The Dissertation Research Grants program supports innovative and high-quality dissertation research that addresses questions relevant to any of RSF’s priority areas: Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context; Future of Work; Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration; Immigration and Immigrant Integration; and Social, Political, and Economic Inequality. Proposed projects must be closely aligned with the funding priorities listed on the RSF website, contribute to RSF’s mission to improve social and living conditions in the U.S., and demonstrate appropriate use of relevant theory, innovative data, rigorous research methods, and measures. Applicants must be enrolled doctoral students at institutions of higher education in the U.S. or a U.S. territory, who have completed all program requirements except the dissertation. Some grants will be co-funded with The Policy Academies and the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. The proposal deadline is February 4, 2025, for funding starting in September 2025. Learn more about the Dissertation Research Grants program here.
RSF staff will discuss the Dissertation Research Grants application process at a webinar on January 7, 2025, at 2PM ET. Register for the webinar here.
Abstract submissions are now open for the 2025 Data-Intensive Research Conference. The 2025 conference theme is Understanding Health and Population Dynamics through Big Microdata. We seek submissions that use full count census data to examine health and population dynamics. We are particularly interested in projects that link persons, families, or communities across censuses or link full count data to other sources, including the creation of place-based measures or person-level linkages to external data. Review the call for proposals and submit an abstract.
Empirical evidence shows that many migrants who are seemingly well “integrated” actually do not feel at home, report more discrimination and experience a weaker sense of belonging to their residence country than seemingly less integrated migrants. The literature on the integration paradox (IP) has expanded significantly in recent years, but it still falls short on longitudinal perspectives and empirical evidence on the underlying mechanisms and scope of countries and migrant groups studied. The International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) recently announced a research workshop at Utrecht University (Netherlands) on this subject. Andreas Genoni (Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung – BiB), Nella Geurts (Radboud University) and Chloé Lavest (Utrecht University) will organize this workshop.
Learn more about this opportunity here. Abstracts are due February 1, 2025.
Call for papers: Gender & Society Special Issue — Feminist Metascience, Feminist Open Science? Pain Points and Possibilities, due by Feb 1st, 2025.
Guest Editors: Christin L. Munsch (University of Connecticut) and Daisy Verduzco Reyes (UC-Merced)
This special issue explores the relationship between feminism, metascience, and open science, seemingly disparate areas of inquiry of contemporary significance. This special issue will be a forum for feminist scholars to explore these relationships. For example:
- Why hasn’t a feminist metascience or feminist open science emerged?
- Why hasn’t metascience recognized or incorporated feminist critiques of science?
- What can theories of gender and intersectionality bring to metascience and/or open science practices? And, what might such a perspective look like? (Examples of such approaches welcome.)
- What is the relationship between transparency and oppression?
- In what ways are social justice movements aligned with the open science movement? In what ways are they contradictory?
- How might intersectional perspectives inform open science praxis to both improve research quality and challenge systemic inequalities? (Examples welcome.)
- And, how might metascientific research, broadly defined, be used to generate new theoretical insights and empirical knowledge regarding gender? (Examples welcome.)
Topics to be considered include, but are not limited to: the impact of open science on gender justice; bias and discrimination in research participation, academia, research, and publishing; experiences of marginalized groups in social science; the role of metascience in shaping inclusive research practices; feminist epistemologies including Black feminisms, Latinx feminisms, and feminisms of the global South; feminist methodology; gender and academic fraud and/or error; gender and participation in open science practices like data-sharing; reproducibility projects as gendered; research transparency as gendered; feminist research ethics; gendered public engagement; peer review; the evaluation of scientific impact; and publishing and publication bias. We welcome papers that employ quantitative and qualitative methods and perspectives, draw attention to culturally and politically distinctive struggles; incorporate power structures such as colonialisms, nationalisms, religion, ethnicity, and globalization in their analyses; or otherwise challenge hegemonic discourses and epistemologies.
All papers must make both a theoretical and empirical contribution.
Completed manuscripts, due February 1, 2025, should be submitted online to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gendsoc and should specify in the cover letter that the paper is to be considered for the special issue. Although it is not required, potential authors are encouraged to contact either of the guest editors with their ideas before submitting: Christin L. Munsch (christin.munsch@uconn.edu) or Daisy Verduzco Reyes (daisy.reyes@ucmerced.edu).
The full call is available at: https://gendersociety.wordpress.com/call-for-submissions-special-issue/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1rb2-4wM6oB_roCRRQSemdSluIgEPabVMZYRoQfCItS2b9d-oHhJBgESc_aem_ZxAzlvj1GTE0y1ZNfnsPVQ.
The NSF’s Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program reissued its call for proposals. The call invites senior research proposals, early career development proposals, research coordination network proposals, conference and research community development activities, research experiences for undergraduates and graduates, and transdisciplinary research in environmental social science. The objective of the Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences program is to support basic scientific research about the nature, causes, consequences, or evolution of the spatial dimensions of human behaviors, activities, and dynamics as well as their interactions with environmental and social processes across a range of scales. Contemporary geographical research encompasses diverse research traditions and methodologies. Recognizing the breadth of the field’s contributions to science, the HEGS program welcomes proposals for empirically grounded, theoretically engaged, methodologically rigorous, and generalizable research that advances geographical and geospatial sciences. Visit this link to learn more.
The eScience Institute’s Winter School offers the opportunity to gain literacy in topics such as Python, R, Jupyter, and reproducible environments. This is an in-person, 4-session series starting Thursday, February 6th. Learn more and apply here.
As wildfires and winter storms rage across the country, power outages are a major concern because of their far-reaching consequences. CSDE Affiliate Joan Casey was quoted in a recent NPR story about the abundant health risks that are associated with power outages. The story references several studies, including a narrative review on the relationship between power outages and community health that Dr. Casey and colleagues published in 2021. Read the full story here.
When: Friday, Jan 24, 2025 (12:30-1:30PM)
Where: 360 Parrington Hall and on Zoom (register here)
1-on-1 meetings: 223 Raitt Hall (sign up here)
We are looking forward to hosting Mark Henderson from Northeastern University on Friday, Jan. 24 in Parrington Hall 360 and on Zoom. This seminar is co-sponsored by the Population Health Initiative. In addition, there are opportunities to meet 1-1 with Dr. Henderson throughout the day. Sign up here!
This project, initiated jointly with Cai Yong (UW PhD ’05) and Anthony Garnaut, aims to develop a new approach to analyzing spatial variations in the demographic impact of China’s Great Leap Forward (1958-61) using reliable georeferenced data. Building on the insights of anthropologist G. William Skinner, we direct attention to the conflicting spatial logics of political and market hierarchies. This approach compels us to reexamine conclusions drawn from data aggregated at the level of politically defined units—provinces, prefectures, counties, and townships—even as we find that political choices made at those levels had demonstrable effects on the outcomes of the Great Leap famine.
Mark Henderson is a professor of public policy at Mills College, which merged into Northeastern University in 2022. His research applies spatial analytic methods to social and environmental problems in the United States and China. He received a PhD in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management from UC Berkeley and was a postdoctoral researcher at UC Davis, contributing to G. William Skinner’s regional systems analysis project.