FReDA Autumn School, Mainz (Germany), 10 – 12 September 2025
The panel study “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 2025. It will take place from September 10 to 12, 2025 at JGU Mainz. Participation is free of charge.
Application deadline: 15 July 2025.
For more information see: https://www.freda-panel.de/FReDA/EN/Data/Teaching/autumn-school-2025-note_EN_knot.html
Call for papers – 6th International CILS4EU User Conference – Mannheim (Germany), 23-24 October 2025
The conference is jointly organized by the Institute for Futures Studies (IFFS), Stockholm, the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University, and the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), University of Mannheim. There is no participation fee for the conference.
Submission deadline (extended): 31 July 2025
For more information see the call here or contact the organisers cils4eu@mzes.uni-mannheim.de
GESIS Summer School in Survey Methodology 2025, Online or at GESIS Cologne (Germany), 23 July – 15 August 2025
Course topics: Intro to Survey Design, Advanced Questionnaire Design, Web Surveys, Questionnaires for Cross-Cultural Surveys, Survey Sampling and Weighting, Small Area Estimation, Conjoint Survey Experiments, Causal Inference, DAGs, Multiple Imputation, Data Science Techniques, and Intros to Stata and R.
Scholarships (fee waivers) & ECTS credit option available!
Registration deadline: None (first come, first served)
For more information: www.gesis.org/summerschool
Announcement: The Austrian Socio-Economic Panel (ASEP) is currently inviting proposals to add modules to its second wave!
The ASEP Survey is designed as a long-running household panel with a net sample of approximately 5,000 households (11,000 persons) in the first main wave. For the second wave in autumn 2026, the ASEP Survey will include open modules with a total survey time of 5-8 minutes.
Submission deadline: 31 July 2025
For more information: https://www.statistik.at/fileadmin/pages/2001/CfM_ASEP_W2.pdf
For questions, please feel free to contact asep@statistik.gv.at!
Call for papers: Meeting of the EAPS Working Group on Register-Based Fertility Research: ‘Understanding recent fertility trends in Europe: what can register data tell us?’, Antwerp (Belgium), 17-18 November 2025
Register data are increasingly accessible to researchers across Europe and beyond, offering exciting opportunities for advancing fertility research. The EAPS Working Group on Register-Based Fertility Research is dedicated to promoting the use of emerging register data to study fertility and family dynamics. The recent decline in fertility in many countries, including Western and Northern Europe, has raised new questions regarding contemporary fertility behaviour.
The upcoming meeting of the working group will feature a scientific program of research presentations and provide opportunities for informal exchange and networking. We invite submissions of research on fertility that leverages register data, whether ongoing or recently completed. Join us in contributing to this vital area of research and engaging in discussions with fellow scholars.
Submission deadline: 1 August 2025
See more information here.
Call for session proposals: RC20&RC33&RC56 Joint Conference, Online, 24-28 August 2026
RC33 is pleased to invite members to submit session proposals to be considered for the 2nd RC20 Regional Conference on Comparative Sociology & the 1st RC56 Regional Conference on Historical Sociology & the 5th RC33 Regional Conference on Social Science Methodology: Asia. The conference will be held online from 24 to 28 August in 2026. The hosts are Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand and Japan Women’s University, Tokyo, Japan.
Submission deadline: 1 August 2025
For more information and submission: https://www.comparative-sociology.online/JC2026.htm, or the mirror site (please use this if the main website cannot be accessed): https://mcn-www.jwu.ac.jp/~fonaka/JC2026.htm
2025 Trento School of Applied Quantitative Research: Employment and Mobility over the life course in changing societies, Trento (Italy), 22-24 October 2025
The Department of Sociology and Social Research is happy to announce that the 6th edition of the Trento School of Applied Quantitative Research (TN-Square) will take place from October 22nd to October 24th, 2025 (3 days).
The focus of this edition deals with employment, work trajectories and social inequality. Applied sessions will be devoted to studying the intergenerational implications of non-standard parental work arrangements, and the measurement of life course and employment complexity via decomposition. Speakers will be Annette Fasang (WZB Berlin), Nhat An Trihn (DSPI Oxford/WZB Berlin), Alexi Gugushvili (University of Oslo), Johan Westerman and Roujman Shahbazian (SOFI/Uppsala/Oxford). The school is addressed to PhD students, post-docs, and early-stage researchers. The official language is English.
Application deadline: 25 August 2025
For more information: https://event.unitn.it/tn-square/
GESIS Fall Seminar in Computational Social Science 2025, 01-26 September 2025
The GESIS Fall Seminar 2025 takes place from 01 to 26 September and offers a variety of introductory and advanced courses in computational social science methods. Some courses are held in-person in Mannheim, others online – and keep an eye out for our blended learning format! The Fall Seminar targets researchers who want to collect and analyze data from the web, social media, or digital text archives. All courses feature an interactive mix of lectures and hands-on exercises, giving participants the opportunity to apply these methods to data.
Course topics: Introduction to Computational Social Science with R and Python, Web Data Collection with R and Python, Introduction to Machine Learning for Text Analysis with Python, Computer Vision for Image and Video Data Analysis, Advanced Methods for Social Network Analysis, From Embeddings to LLMs: Advanced Text Analysis with Python, Agent-Based Computational Modeling, Causal Machine Learning.
For more information: https://www.gesis.org/en/gesis-training/what-we-offer/fall-seminar-in-computational-social-science
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 – More information