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Share What You’re Reading With CACHE

Collaborate with the Center for Aging, Health & Environment (CACHE) to highlight your emerging work and ideas on disaster and weather-related health impacts on older adult! The “What Am I Reading Series?” features short reviews of emerging frameworks and literature on topics such as: climate and brain health, wildfire smoke exposure, housing and health, indoor air pollution​​​, disasters and aging in place​​ and more! If you’re interested in contributing a post, CACHE would love to hear from you at cache@colorado.edu

Call for Papers: International Conference on Social Computing 2026 (05/25/26)

The International Conference on Social Computing (ICSC 2026) welcomes submissions and participation for its in-person conference at Nuffield College, University of Oxford on September 2-4, 2026. Paper submissions are due May 25, 2026. ICSC is a long-running research conference that connects computational methods with social science to better understand human behaviour, social networks, and societal change. Held in the United Kingdom for the first time, this conference aims to bring together leading scholars and experts from around the world, thereby fostering a unique environment that promotes cross-cultural exchange and interdisciplinary collaboration. This year’s conference features single- and multi-track sessions dedicated to Digital and Computational Demography.

Core conference areas include (but are in no way limited to):

  • Digital and Computational Demography
  • Social applications of Large Language Models
  • Large-scale social media analytics and intelligence
  • Digital inclusion in the Global South
  • The Science of (Open) Science
  • Applied social computing applications in diverse areas such as health and finance

To access the conference website and to submit: https://icsc-conf.github.io/

 

Call for Abstracts: 2026 International Conference on Aging in the Americas (05/31/26)

The Call for Abstracts is now open for the 2026 International Conference on Aging in the Americas (ICAA). The conference will be held on September 24–25, 2026, in Chicago, Illinois, and will center on the theme Aging and Health in the Americas. We invite abstract submissions from emerging and early-career scholars in the social sciences, particularly those whose work focuses on Latino health and aging. Abstracts are due by May 31, 2026. All emerging scholars will also have the opportunity to participate in a mentored publication program. Submit your abstract here: https://forms.gle/oLd2RovyFZkts42G6
Questions: a.reyes@cornell.edu

*New* St Andrews–Max Planck PhD Studentship in Population, Health and Data Science (06/08/26)

The University of St Andrews and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) invites applications by June 8 from qualified and highly motivated students for a 3.5-year jointly funded PhD studentship in Population, Health and Data Science. The successful candidate will work on a project that examines the social and environmental determinants of health and socio-economic outcomes in adolescence and emerging adulthood. This project adopts a life-course approach to investigate how adverse exposures in the socio-economic environments of adolescents accumulate or act during sensitive periods to shape outcomes in young adulthood across life domains including housing, family formation, education, and health. The studentship is available from October 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter.

The research will use advanced quantitative methods to explore how both individual-level factors and structural or area-level determinants contribute to inequalities in these outcomes, including potential regional variation. The project will be part of the International Max Planck Research School for Population, Health and Data Science (IMPRS-PHDS), the Centre for Population Change & Connecting Generations, and the Max Planck – University of Helsinki Center for Social Inequalities in Population Health.