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Glass Develops a Qualitative Framework for Operationalizing Respondent Sampling (Q-FORS)

CSDE external affiliate and former CSDE T32 Fellow Delaney Glass (University of Toronto) and co-authors developed a Qualitative Framework for Operationalizing Respondent Sampling (Q-FORS), featured in Social Science and Medicine.  Q-FORS focuses on data adequacy as the pivotal concept for determining a qualitative sample, especially with interviews and focus groups. It is a practical framework applicable across the spectrum of the research life cycle—from proposal writing and data collection to reporting—and is geared towards any researchers using qualitive methods, especially those publishing in medical and health related journals. The authors discuss the utility of this approach by providing two hypothetical case examples based on real-life studies being carried out by the co-authors.

*New* 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

*New* 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

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

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

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

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.

Xu Authors Chapter and Article on Childhood in Mid 20th Century Hong Kong and Taiwan Using Ethnographic Records and AI

SDE Affiliate Jing Xu (Anthropology) authored a chapter in a new book titled, Rethinking Childhood in Modern Chinese History. In this chapter, Xu draws on ethnographic records on Chinese children and childhood in the mid twentieth century that reflect three layers of marginality: social margins – ordinary, rural, working-class families in Hong Kong and Taiwan; historiographical margins – ethnographic materials are outside the conventional scope of ‘archival’ history on Chinese childhood; and intellectual margins – children at the periphery of these ethnographies. Xu also presents her rediscovery of a significant yet unpublished fieldnotes archive collected by the late anthropologists Arthur P. Wolf and Margery Wolf between 1958 and 1960 in the world’s first systematic, anthropological research on Han Chinese children. In a separate article, Xu draws on these fieldnotes and combines anthropological expertise and various AI technologies to analyze natural observation texts about children’s peer-interactions. Xu transformed raw fieldnotes into a text-as-data pipeline, discovered  how ethnographic close-reading and AI technologies can complement and augment each other’s value, and shed light on the similarities and differences in how machines and humans learn and make sense of morality.

UW Today Highlights Blanco’s Research on Air Pollution and Dementia

UW Today recently featured a profile of CSDE Affiliate Magali Blanco (Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences). Originally posted on DEOHS’s blog, the profile highlights Blanco’s research on how air pollution affects the brain, including her work on a mobile monitoring campaign to gather air pollution data around Seattle using a car outfitted with monitoring instruments and her contributions to a long-running study called Adult Changes in Thought that involves examining biomarkers of cognitive deficit in brains donated after end of life.

Panel on Gun Violence – Avanti Adhia and Ali Rowhani-Rahbar

We look forward to welcoming CSDE Affiliates Avanti Adhia and Ali Rowhani-Rahbar from the University of Washington on Friday, January 16 at 12:30 PM in Parrington Hall 360 and on Zoom. This seminar is co-sponsored by the Population Health Initiative. Dr. Adhia and Dr. Rowhani-Rahbar will each present research on gun violence.

Avanti Adhia (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Child, Family, and Population Health Nursing and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Washington. The goal of her interdisciplinary research is to prevent intimate partner and sexual violence by (1) understanding the causes and consequences and (2) evaluating the role of laws, policies, and interventions in reducing violence.

Ali Rowhani-Rahbar is the Bartley Dobb Professor for the Study and Prevention of Violence, Professor of Epidemiology, Professor of Pediatrics, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy & Governance, and Director of the Center for Firearm Injury Prevention at the University of Washington. His research evaluates community-based interventions, social programs, and public policies for their impact on multiple forms of violence, with particular emphasis on preventing firearm-related harm. In recognition of his contributions to firearm violence research, he was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2023 and Washington State Academy of Sciences in 2024.