Weekly News, March 3, 2025

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The Berkeley Population Center (BPC) and the Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging (CEDA) invite you to join us for a webinar with ICPSR at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan on March 14th, 2025 from 10am-11am Pacific Time to learn about data depositing, sharing, and management. In the webinar, ICPSR staff will cover the following topics:

  • NIH data requirements
  • How ICPSR helps fulfill those requirements
  • Tips for data management
  • What to include in a Data Management & Sharing Plan
  • How to prepare to share data 

We welcome questions in advance, which you can email to Elie Draper (edraper@berkeley.edu) anytime leading up to the webinar, or bring them with you to the webinar. Please register to receive Zoom information: https://berkeley.zoom.us/meeting/register/5sb5qtkhSIeaZKuFD4gGdg 

Do you or your colleagues have new or forthcoming research that you want to share with policymakers, journalists, educators, or other non-academic audiences? The Population Reference Bureau (PRB), in collaboration with APC, is working to improve the dissemination of population and reproductive health findings. If you have peer-reviewed research on population dynamics, population health, or reproductive health that you would like to share with a broader audience in an easily digestible format, we may be able to help. Learn more. See some of the recent PRB/APC briefs:

The preliminary program and itinerary for the 2025 PAA Annual Meeting is live. This year you will find more than 270 oral sessions, which includes 18 flash sessions, 19 invited sessions, plus 10 poster sessions.

Dr. Irma Elo, President of Population Association of America (PAA), and Dr. Sarah Burgard, President of Association of Population Centers, jointly put out a Statement on Federal Data Access.

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See further announcements and opportunities below.

EVENTS

March 3  | 2-3:30pm | UC Berkeley Sociology Colloquium | “The Sociological Consequences of Tight Labor Markets: A Study in Two Parts.” with Katherine Newman, Elisabeth Jacobs, Elizabeth Emmott-Torres, Evelyn Bellew.  402 Social Sciences Building. Zoom link here. 

March 4  | 12:10-1pm | UC Berkeley School of Public Health Research Series | Lori Dorfman, Hina Mahmood “News Coverage of Racism as a Public Health Crisis.” Pre-register here.

March 6 | 3:30-5pm | City & Regional Planning Lecture | Dylan Connor, Associate Professor of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University. “Spatial & Racial Wealth Inequality in the U.S.” Location: Wurster, 106. See full event details here.

OPPORTUNITIES

Annual Meeting of the Interdisciplinary Network on Rural Population Health and Aging, April 4, 2025. The Interdisciplinary Network on Rural Population Health and Aging (INRPHA) will hold its annual meeting via Zoom on Friday, April 4, 2-4 EST. The meeting will feature a workshop on how to get NIH grants, updates from the National Institute on Aging about their funding priorities, and presentations from the network’s 2024 pilot grantees. A flyer with more information is attached. You do not have to be a member of INRPHA to attend. Registration is free. Register in advance here.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Social Science History Association Call for Papers Deadline Has Been Extended Until March 15th. The program committee chairs have decided to extend the Call for Papers until March 15th for the 50th Social Science History Association Conference in Chicago, November 20-23, 2025 at the Palmer House Hotel. Please consider submitting a paper or panel. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to executivedirector@ssha.org anytime. See the full CFP and submit here. 


New Zealand’s Population Conference (NZPopCon). The 2025 New Zealand Population Conference organised by the Population Association of New Zealand (PANZ) will be taking place on 10-11 July 2025 in Wellington, New Zealand. This is a few days before the start of the IUSSP Conference in Brisbane, Australia, and offers a unique opportunity for international scholars to present at both conferences and visit both New Zealand and Australia in a single trip. Deadline for abstract submissions: 18 April 2025. See the full Call for Papers here.

FUNDING

  1. Short Courses on Innovative Methodologies and Approaches in the Behavioral and Social Sciences: Now Accepting Applications. OBSSR, in collaboration with other NIH institutes, centers, and offices, is seeking applications to support the development of short courses focused on cutting-edge methodologies and analytics in behavioral and social sciences research (BSSR). This request for applications aims to enhance education and training in innovative data collection and analysis techniques, big data applications, and underutilized research designs that are essential for advancing BSSR but are not widely available through existing programs.

The proposed educational programs should:

• Integrate transdisciplinary skills and approaches, ensuring broad applicability across various BSSR domains.

• Provide knowledge and skills essential for advancing BSSR and/or integrating BSSR with other scientific and technological fields.

• Focus on widely applicable research methodologies and analytical techniques rather than specific disease areas to support broader advancements in BSSR.

Learn more here.

  1. Applications are currently open for five Grand Challenges (GC) request-for-proposals (RFPs). We encourage you to apply to the RFPs for which you are eligible. If you plan to apply, we invite you to register for the corresponding webinar and submit any questions that are not covered in the RFP or supporting documents using the links below. If you are unable to attend, recordings of the webinars will be available on the Grand Challenges website after the sessions.

The RFPs include:

Like all Grand Challenges projects over 20-plus years, the newly announced RFPs will foster innovation to address urgent global priorities, and the grantees, funders, and others in the Grand Challenges network will work in the spirit of partnership to maximize their combined impact. We invite you to read summaries of selected Grand Challenges grants, explore an interactive world map of projects across the Grand Challenges network, and sign up on the Grand Challenges website to receive email updates.

  1. The UC Reimagining Refuge Network. Call for Proposals. 2025 Seed Grants.  The UC Reimagining Refuge Network invites proposals for scholarly, activist and/or creative projects that critically address the impacts of current US (and global) immigration and asylum procedures, creatively construct a vision for the future of US migration and asylum, and/or identify pathways to just futures for 21st-century migrants. Recipients may propose traditional research projects, art, films, or community-based programs, reaching scholars, policymakers, activists, and/or migrant communities themselves. Recipients must be based in California, but projects may address these issues in California and/or in comparative or transnational contexts.

Background

Recent federal policy and local policing in the US have been dominated by the vilification, exclusion, caging, and banishment of (im)migrants. Meanwhile, community-based organizations, artists, and immigrants continue to defy such exclusion and strive to build more just futures. There is an urgent need for scholars to work with migrant communities to imagine and develop applied solutions to the current assaults on migrants and forge new forms of refuge. Funded by the University of California Office of the President (UCOP), Reimagining Refuge: California for Just Migrant Futures is a four-year initiative (2025-2028) aimed at establishing a network of emerging research, arts projects, activism, and community-based programs that critically analyze the current US migration regime and identify paths to migrant justice, particularly those rooted in California. Our projects center migrant perspectives, agency, and epistemologies and are led by California’s immigrant scholars and communities. 

Eligibility

Grants are open to: 

  1. Artists, activists, and/or NGOs based in California
  2. Graduate students enrolled at the University of California (any campus) who have completed coursework for their area of study as of Fall 2025.
  3. Faculty employed at the University of California (any campus) as of Fall 2025

Grant Amount

The maximum amount per award is $10,000. The grant can be used to complete an entire project, to provide seed money to start a larger project, or to accomplish smaller tasks of a larger project. We are especially interested in projects that engage communities as partners, are led by activists, artists, or scholars from immigrant families, and/or involve (im)migrant populations of California. Due to the competitive selection process, the final amount awarded may be less than the proposed budget. All funds must be spent by June 30, 2026.

Funds may support arts materials, research travel, books, living expense stipends (as taxable and financial aid reportable income), or other research or project-related expenses. Please note that any equipment purchased must be pre-approved and will be considered the property of the University of California (grants may not be used for the purchase of equipment, books, and/or materials for personal use).

Expectations & Outcomes

Recipients are responsible for two products:

Grantees will attend the Reimagining Refuge Convening on October 17-18, 2025 at the University of California-San Diego. At the convening, grantees will share their work (completed or in progress) with one another and the public, generating a diverse array of rigorous evidence and best practices to build a more just migration and asylum system in California, the US, and beyond. The Network will cover grantees’ travel and lodging expenses for this convening, on top of the award amount.

  1. Note: If travel to San Diego County is difficult due to immigration status, grantees may attend via Zoom or defer to a future convening in Irvine (2026), Berkeley (2027) or Santa Barbara (2028).

Each grantee will share a final product with the network no later than June 30, 2026. Products may include scholarly papers (such as a whitepapers, journal articles, book chapters, etc), policy briefs, artwork, films, plays, poetry, best practices graphics, advocacy and know-your-rights toolkits, or community-based programs or interventions, among others. To support publications, we will provide a professional editor to give feedback on written products. As appropriate, final projects may be posted on the UC Reimagining Refuge Website.

Note: All research involving human subjects must be reviewed by a UC Office for the Protection of Human Subjects (IRB) to ensure the protection of participants’ rights and welfare in the research process.

Application Checklist

To apply, please complete the form at the following link: https://forms.gle/mNmBJ9HxUaWo6LXj9 

Questions

Please direct questions to the project PI, Dr. Abigail Andrews, alandrews@ucsd.edu 

For more information about the Reimagining Refuge Network and the grant initiative, please visit https://ccis.ucsd.edu/programs/reimagining-refuge.html

  1. Social Science Prediction Platform – Outstanding Use of Forecasts Award
  2. Spencer Foundation Small Research Grants in Education

DATA

The State Policy & Politics Database (SPPD) is a compilation of annual data on state policies and politics that are particularly relevant for population health. The SPPD includes several categories of policies, including labor and economic policies, social safety net policies, and behavior-related policies, as well as the political ideology of states’ government and citizens. In V1.3, most variables are available annually from 1980 through 2023 or 2024. The SPPD is funded by the NIA P30 Center for Aging and Policy Studies. It can be accessed as a stand-alone dataset and it can be merged with geocoded survey datasets such as the HRS, PSID, and NHATS through the Virtual Data Enclave at the University of Michigan.

WORKSHOPS

Heat Measurement Webinar from the Center for Aging, Climate, & Health. The March seminar from the Center for Aging, Climate, & Health (CACHE) will discuss heat measures for aging and demographic research. It will address the properties and pertinence of using mean and extreme temperature measures, as well as using combined indicators of heat (temperature, humidity, radiation, or ventilation) and their adjustments by age. To illustrate these constructs, results and data integration strategies from two demonstration projects will be presented. Learn more and register here.

At PAA in Washington D.C.

Just announced: the Psychosocial Workshop is a two-day gathering of social scientists, public health researchers, and related professionals working on sexual and reproductive health issues, particularly those related to abortion, contraception, fertility, and sexually transmitted diseases. The signature format of the workshop is its dynamic series of five-minute presentations, where each speaker discusses current work or new ideas, that allows for peer feedback and dialogue in a collegial environment. Always held prior to the PAA Annual Meeting, this year the workshop will take place on Wednesday and Thursday, April 9 and 10, 2025 at the Marriott Marquis in Washington DC or virtually online. Learn more and register here.

The Center for Aging, Climate and Health (CACHE) also recently announced a 1-day mini-conference with the Interdisciplinary Network on Rural Population Health and Aging (INRPHA) ahead of the PAA Annual Conference. The mini-conference will feature research presentations and discussion on data resources and gaps at the intersection of aging, climate, and health. Led by INRPHA and CACHE, this session will bring together researchers to explore pressing challenges and opportunities in the field.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue 2026 in Comparative Population Studies (CPoS) on “Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course” Deadline for abstract submissions: 15 May 2025

This special issue, launched by the IUSSP’s Lifetime Migration panel, seeks to advance research on the diversity of migration trajectories—whether internal, international or interconnected—and their impact on both individual and societal outcomes.

You can find all the details on the motivation, submission process, and timeline in the attached call for papers or on the CPOS website.

Guest editors: 

  • Sergi Vidal (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
  • Aude Bernard (University of Queensland)
  • Riccardo Valente (Autonomous University of Barcelona)

Berkeley Population Center

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