The Berkeley Population Center (BPC) and the Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging (CEDA) are seeking proposals to fund for innovative events that are aligned with BPC and CEDA’s signature themes. This could be in the form of workshops, mini-conferences, meetings, webinars, or other substantive activities that our Centers could help you advance. BPC and CEDA will provide full or co-support for events that could range from low budget lunches to workshop events up to $20,000. Read the full call for proposals.

Join us for our next Brownbag Seminar on Wednesday, September 17th, 12pm, with Marianne Bitler, Professor and Chair at the Department of Economics, UC Davis. Professor Bitler will present, “Experimental Evidence on Distributional Effects of Head Start.” The event will take place in Room 310 in the Social Sciences Building and will also be available via Zoom. See the full event details here. Our YouTube channel is here. Visit our Brownbag event page for both past and upcoming talks here.

Effective September 1, 2025, CEDA will be awarding several pilot grants per year across two categories: Emerging Scholar Pilots and Innovation Pilots:

Emerging Scholar Pilots will support early career researchers, including but not limited to NIH-defined early stage or new investigators. Emerging Scholar Pilot recipients will participate in CEDA’s Emerging Scholar Mentorship Program which will provide intensive, focused support for preparing grant submissions and related publications. Applicants may be at Berkeley or a nearby institution, and must be in positions eligible to submit NIH R or K series grants. Awards will generally be from $25,000 to $75,000 over 1-2 years. Applications will be due April 1st of each year. (Next receipt date: April 1, 2026.) See further details.

Innovation Pilots will support researchers at any stage who are conducting highly innovative research for which pilot funding is necessary to test ideas and demonstrate feasibility to support strong extramural grant proposals (especially R-series proposals to CEDA’s funder, NIH’s National Institute on Aging). Innovation Pilots must test a new method or technique, and/or conduct primary data collection related to CEDA signature themes; secondary data analyses are otherwise not allowed. Applicants must be CEDA affiliates; other potential applicants interested in CEDA affiliation should be eligible for Principal Investigator (PI) status at Berkeley or a nearby institution. Awards will generally be from $5,000 to $30,000 over 1-2 years. Innovation Pilot Proposals can be submitted on a rolling basis each year. See the current call for Innovation Pilot Proposals here.

NIH unveiled a new application structure for NIH-funded international collaborations. Read the notice announcing a new application and award structure for applications that request funding for foreign component organizations.  

The Association of Population Centers (APCs) is cosponsoring the “Rally for Medical Research Hill Day,” happening September 18. The event brings supporters of NIH, including patients and scientists, to DC to promote NIH research and urge investment in the agency. Registration deadline today: https://rallyformedicalresearch.org/

Featured affiliate research of the week: Jointly estimating subnational mortality for multiple populations. 2025. Ameer Dharamshi, Monica Alexander, Celeste Winant, Magali Barbieri. Demographic Research Vol. 52, pp. 71-110.

See further announcements and opportunities below.

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EVENTS

September 15 | 2-3:30pm | UC Berkeley Sociology Colloquium Series | Michelle Jackson, Associate Professor of Sociology, Stanford University. “The Division of Rationalized Labor.” Blumer Room – 402 Social Sciences Building and via zoom. See the full event details here. 

September 16 | 12:10-1pm | UC Berkeley School of Public Health | Brittany Bustamante, Postdoctoral fellow, UC Berkeley School of Public Health. “Bias in EHR Data: Using Agent-Based Models to Examine Geographic Disparities.” See the full event details here. Register for the Zoom event here.

September 17 | 12:10-1:05pm |  UC Berkeley Demography Seminar Series | Marianne Bitler, Professor and Chair, Department of Economics, UC Davis. “Experimental Evidence on Distributional Effects of Head Start.” Social Sciences, Room 310 and zoom. See the full event details here. Zoom ID: 985 2901 0198 Passcode DEMOG_BB

FUNDING

Wellcome Trust Mental Health Award: Transforming early intervention for anxiety, depression and psychosis in young people. Funding for projects that robustly test the real-world effectiveness and assess implementation strategies of scalable transformative early interventions for anxiety, depression and psychosis in young people. Application deadline: November 11, 2025. More information here.

CONFERENCES

All-UC Demography Conference 2026 – Call for Papers. The Leonard and Gretchan Broom Center for Demography at UCSB now invites submissions for oral and poster presentations at the 2026 All-UC Demography Conference to be held on the UCSB campus, in the afternoon on Thursday, February 26th, and all day on Friday, February 27th.

The Conference will highlight current demographic research conducted by University of California faculty and graduate students as well as all researchers affiliated with UC population and poverty centers and provide a venue for making connections across UC campuses. We are planning for 5 – 7 sessions with oral presentations and discussants, and a keynote talk by UCSB’s Leonard Broom Professor of Demography and Distinguished Professor of Economics Shelly Lundberg. We will also host a poster competition and a reception at the end of the Thursday sessions. Breakfast and lunch will be served on Friday. 

UC faculty members and graduate students, and researchers affiliated with a UC population or poverty centers interested in presenting a paper should submit an extended abstract or a complete paper (max of one submission as presenting author per person) using this form. (Contact Gabrielle Husted at broom@broomcenter.ucsb.edu with questions about using the submission form.)

The default submission mode will be for an oral presentation, with poster presentation as a back-up if the paper cannot be fit into one of the sessions. To submit a paper only for either oral or poster presentation, please indicate so in the “additional comments or information” section at the bottom of the submission page. The submission deadline is Friday, October 24th, 2025, 11:59pm. Presenters will be notified by mid-December. Limited travel award support will be available for graduate students with accepted oral or poster presentations. Updated information will be posted on this site. 

Evidence to Action (E2A) 2025: Fighting Hunger in the New Foreign Aid Landscape. October 28, 2025. Recent cuts to foreign aid and shifting geopolitical priorities have created unprecedented funding gaps, compounding already slow progress towards ending global hunger. Yet this challenge is galvanizing a global movement of practitioners, researchers, and advocates committed to identifying and scaling the most cost-effective solutions. CEGA’s Evidence to Action (E2A) 2025: Fighting Hunger in the New Foreign Aid Landscape will showcase how evidence-based programs delivering agricultural services and social assistance are protecting food security and livelihoods for marginalized populations in low- and middle-income countries, even as traditional funding models shift. Through research talks, panel discussions, and networking opportunities, CEGA’s flagship event will further debates about how best to create sustainable pathways out of poverty. Register to attend this in-person event here.

CEGA’s 2025 Global Mental Health Convening. November 7, 2025. Sponsored by CEGA’s Psychology and Economics of Poverty initiative, this gathering will bring together an interdisciplinary community of faculty, graduate students, and practitioners to explore cutting-edge research and chart new directions for understanding and improving mental health in low-and-middle income countries (LMICs). To attend this in-person event, please complete the expression of interest form.

WEBINARS

Mapping Deportations Launch Event. September 17, 2025, 1-2:30pm PT. Join the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at the UCLA School of Law (CILP) and Million Dollar Hoods (MDH) for this webinar launch of a groundbreaking new project: Mapping Deportations. Mapping Deportations is a website that uses maps, data, and timelines to unmask the relationship between race and U.S. immigration enforcement throughout U.S. history. This event will feature a webinar presentation and discussion about the website between MDH Cartographer Mariah Tso (Diné), MDH founder Kelly Lytle Hernández, and CILP Faculty Co-Director Ahilan Arulanantham, and will be moderated by CILP Faculty Co-Director Hiroshi Motomura. Register here.

Union for African Population Studies (UAPS) Webinar. September 18, 2025, 2-3:30pm UTC. Title: “People, Planet, and Policy: Exploring the Nexus of Population Dynamics and Climate Change in Africa.” Featuring Professor Jelili Adebiyi (Northern Michigan University) and Dr. Dipto Sarkar (Carleton University), and moderated by Dr. Jean Luc Mastaki Namegabe (Director, UNECA – Central Africa), this webinar will examine how demographic trends intersect with environmental challenges and policy responses, offering a comprehensive understanding of one of the most critical issues facing Africa today. Register here. Deadline to register: September 16, 2025.

Opportunities for Doing Social-Environmental Research with Little to No Funding. September 22, 2025, 9am-12pm ET. Graduate students, post-docs, and early-career faculty engaged in social-environmental research face an unprecedented research landscape. Decreased federal research funding will constrain their ability to continue their personal research programs, from dissertations to faculty research plans. Low-cost primary data collection, re-analysis of secondary data, creative use of available datasets, meta-analysis of existing studies, and localized field work can all be potential solutions. The Societal Experts Action Network (SEAN), the Board on Environmental Change and Society (BECS), and the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine will host a webinar that showcases practical, low-cost methods to sustain meaningful environmental and societal research during times of limited financial support. The webinar is aimed at supporting graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and early-career faculty in environmental, social science, and associated disciplines. See the agenda here. Register for this event here.

Creating Moves to Opportunity: Mixed Methods Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice. September 25, 2025, 3-4pm ET. In this Social Science Research Council Lecture, Johns Hopkins sociologist Stefanie DeLuca will explore why low-income families often live in neighborhoods with fewer opportunities to get ahead, even when they have housing vouchers that would allow them to move to neighborhoods with more potential for upward mobility, by looking at two randomized interventions. Register for this event here.

University of Michigan’s National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS)/National Study of Caregiving (NSOC) 2025-2026 Webinar Series. Webinars will be held monthly from 12-1 PM (ET) on Fridays via Zoom starting Friday, October 3. Register to receive reminders and login information and view the 2025-2026 schedule here. 

OPPORTUNITIES

IUSSP Scientific Panel Kinship Structures, Dynamics and Inequalities Mailing List. The newly formed IUSSP Scientific Panel Kinship Structures, Dynamics and Inequalities invites members interested in receiving updates from the group to join their mailing list using this link. This Panel brings together researchers from demography, sociology, public health, and related fields to advance the comparative study of kinship beyond the nuclear family. It aims to organize workshops, conferences, and other events to highlight and foster research on kinship structures and dynamics. Topics of interest include the availability of kin, lack of kin, intergenerational processes, resource exchanges, and kin loss, among others. 

The Panel is chaired by Dr Diego Alburez-Gutierrez (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research) and includes the following members:

• Prof Ashton Verdery (The Pennsylvania State University)
• Prof Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan (National University of Singapore)
• Dr Bettina Hünteler (German Institute for Economic Research, DIW Berlin)
• Prof Luca Maria Pesando (New York University Abu Dhabi)
• Dr Saroja Adhikari (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research)

 For questions and inquiries, please email kinship@demogr.mpg.de.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Migration across the Americas: comparisons and cross-border connections. Emergent and early career scholars are invited to submit abstracts to present their cutting-edge research to a workshop held jointly by the Center for the Study of International Migration (UCLA) and Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS) on April 16th, 2026. This new JEMS initiative aims to support the publication of the next generation of migration and immigration scholars. 

The workshop will be held at the UCLA Center for the Study of International Migration. The format will be a one-day workshop event with concurrent sessions. Accepted participants will present their draft papers in a session and receive constructive commentary from peers and established scholars, to support revision towards publication.

Successful applicants will have a 2-night hotel accommodation at the UCLA Guest House and meals provided at the event but will need to support their own travel costs.

Applicants should submit a 2-page abstract for their paper, and one-page cv, to Durana Saydee, duranasaydee@g.ucla.edu by October 31st, 2025. Selected abstracts will be invited to write a full paper to be submitted by February 28th, 2026.

Deadline: October 31, 2025