Other events and announcements

CALL FOR PAPERS – Education and Social Mobility: Celebrating Richard Breen’s Contribution to Sociology

The European Sociological Review is delighted to announce a forthcoming special issue dedicated to celebrating the influential career of Professor Richard Breen. As a leading figure in sociology, Professor Breen’s work has significantly shaped contemporary sociological thought, particularly in the study of social stratification and mobility, as well as social demography and sociological methodology. We invite scholars to submit original theoretically driven empirical research papers that advance the understanding of education and social mobility. While we especially welcome studies that directly engage with themes central to Professor Breen’s work, we also encourage contributions from the broader fields of social stratification and mobility, demography, or sociological methodology, in line with the publication tradition of the European Sociological Review.

Submission Guidelines:

• Manuscripts should be prepared according to the journal’s standard author guidelines: https://academic.oup.com/esr
• Submissions must be made through the European Sociological Review online submission system: (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/esr) by 15 June 2025.
• All papers will undergo the Journal’s standard peer-review process.
• Manuscripts submitted should clearly refer to the special issue in their cover letter

Important Dates:

• Manuscript Submission Deadline: 15 June 2025
• Notification of first Review Results: 15 Sep 2025
• Expected Publication Date in 2026
• Editors: Fabrizio Bernardi, Kristian Bernt Karlson, Jan O. Jonsson, and Berkay Ozcan

Contact Information:

For inquiries regarding this special issue, please contact editor-in-chief, Fabrizio Bernardi at europeansociologicalreview@gmail.com.

We look forward to your valuable contributions to this special issue, which aims to honor Professor Richard Breen’s enduring impact on the study of social mobility and stratification.

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 – More information

GESIS Spring Seminar 2025: “Experimental Designs in the Social and Behavioral Sciences”, Cologne, Germany

The GESIS Spring Seminar 2025 will take place 17 March to 04 April 2025. In 2025, all courses will deal with “Experimental Designs in the Social and Behavioral Sciences”:

• Field Experiments | J Gereke, N Schwitter | 17 – 21 March
• Laboratory Experiments | F Heine, Eve Ernst (TA) | 24 – 28 March
• Multifactorial Survey Experiments | U Liebe, J Meyerhoff | 31 March – 04 April

Courses must be booked separately—whether you wish to attend one, two, or all three. There is no registration deadline, but places are limited and allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. 

For registration and detailed course descriptions, please visit www.gesis.org/springseminar

Call for papers: Integration Paradox Workshop – Utrecht University

Empirical evidence shows that many migrants who are seemingly well “integrated” in the structural domain actually do not feel at home, report more discrimination and experience a weaker sense of belonging to their residence country than seemingly less integrated migrants. Does your work inform the causes and consequences of this paradox? Join us in discussing each other’s work and collaborate in a potential Special Issue!

We aim to attract a diverse crowd of early career and more senior researchers, using different methodologies and studying a wide array of countries, (intersectional) groups and mechanisms. We also welcome researchers who take a more critical stance on studies of the integration paradox.

To apply for the workshop, please send a short biography and extended abstract to c.lavest@uu.nl. More information on the application procedure is available here. The submission deadline is February 1^st 2025. The workshop will happen on June 18^th at Utrecht University. For interested researchers, it is also possible to join the Migration and Societal Change conference happening on June 19^th-20^th . Participation is the workshop is free of charge, travel and accommodation are fully covered. 

Register now for the Mapineq Link Webinar Series – Visualising Inequalities at the Local Level

This three-part lunchtime event, taking place from 9 to 11 December, 13:00 to 14:00 CET, aims to introduce Mapineq Link – a new, interactive geospatial tool for visualising population and inequality indicators at the local level.

Professor Melinda Mills and Dr Douglas Leasure will lead this series, showcasing the platform’s innovative features and providing practical insights tailored for journalists, policymakers, researchers, civil society, and data experts. Check out the agenda and register here: https://population-europe.eu/events/mapineq-link-webinar-series-visualising-inequalities-local-level

CALL FOR PAPERS – SASE 2025 Mini-Conference #4 – Navigating Insecurities: Precarity, Crisis, and Paths to Solidarity

Our mini-conference aims to broaden the conceptualization of socioeconomic insecurity beyond purely (macro-)economic processes to include meso- and micro- manifestations of precarity. We emphasise the entanglement of objective and subjective boundaries which define socioeconomic insecurity. Furthermore, we put insecurity into a more contextual perspective. We ask about how insecurity has evolved over the last few decades given the crises (e.g. economic crises, climate change, COVID-19) and developments (e.g. automation, AI) that have occurred. Finally, we aim to relate insecurity to solidarity. The solidarity that emerges from insecurity can threaten democracy, as in the upsurge of populism and increased distrust of institutions. Scholars can help to develop responses in the toolkit used to address insecurity. We hope to bring together research on a global scale that allows comparison between the West and countries of the Global South.

Organisers: Lorenza Antonucci (University of Birmingham), Elena Ayala-Hurtado (Princeton University), David Joseph-Goteiner (UC Berkeley), Joaquín Prieto (London School of Economics) & Hequn Wang (Université catholique de Louvain).

This mini-conference is part of the SASE Annual Conference 2025, which will take place in Montréal, 9–12 July 2025.

Full mini-conference description (MC04): https://sase.org/event/2025-montreal/#mini

Abstract submission: https://sase.org/event/2025-montreal/#submission-guidelines  

Deadline: 16 December 2024

GESIS SPRING SEMINAR

The Spring Seminar offers high-quality training in state-of-the-art techniques in quantitative data analysis taught by leading experts in the field. It is designed for advanced graduate or PhD students, post-docs, as well as junior and senior researchers. In 2025, all courses will deal with Experimental Designs in the Social and Behavioral Sciences.

Extensive hands-on exercises and tutorials complement lectures in each course. The Spring Seminar will take place onsite at GESIS Cologne, Germany, from 17 March to 04 April 2025.

For registration and detailed course descriptions, please visit https://tinyurl.com/GESIS-Spring-Seminar-2025.

Call for Papers: Workshop “Bringing Politics Back to Work”

ECPR Joint Sessions, May 20-23, 2025, at Charles University, Prague

Workshop details and paper submission

Deadline for abstracts: 21st November 2024

Our ECPR Joint Sessions workshop aims to explore how a changing organization of work and notably, changing social relations in firms impact the political and democratic outlook of the population in advanced democracies. This at the intersection of the sociology of work and organization and political sociology has hitherto received little public and academic attention. We know, however, that researchers here and there have started working on it, which is why we are trying to bring them together across disciplinary boundaries.

TREE Study, 1st cohort, panel wave 11 (2025): Call for instruments

TREE (Transitions from Education to Employment) is a large-scale longitudinal youth survey in Switzerland. The first cohort of TREE comprises a subsample of the Swiss PISA 2000 participants. TREE invites proposals for additional questionnaire concepts, scales or single items that may enhance the analytic potential of the TREE dataset. Data collected so far (data and documentation up to wave 9 can also be down-loaded at FORS, see TREE – TRansitions from Education to Employment, cohort 1 (swissubase.ch)).

Suggestions for additional instruments are welcome until 30 November 2024. Please send your proposal to tree.soz@unibe.ch. Do not hesitate to get in touch with TREE if you have further questions regarding this call or any other matters regarding the project.

25 Years of Longitudinal Surveys in Switzerland

To celebrate 25 years of longitudinal surveys in Switzerland, the Swiss Household Panel (SHP) and Transitions from Education to Employment (TREE), two of the longest running longitudinal surveys, are jointly organising a conference, to take place in Lausanne on June 4-5, 2025.

The conference will include thematic sessions on a wide variety of topics, including education and labour market pathways, development of health and well-being, socio-economic inequality and mobility, family formation and dynamics, gender, ethnic minorities and migration, politics and attitudes, and methodological issues in longitudinal surveys. We also invite proposals for  sessions (90-minute symposia with typically three related presentations). This interdisciplinary conference welcomes participants from all areas of the social sciences.

Please submit your abstract for a presentation or your session proposal here: https://www.conftool.net/longitudinal-surveys2025

The CRIS aims to strengthen its expertise on the topic of digital inequalities. We invite early career researchers (PhD students and Post-docs from a variety of disciplines, e.g. sociology, economics, psychology, political science, computer and computational science, anthropology, demography and related fields) working with a variety of theoretical perspectives and research methods to submit their papers and participate to the symposium. The event will take place on Thursday 19 December at Sciences Po, in partnership with the Open Institute for Digital Transformation (part of TIERED project). 

This symposium provides a platform to present groundbreaking research, engage in discussions, and collaborate with other researchers.

How to apply:https://www.sciencespo.fr/osc/fr/content/digital-inequalities-symposium-early-career-researchers.html

Deadline: 15 November 2024.

Call for papers – Special issue in Demographic Research: Families’ resilience and the well-being of children and youth in contexts of global socioeconomic crises

Special collection co-editors: Anna Baranowska-Rataj, Centre for Demographic and Ageing Research, Umeå University; Pablo Gracia, Trinity College Dublin; Wiebke Schulz, SOCIUM Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy, University of Bremen

Submissions: can be made starting from 1st July 2024 via website www.demographic-research.org/authors/Submission indicating that the submission is a part of the Special Collection.

Deadline: January 15th, 2025.

For more see this document.

– Call for participants: Spring School on Perceptions of Wealth Inequality

We are pleased to announce the Spring School on Perceptions of Wealth Inequality (SPINE) in Bamberg coming March. The school is organised as a research incubator where participants will team up with senior experts and work on a paper to be published in a special issue of Historical Social Research.

Date: March 17 – March 28, 2025

Venue: University of Bamberg (Germany)

Costs: Free of charge. Accommodation and meals are provided.

Application deadline: August 31, 2024.

Keynote speakers: Fabian Pfeffer, LMU Munich

– Course/workshop in Zurich to analyse mobility networks in R, 2^nd edition

This October we will host the 2^nd workshop/course for students and researchers that are interested in the statistical analysis of mobility networks (as described here: tinyurl.com/mobility-nets). The method is akin to an ERGM for weighted networks, specifically geared towards analysing interdependence in mobility tables with the additional option to incorporate characteristics of mobile individuals. The method is implemented in the R package MoNAn (osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/8q2xu).

Information about the past workshop can be found here: tinyurl.com/monan-uzh.

The workshop will take place from Wed, 09 Oct 2024 to Fri, 11 Oct 2024 at the University of Zurich. The workshop will cover the theory of the method, as well as the software implementation. Ample time will be dedicated to discussion and hands-on experience with the package. Participants are encouraged to bring their own data.

Workshop participation is free of charge. There are limited funds to support early career researchers to cover their expenses for the duration of their stay in Zurich.

The workshop is primarily aimed at researchers that have a research project in mind, potentially with a clear idea of the data to be used. Working knowledge of intermediate statistics (e.g. logistic regression) and basic familiarity with R is required. Prior knowledge in statistical network methods (e.g. ERGMs) is helpful.

Students and researchers interested in participating are invited to send an email to mobility.workshop@soziologie.uzh.ch by 11 August 2024 noting their wish to participate, a very short (~2-3 sentences) outline of research interest, and, if this is known yet, what data they will use. There are no constraints on the type of mobility to be analysed.

– Trento School of Applied Quantitative Research “TNsquare” 2024 (October 23-25, 2024).

The “Trento School of Applied Quantitative Research” provides advanced methodological training on key themes of the Social Sciences and offers a systematic integration of theoretical, methodological and technical ‘front edge’ aspects of applied quantitative research.

The fifth edition focuses on “Social policies: meanings, measures and effects on individuals’ behavior” and is addressed to PhD students and early career researchers. Methods covered in this edition include: discrete-time event history, multilevel regression analysis, semiparametric event study and quasi-experimental methods.

Deadline: August 26, 2024
Further information: https://event.unitn.it/tn-square/

– Updated Swiss Job Market Monitor Data Set Available

We are excited to announce that the Swiss Job Market Monitor Data set has been updated to now include the period from 1950 to 2023. Thisdataset offers invaluable insights into Switzerland’s job market trends over the past seven decades, making it a vital source for researchers and policymakers. The data set is open access for scientific research on swissubase.

For more details on the dataset, see the Data Brief in the European Sociological Review (2022): Swiss Job Market Monitor: A Rich Source of Demand-Side Micro Data of the Labour Market.

– FReDA Autumn School 2024

The survey programme “FReDA – The German Family Demography Panel Study” at the Federal Institute for Population Studies (BiB) in Wiesbaden and the Research Unit “Interdisciplinary Public Policy” (IPP) at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz are inviting to the FReDA Autumn School 2024.

It will take place from September, 30th to October, 2nd 2024 at JGU Mainz. Attendance is free of charge.

Further information: https://www.freda-panel.de/FReDA/EN/Data/Teaching/ar_autumn-school-2024-note_EN.html

– SHARE – Gateway User Conference 2024

To stimulate collaboration and discussion of research using data from SHARE and the broader international network of health and retirement studies supported by the Gateway, the SHARE Berlin Institute and Gateway to Global Aging Data are organizing an interdisciplinary SHARE-Gateway user conference. We welcome submissions from a range of research areas including disciplines in the social sciences, health, and public policy. A limited number of submissions will be selected. The conference will promote discussion between users on research evaluating a range of topics covered in the international network, especially cross-country work on health, aging, and retirement.

The conference will take place in Berlin, Germany from November 6-8, 2024, with a half-day workshop on November 6 featuring sessions on the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol (HCAP) and the Gateway’s cross-study harmonized datasets, followed by two full days of parallel sessions presenting work by SHARE users and Gateway users selected by the scientific committee.

Submission deadline: July 15, 2024
Conference website: https://g2aging.org/share-gateway-conference

– Call for papers – Special issue in Demographic Research

Title: Families’ resilience and the well-being of children and youth in contexts of global socioeconomic crises

Special collection co-editors: Anna Baranowska-Rataj, Centre for Demographic and Ageing Research, Umeå University; Pablo Gracia, Trinity College Dublin; Wiebke Schulz, SOCIUM Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy, University of Bremen.

Submissions: can be made starting from 1st July 2024 via website www.demographic-research.org/authors/Submission indicating that the submission is a part of the Special Collection.

Further information is available here.

Deadline: 31st October 2024.

– Register now for Mapineq online seminar: Unlocking Social Mobility Across Generations. Challenges and Policy Options

The event will take place online on June 18, 15:00 – 16:00 CEST. In this online seminar, speakers will identify the most relevant points of divergence in social mobility trends, their causes and consequences for individuals and societies, and discuss policy options for the future. Speakers: Jo Blanden, Jani Erola, Markus Jäntti, Elina Kilpi-Jakonen and Lindsey Macmillan. Check out the agenda and register here: https://mapineq.eu/2nd-online-seminar/

– 11th annual Summer Methods School (June 25 – July 12, 2024; online and on-site)

The RECSM Summer Methods School is a three-week intensive program covering diverse topics on survey methodology and advanced statistical analysis of survey data. Participants choose from 14 courses covering different topics to create their own program. All courses are taught by leading experts around the world.

During the first week, we will offer introductory courses, including courses on quantitative methods and on software programming in R and STATA, while the second and third weeks focus on more advanced learning, such as survey experiments, computational analysis, causal inference and beyond!

Please find all the information about the RECSM Summer School here, including how to register, the courses’ schedules and programmes. Besides, students and researchers benefit from lower course fees. For further information on discounts for UPF and USAL students, WAPOR members,  and more, please consult the website.

– GESIS Fall Seminar in Computational Social Science 2024

Date: 30 August – 27 September 2024

Venue (depending on the course): GESIS Mannheim or Online via Zoom

Registration deadline: None (first come, first served).

Courses: Introduction to Computational Social Science with R/Python; Web Data Collection with Python and R; Introduction to Social Network Analysis with R; Introduction to Machine Learning for Text Analysis with Python; Agent-Based Computational Modeling; Advanced Social Network Analysis with R; From Embeddings to LLMs: Advanced Text Analysis with Python; Automated Image and Video Data Analysis Course descriptions and registration at www.gesis.org/fallseminar

– Conference on Mobility and the Life Course in Geneva, Switzerland:

The LIVES Centre and the nccr — on the move host an international conference on 5-6 November 2024 on Mobility and the Life course in Geneva. We particularly welcome contributions on migration and other forms of mobility (e.g. social mobility as well as family, professional and educational mobility). The keynote speakers are Dominik Hangartner (ETH Zurich), Hill Kulu (University of St Andrews) and Borja Martinovic (Utrecht University). There is no participation fee: presenters will be invited to lunches, drinks and dinner.

The submission deadline is 31 May 2024. Please visit the conference website here:https://centre-lives.ch/en/lives-international-conference-2024

https://centre-lives.ch/en/lives-international-conference-2024

– 46^th International Association of Time Use Research Conference in Corfu, 7-9 October 2024

The 46^th International Association for Time Use Research (IATUR) conference will held in Corfu, Greece from 7 to 9 October 2024.

The conference theme is Novel Perspectives in Time Use Inequalities.

The conference will host time-use researchers, professionals, and students from around the world in order to gain collective insights on themes related to methodological and substantive issues in the study of time allocation.

Early Abstract Submission: 20.05.2024

For more information and call for abstracts visit the conference website

– Call for Papers for the IAB Workshop “Training, Education and the Labor Market” might be of interest to the ECSR-members.

The labor market is subject to constant change. To meet the challenges of developments such as technological and ecological transformation, the shortage of skilled workers, or demographic change, education and training are becoming increasingly important. The workshop ‘Training, Education and the Labor Market’ focuses on education and training in the context of such societal challenges. We invite researchers to submit papers that study these developments with respect to educational decisions before and during working life, transitions out of and into education, returns to education, the role of institutional settings, as well as the relationship between occupations and education.

The keynote speakers are:

Professor Lindsey Macmillan (University College London)

Professor Herman G. van de Werfhorst (European University Institute)

For more see: https://iab.de/en/iab-veranstaltungen/training-education-and-the-labor-market/

– Annual Summer Method School in Pompeu Fabra

Research and Expertise Centre for Survey Methodology (RECSM) based in Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona. We are organising the eleventh annual Summer Methods School (June 25 – July 12, 2024; online and on-site), for which registration is now open until June 14th. We feel that the courses may be of interest to you and your colleagues.

The RECSM Summer Methods School is a three-week intensive program covering diverse topics on survey methodology and advanced statistical analysis of survey data. Participants choose from 14 courses covering different topics to create their own program. All courses are taught by leading experts around the world.

– Conference on Mobility and the Life Course in Geneva, Switzerland:

The LIVES Centre and the NCCR – on the move host an international conference on 5-6 November 2024 on Mobility and the Life course. We particularly welcome contributions on migration and other forms of mobility (e.g. social mobility as well as family, professional and educational mobility). The keynote speakers are Dominik Hangartner (ETH Zurich), Hill Kulu (University of St Andrews) and Borja Martinovic (Utrecht University). There is no participation fee: presenters will be invited to lunches, drinks and dinner.

The submission deadline is 31 May 2024. Please visit the conference website here:https://centre-lives.ch/en/lives-international-conference-2024

– The 2024 UL Summer School in Social Science Research Methods

The Summer School will take place from June 10 to June 14, 2024, at the University of Limerick. The School provides training in qualitative and quantitative research methods for PhD and other early-stage social researchers, in parallel streams. It is possible to register for credit (10 ECTS, subject to assessment), or to audit.

Qualitative stream:The Qualitative Stream covers a range of topics such as the ontological and epistemological foundations of qualitative research, interviewing and focus groups, ethnography, data analysis and interpretation, and research ethics.

Quantitative stream: The Quantitative Stream begins with an intensive refresher session, moves on to regression modelling, and then analysis of categorical data. The final sessions are reserved for special topics. The Stream makes no assumption about prior exposure to quantitative methods, but moves quickly.

Credits: The Summer School can be taken for credit. This requires submission of written work for assessment, in the month after the school ends.

For more info contact Anne McCarthy (Anne.McCarthy@ul.ie) for further information.

See also https://www.ul.ie/artsoc/sociology/programmes-0/methods-summer-school-2024

To register: https://ulevents.eventsair.com/ssssrm2024/ssssrmreg24/Site/Register

– GESIS Summer School in Survey Methodology 2024

Date: 24 July – 16 August 2024 
Venue (depending on the course): Online or Onsite at GESIS Cologne, Germany
Registration deadline: None (first come, first served)

Scholarships (fee waivers) & ECTS credit option available!

Course topics: Intro to Survey Design, Intro to Questionnaire Design, Web Surveys, Questionnaires for Cross-Cultural Surveys, Survey Sampling and Weighting, Small Area Estimation, Factorial Survey Design, Causal Inference Using Survey Data, DAGs, Longitudinal Surveys, Multiple Imputation, Data Science Techniques, Mixed-Mode Surveys, and Intros to Stata and R.

Program & registration: www.gesis.org/summerschool

– Call for Abstracts: DeZIM Conference 2024, Mannheim, October 09-11

This year’s DeZIM Conference “Migration – Conflict – Solidarity. A Contested Field Between Politics and Research“ will take place from October 09th to 11th 2024 in Mannheim. We invite researchers at all career stages, individuals from civil society and practice, as well as stakeholders from politics and administration (also in collaboration), to share their insights and experiences, engage in dialogue, and discuss political pathways for the complex realities of migration between conflict and solidarity. Please apply by April 15^th, 2024 to tagung@dezim-institut.de.

For more information, please see the detailed call for abstracts here:

https://www.dezim-institut.de/en/events/events-detail/dezim-conference-2024/

– Marie Jahoda Summer School of Sociology

Department of Sociology, University of Vienna, Austria, Topic: “Crises, Justice, Democracy”, Date: Monday, July 8th – Friday, July 12th, 2024

https://www.soz.univie.ac.at/veranstaltungen/marie-jahoda-schools/

This summer school offers a multidisciplinary perspective on crisis in the social sciences, drawing on sociology and insights from political science, International Relations, history, and anthropology. It will specifically explore why some processes are constructed as “crisis processes”, while others remain rather subtle, “under the radar”. We will also focus on the multiple actors shaping how crises are understood and addressed in current societies. We will highlight how some groups in society achieve to popularise their interpretation of the crisis, while others do not. We ask how different social groups understand crisis events by mobilising existing moral frameworks of justice, and what the implications are for democracy. We look at policy actors, media, social movements, and activists as well as at “polarisation entrepreneurs” who use crises to turn them into socially divisive outcomes. We will discuss which of these actors are perceived in the public debate as rational, democratic actors, and which are deemed irrational, and unreasonable, and with what consequences.

To apply to the summer school, please submit the following documents by 29th March 2024 via email to mariejahoda.summerschool@univie.ac.at.

The applicants will be informed of the faculty’s decision by 20th April 2024.

– Sixth Joint Doctoral Conference at University of Trento

We are pleased to announce that the Sixth Joint Doctoral Conference will be held at the University of Trento, November 28th-29th 2024.

The Conference is an opportunity for PhD students in the field of Sociology to present their work and discuss others’ contributions in a constructive environment.

Deadline Call for Papers: April 30th, 2024

Notification of acceptance: June 1st, 2024

Submission Email Address: phdconference2024@unitn.it

Further information: Extended Abstract Template – Sixth Joint Conference – Google Drive

– “Behind the data: quantitative approaches  to interdisciplinary racism research” organized by the WinRa Regional Network South: University of Bayreuth & University of Mannheim

https://www.winra.org/aktuelles/jahreskonferenz-winra-annual-conference-winra

October 23rd, 2pm to October 25th, 12pm 
University of Bayreuth

–  The 5th International CILS4EU User Conference a Meet the Data Workshop 

The user conference will take place 26-27 September 2024. To participate, please submit your abstracts until 30 April 2024 to the local organisers via e-mail: cils4eu@mzes.uni-mannheim.de

On September 25th, 2024, a Meet the Data Workshop will take place independently of the conference. It introduces researchers to the CILS4EU data and its extensions and is aimed at both prospective users and current users interested in the latest data releases (like, e.g., CILS4NEPS).  To participate in the workshop, you do not need to submit an abstract, just sign up until August 31st, 2024, via this website: https://cils4eu.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/

(for further information, please

see: https://www.cils4.eu/images/Programme/CILS4EU_5th_user_conference_and_workshop_2024.pdf)

–  Transitions In Youth (TIY) 2024: Youth Transitions in Vulnerable Populations: New Challenges in Uncertain Times

The 31st annual workshop of the European Research Network on Transitions in Youth (TiY) will take place in Warsaw, Poland on 4-6 September 2024. The workshop will be hosted by the Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw.

Network Committee: Paolo Barbieri, Hans Dietrich (chair), Cristina Iannelli, Irena Kogan, Luis Ortiz, Emer Smyth, Dieter Verhaest, Maarten Wolbers. Local organising team: Anna Kiersztyn, Katarzyna Kopycka, Paweł Downarowicz, Stefan Bieńkowski.

If you wish to present a paper or poster at the workshop, please submit an abstract (500 words) by April 1, 2024.

For more information on the TIY 2024 workshop, please visit the conference website:

https://ws.uw.edu.pl/tiy2024/ or contact the organizers: tiy2024@is.uw.edu.pl.

–   Winter Methods School at the Research and Expertise Centre for Survey Methodology(RECSM) based in Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona,

RECSM is organising the fifth annual Winter Methods School this March 11th – 19th, 2024. We encourage you to register before the 1st of March. Participation can be in person or online. The courses are:

• Measuring Citizen’s Digital Behaviors Using Web Trackers and Data Donations, taught by Oriol Bosch from the University of Oxford (taught in English)
• Going Beyond Conventional Web Surveys: Using new types of data within web surveys, taught by Melanie Revilla from the Institute of International Studies of Barcelona (taught in English)
• Ecological Inference: Deciphering individual voting behavior from aggregated data, taught by Jose M Pavia from the University of Valencia (taught in Spanish)

All Winter School participants also have exclusive access to the WEB DATA OPP workshop, showcasing research about the use of new data types in online survey studies. Professor Mick Couper, University of Michigan, will be the keynote speaker.

–  6th Forum „Higher Education and the Labour Market“ (HELM), June 19 – June 20 2024

The 6th Forum „Higher Education and the Labour Market“ (HELM) of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and the German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW), with a special focus on “The Bologna Process After 25 Years: Continuities, Changes, and Evaluations“ will take place on June 19th and 20th 2024 in Hanover. There will be keynotes by Nikki Shure (UCL) and Stephan Thomsen (University of Hanover).

We welcome contributions from various disciplines, particularly from Economics, Social Sciences, and Educational Sciences. Please submit a short outline (max. 500 words) by 8 April 2024 to HELM@dzhw.eu.

For more information, please compare the detailed call for papers here:https://www.dzhw.eu/pdf/veranstaltungen/helm/cfp_HELM_2024.pdf

–  Register now for the first Mapineq online seminar: Improving Accessibility, Harmonisation, and Data Linkage in Europe

The event will take place online on Thursday, 15 February, 14:00-16:00 CET. Explore cutting-edge insights from experts like Siri Eldevik Håberg, Thomas Emery, Jani Erola, Roxane Silberman, and Daunia Pavone. This event will also offer the possibility to dive into breakout sessions on creating datasets, linking administrative data, improving data accessibility, and addressing ethics and security challenges. Check out the agenda and register here: https://population-europe.eu/events/improving-accessibility-harmonisation-and-data-linkage-europe

–  Ph.D. course on the Organizational Foundations of Inequality, University of Oslo, Norway, June 10–13 2024

This PhD course will provide students with a broad introduction to key theories, concepts, and methodological issues related to the empirical study of the organizational foundations of inequality. Organizations play a key role in generating and sustaining inequality, but also in how to make change come about, as they both determine the matching of individuals to positions in the labor market and implement the evaluation and reward structures used to distribute power, wealth, and prestige. As such, organizational practices influence inequality at different stages of the employment process, given that employers manage hiring and job assignments, training and compensation, and promotion and termination processes. Consequently, the distribution of resources and opportunities in society cannot be fully understood without paying attention to the role that organizations, their practices and key members play in contemporary stratification processes and employment outcomes.

Lecturers: Roberto Fernandez (MIT Sloan School of Management), Trond Petersen (UC Berkeley), and Donald Tomaskovic-Devey (UMass, Amherst)

Application deadline: April 21, 2024

Application form and further information is available here. For additional questions, please contact Are Skeie Hermansen at a.s.hermansen@sosgeo.uio.no.

–  Call for Abstracts Second International User Conference of the German Family Demography Panel Study FReDA 2024

The second international FReDA User Conference will be held in Mannheim, Germany, on 7 and 8 October 2024. We invite submissions from national and international researchers from all disciplines on any topic using data from the German Family Demography Panel Study FReDA, the German Family Panel pairfam, and/or the Generations and Gender Survey (GGS). The conference will be held in English.

Interested researchers are invited to submit an abstract for a presentation by email to

support.freda@gesis.org. Abstracts should be no longer than one DIN-4 page and must include the title of the presentation and the names, email addresses, and institutional affiliations of all authors. Please state the data used, the research question(s), the theoretical background, the method, and the results.

The submission deadline is 12 May 2024.

For more information see: FReDA – FReDA User Conference (freda-panel.de)

The GESIS Spring Seminar 2024 will take place 26 February – 15 March 2024. In 2024, all courses will deal with “Recent Developments in Longitudinal Data Analysis” in the social sciences and beyond:

• Modern Longitudinal Analysis Using R | A Cernat, N Shryane | 26 Feb – 01 March
• Recent Developments in Difference-in-Differences Estimation | S Cunningham | 04 – 08 March
• Causal Machine Learning for Cross-sectional and Panel Data | M Spindler, J Kück | 11 – 15 March

Lectures in each course are complemented by extensive hands-on exercises and tutorials.

Courses must be booked separately—whether you wish to attend one, two, or all three. There is no registration deadline, but places are limited and allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. 

For registration and detailed course descriptions, please visit www.gesis.org/springseminar

For workshops (onsite or online) on related and other social science research methods, please visit www.gesis.org/workshops.

– 16th Conference of the International Network of Analytical Sociology

16^th Conference of the International Network of Analytical Sociology will be held on May 30–31, 2024 in Leipzig, Germany. Research in the analytical sociology tradition uses different modes of inquiry to identify the micro-level mechanisms that underlie macro-level phenomena. The organizers welcome submissions using any method (e.g., quantitative, qualitative, experimental, simulation-based) that allows for the study of social mechanisms and the social dynamics they give rise to. We especially encourage applications that examine, with new computational methods and digital data, how social phenomena emerge from large groups of interacting individuals. Please submit an abstract (up to 500 words) via email to inas2024@uni-leipzig.de. The deadline for submission is February 16, 2024. For more information, please visit the conference website. 

– 2024 Oxford Spring School in Advanced Research Methods

Oxford Spring School in Advanced Research Methods is now open for applications. Applications must be made using the application form on the Oxford Spring School webpage: https://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/spring-school.

Applications must be made using the application form on the Oxford Spring School webpage, and applications submitted before 12 midnight GMT on Sunday, 7 January 2024, will qualify for our Early Bird Discount!

–  11th European Conference on Positive Psychology – Call for Abstract – Deadline Extended:
14th January 2024

Embark on a captivating journey with us at the 11th European Conference on Positive Psychology! Share your valuable insights and contributions to the dynamic field of positive psychology. Whether you’re eager to lead an inspiring workshop, orchestrate a vibrant symposium, showcase your research through an engaging poster, or deliver an uplifting talk, we wholeheartedly invite you to be a part of this energizing opportunity.

Abstract submission: Abstract Submission – ECPP 2024

–  Kohli Prize for Sociology

The Kohli foundation welcomes nominations for the Kohli Prize for Sociology or the Infrastructure Prize for Sociology on an ongoing basis.

Further information: Kohli Foundation – for Sociology

–  5th annual RECSM Winter Methods School

The Winter School will happen in March 2024, focusing on innovative online survey methodologies, digital data tracking, and mapping voters’ behaviours using R. Please find the program below.

The 5th annual Methods School is being combined with the WEB DATA OPP workshop, sharing the latest research around the challenges of integrating new data types in online survey studies. Professor Mick Couper of the University of Michigan will be the keynote speaker.

For any queries or assistance on how to register, please contact Lucy Walmsley at recsm@upf.edu.

– Request for Unpublished Data on Income Inequality and Subjective Well-Being

Researchers from the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) are conducting a preregistered systematic review and meta-analysis on the relationship between economic inequality and subjective well-being or mental health outcomes, and are looking for unpublished work and studies that align with the following criteria: (1) Economic inequality measured at a higher level using any relevant economic indicator (e.g., national Gini coefficient); (2) Psychological health measured at a lower level using a non-aggregated measure (e.g., individual happiness, life satisfaction, depression, anxiety, etc.); (3) The study uses an analytical tool that takes data dependency into account (e.g., multilevel modeling, fixed-effects modeling, cluster-adjusted modeling, etc.). For detailed methodological and statistical criteria, please refer to the longer version of this information note: https://tinyurl.com/meta-inequality