CSDE Science Core – Upcoming Workshops
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. Students, faculty, and staff are all welcome to register for our workshops and we welcome registrants from outside the University of Washington for our remote workshops as well.
You can find our workshop website and register for our Winter 2026 workshops in the links below. We will be filling in our schedule for Spring workshops soon, so stay tuned!
Please reach out to CSDE if you have additional workshops you would like to see offered in the future and we will do our best to accommodate those requests.
Winter Workshops
- Survey Methods I: Online Survey Design & Administration with REDCap
- Date & Time: Thursdays Jan 20 and 22 @ 10:00AM–12:00PM
- Instructors: Matt Dunbar & Paul Litwin
- Survey Methods II: Statistical Analysis of Surveys in R
- Date & Time: Tuesday Jan 27 @ 10:00AM–12:00PM
- Instructors: Jessica Godwin
- Biomarker Lab Methods I: Immunoassay Principles
- Date: Tuesday, Jan 27 @ 3:00PM-4:00PM
- Instructor: Tiffany Pan
- Biomarker Lab Methods II: Hands-on Lab Work
- Date: Thursday, Jan 29 @ 12:00PM-4:00PM
- Instructor: Tiffany Pan
- The Northwest Federal Statistical Research Data Center: Enabling Access to Confidential, Unpublished Data from Federal Agencies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
- Probabilistic Population Projections II: Practice
- Date & Time: Thursday, Feb 26 @ 9:00AM–10:30AM
- Instructor: Hana Ševčíková
*New* Computational Demography Working Group (CDWG): Dennis Feehan (01/21/26)
CSSS Seminar: Laura Dwyer-Lindgren on “Estimating Place-Based and Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Life Expectancy and Cause-Specific Mortality in the US” (01/21/26)
Lindberg Publishes Article on Adolescents’ and Young Adults’ Receipt of Person-centered Contraceptive Counseling
CSDE External Affiliate Laura Lindberg (Rutgers) recently published an article in JAMA Network Open on adolescents’ and young adults’ receipt of person-centered contraceptive counseling (PCCC). Lindberg and co-authors drew on US population-based data on self-identified female respondents from the 2022 to 2023 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG). PCCC was low across all age groups. Adolescents (aged 15 to 19 years) were less likely to receive PCCC than adults aged 25 years and older, but adolescents who did receive PCCC reported higher rates of preferred method use. They also addressed limits in this newest NSFG data, which can not be pooled with prior cycles of the survey.
*New* CSDE Computational Demography Working Group (CDWG): Kentaro Hoffman (01/28/26)
Assistant or Associate Professor of Rural Sociology – Penn State (01/20/26)
CSSS Seminar: Jevin West on “Epistemic Diversity Across Language Models Mitigates Knowledge Collapse” (01/28/26)
CSSCR Workshop Offerings Winter Quarter 2026
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.
Introduction to Python
- Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2026
- Time: 10:30am – 11:50am
Efficient R Programming: Working with Many Columns, Functions, and Models
- Date: Thursday, January 22, 2026
- Time: 12:00pm – 1:20pm
Geospatial Analysis in Python
- Date: Monday, February 2, 2026
- Time: 2:00pm – 3:20pm
Introduction to Thematic Analysis in Atlas.ti
- Time: 3:00pm – 4:20pm
- Location: Savery 121 (Small Lab)
Introduction to STATA 13
- Date: Friday, February 6, 2026
- Time: 9:00am – 10:20am
Data Wrangling in R
- Date: Friday, February 6, 2026
- Time: 2:30pm – 3:50pm
Machine Learning Methods for Supervised Single-Label and Multi-Label Classification
- Date: Thursday, February 12, 2026
- Time: 1:00pm – 2:20pm
FemQuant Launches Spring Seminar Series
FemQuant is a network of researchers whose goal is to explore the use of feminist theory in current quantitive, empirical research across the social sciences, including sociology, economics, demography, social policy, psychology, health and international relations. They are hosting a monthly seminar series via zoom with scholars from around the world. The program of online FemQuant events for the coming term is now available, with FemQuant’s first event of the new year taking place next week on January 14. As always, all FemQuant events are free, online and open to all, but registration is required.
January – Research Seminar – Wednesday 14 January 2026
8-9:00 (EST) / 13-14:00 (GMT) / 14-15:00 (CET) (Check time in your time zone)Outsider Orbit: Segmentation of Employment Trajectories and Feminisation of Outsiders in South Korea
Dr. Hyojin Seo, King’s College London
- Sign-up here to receive the Zoom link on the day.
This paper investigates the labour market segmentation patterns based on employment trajectories using group-based multi-trajectory modelling on Korean Labor & Income Panel Study data. We find clear evidence of a segmented labour market, where outsiders have distinct employment trajectories from insiders, and women’s overrepresentation in outsider trajectories. Furthermore, outsiders are trapped in an ‘outsider orbit’, indicating a structural barrier that limits women to outsider jobs in Korea.
Hyojin Seo is a gender and labour market researcher, with expertise on gendered precarity and the role of institutions shaping gendered labour market patterns in Europe and East Asia. She is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at King’s College London, having recently been granted a Leverhulme Trust Fellowship to investigate gendered experience of precarity in workers’ long-term career amid digitalisation in the UK and South Korea.
February – Research Seminar – Thursday 12 February 2026
10-11:00 (EST) / 15-16:00 (GMT) / 16-17:00 (CET) (Check time in your time zone)Deroutinization of Labor and Second Birth in West Germany: The Moderating Role of Childcare
Dr. Honorata Bogusz, University of Warsaw
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Further details to be announced soon.
Honorata Bogusz is an empirical economist and demographer employed in the Interdisciplinary Centre for Labour Market and Family Dynamics (LabFam), Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw. Her research interests lie in inequalities related to labor, gender, family, and LGBTQ+ issues.
March – Conversation – Tuesday 3 March 2026
10-11:00 (EST) / 15-16:00 (GMT) / 16-17:00 (CET) (Check time in your time zone)A Conversation with FemDem: The Feminist Demography Collective
- Sign-up here to receive the Zoom link on the day.
This event is an opportunity to be in conversation with folks from the FemDem collective, hear about their plans, and chat about the future of feminist demographic research.
The Feminist Demography Collective is a group of scholars that seeks to advance the field of demography by critically assessing the historical roots of the field, pushing rigorous research informed by feminist theories, and demanding accountable research practices that are human- and community-centered.
May – Research Seminar
Chae Eun Kim, Cornell University
Further details to be announced soon.
June – Panel – Tuesday 23 June 2026
10 -11:00 (EDT) / 15-16:00 (BST) / 16-17:00 (CEST) (Check in your time zone)Panel: Navigating the Peer Review Process with Queer/Feminist Quantitative Work Dr. Ridhi Kashyap, Dr. Rin Reczek, & Dr. Wendy Manning
- Sign-up here to receive the Zoom link on the day.
In this panel, we will have a moderated discussion about the peer review processes with three scholars who have insights from perspectives as an editor, author, and reviewer of feminist/queer quantitative work. We will be collecting questions from audience members in the registration form and doing live Q&A during the event.
Ridhi Kashyap is Professor of Demography & Computational Social Science at University of Oxford, Rin Reczek is Professor of Sociology at The Ohio State University, and Wendy Manning is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Bowling Green State University.