/2pm GMT/3pm CET (Check in your time zone here)

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The University of Colorado Population Center, part of the Institute of Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado Boulder, is pleased to announce the 2026 Reproductive Demography Workshop, November 11-13, 2026 in Boulder, Colorado and online. The workshop will provide training on reproductive demography (including conception, pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion, and birth).

Organization Simons Foundation

Award amount Up 140,000€

OR internal deadline: 11/4/2026

Sponsor deadline: 11/12/2026

Description:

The New Gen initiative of the AXA Foundation for Human Progress are 2-year grants supporting promising early-career researchers to foster transformative, transdisciplinary research networks, at the intersection of multiple fields and societal actors. The support of the AXA Foundation should be transformative for the researchers and the advancement of their field.

Gain insight into the policy and process for federal funding for research during a webinar from noon to 1 p.m., Monday, Nov. 16, presented by leaders from the UW Federal Relations team and the Office of Research.

Every time the government makes a change to a survey or a form — or introduces a new survey or form — you have the right to weigh in on that decision. Click the links to tell the government what you think about the changes they are making.

Current Population Survey, Annual Social and Economic Supplement.

Join the UW Office of Research on Tuesday, November 17 for the inaugural UW Shared Research Facilities & Resources Fair, an opportunity to discover the people, services, technology, and expertise that support research at the UW!

Faculty, researchers, trainees, facility staff, and campus partners are invited to explore shared research facilities, learn about available research support services, connect with potential collaborators, and discover new funding opportunities that help researchers access specialized facilities and services.

The Feminist Demography Collective (FemDem) is excited to share that on Tuesday, Nov. 17th, 12:15-1:30 p.m. CST, Dr. Wendy Sigle will join us for a conversation on truth, power, and the transformation of feminist and critical demography. Anyone interested in this topic is welcome. Please register, share with your students and colleagues, and join us on Nov. 17th!

This event is online-only, so please register in advance! CLICK HERE

The UW School of Law’s Interdisciplinary Health Law & Policy Program and the UW Center for an Informed Public invite the community to a presentation by Claudia E. Haupt, Professor of Law and Political Science and Faculty Co-Director of the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University School of Law.

Titled “Pseudoprofessional Advice: Misinformation, Professional Regulation and the First Amendment,” the presentation will examine why licensed professionals face regulation within professional relationships but may offer advice to the broader public with relatively few constraints, even when that advice carries significant consequences.

The UW EDGE Center (Interdisciplinary Center for Exposures, Diseases, Genomics, and Environment, a NIEHS P30 Center) intends to provide pilot funding (up to $40K) to members of the faculty of UW, Seattle Children’s Hospital, and/or the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. We encourage early career scientists to partner with faculty to apply. Pre-applications for environmental health sciences research are due November 19, 2026, invited full proposals are due January 12, 2027, and funding begins no sooner than April 2027.

Applications for the 2026-2027 Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy awards are now open. The application date is December 1, 2026, including recommendation forms. Start your application now!

The amount of each award is $10,000, and twenty awards will be given. In addition, the Foundation offers two Special Awards: the Trustees’ Award for the most innovative project (an additional $3,000) and the Irving Louis Horowitz Award for the most outstanding project (an additional $5,000).

The Scholars-in-Residence Program offers both long-term and short-term fellowships designed to support and encourage top-quality research and writing on the history, politics, literature, and culture of the peoples of Africa and the African diaspora, as well as to promote and facilitate interdisciplinary exchange among scholars and writers in residence at the Schomburg Center. Awards can range from $3,000-$35,000. 

Organization: Society for Research in Child Development

Award amount: Up to $25,000

Sponsor deadline: 12/03/2026

Description:

The Victoria S. Levin Award aims is to foster early career success in achieving funding for research that is informed by developmental science to address concerns affecting the early foundations of children’s mental health. The Award will add measurably to Vicki’s dream of a society in which all children are protected from disabling mental health problems by getting the healthiest start in life.

The NIH’s Development of Collaborative Research Facilities or Research-Resource Facilities program (PAR-26-106) supports the construction or modernization of shared-use research facilities that benefit broad research communities, through two tracks: the Biomedical Research Facilities (BRF) program, funding $2–8 million for facilities advancing basic, translational, clinical, or behavioral science research, and the HIV/AIDS Research Facilities (HRF) program, funding $2–4 million for facilities aligned with NIH Office of AIDS Research priorities. 

CACHE will be at the GSA 2026 Annual Scientific Meeting, November 4 – 7 in National Harbor, MD, and is organizing a symposium “Pushing the Boundaries on Aging-Climate Topics and Methodologies”. To learn more about the GSA and to connect with leaders in aging and gerontology, find out more here. This year’s theme: “Reinforcing Resilience in Aging Science, Research and Education.”

Seminar—TBD with Dr. Byron Villacis

Tuesday, December 8, 2026 at 11:30am EST/4:30pm GMT/5:30pm CET (Check in your time zone here)

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Award amount:  Up to $700,000

Description:

The Foundation primarily supports basic science, ideally with potential translational applications. Examples of current research areas supported include immunology, microbiome, structural biology, cellular physiology, cancer biology, genetics, genomics, microbiology and infectious diseases, stem cell biology, and neuroscience.

Research areas that will not be considered for support include Covid-19 related research projects (aims or sub-aims), Plant Biology Research, Oceanography, Space Exploration. and Global Warming related research.

Recognize a fellow demographer (or yourself!) who has contributed to the profession. Five awards will be presented at the PAA 2027 Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington in April. Each award winner receives a check, plaque, and longstanding recognition to their innovative contributions to the field.

All nominees should exemplify the highest standards of professional conduct. See each webpage for individual nomination criteria and instructions. The deadline for nominations is Monday, December 14, 2026. 

How does our understanding of authoritarianism change when we study it through the experiences and practices of migrants, diasporas, and the actors who govern, support, or organize them? Political transformations – both towards and away from authoritarianism – are neither confined within national borders nor experienced by citizens only. This Workshop, endorsed by ECPR’s Migration and Ethnicity SG, proposes migration as a distinctive analytical lens through which to innovate the study of authoritarian transformation, collective resistance and democratic reconstruction.

A call for papers is open for the workshop “Inequality in Ageing and Health in the Context of Climate Change,” to be held March 11-12, 2027, at Otto-Friedrich-University of Bamberg in Germany. Heatwaves and extreme weather do not affect everyone equally, and age, socioeconomic status, and social support all shape who is most vulnerable. 

Demographic Research invites contributions to the Special Collection on Kinship Demography: Structures, Dynamics, and Inequalities in the journal Demographic Research, organized by Ashton Verdery, Bussarawan Puk Teerawichitchainan, Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, and Elena Maria Pojman. Submissions to this collection are possible from June 15, 2026 until December 15, 2026. Please find more information on the collection’s description and goals as well as on submission procedures here.

Organization:  City University of New York

Award amount:  $1,000 -$3,000

Description:

The Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS) was founded in 1991 as the first university-based research center in the United States dedicated to the study of historical, cultural, and political issues of vital concern to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer individuals and communities. 

Seminar—TBD with Dr. Christopher A. Julian

Thursday, January 7, 2027 at 10am EST/3pm GMT/4pm CET (Check in your time zone here)

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Call for Papers for the Special Collection “Measuring Population Health in the Era of Climate Change” in Population Health Metrics: The collection focuses on how climate change is reshaping population health and on methodological and empirical advances to measure these impacts. Submissions due February 26, 2027.

Seminar—Examining transnational families: Cross-perspectives from administrative data and statistical surveys

Thursday, March 18, 2027 at 9am EST/1pm GMT/2pm CET (Check in your time zone here)

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BMC Geriatrics is currently welcoming submissions of original research to a “War and aging” Collection. CSDE Affiliate Amy Hagopian is one of three Guest Editors for the Collection, with Rolf Kleber and Alice Aiken. If you’re interested in submitting a manuscript for the BMC Geriatrics Collection, submissions will be welcomed anytime until 30 April 2027.

The Collection welcomes original research addressing climate adaptation challenges across Africa, with particular interest in studies that provide credible scientific evidence, innovative analytical approaches, and practical solutions to support climate-resilient development. The Collection is particularly interested in interdisciplinary research involving climate science, earth observation, artificial intelligence and machine learning, socio-economic analysis, governance, indigenous knowledge, early warning systems, climate risk assessment, adaptation planning, nature-based solutions, and community-led approaches. 

Modernizing the Federal Statistical System is both urgent and achievable. Declining survey response rates, escalating costs, and increasing demands for granular, timely data have created pressure for innovation across statistical agencies. Specifically, this Article Collection will focus on the development of novel frames and estimation techniques, where novel frames include the rosters and source lists from which samples are drawn and associated approaches to data collection, and novel estimation techniques cover the emerging methodologies that may be applied to the resulting data.