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*New* Opportunity for Funding from the Charter School Research Collaborative (Due 4/17/24)

The MIT Blueprint Labs Charter School Research Collaborative is now accepting research proposals. The Collaborative aims to make charter research more actionable, rigorous, and efficient. Blueprint will fund proposals that develop, pilot, and conduct high-quality charter school research on long-term effects, charter school practices, non-test score outcomes, authorizing practices, and more. Proposals may be of various sizes, with grants ranging from $10,000 to $500,000 based on research scope and stage. Blueprint prioritizes funding projects that address policy-relevant questions, propose a rigorous research design, are conducted in partnership with practitioners or policymakers, and align with the research agenda. Apply here by April 17, 2024.

*New* Call for Contributions: Inaugural Conference of the National Sustainability Society (Due 4/20/24)

The new National Sustainability Society is a multi-sector initiative that aims to support the growing field of sustainability, including representatives from universities and the private, public, and non-profit sectors. They are excited to announce the call for contributions for the inaugural meeting of the society on the UW Seattle campus between Sept. 9-12. This first national conference will showcase work that advances sustainability innovation, closes the implementation gap, and supports workforce development at all levels. Learn more about the conference and submit your contribution here. 

 

ARPA-H Hits the Ground Running with Sprint for Women’s Health (Opportunities to be announced)

As the first major deliverable of the White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) announced the ARPA-H Sprint for Women’s Health, which commits $100 million towards transformative research and development in women’s health. ARPA-H will seek funding proposals with revolutionary, evidence-based ideas from a diverse mix of scientific visionaries to improve the lives of millions of women. Awardees will develop unconventional approaches and innovative new avenues to push high-impact biomedical research forward. Awardees and potential additional funding opportunities will be announced later in the year.

 

Registration Now Open for ICPSR’s Summer Program (sessions available May-Aug. 2024)

Registration for the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods is now open for their topical workshops and general session. Their general sessions run from June 10-July 5, and from July 8-August 2. Topical Workshops cover a single subject and run for either 20 or 40 hours in just three, five, or ten days, and run from May through August. Sessions and workshops are available online and in-person at the University of Michigan. Learn more and register for the program here. ICPSR also offers scholarships, with a deadline of Feb. 26th. See info on scholarships here and on the ICPSR website.

*New* CSSS Seminar – Gender, Deliberation, and Natural Resource Governance: Experimental Evidence from Malawi (3/27/24)

Please join us for our first speaker of Spring Quarter in the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences Seminar Series. Wednesday, March 27 at 12:30pm, Amanda Clayton, Assistant Professor in the Travers Department of Political Science at UC Berkeley, and CSSS alumni, will give a seminar titled: Gender, Deliberation, and Natural Resource Governance: Experimental Evidence from Malawi. This seminar will be offered as a hybrid session from 12:30-1:30 in Savery 409 and on Zoom. Please find the abstract and information about joining on the event page. If you’d like to meet with Amanda outside the CSSS seminar, please sign up for a slot HERE.

*New* CSDE Computational Demography Working Group (CDWG) Hosts First Meeting of the Quarter with Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) (3/27/24)

On March 27th from 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM PST/5:00 PM – 6:00 PM CET, the Computational Demography Working Group will host the first meeting of the Spring quarter. The Spring CDWG meetings will be co-hosted with the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR). Researchers from both institutions will meet via Zoom to learn data, methods, and applications of demographic and social science research together. In the first session, we will introduce the speakers and audience, and discuss expectations from the sessions. The meeting will be held hybrid on the UW campus with light breakfast (coffee and pastries) provided. CDWG Will be Hybrid in the Spring Quarter of 2024. You can register for Zoom here or attend in-person in Raitt 223 (The Demography lab).

Toward a Sociology of Indigenous Placemaking: New Chapter by Rocha Beardall

CSDE Affiliate Theresa Rocha Beardall authored a chapter, titled “Toward a sociology of Indigenous placemaking” in the edited volume New Approaches to Inequality Research with Youth. This chapter shares the concept of Indigenous placemaking to counter the erasure of Indigenous knowledge and experiences from sociological study. Drawing from the work of several Indigenous Studies scholars and thinkers, Rocha Beardall defines Indigenous placemaking in three parts. By foregrounding Indigenous perspectives in sociological research, Indigenous placemaking illustrates that sociality is place-based, lived experiences must be centered, and that land is and always will be a mode of relationality. Sociological research can learn to better analyze how place matters, not only for its geography but as part of a dynamic social space defined by Indigenous relationality and imbued with the possibility for interdependent futures.