It’s that time of year again. PAA has released their Call for Papers for the 2025 conference to be held April 10-13 in Washington, D.C. The submissions portal opens on August 15 and abstracts are due on Sunday, September 29, by midnight Pacific time.

Attention Trainees & Fellows! We will be facilitating our annual Extended Abstract Workshop ahead of the PAA 2025 submission deadline. This is a great opportunity to get feedback on your PAA abstract from CSDE staff scientists and faculty affiliates before you submit! You can sign up to participate here.

What is PAA? How do I write an Extended Abstract? Why should I participate in the Extended Abstract Workshop? CSDE Training Director, Jessica Godwin, will answer these questions and more during the following PAA Info Sessions for CSDE Trainees & Fellows:

• Friday, August 16 @ 10:00AM–10:30AM on Zoom
• Wednesday, August 21 @ 2:00PM–2:30PM on Zoom

CSDE Affiliates Wendy Barrington, Jeremy Hess, Ali Rowhani-Rahbar, and Michael Spencer were elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences (WSAS) in “recognition of their outstanding record of scientific and technical achievements, and their willingness to work on behalf of the Academy to bring the best available science to bear on issues within the state of Washington.” These 4 UW Professors were among the 15 from the University of Washington elected to this academy. A total of 36 scientists and educators from all over Washington were chosen.

In the most recent issue of Demographic Research, Monica Alexander interviews CSDE Affiliate Adrian Raftery on “Developing and Implementing the UN’s Probabilistic Population Projections as a Milestone for Bayesian Demography.” Every two years, the United Nations Population Division (UNPD) publishes population projections for all countries as part of the World Population Prospects (WPP). Since 2015, probabilistic population projections have been published as part of WPP.  Their approach was driven by the Bayesian statistical models developed by Professor Raftery and a team of statisticians at the University of Washington. Monica Alexander sits down with Dr. Raftery to discuss the history of the UNPD WPP probabilistic population projections, including how the project started, the methodological challenges, main takeaways and lessons, and priorities for future research. Visit this link to read the entire interview.

The Washington Post and the Seattle Times recently quoted CSDE Affiliate Gregg Colburn regarding Washington’s housing crises and rising homelessness.  In the Washington Post story, Working Americans struggle with homeless crisis amid lack of affordable housing, and the Seattle Times story, How WA governor candidates want to tackle housing, homelessness, Colburn notes how the homeless crisis has been growing across the U.S. It is the “unfortunate but predictable result of ongoing rent increases,” says Dr. Colburn. Washington State has been dealing with this issue for quite some time. Homelessness rose as rent prices soared over the past decade, along with a shortage of housing or affordable housing for those with a median income. This issue has always ranked high among issues that Washington voters want to tackle, and now there is an upcoming election for governor. An expert in housing and the state of Washington’s challenges in this area, Colburn worries that if "elected leaders don’t understand the forces driving homelessness and housing affordability, then ‘most policy prescriptions will keep us in this situation for longer.’” Colburn is Associate Professor in UW's Runstad Department of Real Estate and co-author of the book Homelessness is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns. To learn more, read the Washington Post article and the Seattle Times article.

Recently CSDE Affiliate Dr. Kam Wing Chan was interviewed by Switzerland’s largest daily newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung on China’s recent household registration reforms. An English translation is here. In July, he and former CSDE trainee Dr. Xiaxia Yang (postdoc at King’s College, London) also published a commentary in Caixin Weekly, a major economics weekly in China. In the commentary “To Stay or to Go Home? they provide estimates about the degree of settlement of China’s internal migrants by comparing migrants’ age profiles in 2010 and 2020 based on census data. Their commentary draws on an analysis published in Eurasian Geography and Economics earlier and is an extension of their research featured on CSDE website last year.

CSDE Affiliates Kathryn McConnell and Jack DeWaard co-authored articles in Nature Communications (Rare and Highly Destructive Wildfires Drive Human Migration in the U.S.) and Population Research and Policy Review (Population Change in Wildfire-Affected Areas in the United States: Evidence from U.S. Postal Service Residential Address Data). They report that wildfire impact is growing across built environments and will continue to grow due to the rising average of global temperatures. Wildfires appear to cause human migration and population change in certain U.S. areas. McConnell, DeWaard, and co-authors sought to “investigate whether and at what destruction threshold wildfires have influenced human mobility patterns by examining the migration effects of the most destructive wildfires in the contiguous U.S. between 1999 and 2020.” They also examine “the utility of data on active and vacant residential addresses to help inform local and timely monitoring and assessments of how areas impacted by wildfires and extreme weather events more broadly lose (or not) and subsequently recover (or not) their populations.” Data on addresses is provided by the U.S. Postal Service to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

CSDE Affiliates Mahesh Somashekhar, Chris Hess, Ian Kennedy, and Kyle Crowder recently published article in Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World examines how real estate owners use home security discourse to affect property values. In “How Do Real Estate Actors Advertise in Mixed-Income Neighborhoods? The Importance of Home Security,” they discuss the history and current state of housing advertisements and how it impacts U.S. neighborhoods. Historically, then real estate industry emphasized privacy and exclusion in their property listings, which helped entrench patterns of residential segregation. However, recently some neighborhoods are becoming more rather than less diverse, as indicated by the growing number of mixed-income neighborhoods. The authors sought to investigate whether this increase in diversity means that advertisers are cutting back on their “exclusionary rhetoric when marketing homes in mixed-income communities?" To answer this question, the authors analyze over one million Craigslist rental listings posted in the 100 largest U.S. metropolitan areas in July and August of 2019.

CSDE Affiliates Delaney Glass and Melanie Martin, along with CSDE Statistical Demographer and Training Director Jessica Godwin, recently published an article in the American Journal of Human Biology that examines pubertal development among girls from the Indigenous Qom community.  In “Longitudinal Analysis of Cortisol Changes During Pubertal Development in Indigenous Qom Girls” they evaluate how the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis may be critical to meeting the energetic demands of pubertal development. In the study, the authors use Bayesian modeling to examine cortisol trends across puberty and test their association with pubertal timing using longitudinal data collected from Qom females ages 7-14 as part of the Chaco Area Reproductive Ecology (CARE) Program.

CSDE Affiliate Katarina Guttmanova and co-authors recently examined the extent to which young adults with a history of substance abuse were impacted by the COVID-19 epidemic.  In their article “Young adults with a history of substance use disorder experienced more negative mental health, social and economic outcomes during the COVID‐19 pandemic period,” published in the journal Addictions, they find that pandemic-related disruptions were especially consequential for young adults with a history of substance use disorder (SUD).

CSDE Affiliate Emiko Tajima and colleagues recently published research on how the STRIVE intervention affected parenting approaches among families involved with child welfare systems.  In a pilot study of a randomized treatment intervention that emphasized supervised parent – child time, the authors find that the intervention increased parenting skills, greater parental engagement, and higher quality interactions than the control group.  You can read about the study in Children and Youth Services Review: “Strive to enhance supervised family time visits for children in foster care: Outcomes from a pilot study with randomization.”

Earlier today the U.S. Census Bureau published a Federal Register Notice (FRN) seeking feedback from the public on the timeline to implement the Office of Management and Budget’s updated Statistical Policy Directive No. 15 for Federal race and ethnicity data on the American Community Survey (ACS). The information gathered through this FRN will be taken into consideration as the U.S. Census Bureau continues to evaluate the practicability of implementing the updated race and ethnicity data standards into either the 2026 ACS or the 2027 ACS. The FRN recognizes that implementing the updated SPD 15 in the ACS as quickly as possible is essential, and indicates that based on their initial assessment, implementation in ACS data collection will be targeted for 2027, with dissemination of data products to then begin in 2028.

You may submit comments through August 12, 2024 at the Federal Register or Regulations.gov.

Institute for Education Sciences (IES) invites applications for a this new grant program for fiscal year 2025 (FY 2025) through the National Center for Education Research. Applications are due August 15, 2024. Under the Using Longitudinal Data to Support State Education Policymaking competition, NCER is inviting applications that address state agencies’ use of their state’s education longitudinal data systems to identify and reduce opportunity and achievement gaps for learners from prekindergarten through adult education. For more information about this research opportunity and the application process, visit the IES Funding Opportunities web page. IES will provide virtual office hours for this new competition.  Please see the Virtual Technical Assistance web page for additional details.

Join UW Libraries for an engaging online workshop on Web Scraping! Whether you’re a beginner or have some experience, this session is designed to equip you with the skills needed to gather valuable data from the web. Learn essential techniques for scraping web content effectively. The workshop will take place on Monday, August 19th from 11:00am – 12:00 pm online. Learn more and register on the event page.

Upcoming information sessions and workshops for the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) for 1st and 2nd year graduate students and undergraduate students in social science and STEM fields.

UPCOMING SESSIONS:

• NSF GRFP INFO SESSION, Wednesday, August 21, 4:30-5:30 PM PST. All students welcome, but undergraduate students and alumni particularly encouraged to attend. Presenter: Robin Chang, Office of Merit Scholarships, Fellowships & Awards, Undergraduate Academic Affairs and featuring UW undergrad alums recently selected. Register for 08/21/2024 session 
• NSF GRFP PERSONAL STATEMENT WRITING WORKSHOP, Wednesday, August 28, 4:30-5:30 PM PST. Register for the 08/28/2024 workshop
• NSF GRFP PERSONAL STATEMENT PEER REVIEW WORKSHOP, Wednesday, October 02, 4:30-6:00 pm PST. Register for the 10/02/2023 workshop.

With the academic community’s growing emphasis on maximizing research impact and equity through widespread dissemination, it’s crucial to understand the evolving scholarly publishing ecosystem. In this workshop, we’ll learn about the roles of publishers, the inner workings of peer review, and the mechanisms for financing scholarly communication. This workshop will occur virtually on Thursday, August 22nd from 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. Learn more and register here.

China Population and Development Studies (CPDS) is a Springer published flagship English scholarly peer-reviewed international journal and hosted by China Population and Development Research Center; CPDS addresses a broad range of topics related to population and development internationally (https://www.springer.com/journal/42379). CPDS announces a call for submissions of papers for a special issue that address “Projections/analyses of Households and Living Arrangements, and Applications in Healthy Aging and Sustainable Development Studies”.

The Ending Human Trafficking in an Era of Globalization International conference will be held on September 5th, 2024 at the University of Washington’s Intellectual House. Keynote and panel topics will cover some of the anti-human trafficking movement’s most pressing modern problems and will be conducive to policy development on the domestic and international scale. Topics will include digital & artificial intelligence in relation to human trafficking, forced migration, climate change, vulnerable populations, and healthcare. Register here.

The NYU Collaborative Center in Children’s Environmental Health Research and Translation (CEHRT) announced their fourth Pilot Project Request for Applications.

The goal of the Center is to translate existing knowledge to action on issues that affect children’s health. The themes of the Center are endocrine disruption and climate change, although we welcome proposals from other areas as well. The intent of the Center is to support the broader children’s environmental health (CEH) community — applications from NYU and outside institutions are encouraged. The Center will award developmental and translational grants, the former being smaller in size and extendable, and the latter focused on the translation of knowledge to action.

Application Process:

1. Applicants submit a 1-page Letter of Intent (LOI) by Thursday, September 12th, 2024.
2. Applicants selected to proceed into the next stage will be notified of this decision by Friday, September 20th, 2024.
3. Applicants will be invited to submit a 3-page proposal due Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024 containing additional information to that already included in the LOI

Request for Applications PDF: CEHRT Cycle 4 RFA (2)

Link to Apply: CEHRT 2025 Letter of Interest Form (nyumc.org)

Through the Transformative Research program, IES seeks to support innovative research that has the potential to make dramatic advances towards solving seemingly intractable problems and challenges in the education field and/or to accelerate the pace of conducting education research to facilitate major breakthroughs. For FY2025, the Transformative Research in the Education Sciences Grants program will focus on accelerating learning and reducing persistent education inequities by leveraging evidence-based principles from the learning sciences coupled with advanced technology to create high-reward, scalable technology solutions. Applications are due September 12, 2024. For more information about this research opportunity and the application process, visit the IES Funding Opportunities web page. IES will provide virtual office hours for this new competition.  Please see the Virtual Technical Assistance web page for additional details.

Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research, a series which focuses upon cuttingedge topics in family research around the globe, is seeking manuscript submissions for a special volume. The theme of the volume is: ‘Immigration and Families: Examining the Causes, Processes, and Consequences of Migration. The deadline for submissions is September 15, 2024. Direct all questions to the editors: Josip.obradovic@gmail.com and slblair@buffalo.edu. Authors are encouraged to submit a brief abstract prior to the manuscript deadline. See the full call for papers here.

The IUSSP International Population Conference is the world’s largest international scientific conference on population issues. First organized in 1927 and held every four years since 1959, the conference brings together over 2,000 scientists, policymakers and practitioners from around the globe to present and discuss the latest research on contemporary population and development issues.

At the invitation of the Australian Population Association, the 30th International Population Conference (IPC2025) will take place in Brisbane, Australia at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre (BCEC) from 13 to 18 July 2025. IPC 2025 will be an in-person conference. The Conference will include over 800 oral presentations and up to 1,000 posters selected from research submitted to the Call for Papers. There will also be plenary sessions, debates and invited panel discussions featuring leading experts in the field, as well as training workshops, exhibits and side meetings occurring both before and during the Conference.

The scientific program of the Conference will be created from abstracts submitted to the Call for Papers by the submission deadline of 15 September 2024. All abstracts must be submitted online via the IPC2025 website, which is scheduled to open for submissions on 1 May 2024. Always check the IPC2025 Conference website https://ipc2025.iussp.org/ for updates.

Alp-Pop brings together scholars interested in population issues across several disciplines, including demography, economics, epidemiology, political science, sociology and psychology. The conference emphasizes empirical rigor and innovation over a given topic or geographical area, and meets the challenges of interdisciplinary and international
audiences.

Alp-Pop scholars confer both formally and informally. A traditional conference program (paper and poster presentations) mixes with group activities in a world-class winter resort. The conference location, the Hotel Planibel in La Thuile (Aosta Valley), is next to the ski-slopes, and is in close proximity to the airports of Geneva and Torino/Milano.

Please submit your paper here. 

Communication of the acceptance of papers will take place by mid-October. The deadline for submission of original papers or extended abstracts is 23 September 2024.

The French Institute of Mathematics for Planet Earth and the Social and Behavioral Data Science Centre of the University of Amsterdam will be hosting its second workshop on Bayesian Methods. This three-day workshop will take place at the University of Amsterdam, on October 16-18th of 2024. The event will gather statisticians, mathematicians and social scientists around the theme of Bayesian statistical methods for the social sciences. This area has been growing rapidly in the past decade, and the speakers will include some of the leading researchers in the area from around the world. Register by September 27th. Learn more here!

It is the second edition of the workshop. The first edition was held in Paris in October 2022 and was a great success.

The first day of the workshop, 16 October 2024, will consist of introductory tutorial sessions. Days 2 and 3 will consist of talks and posters on cutting-edge research in the area.

24th Annual International Graduate Student Conference
East-West Center
Honolulu, Hawaiʻi | February 13-16, 2025

Call for Abstracts
The East-West Center International Graduate Student Conference (IGSC) is accepting abstracts from current graduate students, as well as from young professionals and scholars, who have completed a graduate degree within the past three years. One of the largest student conferences focused on the Asia Pacific region, we are looking for submissions from all fields of study. This year's theme is Our Unique Planet:  Navigating Our Shared Future.

Abstract submissions

All abstract submissions must be made through the secure Submittable online platform. The deadline to submit abstracts is September 30th, 2024, 23:59 hrs (Hawaiʻi Standard Time). Please see the conference website for Frequently Asked Questions on abstract guidelines, conference registration, and other logistics. For any other questions not covered in Frequently Asked Questions, please send your inquiry to the IGSC team at igsc@eastwestcenter.org.

The Journal of Population and Sustainability (JP&S) is an Open Access interdisciplinary journal published by The White Horse Press, exploring all aspects of the relationship between human numbers and environmental issues. The journal publishes both peer reviewed and invited material. It is intended that the JP&S act as an interdisciplinary hub facilitating collaboration and furthering the development of the field. The JP&S is editorially independent and welcomes contributions from scholars with a variety of perspectives on the role of population in environmental problems.

View Volume 8, Number 2 here

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:

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