The goal of this year’s Workshop is to identify how we can unite more people around the cause of disaster risk reduction. Attendees will learn about the pathways to building and sustaining coalitions as well as measurable outcomes that have resulted from these efforts.
Registration will open soon, and please share this information with colleagues and students. Also, please subscribe to Workshop updates so you don’t miss important deadlines and opportunities to contribute. Please note that there are many additional Workshop opportunities with various deadlines, including the student paper competition, student volunteer program, poster sessions, and research and practice highlights.
We look forward to hearing what you want to share with the hazards and disaster community.
The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) is inviting applications from qualified and highly motivated students for a Summer Research Visit.
The goal of the Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program is to enable discovery by bringing together data scientists and population scientists to work on focused, intensive and collaborative projects of broad societal relevance. For a period of 3 months (June 8 – August 21, 2026) participating students will work in small teams, with support from experienced mentors, towards a common research goal.
Apply by January 14, 2026. More information can be obtained here.
The Center for Aging and Policy Studies (CAPS) and the Center for Policy Research (CPR) will host a conference on June 8 and 9, 2026 at Syracuse University to advance knowledge on the connections between policies and population health in a changing U.S. context. In conjunction with the CAPS-CPR conference, The Milbank Quarterly will publish a special issue in 2027. Authors intending to submit a paper to The Milbank Quarterly special issue are strongly encouraged to submit an abstract of the paper by January 15, 2026 for presentation at the CAPS-CPR conference.
The conference and special issue seek empirical, methodological, and theoretical contributions on the topic. Of particular interest are papers that link changes and variation in policy contexts to health outcomes, identify mechanisms linking policies to outcomes, or propose new ways to measure and conceptualize policy contexts for health research.
Up to 15 papers will be selected for the conference. The goal of the conference is to significantly strengthen each paper before its submission to the special issue. The first author of each paper will be a 2026 CAPS-CPR Conference Fellow and receive (1) reimbursement of travel expenses up to $1500, (2) feedback and suggestions from an assigned discussant and other conference fellows, and (3) a detailed written review by a guest editor of the special issue (Pinka Chatterji, Shannon M. Monnat, and Jennifer Karas Montez). Presentation at the conference is not a requirement for submitting a paper to the special issue.
We are inviting you to submit contributions to the Special Collection of Demographic Research on the “De/Re-institutionalization of Asian Families“, organized by Lake Lui, Bussarawan Puk Teerawichitchainan, and Adam Ka-lok Cheung. Submissions to this collection are possible from November 1, 2025 until February 28, 2026. Please find more information on the collection’s description and goals as well as on submission procedures here.
The December 2025 issue of Population and Development Review, a journal of the Population Council, is now available. Population and Development Review (PDR) is a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal that seeks to advance knowledge of the relationships between population and social, economic, and environmental change and provides a forum for discussion of related issues of public policy
CSDE and the UW Libraries partnered on the purchase of Dewey Data which is a research platform that provides access to third-party datasets across a variety of data categories including foot traffic, construction permits, healthcare, workforce, consumer behavior, and transportation. Follow this link to learn about how to register.
Since the start of our campus subscription in June, several new data sets have been added to the platform. NatureQuant provides access to a NatureScore dataset that estimates the amount and quality of nature and associated environmental conditions at any location in the US, as well as their NatureScore Urban Heat Index. LinkUp offers a dataset of job postings from over 80,000 companies located around the globe.
University of Washington faculty, students, and researchers are eligible for access and must register an individual account.
In Winter 2025, the UW Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences had its first external review since 2002.
The review found that, “for departments that have significant numbers of faculty doing quantitative research… CSSS amplifies this strength into a viable reputational and recruiting tool… For programs that are primarily qualitative in nature… CSSS provides unique training opportunities for students and intellectual nourishment for faculty that would otherwise be unavailable.”
The report also highlighted that, because “the demand for quantitative education, quantitative skills, and research collaborations are higher now than they have been at any point since CSSS was founded… it is important to continue to invest as that investment is greatly multiplied.”
The review committee concluded with recommendations “for bolstering the capacity and efficacy of CSSS as well as strategies for helping to ensure its sustainability in the future,” noting that “in the face of demographic and financial challenges, CSSS would help with the financial viability of providing crucial methodological research education across the university.”
The review’s findings and recommendations — including increased investment in CSSS — are being considered by the College of Arts and Sciences and are guiding our strategy in the years ahead.