We are looking forward to hosting CSDE Affiliate Gabriella Levy from the University of Washington on Friday, February 20 in Parrington Hall 360 and on Zoom. This seminar is co-sponsored by the Population Health Initiative.

What determines support for police restraint in times of social protest? Previous research shows perceptions of protest violence increase support for repression. We argue that protests violating social norms are also seen as less deserving of restraint— even when they pose no physical threat. Focusing on gender-related protests, we test this argument using a survey experiment in Bogota, Colombia, which like many cities in Latin America has repeatedly experienced women-led protests in recent years. Our results show that protests for LGBTQ+ rights and expanded abortion access reduce support for restraint compared to demands that are less threatening to the social order, even though perceptions of violence do not vary by protest goals. Non-violent protest tactics that violate traditional gender norms also reduce support for police restraint. These findings suggest that the right to peacefully protest—an essential component of liberal democracy—is sensitive to the perceived normative subversiveness of protest demands and tactics.

CSDE Affiliate Julianne Meisner (Global Health & Epidemiology) has been appointed to the Directorship of the University of Washington Center for One Health Research (COHR). The COHR is an Organizational Research Unit (ORU) that sits between the Departments of Environmental & Occupational Sciences and DGH. Meisner previously served as the Center’s Deputy Director and is recognized internationally as a leader in the One Health field. Her innovative research portfolio—including critical field studies in the Middle East and Mongolia—sits at the cutting edge of human, animal, and environmental health. Congratulations, Dr. Meisner!

CSDE Trainee Will von Geldern (Public Policy) published an opinion piece in the Seattle Times that draws on findings from his dissertation research and work with CSDE Affiliates Rachel Fyall (Public Policy) and Karin Martin (Public Policy). The op-ed addresses the “right to counsel” law in Washington, which was intended to ensure legal representation for tenants who receive public assistance or who have very low incomes. Five years after the bill's passing, however, less than half of tenants receive legal assistance during the eviction process. In the article, von Geldern argues that the decision to create the right-to-counsel program without fixing the underlying eviction process has contributed to a persistent gap in tenants' access to justice.

With support from the Social Sciences Research Council (SSRC) and funding from NICHD, CSDE has launched a six month program to forge and strengthen partnerships between public-serving organizations in Washington and UW researchers.  The initiative begins with a call for applications from public-serving organizations in Washington due February 20.  Please visit our landing page to learn more.  If you are a UW researcher who has connections to public-serving organizations, please let us know by filling out this form. 

Each quarter, CSDE offers 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. Over the course of the academic year, CSDE will offer a diverse and exciting set of workshops, some of which will be offered in person and others remotely via Zoom.

• Probabilistic Population Projections I: Theory
  
  • Date & Time: Tuesday, Feb 24 @ 9:00AM–10:30AM
  • Instructor: Hana Ševčíková
• Probabilistic Population Projections II: Practice
  
  • Date & Time: Thursday, Feb 26 @ 9:00AM–10:30AM
  • Instructor: Hana Ševčíková

The NIH will be accepting applications under the new multi-component award structure. Please see PA 26-002 “NIH Collaborative International Research Project (Parent PF5 Clinical Trial Optional)” for more details.

On February 18 from 10-11 AM , the UW Computational Demography Working Group will host Dr. Changjie Chen (University of Florida). Dr. Chen will deliver a talk titled :Urban digital twins: An emerging computational framework for making sense of cities.”  The talk will be held both in person at Raitt 223 and via zoom.  A sign-up link is here for Dr. Chen to meet CSDE affiliated students and researchers 1 on 1 during his visit.

Join us for the next event in the Human Trafficking Prevention Lecture Series, “The Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People,” taking place on Thursday, February 19 from 3:30–5 PM in Cunningham Halh. The event is Hosted by the UW Women’s Center and the UW School of Social Work. This lecture features Carolyn DeFord, an activist, advocate, and the founder of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People, a grassroots organization that raises awareness and supports the families of missing and murdered Indigenous people.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is requesting public input on its proposal to establish harmonized and transparent policy requirements for protecting human participant research data. Specifically, NIH proposes to: (1) establish policy requirements for which data should be controlled-access under NIH data sharing policies, and (2)  revise the NIH Genomic Data Sharing Policy to simplify and harmonize requirements.The full proposal can be found here. Stakeholders are invited to provide feedback on the policy proposals as described in the request for information.

Join the Association of Public Data Users on February 24 at 1 PM for a discussion with Megan Brown, lead author of "Web scraping for research: Legal, ethical, institutional, and scientific considerations." The discussion will cover an overview of the regulatory environment, as well as the legal, ethical, institutional, and scientific factors that researchers should consider when scraping the web. Brown will also share insights on how to mitigate risks and maximize the impact of research. This webinar is co-hosted by the Massive Data Institute at Georgetown.

The Anthropology & Demography Unit of the Athens Institute will hold its 13th Annual International Conference on Demography and Population Studies, June 15-19, in Athens, Greece.  The deadline for abstract submissions is February 24. All information at: https://www.atiner.gr/demography. The aim of the conference is to bring together academics and researchers from all areas of Demography and Population Studies and other related disciplines.

Organization: UW Civic Health Initiative

Award amount: $2,000-$25,000

Sponsor deadline: 02/06/2026

Description:  The University of Washington Civic Health Initiative has released a funding call for three different categories of small grants. These grant programs are designed to foster new collaborations and innovations that strengthen civic health and democratic institutions nationwide. Innovations proposed for funding to these grant programs must align with one or more of the areas of focus for the Initiative’s work. (read more)

The Office of Research invites applications for the next round of the Royalty Research Fund (RRF) grant program. Proposals are due to RRF by Monday, March 2, at 5 PM.  However, Departments and Colleges/Schools may have earlier deadlines, so all applicants are advised to check with their program’s administrative staff. The CAS Dean’s office requests proposals be submitted to their office by 5pm, Thursday, February 26. Proposals that arrive to Office of Research 3-4 business days before the deadline guarantees that the that the RRF staff have time to review and provide feedback on proposals. The Office of Research will host Zoom Office Hours at 1pm on Friday, February 13; Wednesday, February 18; and Wednesday, February 25. PI Eligibility guidance is documented for the RRF Program and for the College.

The 12th Annual Workshop on Formal Demography will be held in person at UC Berkeley from June 1 – 5, with funding from Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and co-sponsored by the Berkeley Population Center. Apply here by March 1.

The workshop will cover classic topics in formal demography including the analysis of fertility and mortality as well as population dynamics. In addition, this year’s special emphasis topic will be on the demography of population decline and aging, including formal demographic models for studying the impact of changes in fertility and the timing of population peaks. The workshop will also include a session on the application of LLMs in demographic research in general and formal demography in particular.

ICPSR is now accepting scholarship applications for the 2026 ICPSR Summer Program! These scholarships provide fee waivers for one of our General Sessions, a four week program that includes methods Courses plus math and computing Lectures. In addition to fee waivers, some scholarships also provide support for in-person participation, including on-campus housing and meals. For details on each scholarship and the application process, please visit ICPSR’s scholarship page. The deadline to apply for an ICPSR scholarship is March 1.

The UW School of Public Health invites you to the UW SPH Center Discovery Expo on Friday, March 6 from 12 – 2 PM at the UW wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Intellectual House, Seattle campus. RSVP here.  More than 30 centers and cores are invited to present their research and practice impact in an exhibition poster session format. The expo is our largest demonstration of how our centers create healthier communities in Washington and across the globe.

Submit your work for the 2026 Annual IAPHS Conference in Portland, OR!

Theme: Reimagining Population Health Science to Build Trust and Influence​
​Dates: September 29 – October 2, 2026
​Submission Window: December 2, 2025 – March 10, 2026

IAPHS is currently seeking abstract reviewers and is accepting Student Travel Scholarship applications until March 8. 

Award amount: $2,500.000

Number of applications UW can put forward: 1

OR internal deadline: 3/11/2026

OSP deadline: 4/6/2026

Sponsor deadline: 4/15/2026 

Program Description: Wildfire Smoke Preparedness in Community Building is a federal grant program to enhance community wildfire smoke preparedness. This program provides grants to states, federally recognized Tribes, public pre-schools, local educational agencies, and non-profit organizations for the assessment, prevention, control, or abatement of wildfire smoke hazards in community buildings and related activities. These grants are intended to support activities that will reduce indoor exposure to pollutants in wildfire smoke and, in turn, reduce the public health burden of wildfire smoke exposure. Activities may include research, demonstrations, technical assistance, training, education and/or outreach components. Applications must target public buildings or buildings that serve the public. (read more)

The Population Council invites applications for Editors, Population & Development Review (PDR). Individual applications as well as applications for Co-Editor teams that pair senior scholars working with mid-career scholars are welcomed by March 16, 2026. Two Editors will be appointed for a three-year term, beginning January 1, 2027. The term can be extended to five years total at the discretion of the Council.

Organization: William T. Grant Scholars Program 2026 (Limited Submission Opportunity)

Award amount:  Each Scholar receives exactly $425,000 over five years, including up to 7.5% indirect costs. Awards begin July 1 of the award year and are made to the applicant’s institution.

UW internal deadline: 03/18/2026

Description: The William T. Grant Scholars Program supports career development for promising early-career researchers. The program funds five-year research and mentoring plans that significantly expand researchers’ expertise in new disciplines, methods, and content areas. (read more)

The European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) is an eleven-month, fully funded program that aims to provide students with a comprehensive and rigorous education in demography to pursue their doctoral studies. The EDSD provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the causes and consequences of demographic change, population data, statistical and mathematical demography, as well as modeling, simulation, and forecasting techniques. The program’s coursework, taught by leading experts in the field, emphasizes strengthening the quantitative and programming skills of its participants. Applications are due March 27 at noon CET. To apply, click here.

The Vienna Yearbook of Population Research welcomes submissions for a Special Issue on “Demographic perspectives on migration”. Submit your manuscript until May 15, 2026. The editors invite contributions expanding the state-of-the-art knowledge and methodological approaches across a broad range of migration topics, including trends and spatial patterns, innovative data and methods, socio-economic inequalities, drivers of mobility and immobility, climate-related and crisis-driven migration, and links between migration and family or health outcomes.

IPUMS announces the release of the latest ACS 5-year summary file data from IPUMS NHGIS, a new tool to help researchers understand linking counts between the ATUS and CPS, and even more geography variables from IPUMS USA.

IPUMS USA has added geography variables, including a new consistent PUMA variable, CPUMA1020, which creates consistent geographic boundaries across 2010 and 2020 PUMA definitions, spanning the 2012–2024 samples. Users can also find new Migration and Place-of-Work variables based on 2023 metropolitan statistical area (MSA) definitions.

IPUMS NHGIS has added the 2020-2024 5-Year Summary File from the American Community Survey (ACS). Nearly 1,200 new summary tables are now available for geographic areas as small as block groups. NHGIS also extended its time series tables to include 2020-2024 ACS 5-year data and added new 2024 GIS boundary files.

IPUMS ATUS has released ATUS-CPS Linking Counts, an interactive tool for exploring the number of ATUS respondents who can be linked to specific months of the CPS. Check out our latest blog post for an introduction of how to use this tool to take advantage of the research potential of the ATUS-CPS linkage

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.

Several new data sets have been added to the platform in the last few months. TenderAlpha features global government procurement data from over a dozen countries dating back to 2010. Veridion Core Company Profiles features comprehensive coverage of private companies and SMEs, populations typically underrepresented in public company datasets. LobbyingData provides federal U.S. lobbying data from 1999-present.

CSSS provides free statistical consulting to current UW faculty, staff, and students working on social science problems.  They offer guidance at any stage of a project — from study design and planning through the selection and interpretation of statistical models. During Winter 2026 quarter, CSSS has two consulting options: scheduled appointments and drop-in sessions. See further details on the CSSS website.