IPUMS recently announced updates to multiple data sources including IPUMS International, IPUMS USA, International Historical Geographic Information System (IHGIS) boundary files and new supplement data for the Current Population Survey (CPS). Learn more about these and other updates – and where to catch IPUMS staff at upcoming conference – by clicking this link.
The Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS) recently announced their call for abstract submissions for the 2025 Annual Meeting. The meeting theme will be “Community Engagement in Population Health Science” in recognition that solutions to health inequities and our greatest population health challenges aren’t found in the lab or a dataset, but rather within communities themselves. Learn more and submit your proposed abstract here.
The Russell Sage Foundation (RSF) will accept letters of inquiry under the core programs for Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context and Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration. The foundation will also accept LOIs for the special initiatives Immigration and Immigrant Integration and Promoting Educational Attainment and Economic Mobility among Racially, Ethnically, and Economically Diverse Groups after the 2023 Supreme Court Decision to Ban Race-Conscious Admissions at Colleges and Universities.
LOIs must include specific information about the proposed data and research design. After peer review, about 15 percent of those who submit an LOI will receive an invitation to submit a full proposal. The deadline is 2PM ET, March 11, 2025. Successful proposals from this round can have a start date on or after January 1, 2026. Learn more here.
The RWJF Health Policy Research Scholars is a leadership development program for full-time doctoral students from historically marginalized backgrounds who can connect how their background, identity, or lived experiences have positioned them to contribute to the goals of the program, including bringing unique and diverse perspectives to their research. In 2025, HPRS is selecting up to 40 doctoral students who are beginning their second year in fall 2025 in a full-time doctoral program and do not expect to graduate before spring/summer 2028. Learn more and apply here.
Today, the personal data we give in exchange for convenient tools like Gmail and Instagram provides the raw material for predictions about everything from our purchasing power to our character. Fueled by digital technologies, the infrastructure of the internet, and the rapid expansion of computer processing power, scores and metrics pervade our lives — streamlining and automating processes of communication, risk prediction, resource allocation, transaction, labor control and decision-making. In this talk, Marion Fourcade (Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley) will discuss her work with Kieran Healy that argues that the disaggregation of social activities into data streams transforms the process of capital accumulation and facilitates a deeper integration of financial logics into everyday life. It also sustains the rise of insidious forms of social competition, moral judgment, and inequality. See below for details on how to attend.
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The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) announced the seventh competition of the Leading Edge Fellowship program, which demonstrates the potential of humanistic knowledge and methods to solve problems, build organizational capacity, and advance justice and equity in society. Leading Edge Fellowships place recent humanities PhDs with nonprofit organizations promoting social justice in their communities. Fellows take on substantive roles that draw on the skills and capacities honed in the course of earning the humanities PhD, including advanced communication, research, project management, and creative problem solving.
For the purpose of the spring 2025 competition of the Leading Edge Fellowship competition, PhDs in any eligible field in the humanities or interpretive social sciences may apply. The humanities and related social sciences include but are not limited to American studies; anthropology; archaeology; art and architectural history; classics; economics; ethnic studies; film; gender studies; geography; history; languages and literatures; legal studies; linguistics; musicology; philosophy; political science; religious studies; rhetoric, communication, and media studies; sociology; and theater, dance, and performance studies. PhDs in interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary humanistic studies are welcome. This program does not accept applications from students receiving a PhD in any field of pre-professional or applied study, including in the fields of business, public policy or public administration, arts or arts education, creative writing, journalism, library sciences, law, social work, social welfare, urban planning, public health, filmmaking, and performing arts. Learn more here.
Criminal justice research relies on a range of data sources, each offering insight into crime, victimization, law enforcement, and the courts. This talk, hosted by the American Statistical Association (ASA) provides an overview of datasets used in the field, spanning national, state, and local levels. Dr. Ridgeway will discuss major federal sources, including the FBI’s Summary Reporting System (SRS), National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) as well as the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). In addition, Dr. Ridgeway will highlight city-level open data portals, which provide granular insights into local criminal justice patterns. Finally, the talk will present a few “specialty” datasets that capture critical aspects of the system, such as North Carolina’s adult conviction records, Florida court data, Pennsylvania Sentencing Commission data, and New Jersey’s use-of-force reporting. By exploring these resources, attendees will gain a deeper understanding of the strengths, limitations, and opportunities presented by modern criminal justice data.
The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) invites applications for the Summer School for Systems Modeling will take place from 7-18 July 2025 in Laxenburg, Austria.
In this summer school, IIASA provides systematic guidance on the development and use of mathematical and computer models, addressing uncertainties in data and processes, exploring solution spaces, and distilling viable options for taking policy action. Our goal is to equip you with a solid understanding of modeling practices and limitations of models.
The two-week course is designed for Master’s and PhD students, as well as post-doctoral researchers who wish to use or develop models broadly related to the sustainability agenda. It is open to newcomers but also to those who have already been exposed to modeling and would like to add depth to their experience. It is also open to systems researchers who would like to gain a better understanding of the available tools. Many examples we will discuss are taken from IIASA’s portfolio of tools and methods, ranging from ecological models, socioeconomic systems, to integrated assessment tools of energy, air, water, biodiversity, and food. Learn more here.
The Office of Research will welcome Dr. Evelynn Hammonds for “The Long Road to Equity in Research.” The lecture will take place on Monday, March 17th at 9:30am in the Walker-Ames Room of Kane Hall. Dr. Hammonds is Harvard University’s Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of History of Science, Professor of African and African American Studies & Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences in the T. Chan School of Public Health. In her lecture, Dr. Hammonds will explain how achieving equity in the scientific, technical and academic enterprises in the United States has been a long struggle. Learn more and register here.