• When: Friday, October 10, 2025 (12:30 – 1:30PM)
• Where: 360 Parrington Hall and on Zoom 

We look forward to welcoming a team of researchers from the University of Washington (UW) Department of Sociology, led by CSDE Affiliate Nathalie Williams and including CSDE Trainees Hugo Aguas, Mingze Li, Aryaa Rajouria, as well as Yuanxi Li, Brandon Morande, and Caroline Teague. All presenters are at the University of Washington and affiliated with the Sociology Department. This seminar is co-sponsored by the Population Health Initiative.

Surveys of people experiencing homelessness traditionally focus on questions related to their housing statuses, often excluding broader topics asked of the general population. As a result, research frequently fails to capture the full humanity and lived experiences of this diverse community. This Sound Data project seeks to address this gap by conducting a survey on a representative sample of unhoused respondents on a variety of subjects about social life and well-being. The report presents the results from a survey collected during Spring 2023 in Seattle, WA. This findings clarify the community’s demographic composition, highlights patterns in homelessness duration, eviction histories, forced displacement, and resource access, broadens our understanding of employment statuses, uncovers trends in physical, mental, and behavioral health conditions, and provides insight into the diversity of respondents’ religious, political, and national backgrounds.

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.

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.

The Population Research Center at Portland State University, directed by CSDE External Affiliate Ethan Sharygin (Portland State University), has published a resource guide for finding federal data during the shutdown.  These sources include Census Reporter, Esri, PolicyMap, IPUMS, NHGIS, and the Data Rescue Project Portal.

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.

CSDE Affiliates Laura Dwyer-Lindgren (Health Metrics Sciences) and Ali Mokdad (Health Metrics Sciences) just published an article titled, “Using Mortality and Years-of-Life-Lost Metrics to Evaluate Health System Performance and Inform Health Care Policy,” in the New England Journal of Medicine: Catalyst. The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) collaborated with Kaiser Permanente (KP) to augment KP’s existing suite of quality measures with estimates of mortality rates and years-of-life-lost (YLL) rates for KP members.

Each quarter, CSDE offers 3-5 workshops on data sources, statistical and biomarker methodology, introductions to analysis programs, and more, all given by CSDE staff and faculty affiliates. These workshops can include hands-on training in novel methods and programming, lectures on innovative data sources, and discussions of important issues in research and data collection. 

• Probabilistic Population Projections II: Practice
  • Date & Time: Thursday, Oct. 9 @ 10:00AM–11:30AM
  • Instructor: Hana Ševčíková
• The Northwest Federal Statistical Research Data Center (NWFSRDC): Enabling Access to Confidential Microdata from U.S. Federal Government Agencies
  • Date & Time: Wednesday, Oct. 15 @ 12:30PM–1:30PM
  • Instructor: Sofia Ayala
• Biomarkers in the Social Sciences and the CSDE Biodemography Lab
  • Date & Time: Thursday, Oct. 16 @ 12:30PM–1:30PM
  • Instructor: Tiffany Pan

If you have a data set that is really important for you and has valuable impact more generally, then consider telling your story to Essential Data U.S. (https://essentialdata.us/).  They are seeking to build a compendium of cases that convey compelling real-world examples of how federal data can benefit the American people and economy. Your story will help data users and advocates be more effective when engaging with lawmakers and federal agencies for continued resourcing of federal data programs.  

The Centre for Migration Studies at University of British Columbia has just posted materials from a September conference on Narrative and Computational Text Analysis for research on migration and citizenship. The materials are relevant to anyone who is relatively new to computation text analysis and curious to learn more. You can download the materials from the workshop here. 

Are you wondering how to advertise research opportunities to UW undergraduates? You can promote undergraduate research opportunities on the UW Office of Undergraduate Research’s Research Opportunities Database. Please take a moment and fill out a brief form in which you will be asked to describe a defined project or research area that an undergraduate could participate in.

Do you want to learn more about mentorship? RSVP today for special offerings for research mentors starting October 9. 

IPUMS has just published updates on new data from IPUMS.  There are recent releases from IPUMS International, IPUMS CPS, IPUMS Global Health.  There is also a new blog post on how to access International Census Data Tables in R.

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.

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:

• Code linking SHELDUS with ACS Data
• Analysis Using the Household Pulse Survey – Disaster Displacement
• Add your code to others’ code or explore more….

The CACHE team would like to hear about what you are reading… submit a post here or see posts about what others are reading.

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.

On behalf of the co-organizers, the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of IDPs, Paula Gaviria Betancur, the Climate Migration and Displacement Platform (CMDP), the Coalition on Dignified Climate Relocation, Water Initiatives, India and the Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD), you are invited to join us for two Virtual Dialogues on Planned Relocation in the Context of Disasters and Climate Change on October  16 and 17,2025.

You can register and join a session on the time zone suitable for you using the registration links below:

16 October 2025 – Americas/Africa/Europe

17 October 2025 – Asia/Pacific

The electoral successes of anti-democratic movements cannot be explained solely by the demographic or socio-economic characteristics of individual groups. More decisive are local perceptions of problems and narratives of loss in the context of demographic change. These manifest in a perceived political overload, blame and the supposed failure of ‘established’ politics.

Award amount: $72,000

Deadline: 11/05/2025

 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.

The third Call for Letters of Interest (LOI) for a training opportunity at the Washington Learning Health System Embedded Scientist Training and Research (LHS E-STAR) Center. This third and final round of scholars will conduct research projects at Community Health Association of Spokane and HealthPoint. Learn more about the E-STAR Center on their website: Applications :: ACT Center (act-center.org)

Understanding and addressing the misalignment of care demands between an agingpopulation and a shortage of healthcare workers in the US requires research-ready data to study caregiving. Join IPUMS and NDIRA on Wednesday, November 12 for a GSA workshop: Population Data for Studying Formal and Informal Caregiving.

The conference will be held in hybrid format.

Migration is a highly debated yet divisive topic in today’s public and policy discourse. In low fertility societies, migration is the main driver of population change and is essential for maintaining a stable labour force. Although it is often presented in simplistic terms, migration is a complex phenomenon shaped by the interplay of multiple drivers and barriers.

The University of Washington Research and Engagement on Adaptation for Climate and Health (REACH) Center is accepting applications to the Implementation and Evaluation Fellowship until November 28. The Fellowship provides teams of fellows with $60,000 of funding and training to conduct an implementation science project to evaluate or improve the uptake of a climate and health-related project or program.

CACHE facilitates research and fosters collaboration among a wide-range of researchers working at the nexus of aging, health and climate change through targeted interdisciplinary training, information sharing, and investments in research support. To view their September 2025 Newsletter that contains upcoming CACHE Seminars, Call for Papers, CACHE Seminar Recordings, and more, follow this link: CACHE September Newsletter.

Data from the NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) along with other recent data releases are now available through a special CIESIN subcollection of the CAFE collection on the Harvard Dataverse. CAFE is the Research Coordinating Center for Health and Extreme Weather, based at Boston University School of Public Health and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The spatial data produced or curated by SEDAC were specifically intended to facilitate integration with gridded Earth science data,

The September 2025 issue of Population and Development Review was just published by the Population Council.  Read more here: the newest edition of Population and Development Review!

Dr. Melanie Martin is looking for a graduate student collaborator(s) to help with a year-long community-based participatory research project based in a local Lake City elementary school to study the impacts of culturally sustaining and asset-based pedagogical approaches in early education. 

Award amount: $25K to $250K, with most awards under $50K

Sponsor deadline: Rolling; funds are limited – grantseekers should apply as soon as possible

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.

Dewey Data is a research platform that provides access to third-party datasets across a variety of data categories including foot traffic, construction permits, healthcare, workforce, consumer behavior, and transportation.

University of Washington faculty, students, and researchers are eligible for access and must register an individual account. Follow this link to learn about how to register.

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.