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*New* NIH Fellowship Opportunities for Early Career Scientists (04/08/26)

Have you explored NIH Fellowship opportunities? We wanted to remind you that NIH fellowships are open to early career scientists, including at the predoctoral and postdoctoral level. NIH fellowships and are designed to provide mentored research training to enable skills’ development and experiences needed to transition into careers in the biomedical research workforce.

Through these programs, the NIH fosters innovation, collaboration, and the advancement of knowledge aimed at improving human health.

The next due date for Fellowship applications (F series) is April 8. We encourage applicants to visit the standard due dates page to stay on top of approaching deadlines.

Some helpful reminders for applicants and their supporters:

Apply to Investigations in Disasters and Emergencies: Advancing Applied Learning in Disaster Research Response (03/27/26)

The University of Washington’s Center for Disaster Resilient Communities is offering a hands-on training program in environmental and public health disaster research methods and skills for up to 25 advanced graduate students and early career hazards and disaster researchers from across the United States. This training program aims to provide a launchpad for scholars to build on and carry out their own disaster and hazards research projects as well as opportunities for interdisciplinary networking and mentorship.
This fellowship includes a weeklong in-person intensive at the University of Washington Seattle Campus from July 27-31, 2026 followed by a year of online monthly workshops all of which include research and professional support from program faculty.
Please visit our program web page or view this flyer for information on eligibility, application instructions, and timelines. Applications will be accepted until March 27, 2026 (9 PM PDT) and will be reviewed based on the applicant’s experience in public health and disasters, capacity to implement skills and knowledge from the fellowship, and commitment to reciprocal and ethical research practices. Priority acceptances will be released by April 30, 2026. Need-based travel stipends are available.

Call for Papers: Demog-Crazy 2026 Award (04/01/26)

The Quetelet Journal warmly invites population scientists to submit an abstract for consideration for the Demog-Crazy 2026 Award by April Fools Day 2026. Authors of shortlisted abstracts will be required to submit their full paper by 1st July 2026.

Inspired by the spirit of Belgian surrealism, the Demog-Crazy Award celebrates and publishes a scholarly article in population sciences that initially amuses readers with its title and summary, but ultimately provokes thoughtful engagement and inspires further reading. The award underscores the idea that even research in demography that appears unconventional or absurd can yield valuable theoretical or methodological contributions.

Would your article stand a chance—or is it firmly not in the running for the Demog-Crazy Award? No problem! RQJ welcomes original contributions in the traditional empirical format, as well as papers adopting unconventional approaches. These include theoretical literature reviews, methodological studies, “data papers”, advocacy for heterodox or controversial perspectives, reports on negative results, replication of previously published findings, descriptive analyses of new data, studies using unusual datasets, mixed-methods research, and more. In all cases, your submission is most welcome!

Request for Pilot Grant Proposals on Rural Population Health and Aging (INRPHA) (04/10/26)

Request for Proposals – Interdisciplinary Network on Rural Population Health and Aging With funding from the National Institute on Aging, the Interdisciplinary Network on Rural Population Health and Aging (INRPHA) invites investigators to submit proposals for pilot research that enhances understanding of the multilevel and multidimensional drivers of rural health and aging trends and disparities. Investigators may request up to $35,000. Proposals are due by Friday, April 10.

Call for Papers: Wittgenstein Centre Conference 2026 (Virtual) on Demography and Human Capital (04/20/26)

The call for submissions for the Wittgenstein Centre Conference 2026 (WIC2026) “Demography and Human Capital” is now open!

This conference aims to advance theories, data, and multi-dimensional demographic methods for modelling human capital formation and its dynamics over time, and to connect cutting-edge evidence to policy debates globally. Human capital – education, skills, health, and capabilities – is a central driver of demographic change and a key lens for understanding social and economic development, inequality, and resilience.

We invite contributions from all disciplinary background and methodological traditions.

Key information:

Submission deadline: 30 April 2026

Conference date: Tuesday, 01 December 2026 – Wednesday, 02 December 2026

Venue: Festive Hall, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Dr. Ignaz-Seipel-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna

Format: onsite participation only

* Please note that the conference will take place immediately following the 50th anniversary celebration of the Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) on 30 November 2026 at the same venue. Conference participants are warmly invited to attend the VID’s 50th anniversary celebration as well. *

 

Applications Open for Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) Data User Workshop (04/15/26)

The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), begun in 1968, is the world’s longest-running multigenerational household panel study. It is used to investigate scientific and policy questions about life course trajectories in health and well-being, intergenerational social and economic mobility, income and wealth inequality, family investments in children, neighborhood effects on opportunity and achievement, and many other topics. This five-day, in-person only workshop–held from June 15 – 19, 2026 at the University of Michigan will orient participants to the content and structure of the core PSID interview, its special topics modules, and its supplemental studies, including the Child Development Supplement (CDS) and the Transition into Adulthood Supplement (TAS). The workshop is designed for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, junior faculty, and research professionals. Applications are due by April 15, 2026.

Activities will be divided between lecture sessions, discussions, and hands-on labs, allowing ample time for breaks. Lecture sessions will cover topics such as study design, changes to content and sample composition over time, rules for following sample members into new households, and weighting. Classroom lab sessions using PSID data extracts will illustrate key concepts and participants will develop their own analytic data files under the guidance of project staff. In addition, we will discuss topics including the recently-released and newly collected genomics data collected from 2014-2023 as well as new data files which explain family relationships and demographic characteristics over time.

Course management will be through Canvas and class meetings will be held in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Travel stipends will be available for those who do not have accessible funding.

Eligibility: The workshop is designed for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, junior faculty, and research professionals.

Software: Participants should be familiar with Stata or R. Course instruction will be in Stata with parallel R code provided.

Application: Admission to this workshop is competitive and enrollment is limited to 25 in-person participants. To apply for this workshop, select the “Register Now” button, fill out the Summer Program registration form, select this workshop, and then upload the following application materials:

  • Current curriculum vitae (CV)
  • A cover letter summarizing:
    • Your research interest and planned analyses using PSID data
    • How the workshop will help you meet your research or educational goals
    • Where you learned about the workshop (e.g., word of mouth, listserv announcement, advertisement)
  • Applications from graduate students and postdoctoral fellows must include a letter of recommendation from a faculty advisor, project manager, or department chair. The letter writer should directly submit their recommendation to the ICPSR Summer Program at icpsr-sumprog@umich.edu and include the applicant’s name and “PSID Workshop” in the subject line or body of the email. The letter writer’s contact information (email address or telephone number) must be included in the letter of recommendation.

Deadline: April 15, 2026

Fee: $100, to be assessed only after applicants have been accepted into the workshop.

Sponsor: Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) with support from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Institute on Aging, and the National Science Foundation.