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CSDE’s seminar series closed out the autumn quarter with an excellent poster session, featuring CSDE Trainees and students Isaac Sederbaum (Doctoral Candidate, Evans School of Public Policy), Mingze Li (Doctoral Student, Sociology), Sarah Kilpatrick (MS Student, Data Science) and Man-Lin Chen (Doctoral Student, Sociology).

Isaac Sederbaum took home the prize with a poster and presentation entitled “'I Deadnamed Myself Until my Documents Matched': Trans People and the Psychological Costs of Citizen-State Interactions in the US." CSDE extends a special thank you to Desiree Salais, Jessica Godwin, Jill Fulmore and Maddie Farris for organizing the event and the CSDE Faculty Affiliate Feedback Panel: Audrey Dorelien, Rawan Arar, and Joan Casey. CSDE wishes everyone a happy holiday and appreciates all who helped make fall’s seminar series a success!

CSDE Affiliate Donald Chi was featured in a recent story from Side Effects and WFYI Public Media about the recent news surrounding incoming Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Director Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s skepticism of water fluoridation. In the article, Dr. Chi explains that oral health in the U.S. generally declined during the COVID-19 pandemic and argues that water fluoridation is still important – especially in areas where rates of tooth decay are particularly high.

In 2006, an “Eight Americas” study partitioned the U.S. into eight demographic groups and identified dramatic life expectancy gaps between the groups. In a recent publication in The Lancet, CSDE Affiliates Laura Dwyer-Lindgren (Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation), Ali Mokdad (Health Metrics Sciences, Epidemiology) and co-authors present an updated analysis of data from 2000 – 2021 and identify ten distinct groups during that time period. The study, entitled “Ten Americas: a systematic analysis of life expectancy disparities in the USA,” confirms the persistence of dramatic inequalities and suggests opportunities for targeted action in response. Read the full article here.

On December 5, Dr. Thom McDade (Anthropology, Northwestern University) joined the CSDE Biomarker Working Group and gave a seminar entitled “Three common assumptions about inflammation and aging that are probably wrong.” He is a leader in the field of biomarkers for population health research. His work focuses on how experiences become biology across the life course, and his lab, like the UW Biodemography Lab, specializes in the development and application of minimally invasive methods for studying human biology and health in diverse community-based settings around the world.

CSDE Trainees are encouraged to select one of these courses as a Demographic Methods Certificate elective. CSDE Affiliates, please share these courses with your students:

CSDE Core Courses Winter 2025

SOC/CSSS/CSDE 533: Research Methods in Demography (3 or 5 credits)

• Instructor: Jessica Godwin
• Note: 5 credit version (B sections) includes an R lab and is required for completion of the Graduate Certificate in Demographic Methods

Recommended Electives Winter 2025

STAT/CSSS/SOC 534: Statistical Methods for Spatial Data (3 credits)

• Instructor: Jon Wakefield 

EPI 548/HSERV 548: Research Methods for Social and Contextual Determinants of Health (3 credits)

• Instructor: Anjum Hajat

G H/HSERV 544: Maternal and Child Health in Low and Middle Income Countries (3 credits)

• Instructor: Donna Denno

EPI 521/HSERV 542: Epidemiology of Maternal and Child Health Problems (3 credits)

• Instructor: Daniel Enquobahrie

BIOST/EPI 537: Survival Data Analysis in Epidemiology (4 credits)

• Instructor: Ting Ye

EPI 550/G H 552: Understanding Pandemics: When People, Pathogens, and a Changing Planet Collide (3 credits)

• Instructor: Julianne Meisner

If you have any questions regarding these courses or the CSDE Certificate Program, please reach out to CSDE Certificate Program Advisor, Jill Fulmore (fulmore@uw.edu). You can view the CSDE Certificate Program details here.

IPUMS USA has released the 2023 ACS and PRCS 1-year PUMS data, including updates to race variables that reflect changes first implemented in the 2020 questionnaire. This data also incorporates the 2022 industry codes in the IND and INDNAICS variables. Learn more here.

The University of Washington eScience Institute is partnering with Microsoft on the new UW Azure GenAI for Science Hub. Through this Hub we are offering cloud computing credits to UW researchers (faculty, postdocs, research staff) from all 3 UW campuses for projects where utilization of generative AI is central to accomplishing their research goals. Grants of up to $15,000 in Azure credits will enable access to AI Studio, Azure OpenAI Services, and GPUs as well as other standard Azure services. Proposals will be accepted on a rolling basis, with priority given to applications submitted by Friday, January 10th. Learn more here.

Did you know that UW Libraries has resources available to support open source publication costs in some journals? Learn more about how to take advantage of these opportunities here.

IPUMS Contextual Determinants of Health (CDOH) released a new dataset created in collaboration with the CRT Forward Tracking Project at UCLA. The CRT Forward Tracking Project provides detailed information about anti-critical race theory (CRT) measures introduced by various government entities. The dataset describes the type of conduct that is restricted or required, the regulated institutions, specifics of the targeted conduct, and enforcement mechanisms that regulate the conduct. IPUMS CDOH incorporates geographic identifiers for the government entities, allowing researchers to link data from sources like the ACS or National Center for Education Statistics' Common Core of Data. Learn more here.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Food Insight Group, and Chef Ann Foundation recently announced a Request for Research Proposals entitled “Understanding the School Food Workforce Subgrants.” The group is looking for research projects that will increase understanding of the current state of the K-12 school food workforce in the United States and/or explore strategies to create a stable and respected workforce that can provide healthy meals to students while supporting resilient local and regional food systems. You are invited to join an informational webinar on December 18 (register here) and access the full RFP here.

We invite early career faculty affiliates to join our new mailing list, csde_earlycareer.  Among other things, this is the way to find out info about our quarterly Early Career Affiliate happy hours, and you won't want to miss those! These will be a great way to meet up with other junior scholars in a fun and casual atmosphere over snacks and drinks. Who counts as early career, you ask? Typically we mean folks who are pre-promotion (i.e. assistant professor or equivalent), but we're not strict! Join the list here (Please note - this is for faculty only - we are strict about that. Sorry, all others!)

The National Center for Education Research at IES released a new funding announcement for Research Training Programs in the Education Sciences (84.305B) for Fiscal Year 2025 (FY 2025). These research training programs seek to train and mentor students and researchers to encourage their entry into and success in education research careers. These investments are intended to improve the quality of education research and to build talent in the education sciences workforce. The four training programs are:

• Early Career Development and Mentoring Program for Education Research
• Pathways to the Education Sciences Training Program
• Predoctoral Interdisciplinary Research Training Program in the Education Sciences
• Methods Training for Education Researchers

For FY 2025,  The Early Career Development and Mentoring Program for Faculty at Minority Serving Institutions has been merged with Early Career Development and Mentoring Program for Education Research.

See Important Dates and Deadlines for FY 2025 Competitions for more information.

• All application packages are now available on Grants.gov
• The application deadline for 84.305B is March 7, 2025

The Team Science Workshop is a free, interactive training intended for interdisciplinary research teams working on a translational research project/study or within a research center. Teams will learn the theory and practice of team science. This workshop will be offered virtually during four 2-hour sessions on Wednesdays and Thursdays over a 2-week period. Each day, we will focus the first 90 minutes on team science education and training, and the final 30 minutes on team working sessions.

The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) is inviting applications from qualified and highly-motivated students for a Summer Research Visit. The goal of the Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program is to enable discovery by bringing together data scientists and population scientists to work on focused, intensive and collaborative projects of broad societal relevance.

For a period of 3 months (June 2^nd – August 22^nd, 2025) participating students will work in small teams, with support from experienced mentors, towards a common research goal. For the summer of 2025, the focus of the program will be on three main research areas:

1)    “Climate Change and Mobility” mentored by Risto Conte Keivabu, Ebru Sanlitürk, and Monica Alexander (University of Toronto);

2)    “Machine Learning for Life Course Trajectories” mentored by Linda Vecgaile, Bruno Arpino (University of Padova) and Emilio Zagheni;

3)    “Mortality in War Settings” mentored by Yvette Young, Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, Enrique Acosta (Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics -CED) and Irena Chen.

Learn more about this opportunity here. Applications are due by January 8th, 2025.

The Population Health Initiative recently announced the availability of Tier 2 Pilot Grants. The purpose of this tier of grants is to support faculty and PI-eligible staff to develop preliminary data or proof-of-concept needed to pursue follow-on funding to scale one’s efforts. Awards of up to $65,000 each will be available to interdisciplinary research teams. Letters of intent are due January 13, 2025. Learn more about the opportunity and previously funded projects here.

Applications for the Office of Global Affairs’ Global Innovation Fund are now open. This grant opportunity is intended to develop cross-college and cross-continent research collaborations, with award opportunities from $3,000 to $20,000 available to support fellowships, research projects, study abroad/away and teaching. Learn more about the various opportunities here. Applications are due January 31, 2025.

Abstract submissions are now open for the 2025 Data-Intensive Research Conference. The 2025 conference theme is Understanding Health and Population Dynamics through Big Microdata. We seek submissions that use full count census data to examine health and population dynamics. We are particularly interested in projects that link persons, families, or communities across censuses or link full count data to other sources, including the creation of place-based measures or person-level linkages to external data.

Empirical evidence shows that many migrants who are seemingly well “integrated” actually do not feel at home, report more discrimination and experience a weaker sense of belonging to their residence country than seemingly less integrated migrants. The literature on the integration paradox (IP) has expanded significantly in recent years, but it still falls short on longitudinal perspectives and empirical evidence on the underlying mechanisms and scope of countries and migrant groups studied. The International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) recently announced a research workshop at Utrecht University (Netherlands) on this subject.

Call for papers: Gender & Society Special Issue — Feminist Metascience, Feminist Open Science? Pain Points and Possibilities, due by Feb 1st, 2025.

Guest Editors: Christin L. Munsch (University of Connecticut) and Daisy Verduzco Reyes (UC-Merced)

This special issue explores the relationship between feminism, metascience, and open science, seemingly disparate areas of inquiry of contemporary significance. This special issue will be a forum for feminist scholars to explore these relationships.

Topics to be considered include, but are not limited to: the impact of open science on gender justice; bias and discrimination in research participation, academia, research, and publishing; experiences of marginalized groups in social science; the role of metascience in shaping inclusive research practices; feminist epistemologies including Black feminisms, Latinx feminisms, and feminisms of the global South; feminist methodology; gender and academic fraud and/or error; gender and participation in open science practices like data-sharing; reproducibility projects as gendered; research transparency as gendered; feminist research ethics; gendered public engagement; peer review; the evaluation of scientific impact; and publishing and publication bias. We welcome papers that employ quantitative and qualitative methods and perspectives, draw attention to culturally and politically distinctive struggles; incorporate power structures such as colonialisms, nationalisms, religion, ethnicity, and globalization in their analyses; or otherwise challenge hegemonic discourses and epistemologies.

The NSF’s Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program reissued its call for proposals. The call invites senior research proposals, early career development proposals, research coordination network proposals, conference and research community development activities, research experiences for undergraduates and graduates, and transdisciplinary research in environmental social science.  The objective of the Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences program is to support basic scientific research about the nature, causes, consequences, or evolution of the spatial dimensions of human behaviors, activities, and dynamics as well as their interactions with environmental and social processes across a range of scales. Contemporary geographical research encompasses diverse research traditions and methodologies. Recognizing the breadth of the field's contributions to science, the HEGS program welcomes proposals for empirically grounded, theoretically engaged, methodologically rigorous, and generalizable research that advances geographical and geospatial sciences. Visit this link to learn more.

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 the 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.

The IPUMS Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) recently announced a new data release. IPUMS now includes 2022 data released by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) earlier this year. This initial release updates over 1,100 variables from the Full Year Consolidated, Condition, Event, Prescribed Medicine, Appendix to the Event, and Pooled Variance files and adds variables about Long COVID. Learn more here.

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