CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars Program
Organization: Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
Award amount: $72,000
Deadline: 11/05/2025
Description:
The CIFAR Global Scholars Program offers early-career researchers the opportunity to develop and lead high-risk, high-reward interdisciplinary research, expand their professional networks and receive focused leadership training in their pivotal first years as independent investigators. These experiences accelerate the rise of research leaders who are positioned to drive new discoveries and open new fields of inquiry.
CIFAR welcomes applications from candidates across the natural, biomedical, and social sciences, as well as the humanities. Successful applicants join one of CIFAR’s interdisciplinary research programs, collaborating with global research leaders to advance transformative knowledge and address some of the most important questions facing science and humanity.
In 2025/2026, the following CIFAR research programs are accepting applications:
- Child & Brain Development
- CIFAR MacMillan Multiscale Human
- Future Flourishing
- Humanity’s Urban Future
- Learning in Machines & Brains
- Quantum Materials
CIFAR programs are interdisciplinary, with an objective to spark new ideas, collaborations and knowledge advances. We welcome applications that offer new perspectives or approaches that could enrich and diversify a program’s scope.
Eligibility:
Early-career, Faculty & Pls
Link to RFP
Understanding and addressing the misalignment of care demands between an aging
population and a shortage of healthcare workers in the US requires research-ready data to study caregiving. Join IPUMS and NDIRA the morning of Wednesday, November 12 for a GSA workshop: Population Data for Studying Formal and Informal Caregiving.
- Overview of IPUMS data that are relevant to caregiving
- Demonstrations of features to streamline data management
- Discussions about analytical considerations
- Review of non-caregiving topical coverage in these data
- Guidance on identifying informal caregivers, the healthcare workforce, and individuals receiving home healthcare
- Opportunities for hands-on exercises and individual consultations
Please register to join us or circulate this opportunity with your networks. The early bird registration rate for GSA expires on September 3.
Sponsor: Social Sciences Research Council
Program: Economic Research Rescue Fund
https://www.ssrc.org/programs/economic-research-rescue-fund/
Award amount: $25K to $250K, with most awards under $50K
Sponsor deadline: Rolling; funds are limited – grantseekers should apply as soon as possible
Program Description:
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is dramatically reducing its vital support for scientific research. Principal Investigators who were conducting or facilitating economic research under a grant terminated by NSF can now apply for rescue funds to mitigate disruptions of work that promises to provide significant societal benefits.
Eligibility
To be eligible for rescue funding, a research project must:
- Have received an NSF funding award prior to 6/1/2025
- Had that award officially terminated, cancelled, or suspended by the NSF
- Be economics-related, as evidenced by the inclusion of the CV of at least one practicing PhD economist in the original NSF funding application
Other open limited submissions opportunities, as well as the limited submissions review committee review and selection process, are here: http://depts.washington.edu/research/funding/limited-submissions. Please feel free to email us at limitedsubs@uw.edu with questions or information on any limited submission opportunities that should be but are not already listed on that page. If you are interested in other private funding opportunities, visit the Corporate and Foundation funding opportunities page.
CSDE Affiliate Avanti Adhia (Child, Family, and Population Health Nursing; Epidemiology), CSDE Trainee Ann E. Richey (Epidemiology) and co-authors published a research article, titled “Implementation of Teen Dating Violence (TDV) Laws and Policies in High Schools: Staff and Student Perceptions,” in the Journal of Adolescent Health. The authors conducted semistructured interviews with school staff and students in states that require districts to develop written TDV policies and provide educational programs to explore their knowledge and experience. While written laws and policies are promising systems-level strategies to reduce TDV, further resources and attention devoted to implementation are critical to ensure TDV is addressed effectively within schools. To read the full article, visit this link.
CSDE Affiliate Vince Wang (Real Estate) recently published an article titled, “Understanding the financial health of community land trusts in the United States,” in the Journal of Urban Affairs. Wang used Internal Revenue Service (IRS) data and survey responses and found that Community Land Trusts (CLTs) among the financially top-performing community-based development organizations in the US between 2012 and 2021. Performance of CLTs varied based on organizational characteristics such as the organization’s age, location, CLT type, and the presence of shared equity units. To read the full article, visit this link.
CSDE External Affiliate David Swanson (UC Riverside) was invited to present research results to the Research Committee of the Federal-State Cooperative Program for Population Estimates & Projections (FSCPE) on September 16, 2025. The virtual presentation, titled “Human Extinction: A Probabilistic Demographic Perspective” drew on an Association of Population Centers (APC) working paper by Swanson and co-author Jeff Tayman. Swanson and Tayman estimate with 66% confidence intervals that by 2139 the world population will be between 1.55 billion and 1.81 billion, by 2239, it will be between 4.95 million and 5.84 million, and by 2339 there will be no humans. The presentation was kindly organized by Xiuhong “Helen” You, Ph. D., Associate Director and Senior Demographer at the Texas Demographic Center, University of Texas, San Antonio, and was followed by a lively discussion. To read the working paper, visit this link.
CSDE Director Sara Curran recently participated in a public advisory panel to advise the Census Bureau on its plans for implementing differential privacy and its new Environmental Impacts Frame. The work was originally scheduled as part of the Census Scientific Advisory Committee, which the Trump administration disbanded this past spring. Members of the committee met anyway on Sept. 18 after reconstituting as an independent panel. “The [Census] Bureau continues to need independent expert advice, so that didn’t change,” said Barbara Entwisle, the chair of the former governmental committee and now head of the independent panel, in an interview with Government Executive. “So what impact will we have? I don’t know. But what I can say for sure is that if we don’t do this, then we won’t have an impact.” You can watch the recorded session and read more here.
CSDE is pleased to introduce three of our new UW Research Affiliates! Hyungmin Cha (Assistant Professor, Sociology) is a demographer and medical sociologist whose research investigates how socioeconomic resources and family ties shape health inequalities across the life course. Raheem Chaudhry’s (Assistant Professor, Evans School of Public Policy) research focuses on how public policy and political institutions can expand access to opportunity for all individuals, particularly those from disadvantaged and historically marginalized communities. José Alavez‘s (Assistant Professor, Geography) research brings together critical cartography, digital humanities, pluriversal design principles, and Global South approaches to transnationalism, exile, and diaspora. Learn more about each affiliate in the full story!
- Hyungmin Cha – Hyungmin (Min) Cha is a demographer and medical sociologist whose research investigates how socioeconomic resources and family ties shape health inequalities across the life course. His work centers on dementia, caregiving, and aging, with a particular focus on how social and economic disadvantages accumulate and are reproduced across generations. His research has appeared in leading journals such as Demography, Social Forces, Journal of Marriage and Family, Social Science & Medicine, and Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences, among others. He also pursues global comparative studies using harmonized international data to examine how contextual differences influence aging and cognitive health.
- Raheem Chaudhry – Raheem’s research focuses on how public policy and political institutions can expand access to opportunity for all individuals, particularly those from disadvantaged and historically marginalized communities. Most of his current research examines the impacts of social and housing policy on well-being. Recent work focuses on the effects of growing up in public housing on children’s long-run outcomes, the consequences of minority enfranchisement on local public finances and the structure of government, and the impacts of land-use regulations on housing markets and neighborhood demographics. He received his PhD in Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley and his Masters in Public Affairs from the University of Texas, Austin. Prior to receiving his PhD, he conducted research on a range of issues affecting low-income families at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
- José Alavez – José Alavez’s research brings together critical cartography, digital humanities, pluriversal design principles, and Global South approaches to transnationalism, exile, and diaspora. He focuses on co-creating collaborative and creative mapping practices and representations that reveal the ongoing and multiscalar geographies of migration across the Americas. Prior to joining the University of Washington, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s (UIUC) Healthy Regions and Policies Lab (HEROP), where he co-led the development of a community-focused data visualization toolkit on social determinants of health grounded in human-centered design and design justice principles. His postdoctoral work also included co-creating workshops alongside community and grassroots organizations to co-design ChiVes, a dashboard for environmental justice in Chicago. Additionally, he co-produced in-depth interviews for the U.S. COVID Atlas as a means to humanize and complement its quantitative data. José holds a Ph.D. from Concordia University’s (Montreal) Geography, Planning, and Environment Department. For his doctoral dissertation, he employed deep mapping methodologies to study the stories of individuals who endured the death of a loved one in the context of migration. His work illustrated how deep maps, through multiple analytical and artistic displays, reveal that death in the context of migration is not the end of a story, but the beginning and extension of many others. He also holds a Master’s degree in Geomatics from CONACYT’s Research Center of Geospatial Information and a BA in Human Geography from the Metropolitan Autonomous University in Mexico City.