The clock-drawing test is a common tool for assessing cognitive function, that offers an entry point for considering how time itself is experienced in the context of dementia care. In a recent article published in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute entitled “The clock-drawing test: reading temporalities of dementia from clinical chart notes,” CSDE External Affiliate Janelle Taylor (University of Toronto) explores how clinical interactions reflect broader social and historical forces shaping time, from cultural expectations of aging to shifts in labor and medicine. The article draws on analysis of medical records of three older adults in Seattle who developed dementia without close family. It considers how dementia reshapes our understanding of time, and how memory and temporality alike are deeply social and embodied. Read the full article here. 

On May 1, 2025, CSDE Affiliate Erin McElroy and colleagues are hosting a conference with the Simpson Center for the Humanities on “Political Software: Mapping Digital Worlds From Below”. This conference will focus on software and countermaps primarily designed for political action with social, environmental, and land justice movements. The intent of this conference is to bring together organizers, researchers, educators, and technologists questioning the interdependencies between digital infrastructures, software code, and emancipatory spatial futures. For information, visit this link or the event website.

This five-day workshop from June 16-20 in Ann Arbor, MI 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), the Transition into Adulthood Supplement (TAS), and the 2013 Rosters and Transfers Module. In addition we will discuss topics including the genomics data collected from children and adults as well as new data files which explain family relationships and demographic characteristics over time.

The workshop is designed for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, junior faculty, and research professionals. Participants should be familiar with Stata, SAS or R, but all examples used in the workshop will be in Stata. R code will be available for each lab as well. Learn more and apply here.

Applications from graduate students and postdoctoral fellows must include a letter of recommendation from a faculty advisor, project manager, or department chair.

Fee: $100 for those accepted into the workshop. Travel stipends will be available for those who need financial assistance.

The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship team will be hosting an info session for UW students on 4/22/25 at 12:00-1:00pm PT. Register to attend here.

The Soros Fellowship provides up to $90,000 in funding for graduate study to immigrants and children of immigrants in the United States. Hear directly from staff at the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships about the application process, eligibility requirements, and tips for crafting a strong application.

With the 2026 Fellowship application launching in mid-April and due in the fall of 2025, this is the perfect time to get started. There will also be time for Q&A, so bring your questions!

Who Should Attend: University of Washington students, undergraduate and graduate, and alumni who are New Americans and planning to pursue graduate school, or are in their first year of the graduate school and will be attending in the fall of 2026 and spring of 2027.

CSDE collaborates with the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in a doctoral training program called the International Max Planck Research School for Population, Health and Data Science (IMPRS-PHDS). This program is based in Rostock, Germany, but includes 12 doctoral programs in the U.S. and Europe. IMPRS-PHDS students engage with each other through either in-person or virtual workshops in Germany and around the world. Faculty mentors include members of the student’s own committee in their home institution, as well as MPIDR faculty and possible faculty from partner institutions.

Information about the program, the faculty, and partner institutions can be found here.

Successful applicants will be supported by CSDE for one quarter while they travel to Rostock, Germany to work with an MPIDR faculty member. The funding may be used any time between July 1, 2025 and June 30, 2026. This opportunity is only open to current CSDE Trainees (enrolled in our certificate program or NIH fellowship program).

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) Foundation welcomes programmatic proposals from nonprofit organizations and research proposals from individual researchers working at nonprofits or institutions that advance gynecologic care and increase health equity and access. Full proposals are due to limitedsubs@uw.edu by 5:00 PM Wednesday, April 23, 2025. Proposals are due to the sponsor 6/13/2025 so you will need to have your materials in to the Office of Sponsored Programs by 6/4/2025 if given the go‐ahead by the Limited Submissions review committee.

The ACOG Foundation welcomes proposals that address the following topics:

Topic Area 1: Programmatic Submissions

The ACOG Foundation will accept proposals from nonprofit organizations that implement projects designed to:

• Reduce preventable maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity
• Transform the culture of the obstetrics and gynecology profession to advance health equity
• Increase data-driven understanding of ob-gyns in order to meet patient needs
• Advance public education initiatives in a post-Dobbs environment

Topic Area 2: Research Submissions

The ACOG Foundation will accept proposals from individual researchers working at nonprofit organizations or institutions that advance gynecologic care and increase health equity and access. The Foundation is interested in seeding clinical research projects, given that ob-gyn health research remains underfunded, and therefore invites research studies that integrate clinical and population-based approaches, focus on quality of life, and contribute to the field of implementation science. Basic research projects are not the focus of this request for proposals. The research will be funded over a two-year period. Proposals that address the following conditions will be prioritized:

• Endometriosis
• PCOS
• Uterine Fibroids
• Menopause

Pre-Proposal Instructions:

Please submit as one combined pdf labeled with PI’s Lastname, Firstname:

1. A one‐page letter of intent with a description of proposed aims and approach.
2. If the final application requires a diversity statement or statement of broader impacts, please summarize your plans to address the specific requirements on an additional page.
3. CV (not biosketch) of the PI including past grant funding.

to limitedsubs@uw.edu by 5:00 PM Wednesday, April 23, 2025. Proposals are due to the sponsor 6/13/2025 so you will need to have your materials in to the Office of Sponsored Programs by 6/4/2025 if given the go‐ahead by the Limited Submissions review committee. 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.

Submissions are now open for research to be featured at the 2025 APPAM Fall Research Conference. This year’s conference theme is “Forging Collaborations for Transformative and Resilient Policy Solutions.” Submissions are being solicited from the following policy areas (sample included below):

• Education
• Employment and Training Programs
• Health Policy
• Innovations in Science and Technology
• Poverty and Income Policy
• Social Equity and Race

For over two decades, York University’s Centre for Refugee Studies has run an internationally acclaimed, non-credit professional development Summer Course that brings together practitioners, policy makers, and researchers to learn together about the most pressing forced migration and refugee issues.

All participants who complete the full course receive a York University Centre for Refugee Studies Summer Course Certificate. Learn more here.

About this year’s course

The nexus of climate change and human mobility is rapidly transforming, demanding new, innovative research that anticipates the challenges and impacts of the coming decades. Climate Migration Futures: Shaping the Research Agenda for 2050 challenges conventional approaches and pushes the boundaries of how research can support our response to climate-induced migration. This cutting-edge summer course focuses on bold, forward-thinking research priorities and methods that can help to address the framing of climate migration, the governance of climate migration, ethical strategies for climate adaptation and relocation, and envisioning climate migration in 2050.

Leading international academics will provide introductory keynotes on themes critical to climate migration research. Participants will engage with case studies and research findings from climate frontlines, exploring how research scenarios address these questions and reveal both successful interventions and the unintentional, but often time intentional, creation of new vulnerabilities.

Through an immersive combination of expert-led sessions, collaborative design-thinking workshops, and innovative scenario planning, the course will help to: 1) redefine the research agenda on climate migration; 2) explore what research is needed to tackle the impacts of climate migration; 3) advance the appropriate research methods that can inform policy development.

Learning outcomes of this course will empower participants to:

• Redefine Research Approaches: Develop innovative frameworks and methods to address the challenges of climate migration, focusing on resilience, climate justice, and ethical adaptation strategies
• Enhance Policy and Governance Understanding: Explore the intersection of language, governance, and human rights in shaping adaptive policies and addressing vulnerabilities
• Foster Collaborative Visioning: Engage in scenario planning and interdisciplinary collaboration to envision transformative solutions for climate migration by 2050

This course is designed for scholars, policymakers and practitioners who are ready to push the boundaries on current research thinking and praxis, bridging interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary tools to address the current and unforeseen factors that will define climate migration by 2050. Participants will leave prepared to advance a transformative research agenda rooted in resilience, climate justice, and innovation in the face of global climate change impacts.