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
Call for abstracts: 8th Annual Conference of Experimental Sociology (ACES Paris, 26-28 August 2026)
ACES is now an established regular meeting for practitioners of the experimental method in the social sciences. Previous editions were Vienna 2018, Florence 2019, Ascona 2021, Utrecht 2022, Madrid 2023, Turin 2024, and Leipzig 2025.
The conference focuses on the use of experiments in sociology but is open to contributions from neighboring disciplines that employ experiments to investigate phenomena of overlapping interest (e.g. social norms, trust). The event welcomes work based on different types of experiments, including those conducted in the laboratory, in the field, through surveys, or their many possible combinations. Although the discussion of completed or planned experiments is the core of the event, the conference also invites contributions on the methodology of experimentation. We encourage submissions from junior scholars.
The call for talk proposals is open until April 19, 2026.
Further details and the abstract submission platform are available here.
INVEST Conference 2026 “Building equal societies: from scientific findings to societal transformation”, 6–8 May 2026, University of Turku, Finland
Join us in Turku for the INVEST Conference 2026, an interdisciplinary meeting point for researchers interested in social inequalities and societal transformation. The conference features around 100 presentations, keynote lectures by Kathryn Paige Harden and Philip N. Cohen, a pre-conference on 6 May on How does research-based knowledge find its way into decision-making and public debate?, and opportunities to engage with leading INVEST scholars across research on families, education, mental health, demography, and social policy.
Registration open until 22 April 2026.
More information and registration: https://invest.utu.fi/conference/
Call for Papers: 2nd Annual Interdisciplinary WZB Conference 2026: “Challenges to International Orders: Causes and Consequences” (7–9 Oct 2026, Berlin)
The WZB Berlin Social Science Center invites unpublished, full papers from scholars across all social science disciplines.
We seek contributions on how international orders are challenged and reshaped across climate, health, migration, trade, technology, and development, and the implications for peace, inequality, and global cooperation. Details & submission: https://wzb.eu/de/node/89212
Speakers include Anita Gohdes, Charles Kupchan, Clémence Lenoir, Cristiane Lucena Carneiro, Abraham Newman, Dani Rodrik, Beth Simmons, and Xuefeng Sun.
Submission Deadline: 23 April 2026
Call for Papers: Experiments in Social Science Research (31 Aug – 1 Sept, 2026, Bern)
We invite submissions for the “Experiments in Social Science Research” conference in Bern (Aug 31 – Sept 1, 2026). We welcome papers using experimental methods across the social sciences, including field, laboratory, survey, or vignette experiments, A/B testing and other randomized designs.
A special panel will focus on the co-production of interventions and RCTs, featuring researchers and practice partners from El Salvador, Switzerland, and the UK, followed by an open discussion.
Submission deadline: 30 April 2026
Submit to: rctbern2026.soz@unibe.ch
More information here.
Population journal and its Early-Career Researcher Prize
Founded in 1946, Population is an international, scientific, and peer-reviewed journal published by the French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED). It is published quarterly in both English and French and is an open-access journal with no article processing charges (APC). Population publishes research articles from various fields of population studies, covering all regions of the world and time periods. The journal also accepts short papers, data papers as well as book reviews and commentaries. They can be submitted in either English or French.
Each year, Population awards a prize to honor the work of an early-career researcher (within a maximum of 7 years post-PhD). The prize includes €1,000 and an invitation to Paris to present the article at INED’s weekly seminar. Submissions for the next Early-Career Researcher Prize are now open.
Submission deadlines: 30 April or 15 October 2026.
See details on the journal website
Call for abstracts: FReDA User Conference 2026 (Cologne, 26–27 November 2026)
The conference invites national and international researchers from all disciplines using data from the German Family Demography Panel Study (FReDA) and/or the German Family Panel (pairfam), the Generations and Gender Survey (GGS), and the IAB-BiB/FReDA-BAMF-SOEP Survey “Refugees from Ukraine in Germany”.
Keynote speakers: Prof. Dr. Marcel Lubbers (Utrecht University) and Prof. Dr. Anette Fasang (Humboldt University of Berlin)
The FReDA User Conference provides a forum for early-career and experienced researchers to present preliminary results, receive feedback from experienced data users and staff, and foster future collaborations. The conference language is English.
The conference will be held in person. There is no conference fee; catering will be provided. Travel costs cannot be reimbursed. The best presentation will receive an award.
Abstracts (max. one DIN-A4 page) should be sent by to freda.conference@jascha-draegergesis-org
Acceptance will be communicated by 22 May 2026.
Submission deadline: 10 May 2026
Further details can be found on our website.
Special issue”Computational Social Inequality Research in Practice: New Methods for Longstanding Questions” in Historical Social Research.
We are pleased to annonce a new special issue of Historical Social Research titled “Computational Social Inequality Research in Practice: New Methods for Longstanding Questions”, edited by Marie Labussière, Daniel Mayerhoffer, and Rens Wilderom.
Over the past decade, computational social science (CSS) has expanded rapidly, driven by the growing use of digital data and methods such as machine learning, agent-based modeling, network analysis, natural language processing, and generative AI. These approaches offer new opportunities to revisit enduring sociological questions, supporting innovative hypothesis testing, refined measurement, and robustness assessments. Yet their application to research on inequality and stratification remains fragmented and underdeveloped. This Special Issue aims to advance and critically assess the integration of CSS into the study of social inequalities, broadly defined. We invite contributions that apply computational tools while reflecting on their methodological, theoretical, and ethical implications. A hybrid authors’ workshop in Paris (December 2026) will further foster collaboration and exchange among contributors.
Deadline for submission: 15 May 2026.
For more information, see here.
EPC Pre-conference workshop: New Data and Tools to Study the Demography of Social Mobility (3 June 2026, 10:00–13:00, Bologna)
The workshop will cover a new macro-level comparative database on homeownership-based social mobility, a newly collected cross-national dataset from four countries on housing tenure decision-making, and an introduction to microsimulation for intergenerational mobility.
For further information, see here.
Call for proposals: Open questionnaire modules for the GLEN panel survey (2027)
The project team of the German Longitudinal Environmental Study (GLEN) invites researchers to submit proposals for short questionnaire modules or individual items to be included in the GLEN panel survey in the second half of 2027.
GLEN is a large-scale panel study focusing on environmental and climate-related topics, based on a register sample of several thousand online respondents from the German adult population. Proposed modules should have a non-commercial background and require no more than 3 minutes of survey time. As only limited time is available for open modules, shorter submissions have a higher chance of being selected. The review committee may also allocate survey time across multiple proposals.
Decisions will be communicated in October 2026; revised versions of accepted modules are expected by 15 February 2027.
Submission should be sent by email to openmodules@glen-studie.de
Deadline for submission: 15 July 2026
For more information, see here.
GESIS Summer School in Survey Methodology 2026
Date: 22 July – 14 August 2026
Venue (depending on the course): Online or Onsite at GESIS Cologne, Germany
Course topics: Factorial Survey Design, Advanced Questionnaire Design, Advanced Survey Design, Bots in Web-based Studies, AI-Assisted Surveys, Causal Inference for Survey Researchers, Latent Variable Modeling, Data Science Techniques, Sampling and Weighting in Survey Statistics, Pretesting Survey Questions, Aggregating Evidence Over Multiple Studies, Applied Causal Inference Using DAGs, as well as Intros to Stata and R.
Registration deadline: None (first come, first served)
Program & Registration: www.gesis.org/summerschool
Topical Collection entitled “Ageing Well for All: Multidimensional Pathways to Sustainable Ageing” in European Journal of Ageing
We are pleased to announce the European Journal of Ageing new Topical Collection entitled “Ageing Well for All: Multidimensional Pathways to Sustainable Ageing”, edited by Bruno Arpino and Valeria Bordone.
The collection originates from the activities of the Sustainable Ageing Working Group of the European Association for Population Studies (EAPS) and is now open for submissions from both members of the Working Group and external contributors.
We welcome contributions that make explicit how they advance the concept, measurement, and policy relevance of sustainable ageing. Submissions should address one or—preferably—more interconnected dimensions, including: Economic Sustainability, Social and Care Sustainability, Technological Equity and Inclusion, Environmental Sustainability, Political/Institutional Sustainability and Cultural Inclusion. The collection prioritises studies that bridge dimensions (e.g., technology and care systems; housing and health and service delivery; digital skills and civic participation; labour markets and unpaid care) and that articulate mechanisms and policy levers for sustainable ageing. We particularly encourage comparative European research, while remaining open to broader contexts.
Deadline for submission: 31 August 2026
For more information, see here.