The Department of Demography (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Vienna) is seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher to replace an employee on leave. The contract duration is initially set to 5 May to 25 August 2026, but has a high likelihood of being extended until 30 June 2027 (depending on the incumbent employee’s absence). The successful candidate should have an excellent command of demography and its methods, and is expected to participate in the Department’s research and teaching activities.
Population Health Applied Research Fellowship Program for UW Students (03/20/26)
William T. Grant Scholars Program 2026 (03/18/26)
Organization: William T. Grant Scholars Program 2026 (Limited Submission Opportunity)
Award amount: Each Scholar receives exactly $425,000 over five years, including up to 7.5% indirect costs. Awards begin July 1 of the award year and are made to the applicant’s institution.
UW internal deadline:03/18/2026
Description: The William T. Grant Scholars Program supports career development for promising early-career researchers. The program funds five-year research and mentoring plans that significantly expand researchers’ expertise in new disciplines, methods, and content areas.
Application Instructions: Please submit as one combined pdf labeled with PI’s Lastname, Firstname to limitedsubs@uw.edu by 5:00 PM Wednesday, March 18, 2026, including:
- A one‐page letter of intent with a description of proposed aims and approach.
- If the final application requires a statement of broader impacts, please summarize your plans to address the specific requirements on an additional page.
- CV (not biosketch) of the PI.
More Information:
Applicants should have a track record of conducting high-quality research and an interest in pursuing a significant shift in their trajectories as researchers. We recognize that early-career researchers are rarely given incentives or support to take measured risks in their work, so this award includes a mentoring component, as well as a supportive academic community.
Proposed research plans must address questions that are relevant to policy and practice in the Foundation’s focus areas:
- Reducing inequality in the academic, social, behavioral, or economic outcomes of young people ages 5–25 in the United States, along dimensions of race, ethnicity, economic standing, sexual or gender minority status, language minority status, or immigrant origins, and
- Improving the use of research evidence in ways that benefit young people ages 5-25 in the United States.
In 2026, the funder will prioritize funding applications that:
- Investigate and test strategies to improve the use of research evidence to benefit young people concerning politically charged and contested issues, particularly in highly polarized contexts. Prior studies of decision-makers’ use of research evidence during school board deliberations (Asen & Gurke, 2014), in legislative sessions (Bogenschneider, Day, & Parrott, 2019; Yanovitzky & Weber, 2020), and by advocacy coalitions (Scott et al., 2017) provide a strong evidence base for designing and studying strategies.
- Propose experimental tests of strategies to improve research use in policy and practice to improve youth outcomes.
Pre-Proposal Instructions:
Please submit as one combined pdf labeled with PI’s Lastname, Firstname to limitedsubs@uw.edu by 5:00 PM Wednesday, March 18, 2026, including:
- A one‐page letter of intent with a description of proposed aims and approach.
- If the final application requires a statement of broader impacts, please summarize your plans to address the specific requirements on an additional page.
- CV (not biosketch) of the PI.
Eligibility:
Faculty & PIs, Early-Career
- Applicants must have received their doctorate within seven years of submitting their application, calculated by adding seven to the year the doctorate was conferred. In medicine, the seven-year maximum is dated from the completion of the first residency.
- Applicants must be employed in career-ladder positions. For many applicants, this means holding a tenure-track position in a university.
*New* IAPHS Annual Meeting: Call for Abstract Reviewers (03/20/26)
IAPHS is currently in need of additional abstract reviewers for the IAPHS Annual Meeting Program. The review period will run from March 20 through April 6, 2026. IAPHS membership is required to participate. Sign up to review abstracts here. Why Volunteer as an Abstract Reviewer? You will shape the annual meeting program, advance your professional profile, support equity and inclusion, access cutting-edge research–all in the context of a flexible, time-bounded commitment.
Why Volunteer as an Abstract Reviewer?
- Shape the Annual Meeting Program
- Your evaluations directly influence which research is showcased at the conference. By reviewing abstracts, you help ensure sessions reflect the most innovative and impactful work in population health science.
- Advance Your Professional Profile
- Serving as a reviewer is recognized scholarly service. It strengthens your CV, demonstrates engagement with interdisciplinary science, and signals leadership in the field.
- Get Early Access to Cutting-Edge Research
- Reviewers see emerging ideas before they are presented—an excellent way to stay ahead of trends, identify collaborators, and spark new research directions.
- Support Equity and Inclusion
- Your thoughtful scoring helps IAPHS maintain a diverse and balanced program that represents multiple disciplines, perspectives, and career stages.
- Develop Transferable Skills
- Applying structured criteria sharpens your ability to assess clarity, rigor, and relevance—skills that translate to manuscript reviewing, grant panels, and mentoring.
- Flexible, Time-Bounded Commitment
- Reviews are completed online during a defined window (e.g., past cycles targeted late March to early April). You can plan around your schedule and workload.
What Reviewers Do
- Log in to the IAPHS website and access assigned abstracts via the review dashboard
- Score submissions using clear criteria (1 = most favorable, 10 = least favorable)
- Flag conflicts of interest and opt out if necessary
- Complete reviews by the published deadline (typically 2–3 weeks)
Population Health Applied Research Fellowship Program for UW Students (03/20/26)
The Population Health Applied Research Fellowship Program supports multidisciplinary teams of students to work on real-world population health challenges. Projects are sourced from external clients who play an important role in structuring project deliverables. Applications for this summer’s cohort will be accepted until 12 PM on March 20, from undergraduate and graduate students across all UW schools and colleges on all three UW campuses.
The Summer 2026 Population Health Applied Research Fellowship team will work closely with stakeholders at the City of Seattle to research strengths and future recommendations to support children-friendly cities. The Population Health Applied Research Fellowship team for summer 2026 will consist of three graduate students and two undergraduates, with supervision by a faculty expert. The project team receives training in research skills and data collection, analysis and presentation to deliver a work product that meets the external client’s needs. The program is an consortium between the Population Health Initiative and the Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology (CSDE). Join us for an informational session on February 26, 2026, at the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health from 11 AM – 12 PM. A virtual option is also available. Please RSVP to let us know you will be attending.
This paid fellowship program will offer a multidisciplinary team of undergraduate and graduate students training in data analysis techniques as well as in research and presentation skills while they develop a work product for an external partner.
The team will combine descriptive and spatial data analysis to explore the volume and location of important daily amenities necessary for those with children – childcare facilities, transportation access, schools, laundromats and so forth – with qualitative data collection via interviews with Seattle’s constituents to better understand the needs of children and their caregivers. This research will result in recommendations of areas of improvement in Seattle’s goal of being a child-friendly city and ways child-friendliness can be monitored as time goes on.
Three graduate students and two undergraduate students will compose the fellowship team. They will be supervised by faculty and staff from the Population Health Initiative and the Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology.
*New* Call for Proposals: Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium (PRIEC) Conference (03/20/26)
Please see below regarding the CFP for an exciting day-long national conference on the the Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity (PRIEC) slated for Friday, May 8 on the campus of UC Santa Barbara. We welcome proposals that explore a wide range of issues related to the politics of race, immigration, and ethnicity. Proposals may focus on any level of analysis (national, state, local) and any area of the political system (legislative, executive/bureaucratic, judicial). We are especially interested in research that features institutions, governance, and public policy, or examines comparative and/or transnational perspectives with a focus on the U.S., or includes interdisciplinary approaches or community-engaged research. Research that focuses on individual-level political attitudes and political behavior is also welcome.
Deadline: March 20, 2026
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Coefficient Giving: Funding for Programs and Events on Global Catastrophic Risk, Effective Altruism, and Other Topics (Rolling)
CSDE Spring Seminar Series Schedule
Welcome Spring! CSDE seminars will resume on Friday, April 3, 2026. You can find the schedule here and you can also subscribe to our Trumba Events to receive regular announcements about CSDE-sponsored events.
CSDE Affiliate Dan Goldhaber (Social Work) will kick off the quarter on April 3 with a talk on “Improving Hiring Decisions: Experimental Evidence on the Value of Reference Information About Teacher Applicants.” Then on April 10, Bussarawan “Puk” Teerawichitchainan (Sociology & Population Studies, National University of Singapore) will present “Aging with Limited Kin: Childlessness and Care Arrangements in Singapore and Thailand.” Then, Rana Khoury (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) will speak on international aid in Syria’s war on April 17. On April 24, Ninez Ponce (UCLA) will present a qualitative analysis of public feedback on Asian racial categories. In advance of the Population Association of America Annual Meeting 2026, the May 1 seminar session will be devoted to practice talks. There is no seminar on May 8 while the PAA Annual Meeting takes place. The series resumes on May 15 with a seminar by Angela Garcia (The University of Chicago) titled “Enduring Illegality: Time and the State of Waiting in Undocumented Middle Life.” On May 22, Lauren Olsen (Temple University) will present on “The Promises and Pitfalls of Social Scientific Instruction in U.S. Medical Schools.” Jen Rose Smith (University of Washington) will deliver the last seminar of the year, “Ice Geographies and Critical Demography,” on May 29. We will close the 2025-2026 academic year on June 5 with a Celebration of Trainees’ Accomplishments.
d’Alpoim Guedes Projects that Warming will Exceed the Long-Term Thermal Limits of Rice Cultivation
In a recent article in Nature Communications, CSDE Affiliate Jade d’Alpoim Guedes (Anthropology) assessed how warm temperatures have constrained rice’s distribution and the adaptive strategies used to sustain its production. d’Alpoim Guedes and co-authors drew on contemporary records of rice cultivation, archaeological data spanning rice’s long-term history of cultivation, and temperature projections for the past and future. The thermal limits of rice cultivation have remained consistent throughout rice’s domestication history despite its genetic diversification and geographic expansion. Over the past 9000 years, domesticated Asian rice has rarely thrived where mean annual temperature exceeds 28 °C or warm-season maximum temperature exceeds 33 °C. By the end of this century, projections estimate that the land area exceeding these thermal thresholds could expand by ten to thirty times in Asia’s major rice-producing nations. Rice-dependent regions face unprecedented challenges in maintaining this staple crop under projected warming.
Chi Quoted by CBS News on Effect of Growing Anti-Fluoride Stances
CBS News quoted CSDE Affiliate Donald Chi (Oral Health Services) on an article exploring the increase in children entering ERs for preventable tooth problems. ER visits for tooth problems unrelated to physical injuries rose almost 60% nationally for children under 15 years old from 2019 to 2022. Chi expressed worries that growing anti-fluoride stances will further erode trust in fluoride treatment and result in higher cavity rates. Since the start of 2026, lawmakers in at least 15 states have introduced bills prohibiting or limiting fluoride in public drinking water. Utah and Florida in 2025 became the first states to enact fluoride bans.