The EMERGE Initiative seeks to support public data advocates in upholding the principles of transparency and evidence-based governance through advancing access to reliable, publicly accessible data. The work of our community serves as a crucial resource for state administrators, researchers, policymakers, journalists, and the American public. As a starting point, the project team conducted a thorough review of how emerging data gaps are impacting users of public data and identified steps to help the community navigate some of the short-term challenges. (Report available at https://ssrs.com/emerge-initiative/.)
Join lead researchers Chris Jackson and Darby Steiger for a discussion of what they found and what data users recommend.
CSDE External Affiliate and CSDE Alum Amy Spring (Georgia State), along with Federico Benassi, will edit a special of the Journal of Population Research and they invite contributions from population scholars—including demographers, population geographers and regional scientists—interested in the use of demography as a tool to inform territorial policies and regional planning. This special issue, “Place-based Demography for Regional Planning” welcomes a wide range of topics, including but not limited to depopulation, population aging, mobility and residential segregation, and population projections. Submissions may refer to different empirical contexts and territorial scales, and may adopt methodological, applied or theoretical perspectives.
The Office Of Naval Research (ONR) seeks proposal under the ONR Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education and Workforce Program, due June 30, 2026 at 2 PM PT. STEM education programs and activities are defined as formal or informal education primarily focused on physical and natural sciences, technology, engineering, social sciences, and mathematics (including environmental science education or stewardship).
Funding Available: The funded amount and period of performance of each proposal selected for award may vary depending on the technology area and the technical approach to be pursued by the offeror selected.
Types of Projects: Programs & activities should aim to achieve one or more outcomes: develop learners’ in STEM; attract students to pursue careers in STEM fields; Provide growth & research opportunities for post-secondary, college and graduate students in STEM fields; improve mentor/educator & capacity in STEM
PAA is hosting Government & Public Affairs Virtual Office Hours on Tuesday, June 30, 2026 at
9 AM PT / 12 PM ET. During this off-the-record event, Mary Jo Mitchell, PAA/APC Director of Government Affairs will give a brief update about what is happening at the federal level of interest to the population sciences. Then you will be able to ask questions and engage with your colleagues.
This series is for PAA Members only. The event will not be recorded. Please register in advance.
The next Government Affairs virtual office hour will be Tuesday, September 29 at 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET. You can register for that one now as well.
The FIS-2 project SOCIAL – Social Relations, Digital Technologies and Wellbeing of Older People is seeking expressions of interest by June 30 from potential candidates for future 18-month research appointments. Opportunities are available for both postdoctoral researchers and early-career researchers holding a Master’s degree. The project combines theory-driven social science research with advanced quantitative and computational methods to examine how social relationships and digital technologies shape wellbeing in later life. Candidates from a variety of disciplines are encouraged to apply, including: Sociology; Social Gerontology; Demography; Statistics; Data Science; Communication and Media Studies; Digital Studies; and Social Policy.
Additional information about the project and application process can be found
here
Studies in Family Planning is calling for abstract submissions for a special issue on “Rethinking Contraceptive Futures,” by June 30, 2026. This call for abstracts invites contributions that broaden and challenge traditional understandings of contraceptive use, access, and meaning. Contributions may engage explicitly with family planning debates but should foreground contraceptive practices and their evolving meanings within broader social and demographic paradigms. We seek papers that illuminate contraceptive practices as culturally, politically, and technologically embedded, and that situate contraception within the wider conversations that shape people’s lives. We welcome empirical (quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-methods), theoretical, methodological, and policy-oriented contributions from low- and middle-income (LMIC) and high-income (HIC) settings. Comparative and cross-context analyses are especially encouraged.
Abstracts should be at least 1 page in the main body, excluding references, figures, and tables. Abstracts should specify whether the authors envision submitting a commentary, theoretical perspective, report, or original research artic Please send abstracts by June 30, 2026 to rfriedman[@]popcouncil.org.
Authors will be notified by July 15 whether a full paper is invited for submission. The deadline for full papers is January 15, 2027. All submissions will be reviewed through the Studies’ double-anonymized peer review process. Articles are posted on Early View as they are accepted and processed. Special issue publication is planned for December 2027.
Data Wrangling in R
Description: This workshop will cover some of R’s useful tools for data management and exploration. Most of class will be devoted to learning Hadley Wickham’s excellent “tidyr” and “dplyr” packages. Attendees are assumed to have basic familiarity with R/RStudio.
- Instructor: Victoria Sass, CSSCR Consultant
- Date: Thursday, July 9, 2026
- Time: 10:00am – 11:20am
- Location: Savery 117 (Big Lab)
- Register here.
The preliminary program for this year’s Data-Intensive Research Conference is now available. Registration is open for both virtual and in-person participation through July 3; there is no registration fee to attend, but space is limited. Applications for the pre-conference workshop on IPUMS Full Count Census Data are open through April 1.
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