Grandmothers Against Gun Violence Foundation Grants for Emerging Researchers (4/7/25)
Freedom & Justice Conference (4/1/25)
The Association for Economic Research of Indigenous Peoples (AERIP), the American Society of Hispanic Economists (ASHE), and the National Economic Association (NEA) invite paper submissions for the 9th annual Freedom and Justice summer conference July 31-August 2, 2025 in Puerto Rico. The Freedom and Justice Conference is an interdisciplinary social justice conference that attracts a small group of scholars dedicated to discussing pressing economic problems and their solutions for communities of color. They are especially interested in paper submissions that address the following topics, including those that have an intersectional analysis (examples below):
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- Cooperative Economics
- Health disparities
- Racial wealth inequality
- Social movements for economic justice, independence, and equal rights
Public Health Practice and Epi Seminar (4/1/25)
On April 1st, the UW School of Public Health will host a talk from Dr. Claudia Gross Shader entitled “Addressing Places in Seattle Where Overdoses and Crime are Concentrated: An Evidence-Based Approach.”
Dr. Gross Shader is the Research and Evaluation Director for the City of Seattle’s Office of the City Auditor. In her role, Dr. Gross Shader authors reports for City leaders regarding public safety, unsheltered homelessness, and substance use disorder, manages City Council-funded projects with university research partners to conduct rigorous evaluations of City ordinances and programs, and serves as the City’s research liaison on federally-funded public safety evaluations. Dr. Gross Shader has worked for the City of Seattle since 1993 and has been with the Office of City Auditor since 2002. She has a Master’s degree in Public Administration and a Ph.D. in Criminology.
Population Health Initiative Announces Tier 3 Grant Opportunity (4/1/25)
The UW Population Health Initiative (PHI) has released their call for Tier 3 grant applications. The purpose of this tier of grant is to support faculty and PI-eligible staff to create follow-on opportunities for impactful projects that have developed preliminary data or realized proof-of-concept, and are seeking to scale their efforts and/or expand the scope of their work. The Initiative is seeking applications from interdisciplinary project teams with awards of up to $150,000 per project – or $200,000 per project for teams proposing meaningful partnerships with community-based organizations. Learn more here.
Huo Family Foundation Grants on Effects of Digital Technology in Children (4/2/25)
There has been a broad array of research efforts to measure the amount of usage of digital technology (e.g. total screen time) and the observed effects and impact on health. Despite these efforts, the full implications – both positive and negative – on human physiology, psychology, behaviour, well-being and mental health remain unclear. To address this gap, the Huo Family Foundation invites applications for special projects on “The Effects of the Usage of Digital Technology on Brain Development, Social Behaviours and Mental Health in Children and Young People.”
These larger and longer-term research awards would allow researchers of all career stages, collaborating as a multi-disciplinary team with different expertise and skills, to take an integrated approach to tackle the more difficult questions in this domain. Proposals should be tackling key questions within the broad topic of the effects of usage of and exposure to digital technologies on brain development and function (including physiological responses), social behaviour and interactions, and mental health of children and young people.
Awarded research grants in this area can be held at colleges, universities and research institutes in the UK and in the US.
OR Internal deadline: 4/2/2025
OSP deadline: 5/14/2025
Sponsor deadline: 5/23/25
Learn more here.
RSF Call for Proposals from Early-Career Scholars – Causal Research on Criminal Justice System (Due 4/3/25)
The Russell Sage Foundation (RSF) and Arnold Ventures recently announced a collaborative call for causal research on the criminal justice system. Criminal justice policies and practices include the work of the police, courts, jails, prisons, probation and parole, and immigration detention. Proposals must include causal research designs that can reliably isolate the treatment effects of a policy, practice, or intervention such as difference-in-differences, regression discontinuity, instrumental variables, and randomized controlled trials.
To be eligible, applicants must be tenure-track assistant professors at a college or university in the U.S. at the start of the grant period. The maximum grant is $100,000. RSF staff will discuss the Causal Research on Criminal Justice System Grants competition application process at a webinar on March 4, 2025, at 2PM ET. Register for the webinar here.
Social Networks & Health 2025 Fellows Application Open (4/4/25)
The NICHD Sponsored Social Networks and Health methods workshop is a week-long workshop aimed at introducing attendees to topics in social network analysis and how they can be applied to research on health and health policy. We alternate foundational and advanced topics annually; this is an “advanced topics” year, so we assume basic knowledge of networks and network methods. The advanced workshop is intended to push the boundaries of what we know and how we do network analysis in support of health research. As such, we leave a lot of time open for questions, discussions & substantive break-outs.
The workshop topics include:
- Network data collection
- Large-scale implementations
- Respondent-driven sampling (RDS)
- Ego-network data collection methods
- Ethical/IRB considerations for network data collection
- Network interventions
- Design & effectiveness considerations
- Experiments
- Diffusion models
- Disease diffusion models
- Peer influence
- Statistical modeling of networks
- Exponential random graph models (ERGM)
- Stochastic Actor-Oriented Models (SAOM, or Siena models)
- Simulations
- Network measures and description
- Community detection
- Block Models
- Network Visualization & publication/review
- And more!
Thanks to generous support from the NICHD and DNAC, we offer this training at significantly subsidized cost; registration is $100 for the week and covers lunch & coffee each day. We will send information for general registration shortly.
We have funding to cover a limited number “SN&H Fellows.” Fellowships cover the full cost of attending the workshop, including registration, travel to/from the workshop, and hotel stay for the week. In addition, pending funding continuation, we provide support for Fellows throughout the year to help guide research projects, including limited support for additional training and working with mentors.
To apply for a fellowship, please send a CV along with a short (~1 page) summary of your research project and why the workshop would be valuable by email to jmoody77@duke.edu with the subject line “SN&H 25 Fellowship” by April 4. Priority will be given to junior scholars (graduate students, post-docs, and assistant professors) and those with NIH-supported training grants (K-awards and similar), our funding source limits us to funding only US Citizens and domestic travel.
For those interested in online guided tutorials, please check out our catalog of free training videos on the DNAC training site.
Welcome back to Spring Quarter 2025!
Despite all that is going on, one routine remains – CSDE SEMINAR! Join us for collegiality to boost your mood and some super stimuli for your brain! Here is a link to our seminar schedule.
Our first week of the seminar will include PAA presentations by CSDE Trainees. Please join us for their presentations to offer them encouragement and constructive feedback. They would REALLY appreciate your presence. Of all the presentations this spring, this is one to attend. The following week is the PAA and there will be no seminar on April 11.
Starting April 18, CSDE welcomes Dr. Daniel Parker (UC Irvine) for a talk on tracking conflict and cholera from space. Should be fascinating technically and substantively! Then, Dr. Lake Lui (National University of Taiwan) will speak about the re-institutionalization of marriage among young people in Taiwan. Dr. Lake’s visit is possible through a collaboration with the East Asia Center and the Skinner Fund on a workshop focused on “The Ultra-Low Birth Rate in East Asia: Crisis Discourses and Collaborative Responses.” On May 2nd, Dr. Christy Erving (U Texas) will join CSDE to present on life course dynamics of gendered racisms and US black women’s health. On May 9, Dr. Ann Chih Lin (U of Michigan) will present their work on how states might select immigrants and reshape immigration reform. Dr. Natasha Iskander (NYU) will join CSDE on May 23 to discuss a new model for temporary worker migration as instantiated in the Qatar case. On May 30, Dr. Holly Hummer (UBC and CSDE Visiting Affiliate) will present on “Paradoxes of Childlessness in Two Divergent Family Contexts.” Then, mark your calendars on June 6 when wel close out the year with a celebration of our trainees and their accomplishments!