When: Friday, Oct 11, 2024 (12:30-1:30PM)

Where: 360 Parrington Hall and on Zoom (register here)

We are looking forward to hosting Erin McElroy (Geography, UW) on Friday, Oct. 18th  in Parrington Hall 360 and on Zoom. This seminar is co-sponsored by the Population Health Initiative. 

In this presentation, Erin McElroy will discuss Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times, just published with Duke University Press. The book maps out processes of gentrification, racial dispossession, and economic predation that drove the development of Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area and also looks at how that logic has become manifest in postsocialist Romania. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and archival research in Romania and the United States, McElroy exposes the mechanisms through which the appeal of Silicon Valley technocapitalism devours space and societies, displaces residents, and generates extreme income inequality in order to expand its reach. The book also explores how in Romania, dreams of privatization have updated fascist pasts, often in the name of anticommunism. At the same time, McElroy accounts for the ways that activists resist Silicon Valley capitalist logics, building upon socialist-era worldviews not to restore state socialism but rather to establish more just social formations. Attending to the violence of Silicon Valley imperialism, McElroy reveals technocapitalism as an ultimately unsustainable model of rapacious economic and geographic growth.Dr. McElroy  will be joined by Nassim Parvin (Information School, UW) and Jenna Grant (Anthropology, UW). 

CSDE is pleased to introduce three new CSDE Affiliates! Leah Marcotte (Assistant Professor, Medicine) focuses on using community-engaged and implementation research methods in collaboration with community partners and health system leaders to sustainably improve equity and quality in cancer screening. Sana Khalil (Assistant Professor, Economics) integrates experimental and quasi-experimental techniques with qualitative surveys to explore issues in labor economics, behavioral economics, environmental resource management, and gender and development. Magali Blanco’s (Research Scientist, DEOHS) current research interests are around air pollution exposure assessment, Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD), and social disparities. Learn more about each affiliate in the full story!

CSDE Affiliate Maya Magarati, along with Myra Parker and the UW Seven Directions Center for Indigenous Public Health team, were recently awarded a $3 million grant through the NIH N CREW Initiative for Growing a Tribal Healing Effort through Research (GATHER). With this new grant, the UW Seven Directions team will serve as one of four core technical assistance and training hubs supporting the documentation and monitoring of tribal research grants focused on substance use, mental health, and pain management. Learn more about this project and other funded initiatives here.

Congratulations to CSDE Affiliate James Gregory (History) on his election to lead the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association (PCB-AHA). The PCB-AHA was organized in 1903 with a focus on the Western United States and the Western Provinces of Canada. Dr. Gregory will serve as President-elect during the 2024-25 year, then as President in 2025-2026.

Join CSDE Statistical Demographer & Training Director Jessica Godwin for 75 minute introduction data visualization in R. This workshop, the final in a series of 3, will cover all major types of plots in both base R and the tidyverse.

The workshop will be hybrid with in-person attendance in Savery 121 and a Zoom link for online attendance will be provided upon registration. Learn more and register here.

The CSSS Seminar features local and visiting scholars presenting current research at the intersection of statistics and the social sciences. Seminars are held on Wednesdays from 12:30-1:30 pm in room SAV 409 during an academic year. Seminars are available to anyone interested and are being presented in a hybrid format. To attend a seminar virtually, please register here.  An email with login information will be sent to you upon registration. 

In Fall 2024, CDWG is co-hosting weekly seminars with the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR). Researchers from both institutions will meet in hybrid to discuss novel data, methods, and applications of demographic and social science research. Example talks include The Structure of Opportunity and Wage Mobility by Dr. Michael Schultz, and Differentiating Emigration from Return Migration in Digital Trace Data: A case study of scholarly migration by Dr. Aliakbar Akbaritabar.

Qualitative methods in demography enable us to study the reasoning, motivations, processes and mechanisms underlying observed demographic behaviour and trends. However, as the demographic discipline predominantly uses quantitative methods, qualitative researchers can sometimes feel marginal. We would like to initiate a qualitative demography network, in which qualitative demographers and population studies researchers can exchange ideas, inspire each other, and brainstorm about the future role of qualitative research in demography.

If you are interested in joining our network, which aims to organise two thinkery sessions before the end of the year, please fill in the following form: https://forms.office.com/e/2T37Nqv5Yt

Special issue of Canadian Studies in Population on “Demographic Change and Challenges in the Americas”

• Deadline for submissions: 15 October 2024 

This special issue of Canadian Studies in Population will spotlight key demographic concerns facing the Americas, including migration, mortality and morbidity, fertility, and family dynamics, and provide a forward-looking introduction that sets an agenda for a more integrated approach to understanding demographic change in the region.

Join us for an Open Space-style event to help facilitate new collaborations between UW researchers who are interested in applying generative AI and large language models to pressing health challenges. Attendees at the event will set the agenda for discussion, offering to convene discussions on possible topics or projects where collaboration is sought. The formal program will be followed by an informal networking lunch. Learn more and register here.

While the idea of “to be counted is to be seen”, is often taken for granted as foundational for democracy, who is counted and why has changed numerous times in our nation’s history. These changes have impacts big and small and implications on politics and policymaking. In this lecture, Dr. Sara Curran will discuss past and present ways in which demographic diversity has been measured and why, and also the intersectional complexities of measuring demographic diversity.

On Friday, October 25th, CSDE Seminar Series Chair and Faculty Council Member of the Middle East Center Dr. Rawan Arar and Dr. Aria Fani (Middle East Center Faculty Council member) will host an event entitled “An evening of reflection on the life and activism of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi.” Late this summer, Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was killed while protesting in the West Bank. Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was a recent graduate of the UW.

The evening will include a musical performance and poetry readings, as well as a conversation with Cindy and Craig Corrie. Their daughter, Rachel Corrie, was also a human rights activist from WA who was killed while protesting in Palestine in 2003. Aysenur's family will be in attendance as well. We hope that this solemn event will be a meaningful recognition of our students' loss. Learn more about the event and how to attend at this link.

CSSS offers a limited number of grants for graduate and undergraduate students and postdoctoral researchers working with CSSS faculty affiliates to cover expenses associated with presenting research at conferences and attending workshops or courses.

These grants are awarded on a competitive basis after review by the CSSS Executive Committee. Preference is given to proposals which advance the long-term goals of CSSS, including: research in social statistics and quantitative methods in the social sciences,

The Postdoctoral Fellowship supports early-career scholars working in critical areas of educational scholarship. Fellows will receive $70,000 for one academic year of research, or $35,000 for each of two contiguous years, working half-time. Fellows attend professional development retreats and receive mentorship from NAEd members and other senior scholars in their field. Applicants must have had their PhD, EdD, or equivalent research degree conferred between January 1, 2019, and December 31, 2023, to be eligible to apply this year.

The National Center for Special Education Research released a new Fiscal Year 2025 grant competition.

Special Education Dissertation Research Fellowship Program (84.324G)

This program seeks to broaden opportunities for emerging researchers to engage with IES and conduct high-quality research related to learners with or at risk for disabilities. NCSER will provide financial support for advanced doctoral students­—under the guidance of a sponsor at their university—to conduct research in understudied areas related to learners, their families, practitioners, and policymakers.

• The application deadline is November 14, 2024.

SAVE THE DATE: Cultivating Connections for Community Engagement: Fall Quarter Community of Practice

• When/Where: Friday November 15th, 11am-12:30PM via Zoom (link)
• Who: Faculty and staff from Bothell, Seattle or Tacoma campus who are interested in community-engaged research and/or learning
• Why: To connect with faculty and staff from all 3 campuses who practice, support, or are interested in community engagement; to explore what’s happening across the UW in this space; and to generate ideas and share perspectives for building the university’s capacity for community-engaged scholarship, teaching and learning.

The NIH is now accepting applications for the Extramural Loan Repayment Program (LRP)! Awardees can receive up to $100,000 in qualified educational debt repayment with a two-year award.

To learn more about eligibility requirements, application dates, and the benefits of receiving an LRP award, be sure to visit the LRP website, check out our overview video, and attend one of our upcoming events:

• September 4 – LRP Twitter Chat
• October 7 – LRP Technical Assistance Webinar
• November 6 – Ask Me Anything

Please note that the deadline to submit your Extramural LRP application is November 21, 2024.

Population Research Planning Grants (PRPGs) are designed to provide in-kind support and/or funds of up to $25k* to support a wide array of activity types throughout the development of a research project. As part of our mission to complement rather than duplicate other campus opportunities such as the Population Health Initiative seed grants, we will consider funding things activities such as:

• Use of CSDE services beyond the standard allotments for affiliates.

CSDE Matching Support includes in-kind or monetary support to accompany a submission to other on-campus funding mechanism, such as PHI, EarthLab, or Urban@UW. All projects must have a CSDE affiliate who is UW faculty and is listed as a PI or co-PI, with any number of other collaborators. Note that we require (PRPGs) or strongly suggest (matching funds) contacting either Development Core Director (Steven Goodreau) or CSDE Director (Sara Curran) to discuss possibilities for your specific proposal before submission.

As of 5/20/2024, NSF proposals that may impact the resources or interests of a federally recognized Tribal Nation will not be awarded by NSF without prior written approval from the official(s) designated by the relevant Tribal Nation(s).

Proposers must:

• Seek guidance from the potentially impacted Tribal Nation on activities that require review and prior approval from that Tribal Nation’s authorized designee.
• Submit a written request to the relevant Tribal Nation (based on their guidance), for approval to carry out the proposed activity that requires their review and approval.
• Complete the checkbox for “Potential Impacts on Tribal Nations” on the Cover Sheet. Note, lead organizations are responsible for this on collaborative proposals & proposals with subawards considered a single unified project.
• Upload one of the following into "Other supplementary documents" of Research.gov:
  • a copy of the written request to the relevant Tribal Nation to carry out any proposed activity/activities that may require prior approval from them
  • written confirmation from the Tribal Nation(s) that review and approval is not required
  • a copy of relevant Tribal Nation approval

This notice provides the research and research training community an overview of application and peer review changes impacting grant applications submitted for due dates on or after January 25, 2025, including:

• Simplified Review Framework for Most Research Project Grant Applications
• Revisions to the NIH Fellowship Application and Review Process
• Updates to Reference Letter Guidance
• Updates to NRSA Training Grant Applications
• Updated Application Forms (FORMS-I)
• Common Forms for Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending (Other) Support

Although each of these initiatives has specific goals, they are all meant to simplify, clarify, and/or promote greater fairness towards a level playing field for applicants throughout the application and review processes.