Virtual special issue in European Sociological Review to celebrate ECSR 2025 annual conference
To celebrate the European Consortium for Sociological Research’s 2025 Annual Conference, the European Sociological Review has published a Virtual Special Issue to showcase the intellectual and methodological dynamism and creativity of the community.
Read the full issue at: https://academic.oup.com/esr/pages/demography-and-social-inequality
DPIR’s Spring School in advanced social science research methods
The Department of Politics and International Relations is delighted to announce that applications forOxford Spring School in Advanced Research Methods 2026 are now open!
The course will run from Monday 23 March – Friday 27 March 2026, inboth in-person and online formats.
Course Fees: The fee for a single course is £1,075 for in-person attendees, and £625 for online attendees. Apply before 12 noon on 7 January 2026 to receive a £50 ‘early bird’ discount! Those selecting a course bundle will receive an additional 20% discount on the second course fee. DPIR alumni and applicants who have previously attended Oxford Spring School are eligible to receive an extra 10% discount on course fees – please email springschool@politics.ox.ac.uk for your discount code!
Further details: Oxford Spring School in Advanced Research Methods 2026 | DPIR
Call NEPS Add-on 2025 – Opening NEPS next to external content and surveys
Members of the scientific community now have the opportunity to either contribute questions totalling up to two minutes to the outcome surveys (NEPS Add-on Model 1) or to invite NEPS participants to take part in their own quantitative or qualitative survey via the LIfBi (NEPS Add-on Model 2). LIfBi offers a mandatory information event for researchers who wish to submit proposals as part of the add-on.
Submissions are possible until 23 January 2026
Date options and more information: please see here!
INVEST Conference 2026 “Building equal societies: from scientific findings to societal transformation” (Turku, 6–8 May 2026)
The call for abstracts is now open for the INVEST Conference 2026. We warmly invite researchers from all career stages to submit their work and join us in Turku, Finland next spring.
The INVEST Conference is an interdisciplinary meeting point for researchers who are committed to understanding and reducing social inequalities. Whether your work focuses on individuals, families, communities or systems, this is a place where your findings can spark meaningful conversations, and help shape solutions for more equal societies.
Meet leading scholars, including keynote speakers Kathryn Paige Harden and Philip N. Cohen, exchange ideas across disciplines and build new collaborations that advance both science and society.
Call for papers: 9 February 2026
More information INVEST Conference 2026 – INVEST
Call for the ‘Good Life’ Data Challenge
The LIVES Centre at the University of Lausanne launches the ‘Good Life’ Data Challenge, which addresses the question: what predicts the feeling of having lived a happy, meaningful, and interesting life thus far? It is based on three new items currently fielded in the Swiss Household Panel (1999-2025). Proposals (600-800 words) can be submitted by 15 February 2026. Selected teams will preregister their analyses, co-author a collective publication, and receive CHF 1,000.
Deadline for proposals: 15 February 2026
Please refer to the call here.
- Release of data from the BAuA-Working Time Survey
Release of data from the BAuA-Working Time Survey
Since 2015, the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA) has been conducting the BAuA-Working Time Survey, a representative panel survey of the working population in Germany with over 20,000 respondents. The aim of this panel survey, which takes place every two years, is to study the relationship between working time arrangements, other working conditions, and health and satisfaction.
Currently, scientific use files are available for the first five survey waves from 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, and 2023. For more information on the datasets and data access via BAuA’s Research Data Centre.
Release of new data from the first TREE cohort
Transitions from Education to Employment (TREE) is a multi-cohort panel survey that follows two cohorts of compulsory school leavers in Switzerland through their education and training, and into employment and adulthood.
The new data release comprises 10 waves and 19 years of detailed information on Swiss PISA 2000 participants. This means that the educational and employment trajectories of adolescents and young adults aged 16 to 35 are now comprehensively documented and accessible for research purposes.
The data are available on SWISSUbase: TREE – Transitions from Education to Employment
One Epidemic, Many Estimates (1EME) Project.
LSE is convening a “many analyst” project in which teams will analyse data from the 1918-20 influenza pandemic using excess mortality methods of their choice (solo researchers also welcome). This will be followed by a workshop at the LSE on 21-22 May 2026. The analyses submitted and the discussions at the workshop will be written up into a manuscript with all analysts eligible for authorship. Enrolment in the “many analysts” project will be open for the next few months, with final submissions due by 15 March 2026.
More details can be found here.
Contact Hampton Gaddy (h.g.gaddy@lse.ac.uk) with any questions.
GESIS Spring Seminar – Advanced Regression Modeling
The seminar designed for advanced graduate or PhD students, post-docs, and senior researchers. In 2026, our focus will be on Advanced Regression Modeling. Extensive hands-on exercises and tutorials complement the lectures in each course.
The Spring Seminar 2026 will take place both online and at GESIS Cologne, Germany, from 9 to 27 March 2026.
For registration and detailed course descriptions, please visit https://t1p.de/spring2026.
Call for papers: DeZIM-Conference 2026 “The Contested Normalities of Migration” (Bielefeld, 07-09 October 2026)
Migration, displacement, and belonging lie at the heart of social negotiation processes. Yet beyond current polarizations, fundamental questions emerge regarding the drivers and processes of social and political change: How are conflicts concerning migration historically and structurally embedded? In which contexts are migration and diversity an uncontested normality? What are the consequences of “asynchronies,” a coexistence of different intensities and logics of conflict? And along which lines of conflict are the principles of the rule of law being undermined in favor of anti-democratic or illiberal politics?
Taking this approach, the conference aims to examine, from an interdisciplinary perspective, how global crises, transnational interdependencies, national discourses, and local experiences shape long-term shifts in solidarity, exclusion, and democracy. It seeks not merely to interpret conflicts as symptoms of the present, but to analyze them as key dynamics of social transformation and future viability.
Deadline for application: 31 March 2026
Further information on forms of participation and application can be found on the website: DeZIM Conference 2026