The research community is facing a period of rapid change and uncertainty in the federal funding landscape. The university is closely monitoring changes and their potential impacts to the UW research enterprise. Information on the Office of Research’s Guidance on Federal Administration Research Policy page is updated frequently. If you are a researcher and interested in receiving updates, please subscribe to PI Federal communications (you’ll need UWNETID). The Provost’s office is also maintaining a site for all Federal Policy Updates.
Opportunities to Publish Research Policy Briefs with the Association of Population Centers
CSDE is a member of the Association of Population Centers, and through them can offer you or your colleagues the opportunity to have new or forthcoming research that you want to share with policymakers, journalists, educators, or other non-academic audiences. The Population Reference Bureau (PRB), in collaboration with APC, is working to improve the dissemination of population and reproductive health findings. If you have peer-reviewed research on population dynamics, population health, or reproductive health that you would like to share with a broader audience in an easily digestible format, APC and PRB may be able to help. To learn how, visit their website and take a look at recent research policy briefs.
*New* Assistant, Associate, or full Professor, Population Health and Health Disparities – UT Medical Branch at Galveston School of Public and Population Health (Ongoing)
Preprint Opportunities through Association of Population Centers
CSDE is a member of the Association of Population Centers and through them can offer you and your colleagues access to their preprint publishing platform. Research Scientists, Postdoctoral affiliates and faculty are invited to submit to the APCA Working Paper Series which gathers and disseminates original population science research papers. These working papers are authored or coauthored by scholars who are faculty or postdoctoral affiliates of the Association of Population Centers (APC) population centers. Working papers can also be authored by ABD student affiliates of APC population centers (CSDE Trainees that are ABD); faculty affiliates must submit the papers on student affiliates’ behalf. Papers in the series include works in progress and pre-publication versions of articles. Many of these papers will be subsequently published in journals or edited volumes.
*New* Part-Time Adjunct Faculty: Environmental Social Sciences – Evergreen State College (Ongoing)
MR 2025 Pre-Conference Webinar (6/11/25)
In the lead-up to MR2025, the Columbia Climate School’s biannual conference on topics related to mobility, adaptation, and well being in a changing climate, the conference organizers will offer this webinar to examine the complexities around managed retreat in a diverse urban context affected by a major climate disaster.
Recent fires in California raise a number of critical questions in the context of mobility and climate resilience. Should communities be rebuilding in an area that is likely to see growing fire risks? What is the role of adaptation versus managed retreat? Would managed retreat in fact exacerbate wildfire risks for remaining communities as formerly developed areas reforest? As large private insurers pull out, will over-reliance on state insurance policies transfer risk to the taxpayers? Is the ability to rebuild (or retreat) equally accessible to all, regardless of income level?
Click here to watch on June 11th at 12:00pm ET.
We bring together four panelists to discuss these issues:
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Jonathan Sury, MPH panelist and moderator, is a Senior Staff Associate at the National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP). At NCDP, he contributes to a broad disaster research portfolio, including hazards mapping, rural preparedness, mental health and psychosocial support, community coalition building, and child-focused community resilience. .
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Kristin Marcell, panelist, is director of the Climigration Network. She has more than 16 years of experience managing assistance programs that build the collaborative capacity for partners to innovate on technical, funding, outreach, leadership development, and decision-support challenges in the field of climate adaptation.
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Lily Bui, PhD, panelist, is Director of Climate & Disaster Preparedness and Resilience at SoCal Grantmakers and founding member of the L.A. Wildfire Recovery Funders Collaborative, an emergent cross-sector coalition of local recovery philanthropic fund managers, government agencies, academia, and nonprofit partners responding to the devastating January 2025 wildfires in Southern California.
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Lisa Dale, PhD, panelist, is the Director of the MA in Climate and Society program at the Columbia Climate School. Trained as a political scientist, her research on environmental policy focuses on climate change adaptation in two distinct settings: rural agricultural communities in Sub-Saharan Africa, and wildfire risk zones across the American West.
*New* Call for Manuscripts – Zero Poverty World: Minimum Income Protections Across the Globe (6/15/25)
The notion that every person living amidst the relative affluence has a right to a minimum income enabling social participation, be it frugally and soberly, holds as a fundamental matter of social justice to most people. These questions have occupied social policy scholars for decades. Many of these issues still have open questions. Is there a viable way forward towards minimum income provisions that protect against poverty? What can the role be of public services and in-kind benefits? What can we expect from the breathtaking advances in timely administrative data, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in terms of reducing non-take-up and expediting benefit payments? What is the (remaining) role for social workers and how much discretionary power should they have? What is the impact of migration on minimum income schemes and political support for such schemes?
ESPAnet (European Network for Social Policy Analysis) and AIPRIL (the Antwerp Interdisciplinary Platform for Research into Inequality) are organizing a workshop to take stock where we stand in the field of minimum income support across the globe and how we can move forward. To apply, send an abstract of up to 500 words by 15 June 2025 to ninke.mussche@uantwerpen.be, mentioning ‘Espanet/ AIPRIL Workshop’ as the subject.
We are open to a wide range of papers relating to minimum income protection (also for workers). We particularly welcome contributions drawing on rigorous qualitative and/or quantitative evidence. We will not require finalized papers but a first draft is essential if we want to have a substantive and fruitful discussion.
You will also have the chance of course to present your paper.
Two lunches and one dinner will be provided to presenters, but travel and accommodation are at your own expense.
Provisional schedule
| First day: Tuesday 16 September | Second day: Wednesday 17 September | |
| 9:00 | Minimum income protection: where do we stand? (Sarah Marchal, Ive Marx, Julia Shu-Huah Wang) | Keynote: Kenneth Nelson (University of Oxford) |
| 10:00 | Session 4 | |
| 11:00 | Session 1 | |
| 12:00 | Wrap-up and general discussion | |
| 13:00 | Lunch | Lunch |
| 14:00 | Keynote Marcello Natili (University of Milan) | |
| 15:00 | Session 2 | |
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| 17:00 | Session 3 | |
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| 19:00 | Dinner | |
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Call for Proposals: Leveraging Partnerships with Governmental Agencies to Advance Prevention Science, Policy, and Practice (6/15/25)
Executive Director – Research Scholar, Center for Policing Equity-Yale Lab (Ongoing)
CACHE Issues Call for Seed Grant Proposals (6/20/25)
The Center for Aging, Climate, and Health (CACHE) recently announced seed funding for projects integrating social and environmental data to examine the intersections of aging, climate, and health. CACHE anticipates making 2-3 awards of $20,000 and several smaller awards at $7,500. The deadline to apply is June 20, 2025. Learn more and apply here.