Discover Global Society (Springer Nature) is currently welcoming submissions of original research to the “The Permutations of “Caring”: On the Individual, Family, and Societies” Collection, Guest Edited by Prof. JosAnn Cutajar (University of Malta, Malta).
Discover Global Society was launched by Springer Nature in 2023 and indexed in SCOPUS (CiteScore 0.4 [2024]). Discover Global Society is a fully open-access journal, which means that its contents are freely available and can be used by a world audience.
If you are interested in preparing a manuscript for consideration at Discover Global Society as part of this Collection, submissions will be welcomed at any point up until 31 December 2025, but if you are unable to submit a manuscript before this date, please let us know as we may be able to be flexible.
To submit your manuscript for consideration at Discover Global Society as part of this Collection, please follow the steps detailed on this page. When submitting your manuscript via this portal, on the ‘Details’ page, please select the “The Permutations of “Caring”: On the Individual, Family, and Societies” Collection from the drop-down list. Authors should also express their interest in the Collection in the cover letter.
All manuscripts submitted to a Collection are assessed according to the standard Discover Global Society editorial criteria and peer review process and are subject to all standard journal policies. If accepted for publication, an article processing charge (APC) applies. Should you require one-on-one consultation regarding APC supports, please do not hesitate to contact us.
CSDE Trainee Zoe H. Pleasure (Health Services) and CSDE External Affiliate Laura Lindberg (Rutgers) have been awarded research funding from the Society of Family Planning to study contraception misinformation. Pleasure and Lindberg will explore how contraceptive misinformation affects contraceptive health outcomes for gender-diverse young people in the U.S. through a nationally representative survey and qualitative interviews. This project builds on a seed grant funded through CSDE. Pleasure also received funding for a second project, with co-PI Asha Hassan (Minnesota), which will involve conducting qualitative interviews with individuals with chronic conditions to provide insight into how they interact with and navigate the complex information ecosystems related to contraception and chronic illness. To read more about Pleasure and Lindberg’s research grant, click here. To read more about Pleasure and Hassan’s research grant, click here.
CSDE External Affiliate Joshua Tom (Seattle Pacific) and co-authors recently published an article titled, “Religion and Racial Bias in Artificial Intelligence Large Language Models” in Socius. Tom and co-authors examine if LLMs hold implicit assumptions with regard to religious identities by prompting LLMs to generate religious sermons, specifying different combinations of race and religious tradition of the clergyperson. Evangelical Protestant pastors had easier to read AI–generated sermons, whereas Jewish rabbis and Muslim imams had more difficult to read synthetic texts. To read more, click here.
CSDE Affiliate Karin Martin (Public Policy) and co-authors recently shared an opinion piece in The Imprint on the incarceration of youth, which overwhelming evidence shows does not work and disproportionately affects communities of color. Drawing on their article published in the American Journal of Public Health, Martin and co-authors highlight the recent trend in closure of youth prisons and call on policymakers to redirect resources and attention to community-based alternatives. To read more, click here.
CSDE Research Scientist Matthew D. Dunbar, PhD, and co-authors recently published an article in Alzheimer’s & Dementia, titled “The companion dog as a translational model for Alzheimer’s disease: Development of a longitudinal research platform and post mortem protocols.” The authors describe the objectives, infrastructure, platform development, and protocol of the Brain Health Study (BHS). The BHS aims to establish the role of privately owned companion dogs as a translational model for Alzheimer’s Disease research.
Why dogs? Companion dogs share genetic diversity, environmental exposures, and cognitive traits with humans. Their condensed lifespans and human-like aging patterns make them an ideal model for understanding cognitive decline. The study’s research infrastructure is in place for longitudinal data collection, annual biospecimen collection and postmortem sample collection, with 500 dogs enrolled and 21 postmortem specimens already collected.
Dr. Dunbar, in his role as the Data Core Director for the Dog Aging Project, helped build the operational infrastructure for the BHS to support this diverse national cohort of companion dogs for an in-depth, longitudinal analysis of brain and cognitive health over their lifespan. A complex and well-maintained research platform was critical to facilitate enrollment, retention, ongoing participant surveys, and biobanking of biofluids and postmortem tissue. Dr. Dunbar has decades of experience designing primary data collection systems, managing field data campaigns, and he currently oversees CSDE’s own REDCap instance supporting population researchers.
To arrange a consultation appointment with Matt Dunbar or any of CSDE’s scientific support staff, please use the CSDE Science Core Consultation Request form.
Looking for a 1-credit course at UW for Autumn 2025?
The West Coast Poverty Center Seminar (SOC WL 556A) is a 1-credit course that meets on Zoom selected Thursdays from 9:30am-11:00am.
Students will consider the role of research in policy making and in social service programs, learn about locally relevant research, and complete a professional development activity.
Students will attend three researcher-practitioner Roundtables, focused on locally-relevant housing, economic security, and criminal legal issues. Recent topics have included the impacts of legal financial obligations, findings from evaluations of guaranteed income pilot programs, and research on the effectiveness of renter protection laws.
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CSDE and its partners at CUNY, CU Boulder, El Collegio, and University of Minnesota, invites you to participate and contribute. Here are new data updates:
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There are many more resources on the CACHE website including links to research matchmaking, workshop recordings, employment opportunities, grant opportunities and much more.
Addressing the Triple Environmental Crisis: A Way Forward
- October 14th, 2025, 10:00am – 1:00pm PT / 1:00pm – 4:00pm ET
Join the Consortium of Universities for Global Health for this engaging symposium where they will exchange ideas and explore solutions to combat the pressing challenges of climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss, which pose significant risks to our health and security. Register here and visit their website for more information.