The National Center for Education Research and the National Center for Special Education Research released funding announcements for three fiscal year 2024 grant competitions.

• Application packages became available on July 20, 2023.
• Letters of intent (optional but encouraged) are due August 10, 2023.
• The application deadline is September 21, 2023.

Education Research Grants (84.305A): This program seeks to expand the understanding of education programs, practices, and policies in the United States and how they are related to education outcomes for learners at all levels, including early childhood, elementary, secondary, postsecondary, and adult education. This program seeks to build high-quality evidence about what works for whom, in what context, and why. Grants support the development and validation of measurement tools, exploratory research, the development and pilot testing of new interventions, and impact studies to evaluate programs, practices, and policies. This research program invites applications across a wide range of substantive topic areas.

Special Education Research Grants (84.324A): This program seeks to expand the knowledge base and understanding of learners with or at risk for disabilities from infancy through postsecondary education. Grants support the development and validation of measurement tools, exploratory research, the development and pilot testing of new interventions, and impact studies to evaluate programs, practices, and policies. This research program invites applications across a wide range of substantive topic areas.

Research Training Programs in Special Education (84.324B): These training programs seek to prepare individuals to conduct rigorous and relevant special education and early intervention research that advances knowledge within the field and addresses issues important to education policymakers and practitioners. For FY 2024, there is one training program in special education—early career development and mentoring.

More information about the IES research programs, application process, and deadlines are available on the IES Funding Opportunities web page. IES may announce additional competitions later in 2023.

The 2023 IAPHS Conference is fast-approaching. Early bird registration has ended, but you have until 09/26/23 to late-register! The conference theme is “Gender, Sexuality, and Health Across the Life Course: Current Challenges and Opportunities for Population Health and Health Equity” and will take place in Baltimore, Maryland from October 2-5, 2023. For more conference information, click here. Current members of IAPHS receive deeply discounted rates to attend the conference. Click here to learn more about IAPHS membership.

International Migration Review is celebrating a 60th anniversary and inviting submissions that will recognize that accomplishment and scientific impact.

Evolving Models of International Migration Research

Deadline for extended absracts:  September 30, 2023.

For six decades, International Migration Review (IMR) has been internationally regarded as the principal journal in the field facilitating the study of human migration, ethnic group relations, and refugee movements. Through an interdisciplinary approach and from an international perspective, IMR provides the single most comprehensive forum devoted exclusively to analyzing and reviewing international human population movements. The journal publishes manuscripts that speak to issues of relevance across the social sciences and to wider policy and societal debates concerning international migration, as well as manuscripts that push existing understandings of international migration in new methodological, empirical, and conceptual directions.

On the occasion of the journal’s 60th anniversary, International Migration Review (IMR) invites scholars and researchers to contribute to a special issue on the multifaceted topic of international migration. The special issue seeks to provide a benchmark in international migration studies by examining extant, evolving, and emerging models of international migration research. We invite contributions that self-reflect on the state of migration research and our contributions, both realized and aspirational, as researchers, scholars, and practitioners. Papers should not only review, critique, and synthesize the existing research, but also reflect on if, how, and to what extent that research has engaged with audiences and communities across disciplines and among scholarly and geographic spaces.

To illustrate: How successful has international migration research been at communicating and sharing knowledge and evidence with diverse groups of stakeholders, including policymakers, advocates, international and non-governmental organizations, the public, and migrants themselves? To what extent and how fruitfully has migration research integrated the field’s multidisciplinary nature? How have models and methods of doing research—new and mixed methodologies, interdisciplinary teams, community-based participatory research, international collaborations, using organic/”big” data and administrative data, and more—changed over time and, more importantly, what has the benefit been for migration theory-building and knowledge? What impacts has the field had on evidence-based policy and public opinion? What has the field of international migration studies accomplished, and what new analytic goals might be pursued? To ground the questions above, we seek empirical, theoretical, and methodological papers that review, synthesize, and critically examine significant issues in international migration with a self-reflective approach. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• social, demographic, cultural, economic, political, and environmental impacts of international migration on individuals, families, communities, and societies in places of origin and destination.
• irregular migration and the changing landscapes of nationality and citizenship, particularly the erosion of human rights and civil rights for those who are not recognized by a state, such as trafficked and stateless persons, asylum seekers, and undocumented migrants.
• recent surges in refugee and asylee populations globally, and complementary pathways in protection, humanitarian assistance, and resettlement.
• international migration and public health crises, such as COVID, including epidemiological shifts, policy responses, and planning.
• impacts of climate change and environmental shifts on international migration patterns and on migrants’ health and well-being, and policy responses for climate migration.
• new understandings of transnational migrant links and networks and their importance in politics, religion, culture, family and community relationships, and the economy and remittances.
• policy responses, legal issues, and migration governance, especially the changing role of the state and new responses in regional and global migration management and policies, as well as innovations in models and modes of immigrant integration, and public opinion and attitudes.

Procedure and Timeline:

Extended abstracts of 1,250 words (~5 pages, double-spaced) due September 30, 2023. Authors must submit abstracts directly to the editor, Holly Reed.

Invitations to submit full papers will be issued by November 1, 2023.

Full papers will be due by February 1, 2024.

The special issue will be published in Fall/Winter 2024. Authors of some papers will be invited to present their work at the annual Academic and Policy Symposium hosted by the Center for Migration Studies of New York in November 2024.

Authors must submit full papers directly to International Migration Review and follow the journal’s submission guidelines and standard peer-review process.

Guest editors: Ellen Percy Kraly, Colgate University (emerita), and Cecilia Menjívar, University of California, Los Angeles.

For more information, and to submit an extended abstract, please contact the Editor-In- Chief: Holly E. Reed, hreed@cmsny.org

The CO2 Foundation is excited to announce its second funding opportunity: Extreme weather and what to do about it.

As climate change introduces new risks to all sectors at all scales, societal stability faces emergent threats. Social, economic, and cultural stability requires both long-term investment in whole-of-society emissions reduction and short-term effective responses to extreme weather threats.

The program aims to distribute $25,000-$100,000 contributions to projects focused on the following goals:

• Sharing knowledge: Educate the public about the connections between extreme weather and climate change, risks their communities face, and resilience strategies.
• Enhancing stability: Develop academic and practical approaches to enhancing organizational and political stability in the face of climate-exacerbated disasters.
• Deploying strategically: Facilitate effective responses to increasingly frequent and intense extreme weather events.

And they expect to fund these types of activities:

• Conferences: Convening diverse practitioners–including organizational decision-makers, emergency managers, scholars, scientists, elected officials, and/or concerned citizens–to share their best efforts on these issues.
• Journalism: Reporting on extreme weather impacts and future risks, training journalists to effectively convey the connections between extreme weather events and climate change, and sharing community-scale and society-wide responses.
• Scholarship: Scholarly work on the connections between climate change and extreme weather, with a focus on short-term practical application.

They will prioritize applications received before October 15, 2023 from 501(c)3 organizations or organizations with nonprofit fiscal sponsorship. Please see their Grants page for more information about their grantmaking program.

If you’d like to keep up with the new ARPA-H (Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health) and what’s happening in the domain of federal funding for health innovation, here is the link for signing up for their regular newsletter – Vitals. ARPA-H says that Vitals is the one way to stay updated on ARPA-H, learn about opportunities, and to send queries about challenges and solutions.

The Department of Defense (DoD), General Services Administration (GSA), and NASA have issued an interim rule for federal contracts that prohibits the presence or use of ByteDance applications or services, including the social networking service TikTok, by federal contractors. This interim rule applies to federal contracts awarded or modified on or after June 2, 2023.

When the FAR clause (FAR 52.204-27) is incorporated into the contract terms, this ban applies not only to equipment owned by the UW and used on the project, but also any personal devices contractors may use when carrying out the project. We highly recommend that Principal Investigators working on a federal contract with the clause inform their research teams (including students), to avoid using their personal devices for UW business pertaining to these federal contracts. This includes emails, calls, texts, viewing data, or any project-related activity performed with their personal devices.

UW systems, equipment and technology do not have the barred software or services installed. We recommend strict use of UW-owned systems, equipment and technology for any project that includes this ban.

If this poses a practical difficulty, another option to adhere to this requirement is to ask individuals who may use a personal device for the federal contract- related activity to uninstall the TikTok app (or any other ByteDance app/service) from that personal device for the duration of the contract on which they participate.

OSP and OR continue to monitor the issuance of the final rule, at which time further guidance may be provided.

CSDE’s Executive Committee is pleased to introduce four of our new UW Faculty Affiliates:

Tzu-Hsin Karen Chen – Incoming Assistant Professor, University of Washington; Donnelley Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University. Tzu-Hsin Karen Chen is an interdisciplinary data scientist and geographer interested in urbanization, changing landscape, and impacts on human health. She has developed remote sensing approaches combined with machine-learning in order to characterize forms of cities, not only at large scales but also a spatially-explicit resolution close to people’s living environment (e.g., type of housing within walking distance around homes) to understand health disparities.
Alison Fohner – Assistant Professor, Epidemiology. As an epidemiologist with multidisciplinary training in genomics, pharmaceutics, bioethics, and data science, she is passionate about identifying sources of individual variability in biomarkers and disease risk, and translating those discoveries into better therapies and population screening. The setting for her research is primarily the Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS), where she has conducted several epidemiologic investigations over the past several years, primarily focused on outcomes related to dementia and cognition. She is the PI of a K01 grant from the National Institute for Aging focused on identifying plasma proteomic biomarkers associated with cognitive decline and dementia within the CHS cohort. In addition to her work with the CHS, she partners with communities in the Yukon Kuskokwim River Delta of Alaska to evaluate the influence of diet-derived poly-unsaturated fatty acids on vitamin D levels and drug metabolism.
Kristian Jones – Assistant Professor, School of Social Work. Kristian Jones’ program of research examines how youth mentoring can be utilized to promote positive outcomes for Black youth. His current research focuses on how community-based youth mentoring programs promote social justice in the communities they serve. As a Black male scholar, Jones’ research is grounded in his passion for equity and inclusion, specifically as it relates to marginalized youth. Prior to joining the faculty at the UW School of Social Work, Jones received his PhD in social work from the University of Texas at Austin, his master’s of education in counseling from Boston University and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Albany State University in Albany, GA.
Julianne Meisner – Assistant Professor, Global Health; Assistant Professor, Epidemiology; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences; Clinical Affiliate Professor, Veterinary Medicine. Julianne Meisner is a veterinarian and epidemiologist and early-stage investigator. Her research combines her dual training to tackle complex questions surrounding human health risks at the human-animal-environment interface, largely focused on the effect of livestock keeping on human health among rural communities. Her position as a veterinarian in the School of Public Health at the University of Washington is unique, simultaneously fostering both independence and innovation in her research, and depth in her collaborative network. Her burgeoning research track is situated within both epidemiologic methods and One Health research, affording her the opportunity to bridge gaps between these two communities and identify nuances inherent to research questions at the human-animal-interface that have been previously overlooked.

These affiliates bring a wealth of knowledge and unique approaches that enhance our community of demographers and collectively advances population science. We look forward to supporting each of them as they pursue their research. You can learn more about their individual research interests by visiting their affiliate pages, linked above.

If you are interested in becoming an affiliate or you know of someone who should become one, you can invite them to do so by directing them to this page. Affiliate applications are reviewed quarterly, by CSDE’s Executive Committee.