The NIH will host a virtual workshop on June 6th, 7th, and 11th. This workshop will bring together diverse perspectives from multiple disciplines to explore advantages, barriers, gaps, and opportunities in the future of scientific conferencing for the behavioral and social sciences. The workshop will incorporate innovative evidence-informed approaches to showcase the potential of a virtual platform for learning, networking, and participant engagement. See the full agenda and register here.
Schedule:
Workshop Day 1: Thursday, June 6, 12:00–5:00 p.m. ET
Engagement Day: Friday, June 7, 12:00–3:00 p.m. ET
Workshop Day 2: Tuesday, June 11, 12:00–5:00 p.m. ET
Agenda Now Available: https://www.labroots.com/ms/virtual-event/future-scientific-conferencing/agenda-pdf
The overarching aims are to:
- Facilitate interdisciplinary communication and networking.
- Identify crosscutting scientific gaps regarding the role of behavioral and social science factors in scientific convenings.
- Inform practical strategies for designing effective, engaging, and sustainable scientific conferences and meetings.
Areas of focus include:
- Technological innovations that enable virtual and hybrid approaches
- The impact of these approaches on diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, and belonging (DEIAB) of participants and attendees
- Environmental sustainability
Engagement day (June 7, 12:00–3:00 p.m. ET) includes several activities designed to promote networking and connection, from live poster presentations and Q&A sessions to 1:1 networking opportunities and multiple small group breakout discussions, led by workshop speakers and NIH staff.
CSDE Affiliate Kim Korinek (Sociology, University of Utah) released an article with colleagues in Innovation in Aging, titled “War-related Life Course Stress and Late Life Subjective Age in Northern Vietnam“. The role of early life stressors in subjective aging is weakly understood, especially in low- to middle-income countries. This paper investigated how early life stressors encountered in armed conflict influence subjective age among Vietnamese older adults who experienced war over decades of their early life. Results suggest wartime stressors, especially war’s malevolent environments and severe childhood hunger, experienced in many conflict-affected populations globally, have the potential to subjectively ‘age’ survivors. Yet, not all war exposures are equal, and some may yield psychological and socioeconomic resources that support healthy aging.
CSDE Affiliate Scott Allard (Public Policy & Governance) was quoted in an article by Northwest Public Broadcasting about mailed ballot rejections in Mason County, WA. Despite concerns that the county’s ballot rejections are rising, Allard points to his team’s research which shows that the county’s rejection rate is around the same or below the state average of 1%. Allard discusses various factors that might affect rejection rates such as voters’ unfamiliarity with envelope design, signature issues, and the type of election. Read more in the full article by Lauren Gallup. The article also contains an audio version of the story for listening.
The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) will host workshop on September 3rd in Exeter, United Kingdom as a satellite session of the Conference on Complex Systems. The aim of this satellite session is to bring together researchers from different fields and practitioners from around the world to facilitate a conversation on the use of innovative digital data sources, new methodologies, empirical findings, and critical challenges of studying migration and mobility in the digital era. Organizers welcome submissions of abstracts on ongoing or published work that fit the topics of the event. Authors must submit abstracts by June 10th. Read about the topic and other details here.
Summary: The recent availability of massive amounts of digital data have profoundly revolutionized research on migration and mobility, enabling scientists to quantitatively study individual and collective mobility patterns at different granularities as generated by human activities in their daily life. Harnessing such digital data offers many new opportunities to study migration and mobility and fill in the gaps left by traditional data. At the same time, such innovative data sources also come with several limitations, biases, and challenges, which have led to diverging research methodologies and frameworks, requiring even greater effort in their operationalization and communication to stakeholders and policy makers.
CSDE Affiliates Ann Bostrom (Public Policy & Governance) and Nicole Errett (Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences) co-authored new research in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, titled “Coastal emergency managers’ risk perception and decision making for the Tonga distant tsunami“. This article was lead-authored by Ashley Moore, a PhD student in Environmental Health Sciences, and involved several other UW trainees including recent postdoctoral scholar Cassandra Jean (Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences) and master’s student Matias Korfmacher (Public Health, Urban Planning). This study looked at coastal emergency managers’ risk perception and communications surrounding the distant tsunami caused by the 2022 Tonga volcano eruption. While emergency managers perceived tsunami risk to be low, they took precautionary measures and alerted the public. Study findings show that their actions were driven by community characteristics and anticipated reactions, in addition to unique aspects of the tsunami risk.
This funding opportunity announcement invites research projects that seek to explain the underlying mechanisms, processes, and trajectories of social relationships and how these factors affect outcomes in human health, illness, recovery, and overall wellbeing. Types of projects submitted under this FOA include studies that prospectively assign human participants to conditions (i.e., experimentally manipulate independent variables) and that assess biomedical and/or behavioral outcomes in humans to understand fundamental aspects of phenomena related to social connectedness and isolation. NIH considers such studies as Basic Experimental Studies with Humans (BESH) that are prospective basic science studies involving human participants that meet the NIH definition of basic research and fall within the NIH definition of clinical trials (see, e.g., NOT-OD-19-024). Applications should not propose a goal of clinical outcomes or products.
The link to the call is here.
The Russell Sage Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation seeks to support research on the effects of race, citizenship, legal status and politics, political culture, and public policy on outcomes for immigrants to the U.S. and for the U.S.-born of different racial and ethnic groups and generations. This initiative is part of RSF’s Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration Program which invites proposals on a broader set of issues. Funds can support research assistance, data acquisition, data analysis, and investigator time. Letters of Inquiry are due on June 24th. See more details on the grant here.
CSDE Affiliate Carmen Gonzalez (Communication) co-authored an article in the Journal of Rural and Community Development, titled “Community-Identified Approaches to Improve Access to Telehealth in Rural Communities“. Despite a rapid growth in telehealth adoption in recent years, rural and remote communities still struggle with adoption. To address this issue, authors explored community-identified approaches to improving telehealth access in rural Washington State. Participants described a variety of solutions, prioritizing those that involved training/awareness efforts and healthcare systems engagement. The study’s findings provide insight into potential interventions to improve telehealth access in rural communities, considering their potential impact, feasibility, and cost.
Join us for CSDE’s annual closing reception on Friday May 31st at 12:30PM! We’ll present Demographic Methods Certificates and celebrate the end of a successful academic year. Please join us in recognizing all of these accomplishments! Every member of the CSDE community plays an important role in our broader research network and training program.
We will also select winners of the punch-card raffle!