The research community is facing a period of rapid change and uncertainty in the federal funding landscape. The university is closely monitoring changes and their potential impacts to the UW research enterprise. Information on the Office of Research’s Guidance on Federal Administration Research Policy page is updated frequently. If you are a researcher and interested in receiving updates, please subscribe to PI Federal communications (you’ll need UWNETID). The Provost’s office is also maintaining a site for all Federal Policy Updates.
Opportunities to Publish Research Policy Briefs with the Association of Population Centers
CSDE is a member of the Association of Population Centers, and through them can offer you or your colleagues the opportunity to have new or forthcoming research that you want to share with policymakers, journalists, educators, or other non-academic audiences. The Population Reference Bureau (PRB), in collaboration with APC, is working to improve the dissemination of population and reproductive health findings. If you have peer-reviewed research on population dynamics, population health, or reproductive health that you would like to share with a broader audience in an easily digestible format, APC and PRB may be able to help. To learn how, visit their website and take a look at recent research policy briefs.
Staff Scientist, Geisinger Program Evaluation (Ongoing)
Preprint Opportunities through Association of Population Centers
CSDE is a member of the Association of Population Centers and through them can offer you and your colleagues access to their preprint publishing platform. Research Scientists, Postdoctoral affiliates and faculty are invited to submit to the APCA Working Paper Series which gathers and disseminates original population science research papers. These working papers are authored or coauthored by scholars who are faculty or postdoctoral affiliates of the Association of Population Centers (APC) population centers. Working papers can also be authored by ABD student affiliates of APC population centers (CSDE Trainees that are ABD); faculty affiliates must submit the papers on student affiliates’ behalf. Papers in the series include works in progress and pre-publication versions of articles. Many of these papers will be subsequently published in journals or edited volumes.
Staff Scientist, Geisinger Behavioral Insights Team (Ongoing)
Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Grants (Rolling)
The Bradley Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation that honors the principles and example of its namesakes, Lynde and Harry Bradley, by pursuing a mission to restore, strengthen, and protect the principles and institutions of American exceptionalism. The foundation has a rolling proposal process around grants for its Constitutional Order and Informed Citizens initiatives. Projects should have budgets between $25,000 and $200,000.
Funded projects in the past have focused on original intent and constitutional principles, the role of free markets in democracy, the ethical and moral foundations of capitalism, and American exceptionalism. Since this is a private foundation with a particular substantive orientation, all applications must be coordinated through Andrew Storms in UW Corporate and Foundation Relations. Reach out to Andrew Storms (as89@uw.edu) or Sarah Guthu (guthu@uw.edu) in the Executive Office of the President & Provost, if you have questions about this opportunity.
Cha Publishes Article on Education and Dementia Risk in Demography
CSDE Affiliate Hyungmin Cha (Sociology) and co-authors just published an article in Demography, titled “How Does the Risk of Dementia Change With Each Additional Year of Education?”. The authors leverage the 2000–2018 Health and Retirement Study to evaluate how dementia risk changes with each year of education among non-Hispanic White and Black older adults. The results show a linear decline in dementia incidence with increasing years of educational attainment, both before and after 12 years of education. This pattern is consistent across population subgroups. To read more, click here.
Glass Develops Roadmap for Causal Inference in Human Biology
CSDE external affiliate and former CSDE T32 Fellow Delaney Glass (University of Toronto) and co-authors recently published an article, “Toward New Directions in Human Biology: A Roadmap for Anthropological Causal Inference With Observational Data” in the American Journal of Human Biology. The roadmap that Glass and co-authors developed begins with theory development, defines causal questions and estimands, employs directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) to clarify assumptions, and evaluates key identification criteria prior to statistical analysis. To read more, click here.
Chan Quoted in Special Issue of South Morning Post
CSDE Affiliate Kam Wing Chan (Geography) was quoted in South Morning Post in Hong Kong, a major English newspaper in Asia, in an article in a special issue on the 76th Anniversary of the founding of People’s Republic of China. The article, “New Urbanisation Push Aims to Narrow Rural-Urban Divide,” was published on October 1. To read more, click here.
Feminist Demographers Sponsor PAA Session – Please Submit your Proposal (10/05/25)
Feminist Demography has a special session on the upcoming program for the PAA titled: Heterodox, Feminist, and Critical Perspectives on Demography.” The session #917 can be found in the Call for Papers. This brand new session provides an opportunity for critical scholars of and in population studies to contribute their knowledge at our field’s flagship annual meeting. To learn a bit more about what feminist demography is and how you can contribute to this emerging subfield, please visit their website at feministdemography.org