Update of the Swiss Job Market Monitor dataset: Now with detailed skill and task extractions
We are excited to announce that the Swiss Job Market Monitor dataset has been updated to include the period from 1950 to 2024. The dataset offers invaluable insights into Switzerland’s job market trends over the past seven decades, making it a rich source for researchers and policymakers.
In addition to extending the time coverage, the update also comprises newly developed NLP-based models that extract fine-grained information from job ad texts. These extractions are processed for further analysis and linked to international labour market ontologies such as ESCO and O*NET, providing a unique basis for studying the evolution of skills and tasks over time.
The data set is open access for scientific research on SWISSUbase and Zenodo.
Call for Papers: Effects of Spatial mobility on Subjective Well-being, Special Issue in Social Indicators Research
Organisers: Nicolai Netz (DZWH) and Nico Stawarz (BiB)
Spatial mobility is an integral part of individual lives. Therefore, previous research has explored the manifold consequences of spatial mobility for individual life courses. In doing so, it has focussed on outcomes such as the occupational position and wages. However, as human behaviour usually aims to improve quality of life in a broader sense, we advocate a stronger focus on subjective well-being in research on spatial mobility. Accordingly, the special issue aims to provide an overview of the current state of research on how spatial mobility influences subjective well-being. It showcases new theoretical avenues, methodological designs, and empirical analyses of the effects of spatial mobility on subjective well-being. Focussing on different forms of spatial mobility (e.g., internal and international migration, commuting, and virtual mobility).
Submission deadline: 1 October 2025
For more information, see: https://link.springer.com/collections/cgciggfggj
NEPS-Call for Modules 2024 – AI-based systems in educational contexts: Use, knowledge, trust
Proposals for the collection of (educationally relevant) motives for use and knowledge about AI systems can be submitted as part of the thematic ‘NEPS Call for Modules 2024’. In addition, the questions can also relate to trust in AI systems in educational contexts.
Deadline for submission of proposals: 30 October 2025
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Call for session proposals – The European Society of Health and Medical Sociology 21st Biennial Conference, Hamburg (Germany), 19–21 August 2026.
The European Society of Health and Medical Sociology (ESHMS, https://eshms.eu/) announces the launch of the call for sessions for its 21st Biennial Conference in Hamburg, 19–21 August 2026.
Deadline for proposals: 31 October 2025
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Visitors grants to the LIVES Centre in Lausanne and Geneva
The LIVES Centre offers visitor grants to scholars who wish to conduct research on the life course at the Universities of Lausanne or Geneva in 2026. These competitive grants are open to PhD students, postdocs, lecturers and professors who plan to spend at least two months on site, doing research in Lausanne or Geneva. The grants cover travel and accommodation costs of up to 3000 CHF (~3000€). For further information, please consult the call for applications below or contact Daniel.Oesch@unil.ch.
The deadline for application: 15 November 2025
For more information see here.
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.