Join us for our first Brown Bag of the semester this Wednesday, September 9, at 12pm, with Mathew E. Hauer (Florida State University) and Tyler H. McCormick (University of Washington), who will present, “AI in Demography.” 310 Social Sciences, and Zoom option. Event details are here.
The fall Brown Bag schedule is also available and will continue to be updated. Our YouTube channel is here.
See further announcements and opportunities below.
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EVENTS
September 9 | 12-1:05pm | UC Berkeley Demography Brown Bag Seminar | Mathew Hauer, Charles B. Nam Associate Professor of Sociology, Florida State University, and Tyler McCormick, Professor of Statistics and Sociology, University of Washington. “AI in Demography.” 310 Social Sciences Building. Zoom option: Meeting ID: 985 2901 0198 Passcode: DEMOG_BB. See the full event details here.
September 9 | 4-5:30pm | Social Science Matrix | Authors Meet Critics: “Normalizing Inequality: How Californians Make Sense of the Growing Divide.” G. Cristina Mora, Professor of Sociology, and Tianna Paschel, Associate Professor of African American Studies, both at UC Berkeley, discuss their new book Normalizing Inequality, which draws on interviews and surveys to examine how middle-class Californians recognize the structural causes of inequality and yet consistently minimize them. They will be joined in conversation by Desmond Jagmohan, Assistant Professor of Political Science, and Lisa García Bedolla, Professor of Education, with Nicholas Vargas, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies, moderating. Co-sponsored by the Institute of Governmental Studies, the School of Education, the Othering and Belonging Institute, and the Departments of Political Science and African American Studies. A reception will follow. 820 Social Sciences Building. Register to attend.
September 14 | 2-3:30pm | UC Berkeley Sociology Colloquium | Lauren Clingan, UC Davis. “Defining Women’s Incomes: Household Disruptions and Gendered Resolutions.” Blumer Room, 402 Social Sciences Building.
FUNDING
CACHE Seed Funding: Aging, Health, and Environment. The Center for Aging, Health, and Environment (CACHE) is offering seed funding for projects that integrate social and environmental data to examine the intersections of aging, health, and environment. CACHE anticipates two to three awards of $25,000; where an institution requires indirect costs on small grants, those costs must be included within the $25,000. Applicants must be eligible to serve as Principal Investigators on NIA-funded projects, and doctoral students may not serve as PIs. Proposals will be evaluated on merit and innovation; substantive significance and the potential for the resulting code and data to fuel further research; involvement of early-stage investigators; and potential to lead to larger NIA-funded research, with the prospect of external funding an important consideration. CACHE also aims to fund at least one scholar representing an NIA-funded Aging Center. Recipients must agree to share data and code through the CACHE platform, or to point to the relevant archive, contributing to the broader aging-health-environment research infrastructure. The award period is one year beginning January 1, 2027, and funds may cover faculty summer salary, graduate student salary, research travel, and data acquisition, but not conference travel or group meals. Applications are due October 30, 2026. Further information.
New NIA Page on the NIH Grants & Funding Website. The National Institute on Aging has a new page within the NIH “Find a Fit for Your Research” resources, offering an overview of NIA’s mission, research priorities, research highlights, funding opportunities, highlighted topics, and other information for investigators working on aging-related research. The page is a convenient entry point for researchers and partners looking to learn more about NIA’s role in advancing the science of aging, AD/ADRD, healthy longevity, and the health and well-being of older adults. NIA page. NIH parent announcements. NIA open and forecasted notices of funding opportunities. NIH highlighted topics.
NICHD Funding Strategies: Guidance for Fiscal Year 2026. The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development has released its funding strategy and guidelines for Fiscal Year 2026. The guidance is generally similar to past years, with some nuances. NICHD funding strategies for FY 2026.
Foundation Relations and Corporate Philanthropy. The campus Foundation Relations and Corporate Philanthropy (FRCP) office maintains a range of resources on foundation and corporate funding on its website. Learn more.
GrantForward. UC Berkeley has subscribed to GrantForward’s Funding Search and Grant Recommendation Service, which replaces Pivot and is open to all members of the campus community. GrantForward draws on a database of funding opportunities from more than 37,000 sponsors, updated daily, and includes AI-powered features such as a query assistant to make searching easier. Users can set up funding alerts, save grants to track them, discover potential collaborators, and receive automatic grant recommendations tailored to their scholarly work and research interests. Instructions for setting up your profile.
NIH Highlighted Topics
Posted Date: June 23, 2026
Expiration Date: May 1, 2028
Catalyzing Interdisciplinary Research on HIV-Associated Co-occurring Conditions
Posted Date: July 28, 2026
Expiration Date: July 28, 2028
Accelerating Disease Prevention Research by New Approach Methodologies
Posted Date: September 3, 2026
Expiration Date: September 3, 2028
CALLS
Call for Speakers. The Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) will hold its next Annual Meeting on Friday, February 26, 2027 at UC Berkeley. The meeting brings together participants from academia, scholarly publishing, and policy to share new research and discuss efforts to improve the credibility of scientific research by advancing transparency, reproducibility, rigor, and ethics. Submissions are welcome on research transparency, reproducibility, metascience, new research tools and methods, research ethics, and scholarly publishing; last year’s meeting featured a morning session on “Frontiers on AI and Open Science,” and the organizers are interested in further discussion of how AI is being used in research. The call for speakers is open until November 1, 2026. BITSS.
Call for Papers: NBER Development Economics Program Meeting. The National Bureau of Economic Research invites submissions for its Fall 2026 Development Economics Program Meeting, to be held December 4, 2026. Submissions are made through the NBER conference portal, listing all authors in the order they should appear on the program along with the paper title. Submissions are due September 10, 2026. Questions may be directed to the NBER Conference Department at confer@nber.org. Submit a paper.
Call for Abstracts. Behavioral Policy for Family (BPF), a small interdisciplinary workshop hosted by the Behavioural Public Policy Lab at the School for Government, will be held October 1–2, 2026 at King’s College London. The workshop brings together academics, policymakers, and practitioners to examine the challenges shaping fertility and family formation in the twenty-first century, and how governments, employers, healthcare systems, and civil society can better support individuals and families in achieving their reproductive and family aspirations. Confirmed speakers include Ann Berrington (University of Southampton), Yulia Kovas (Hult International Business School), Paula Sheppard (University of Oxford), Ruth Mace (University College London), and Almudena Sevilla (London School of Economics and Political Science). Alongside the invited programme, an open call welcomes submissions on fertility, family formation, reproductive health, demographic change, employment, wellbeing, and family policy from a wide range of disciplines, with PhD and early-career researchers particularly encouraged to apply. Abstracts are due September 15, 2026, with notification by September 20 and registration closing September 25. Event details and open call.
Call for Abstracts. Population Dynamics in a Changing Climate: Future Directions for Climate Demography will be held January 28–29, 2027 at the University of Bologna, Italy, in hybrid format, online and in person. Submissions are due September 20, 2026. Conference details and call.
Call for Abstracts. Mobility Trajectories across the Life Course: New Directions in the Sociology of Population, XXI World Congress of Sociology, to be held July 4–10, 2027 in Gwangju, Korea. The session brings together research that treats mobility not as an isolated migration event or a static distinction between movers and stayers, but as a dynamic life-course process shaped by the timing, sequencing, duration, and interconnectedness of residential, internal, and international moves. Theoretical, methodological, and empirical contributions are welcome on the antecedents, mechanisms, patterns, and consequences of mobility trajectories, and on the interdependence of mobility with family, educational, occupational, housing, and health trajectories. The organizers particularly encourage work on the long-term consequences of mobility for socioeconomic attainment, health, and well-being; the role of family ties and linked lives in shaping mobility trajectories; the lasting influence of childhood mobility on adult outcomes; and methodological innovations for measuring and analyzing complex mobility histories, with comparative, longitudinal, sequence-analytic, causal, and mixed-methods approaches especially welcome. Submissions are due October 14, 2026. Submit an abstract to this session. See the full call for abstracts here.
Call for Nominations: 2027 IUSSP Early Career Awards. The IUSSP Early Career Awards recognize outstanding contributions to the broad field of population studies by early career scholars in different world regions and raise the global visibility of their achievements. Awards are offered in five world regions — Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and North America — in a collaboration with the regional population associations: the Union for African Population Studies (UAPS), the Asian Population Association (APA), the European Association for Population Studies (EAPS), the Latin American Population Association (ALAP), and the Population Association of America (PAA). Candidates must be within seven years of the PhD, awarded after November 1, 2019, with extensions possible to account for career interruptions such as parental leave, and must be IUSSP members listed in the membership directory. Nominations require five IUSSP member supporters from more than one country, at least three of them from the candidate’s region; self-nominations are allowed. Nominations are due November 1, 2026. Award details and nomination form.
Call for Papers. Demographic Research is soliciting papers for a special collection on Kinship Demography: Structures, Dynamics, and Inequalities, guest edited by Ashton Verdery (Pennsylvania State University), Bussarawan Puk Teerawichitchainan (National University of Singapore), Diego Alburez-Gutierrez (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research), and Elena Maria Pojman (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research). The collection seeks work advancing empirical, methodological, and theoretical innovation in the demographic study of kinship, moving beyond household-centered frameworks: how fertility, mortality, migration, and aging reshape family structures; the formation, maintenance, and dissolution of kin networks across the life span; variation in kinship structures across social groups and its implications for inequality; non-traditional kinship forms, including adoptive, fictive, and LGBTQ+ families; aging without kin in different global contexts; bereavement and kin loss; and new data sources and methods for capturing multigenerational kinship. Submissions on understudied populations and non-Western regions are particularly encouraged. Submissions are due December 15, 2026. Full call for papers.
Call for Papers. Genus is soliciting papers for a new open-access topical collection, Analysing Multiple Cause of Death Data to Understand Mortality Profiles, Trends and Disparities, with the IUSSP Scientific Panel on Declining Mortality and Multimorbidity at Death serving as guest editors. The collection takes up what can be learned by analyzing all causes listed on a death certificate rather than the underlying cause alone: diseases whose contribution is underestimated in underlying-cause analyses, the disease combinations most often associated with death, trends in multimorbidity at death, inequalities in mortality, and methodological innovations for working with multiple-cause data. Guest editors are Aline Désesquelles (INED), Timothy Adair (University of Melbourne), Viviana Egidi (Sapienza University of Rome), Sergi Trias-Llimós (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), and Ana Maria Nogales Vasconcelos (University of Brasília). Manuscripts may be submitted at any time before the deadline, selecting this collection on the “Details” page of the submission form and noting it in the cover letter. Submissions are due December 31, 2026. .View the topical collection. Read the submission guidelines. Questions may be directed to Aline Désesquelles at alined@ined.fr.
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
IUSSP Debate: Since the ICPD in 1994, Has Too Little Attention Been Paid to Rapid Population Growth? Online, Monday, September 21, 2026, 8:00–9:30 a.m. Pacific / 15:00–16:30 Universal Time. The 1994 Cairo conference shifted population policy away from demographic targets and toward individual rights, in particular reproductive rights and women’s empowerment. With world population having grown from 5.7 billion in 1994 to 8.3 billion today, did the ICPD divert attention from rapid population growth? Arguing yes are Rhoda Mundi (University of Abuja) and Mohammad Mainul Islam (University of Dhaka); arguing no are Ayman Abdelmohsen (United Nations Population Fund) and Vanessa Di Lego (Federal University of Minas Gerais / Cedeplar). Steven Sinding, former Director General of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, will set the stage, and IUSSP President Laura Wong will summarize at the close. The debate was proposed and organized by IUSSP member Stan Becker (Johns Hopkins University). Register in advance.
Measuring Disability and Functioning in Studies of Aging. Hybrid, October 8, 2026, 12:00–4:00 p.m. Eastern, at the University of Michigan and online. The workshop is co-sponsored by the Network for Innovative Methods in Longitudinal Aging Studies (NIMLAS) and the Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging (MiCDA). NIMLAS members receive a calendar invitation for the event; to join, complete the membership application form. Workshop details.
Call for Papers: Better Data for Better Lives — Innovations in Survey Measurement in the Age of AI. The conference will be held December 8–9, 2026 at World Bank headquarters in Washington, D.C., with a livestream option. It is organized by the Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) of the World Bank Group, the Global Poverty Research Lab at Northwestern University, the World Bank Community of Practice on Surveys and Measurement, and the World Bank Data Academy. The organizers invite work from researchers in academia, think tanks, and international organizations conducting household survey research in low- and middle-income countries, spanning questionnaire design and testing, survey operations, sampling and weighting, survey mode, interviewer behavior, data quality assessment, and data harmonization, across development outcomes including health, education, labor, agriculture, energy, water and sanitation, and climate resilience, with particular interest in applications of AI and machine learning to survey work. Submissions take the form of an extended abstract of no more than 800 words or a full working paper. Submissions are due October 15, 2026. Conference details. Submit a paper.