Thailand’s southernmost provinces have faced persistent insurgency-related violence and economic hardship, driving significant outmigration. In a recent study, CSDE External Affiliate Kim Korinek (University of Utah) and co-authors use survey data from 2014 and 2016 to examine how insurgency violence and established networks influence outmigration from these provinces. Findings indicate that individuals were more likely to migrate if they lived in households and villages with established migration networks. Additionally, proximity to frequent insurgency violence significantly increased the likelihood of first-time migration. Read the study here.
Penn State Population Research Institute Invites External Fellow Applicants (3/5/25)
The Population Research Institute (PRI) recently announced a call for applications to the 2025-2027 External Fellows Program. The PRI will welcome a second cohort of the External Fellows grant writing program to PRI’s University Park campus in May 2025.
External Fellows will receive support from PRI to prepare a grant for submission to the National Institute of Health’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The External Fellows will come to Penn State’s campus for four days of intensive grant-writing training, networking, and mentorship at the start of the first year of the program, May 13-16, 2025. External Fellows will become external affiliates of PRI for two years (with possibility of continuing affiliation), will join the PRI grant writing group, and will be welcome to participate in all of PRI’s activities, including our Brown Bag series, our grant writing program events, and our working groups, such as the Migration group, the Population Health group, the Gender and Family Demography group, or the Climate Change and Health group. The External Fellows program is a two-year program open to Early Stage Investigator (ESI) population scientists.
For more information, please follow the below link and please reach out to Sarah Damaske, Jennifer Van Hook, or Brian Thiede with any questions about the program.
Ohio State Webinar on Teen Health (3/6/25)
The Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences recently announced a webinar entitled “An Unprecedented Mapping of Teen Life” which will present insights from the Adolescent Health and Development in Context (AHDC) study. The seminar will be presented by renowned sociologist Chris Browning, PhD, a professor at The Ohio State University.
Browning will discuss key findings from recent research on how neighborhoods and other social factors impact the health and well-being of youth. The event also includes a question-and-answer opportunity for audience members. In addition to recent findings, Browning will also discuss innovative data collection methods that have resulted in unparalleled, real-time views of teens’ interactions, social networks and communities. Learn more and register here.
Call for Proposals, Simpson Center First Book Fellowship (3/7/25)
In recognition of the challenges faced by early career tenure-track faculty, and in response to the very positive reception of our faculty summer fellowship program, the Simpson Center will offer support for First Books during the summer of 2025.
The Center will offer summer salary funding (with $1,500 additional research budget) for assistant professors to give intensive attention to first book manuscripts that are near completion. Applicants may propose, for example, to finish revisions before submitting the entire manuscript to a press for the first time, or to undertake late-stage revisions in response to peer-review feedback. In general, we seek to support faculty who will have made substantial progress on their first book by the beginning of the fellowship term. The deadline for proposals is Friday, March 7, 2025. We expect to award support to 6 faculty members.
Eligibility
Tenure-track, junior faculty in the humanities and humanistic social sciences whose appointment carries with it the expectation of a book for tenure and who are in the final stages of completing their first book manuscript.
Terms of Award
Summer salary support of $10,000 and an additional $1500 research budget.
In-person participation in the 6 weekly meetings of the fellowship cohort is an expectation of the program. This fellowship is not appropriate for those whose projects require time away from the university during the period of the meetings of the fellows. In Summer 2025, the meetings are anticipated to take place from the beginning of A term, on Monday, June 23, to the end of July.
Criteria
Awards are based on the scholarly merit of the individual applications. Scholarship likely to contribute to intellectual exchange among a diverse group of colleagues especially encouraged.
To assess scholarly merit, we have drawn on the criteria used by the NEH and the ACLS for the evaluation of fellowship proposals:
- The intellectual significance of the proposed project; the potential of the project to advance the field or fields of study in which it is proposed and make an original and significant contribution to knowledge.
- The quality and innovativeness of the proposal with regard to its methodology, scope, theoretical framework, and grounding in the relevant scholarly literature.
- The clarity of the conception, definition, organization, and description of the project.
Selection Process
We will accept proposals early in 2025 through a special funding round (the submission form will open on February 7, with a deadline of March 7, 2025) and convene an ad hoc review committee to make selections. Applicants will be notified of decisions by early April 2025.
Application Materials
- Proposal Narrative. Limit 1,750 words (approximately six double-spaced pages). Proposal narratives should describe the research project in language clear to non-specialists in the field. Narratives should address:
- Objectives
- Significance (to the scholarship in and outside the field)
- Methodology
- Timeline (progress to date; what will be accomplished during the summer)
- Bibliography. Limit 550 words. Select primary and secondary sources directly related to the project.
- CV. Please limit to five pages. Please specify any other fellowships you have received in the last three years in support of your research.
- Letter of Support. Limit one, from a colleague knowledgeable about your field of research. Letters may be external (from a contact at another institution) or written by a colleague at the University of Washington. Please ask that your letter be sent to us directly at schadmin@uw.edu.
- Departmental Acknowledgement Form. This form documents the expected timeline of your tenure review and is to be completed by your department chair. It can be requested by sending an email to schadmin@uw.edu.
Questions
Please direct any questions to Rachel Arteaga, Simpson Center Associate Director, at rarteaga@uw.edu.
Submissions Open for Berkeley Annual Workshop on Formal Demography (3/10/25)
The Berkeley Population Center at the University of California, Berkeley recently announced the 11th Annual Workshop on Formal Demography from June 2-6, 2025. This edition will focus on a special topic: “The Demography of Fertility and Reproduction.”
This hands-on, week-long program is funded by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R25HD083136) and co-sponsored by the Berkeley Population Center. This year’s workshop will cover classic topics in formal demography including the analysis of fertility and mortality as well as population dynamics. In addition, this year’s special emphasis topic will be on the demography of fertility and reproduction, including the determinants and consequences of recent fertility changes in low fertility populations. Learn more and apply here by March 10th.
22nd Annual West Coast Nonprofit Data Conference (3/3/25)
Gateway Exposome Coordinating Center (GECC) Offers Pilot Funding (3/1/25)
Pelletier and Romich Demonstrate the Benefits of State-Level Administrative Data
Administrative data sources maintained by state governments for the purpose of administering unemployment insurance (UI) and other programs can also provide a valuable resource for research. In a recent brief published in the Monthly Labor Review from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, former CSDE Trainee Elizabeth Pelletier (Census Bureau) and CSDE Affiliate Jennifer Romich (Social Work) published an article entitled “Supplementing state employment records with demographic data” that highlights the importance of the Washington Merged Longitudinal Administrative Data (WMLAD) and comparable data resources for understanding important policy issues. Read the full article here.
*New* Data User Feedback Survey on Federal Statistical System (2/28/25)
The American Statistical Association-George Mason University (ASA-GMU) Project on the Health of the Federal Statistical System has developed a data user feedback form to independently document the value of federal statistics and proactively identify challenges and opportunities facing statistical agencies.
Data from this survey will be shared in an annual report and outreach effort to Congress, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and other stakeholders. Since federal statistics are intended to be used, input from data users is critical for achieving the project goal. Learn more and complete the survey here.