Looking for a 1-credit course at UW for Autumn 2025?
The West Coast Poverty Center Seminar (SOC WL 556A) is a 1-credit course that meets on Zoom selected Thursdays from 9:30am-11:00am.
Students will consider the role of research in policy making and in social service programs, learn about locally relevant research, and complete a professional development activity.
Students will attend three researcher-practitioner Roundtables, focused on locally-relevant housing, economic security, and criminal legal issues. Recent topics have included the impacts of legal financial obligations, findings from evaluations of guaranteed income pilot programs, and research on the effectiveness of renter protection laws.
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CSDE and its partners at CUNY, CU Boulder, El Collegio, and University of Minnesota, invites you to participate and contribute. Here are new data updates:
The CACHE team would like to hear about what you are reading… submit a post here or see posts about what others are reading.
There are many more resources on the CACHE website including links to research matchmaking, workshop recordings, employment opportunities, grant opportunities and much more.
Addressing the Triple Environmental Crisis: A Way Forward
- October 14th, 2025, 10:00am – 1:00pm PT / 1:00pm – 4:00pm ET
Join the Consortium of Universities for Global Health for this engaging symposium where they will exchange ideas and explore solutions to combat the pressing challenges of climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss, which pose significant risks to our health and security. Register here and visit their website for more information.
CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars Program
Organization: Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
Award amount: $72,000
Deadline: 11/05/2025
Description:
The CIFAR Global Scholars Program offers early-career researchers the opportunity to develop and lead high-risk, high-reward interdisciplinary research, expand their professional networks and receive focused leadership training in their pivotal first years as independent investigators. These experiences accelerate the rise of research leaders who are positioned to drive new discoveries and open new fields of inquiry.
CIFAR welcomes applications from candidates across the natural, biomedical, and social sciences, as well as the humanities. Successful applicants join one of CIFAR’s interdisciplinary research programs, collaborating with global research leaders to advance transformative knowledge and address some of the most important questions facing science and humanity.
In 2025/2026, the following CIFAR research programs are accepting applications:
- Child & Brain Development
- CIFAR MacMillan Multiscale Human
- Future Flourishing
- Humanity’s Urban Future
- Learning in Machines & Brains
- Quantum Materials
CIFAR programs are interdisciplinary, with an objective to spark new ideas, collaborations and knowledge advances. We welcome applications that offer new perspectives or approaches that could enrich and diversify a program’s scope.
Eligibility:
Early-career, Faculty & Pls
Link to RFP
Understanding and addressing the misalignment of care demands between an aging
population and a shortage of healthcare workers in the US requires research-ready data to study caregiving. Join IPUMS and NDIRA the morning of Wednesday, November 12 for a GSA workshop: Population Data for Studying Formal and Informal Caregiving.
- Overview of IPUMS data that are relevant to caregiving
- Demonstrations of features to streamline data management
- Discussions about analytical considerations
- Review of non-caregiving topical coverage in these data
- Guidance on identifying informal caregivers, the healthcare workforce, and individuals receiving home healthcare
- Opportunities for hands-on exercises and individual consultations
Please register to join us or circulate this opportunity with your networks. The early bird registration rate for GSA expires on September 3.
Sponsor: Social Sciences Research Council
Program: Economic Research Rescue Fund
https://www.ssrc.org/programs/economic-research-rescue-fund/
Award amount: $25K to $250K, with most awards under $50K
Sponsor deadline: Rolling; funds are limited – grantseekers should apply as soon as possible
Program Description:
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is dramatically reducing its vital support for scientific research. Principal Investigators who were conducting or facilitating economic research under a grant terminated by NSF can now apply for rescue funds to mitigate disruptions of work that promises to provide significant societal benefits.
Eligibility
To be eligible for rescue funding, a research project must:
- Have received an NSF funding award prior to 6/1/2025
- Had that award officially terminated, cancelled, or suspended by the NSF
- Be economics-related, as evidenced by the inclusion of the CV of at least one practicing PhD economist in the original NSF funding application
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.
CSDE Affiliate Avanti Adhia (Child, Family, and Population Health Nursing; Epidemiology), CSDE Trainee Ann E. Richey (Epidemiology) and co-authors published a research article, titled “Implementation of Teen Dating Violence (TDV) Laws and Policies in High Schools: Staff and Student Perceptions,” in the Journal of Adolescent Health. The authors conducted semistructured interviews with school staff and students in states that require districts to develop written TDV policies and provide educational programs to explore their knowledge and experience. While written laws and policies are promising systems-level strategies to reduce TDV, further resources and attention devoted to implementation are critical to ensure TDV is addressed effectively within schools. To read the full article, visit this link.
CSDE Affiliate Vince Wang (Real Estate) recently published an article titled, “Understanding the financial health of community land trusts in the United States,” in the Journal of Urban Affairs. Wang used Internal Revenue Service (IRS) data and survey responses and found that Community Land Trusts (CLTs) among the financially top-performing community-based development organizations in the US between 2012 and 2021. Performance of CLTs varied based on organizational characteristics such as the organization’s age, location, CLT type, and the presence of shared equity units. To read the full article, visit this link.
CSDE External Affiliate David Swanson (UC Riverside) was invited to present research results to the Research Committee of the Federal-State Cooperative Program for Population Estimates & Projections (FSCPE) on September 16, 2025. The virtual presentation, titled “Human Extinction: A Probabilistic Demographic Perspective” drew on an Association of Population Centers (APC) working paper by Swanson and co-author Jeff Tayman. Swanson and Tayman estimate with 66% confidence intervals that by 2139 the world population will be between 1.55 billion and 1.81 billion, by 2239, it will be between 4.95 million and 5.84 million, and by 2339 there will be no humans. The presentation was kindly organized by Xiuhong “Helen” You, Ph. D., Associate Director and Senior Demographer at the Texas Demographic Center, University of Texas, San Antonio, and was followed by a lively discussion. To read the working paper, visit this link.
CSDE Director Sara Curran recently participated in a public advisory panel to advise the Census Bureau on its plans for implementing differential privacy and its new Environmental Impacts Frame. The work was originally scheduled as part of the Census Scientific Advisory Committee, which the Trump administration disbanded this past spring. Members of the committee met anyway on Sept. 18 after reconstituting as an independent panel. “The [Census] Bureau continues to need independent expert advice, so that didn’t change,” said Barbara Entwisle, the chair of the former governmental committee and now head of the independent panel, in an interview with Government Executive. “So what impact will we have? I don’t know. But what I can say for sure is that if we don’t do this, then we won’t have an impact.” You can watch the recorded session and read more here.