UW Center for Human Rights Student Research Funds (03/19/26)
Doing human rights research or projects? We have funding for you! Every year the UW Center for Human Rights funds students doing human rights research and projects, promoting research in service of real-world social change. Our funds are open to students from all three UW campuses, regardless of U.S. residency status. The application cycle is open February 9 – March 19, 2026.
Abe Osheroff & Gunnel Clark Endowed Fund
- Undergraduate & graduate students, up to $5,000 available
- Supports projects that promote social change through direct action
Dr. Lisa Sable Brown Endowed Fund
- Graduate students, up to $2,100 available
- Supports research on abolition of modern day slavery in its many forms
Peter Mack & Jamie Mayerfeld Endowed Fund
- Graduate students, up to $4,300 available
- Supports studies & research about human rights
Join us for an upcoming info session:
- Wed, Feb 11, 3-4 p.m., VIRTUAL
- Thurs, Feb 26, 3-4 p.m., VIRTUAL
- Mon, Mar 9, 10-11 a.m., VIRTUAL
United States-Japan Foundation (03/27/26)
Organization: United States-Japan Foundation
Award amount: Undisclosed
Sponsor deadline:
- First quarter Letter of Inquiry (LOI) deadline: Friday, March 27
- Second quarter LOI deadline: Friday, June 26
- Third quarter LOI deadline: Friday, September 25
- Fourth quarter LOI deadline: Friday, December 18
Description: Through its grants program, the United States-Japan Foundation empowers the community to illuminate and confront shared challenges and seek ways where the U.S. and Japan can work together to address problems in each country, in the region, and around the world.
In an era characterized by uncertainty and division, The U.S.-Japan Foundation believes that a robust U.S.-Japan relationship is vital to global peace, prosperity, stability, and sustainability in the 21st century. It is committed not just to maintaining that friendship but empowering it for greater good: helping each other address problems and jointly extending that support to friends in the region and around the world. A core part of its strategy is to bolster civil society in each country, bringing together talent and resources to create a thriving community.
Eligibility:
Faculty & PIs
Postdoctoral Research Associate, “Big Data for Cardio-Oncology” – Queen Mary University of London (02/24/26)
Postdoctoral Fellow, MDI / ISIM – Georgetown University (02/28/26)
European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) 2026-2027 (03/27/26)
Russell Sage Foundation -Causal Research on the Criminal Justice System for Early-Career Scholars (04/01/26)
Web Scraping for Research: Legal, Ethical, Institutional, and Scientific Considerations (02/24/26)
The Population Reference Bureau Can Help Publicize Your CSDE-Related Research
Graduate students and affiliates, CSDE encourages you to highlight your research through our partnership with the Population Reference Bureau (PRB) and its Center for Public Information on Population Research. The topics are varied and the briefs are short. You can see recent examples of their write-ups in this story (click read more). To get promising articles (published or forthcoming) in the queue, email mmather@prb.org and copy csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu. Researchers can also submit items using an online form, but email is fastest and simplest. PRB drafts the summaries and sends them to researchers for approval. However, here is a guide for writing a research brief for those who are interested in writing briefs themselves.
- Why Americans Are Delaying Parenthood: Four studies offer new insights on the decision to have kids in a low birth rate era.
- Childhood Adversity Casts a Long Shadow on the Health of LGBTQ+ Youth: New data on adverse experiences and gender identity reveal troubling disparities among U.S. high schoolers
- Which Investment Offers a 60-Fold Return? Food Stamps: For the youngest Americans, $1 of SNAP payments generates $62+ in economic and health benefits.
- Families With Nonstandard Work Schedules Face ‘Pattern of Disadvantage’: Mothers with less education are more likely to work jobs that fall outside the typical 9-to-5 schedule. This can have negative effects on their children’s behavior and development.
- Homelessness Is Hard on Health. Unsheltered Homelessness Is Worse—and It’s on the Rise: More Americans are sleeping in places not meant for human habitation, putting them at risk for chronic disease, mental health and substance use issues, and early death.
- For Homeless Youth, Is Poor Health Just a Matter of Time?: A new study finds that the longer young adults spend unsheltered, the more likely they are to report poor health outcomes.
- Wildfires Devastated Their Communities. Will Californians Stay Put?: Recent research about migration patterns after the most destructive wildfires may help us predict what happens next.
- In the Battle for Time, Exercise Beats Sleep for American Adults: Parents get less sleep than nonparents but still squeeze in workouts, study suggests.
- Vaccination During Pregnancy May Reduce Whooping Cough in Infants: Study finds drop in infant cases after experts promote vaccination for pregnant women.