CSDE Affiliate Theresa Rocha Beardall’s (Sociology) contributions to her field were recently recognized in two ways. First, Rocha Beardall was selected to serve as an Associate Editor for Youth & Society, a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal that focuses on issues related to the 10-24 year old population. Second,Rocha Beardall was selected as one of eleven finalists for the William T. Grant Scholars Class of 2031.

Recognize a fellow demographer (or yourself!) who has contributed to the profession. Nominations are open for the the Annual Awards of the Population Association of America and close on January 31, 2026. Awards given in 2026 include:

• Clifford C. Clogg Award for Mid-Career Achievement
• Early Achievement Award
• Mindel C. Sheps Award
• Dorothy S. Thomas Award
• Sara McLanahan Award
• Excellence in Public Service Award.

In a recent article in Identities, CSDE External Affiliate Elizabeth Korver-Glenn (University of North Carolina) examined the narrative and performative aspects of immigrant and native-born residents’ neighborhood meaning-making. The research team drew from 37 in-depth interviews to understand how immigrant and native-born Swedish people perceive immigrant neighborhoods in two Swedish cities. Most respondents perceived immigrant neighborhoods as stigmatized, and most of these respondents engaged in discursive destigmatization of immigrant neighborhoods.

CSDE Affiliate Jeremy Hess (Global Health, Emergency Medicine, EOHS) published a study in Public Health that examined the effects of heat on pregnant women’s use of health services, the health facility working environment and the impact of heat on the quality of care in Burkina Faso. Hess and co-authors conducted individual interviews and focus group discussions (FGD) with pregnant women, postpartum women, health providers and community leaders, women of reproductive age,

CSDE Affiliates Kristian Jones (Social Work) and Ali Rowhani-Rahbar (Epidemiology) recently published a study in Prevention Science that examined the components of mentorship interventions in community violence intervention (CVI) programs used to prevent firearm violence among vulnerable young people, particularly Black youth who are at high risk for firearm homicide in the USA. The research team conducted interviews with mentors and program administrators of CVI programs in Washington State to examine their insights on the components of mentoring interventions that could work towards preventing firearm violence.

CSDE Affiliate Sameer Shah (Environmental and Forest Sciences) just published an article in PLOS Water that identifies four water insecurity concerns in the U.S and proposes areas for future research. Shah synthesized public reporting and legal filings involving non-governmental organizations, citizen coalition groups, investigative reporters, and individual citizens. These concerns include how datacenters’ development and operation can (i) undermine the democratization of water governance;

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,

CSDE Affiliate Spencer Wood (Principal Research Scientist, eScience Institute) and co-authors built and tested predictive models for estimating recreational visits to parks, open spaces, and other protected lands. The models incorporated multiple sources of digital mobility data including geotagged posts to social media platforms, community science observations, and a mobile device location dataset from a commercial vendor, alongside other covariates. Using observational visitation data series from the United States’ National Park Service, Forest Service,

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,

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;