The 50th Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop is currently accepting submissions related to this year’s theme, “The Next 50 Years: Charting a Course for the Hazards and Disaster Field.” The workshop also welcomes research that focuses on other pressing hazards or disaster topics. Please visit the online submission form to offer ideas for roundtables, concurrent sessions, trainings, TED-style talks, and more. You can also learn more about the workshop here.

Applications for the Office of Global Affairs’ Global Innovation Fund are now open. This grant opportunity is intended to develop cross-college and cross-continent research collaborations, with award opportunities from $3,000 to $20,000 available to support fellowships, research projects, study abroad/away and teaching. Learn more about the various opportunities here. Applications are due January 31, 2025.

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.